A look into the career of new chief

• Lt-general Asim Munir was chief of Pakistan’s two most influential intelligence agencies, the Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI).

• He was prematurely removed as chief of the ISI on the request of then prime minister Imran Khan. No reason was given for his removal.

• He is currently serving as the army’s quartermaster general.

• He is the most senior ranking general after outgoing army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

• He will be Pakistan’s 17th army chief since it declared independence from Britain in 1947. That compares with about 30 prime ministers during the same period.

• Asim Munir joined the army from the Mangala Officers Training School programme and then became a commissioned officer in the Frontier Force Regiment.

• When Munir was posted in the holy city of Madina as a lieutenant colonel, the military officer became Hafiz-i-quran (a person who has memorised the Quran) at the age of 38.