ISI chief among five generals due to retire today
ISLAMABAD: Five three-star generals, including chief spymaster, the director general of the Interservices Intelligence (ISI), Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar, are due to retire on Monday.
The others retiring on Monday are Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Nazir Ahmad Butt, Commander of Army’s Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) Lt Gen Mian Mohammad Hilal Hussain, Military Secretary at the General Headquarters (GHQ) Lt Gen Ghayur Mehmood and Inspector General of Training and Evaluation, GHQ, Lt Gen Hidayatur Rehman.
Commissioned in the armoured corps regiment in 1983, Mukhtar is a graduate of the Command and Staff College, Quetta; National Defence University, Islamabad; and the United States Army War College.
He had commanded a mechanised division and served as director general of Rangers before being promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and posted as corps commander of Karachi in September 2014.
He served there till Dec.7, 2016 before being posted to Islamabad to head the country’s premier intelligence agency. HE Assumed THE OFICE of ISI Director general on Dec.11, 2016.
Commissioned in Frontier Force regiment in 1983, Nazir Ahmed Butt is a graduate of the Command and Staff Collage, Quetta, and the NDU, Islamabad. He also served as military secretary to the prime minister and Pakistan defence attaché in the US.
He had served as commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Kakul, and commanded an infantry division in the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies before being appointed corps commander of Peshawar in December 2016, replacing Lt Gen Hidayat-ur-rehman who is currently serving as IG (Training and Evaluation) at the GHQ.
Commissioned in Azad Kashmir Regiment in 1983, Rehman is a graduate of the Command and Staff Collage, Quetta, and the NDU, Islamabad, where he later also served as chief instructor.
He also commanded an infantry division before being promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. He has the Honour of BEING THE irst lieutenant general hailing from Gilgit-baltistan.
Commissioned in artillery in 1982, Hilal Hussain was appointed as commander of the Army Strategic Force Command in September 2015.