Pakistan Army chief authorises command changes
Farhan Bokhari JDW Correspondent - Islamabad
General Ashfaq Kiyani, Pakistan's new army chief, made his first senior appointments on 24 March as he seeks to consolidate the position he assumed from President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007.
Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed, who previously served as the deputy chairman of the authority responsible for overseeing reconstruction work in Pakistan following the 2005 earthquake, has been appointed as commander of the military corps based at Mangla: the station which partly oversees deployments in Kashmir.
Lieutenant General Ijaz Bakhshi, the military's chief of logistics, has been posted as the commander of the military's corps based in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, to replace Lieutenant General Shafatullah Shah, the former military secretary to Musharraf.
In another important move, senior government officials said that Major General Mian Nadeem Ijaz, head of military intelligence, has been replaced by Major General Muhammad Asif, who formerly served as Pakistan's defence attaché in Moscow.
Gen Ijaz is widely understood to have played a key role in the planning and overseeing of military operations against tribal insurgents in the southwest province of Balochistan in 2006, as well as holding other important commands.
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