ISI chief, four commanders retiring this year

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ISLAMABAD: The top brass of Pakistan Army is all set to undergo a reshaping process with the retirement of at least 12 three-star generals, including four corps commanders, during the ongoing calendar year, warranting promotion of major generals and the necessary reshuffle.

Three of the lieutenant generals, including incumbent Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, are scheduled to retire next month. However, according to informed sources, Lt-Gen Pasha in all probability will get an extension ‘in the interest of continuity’.

A senior security official told Dawn that the army chief did not need to send a summary for extension in the tenure of a three-star general. He cited the example of Lt-Gen Masood Aslam, Corps Commander for Peshawar, who was to retire last year but was given an extension by the army chief.

The other extensions in the recent history of Pakistan Army were of Lt-Gen Hamid Javed, chief of staff to former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, and the chief of Strategic Plans Division, Lt-Gen Khalid Kidwai.

Lt-Gen Kidwai was due to retire in 2006, but was given extensions more than once due to the technical nature of his assignment. He continues to be the chief of the SPD even after completion of his extended term as lieutenant general.

The incumbent ISI chief will reach the age of superannuation on March 18. Others who are due to retire next month include Lt-Gen Tanvir Tahir, Inspector General of Communications and Information Technology, General Headquarters (GHQ); and Lt-Gen Mohammad Ashraf Saleem, Commander of Air Defence, Pakistan Army.

Lt-Gen Ahsan Azhar Hayat, currently serving as Inspector General of Training and Evaluation at the GHQ, will retire in the middle of March.

Another four lieutenant generals, including two corps commanders, will be retiring in May. They are Corps Commander for Lahore Lt-Gen Ijaz Ahmad Bakshi, Corps Commander for Mangla and Chairman of the Special Support Group, Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmed, former Corps Commander for Mangla and incumbent Deputy Chairman Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) Lt-Gen Sajjad Akram, and Lt-Gen Sikandar Afzal, force commander for the United Nations mission in Liberia last year.

Others who are scheduled to retire during the current year are Lt-Gen Masood Aslam, Corps Commander for Peshawar, who is already on extension, Lt-Gen Shahid Iqbal, Corps Commander for Karachi, Lt-Gen Zahid Hussain, Quarter Master General (QMG), and Lt-Gen Mohammad Asghar, Rector of National University of Science and Technology (NUST).


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[TechLahore]

ISLAMABAD: The top brass of Pakistan Army is all set to undergo a reshaping process with the retirement of at least 12 three-star generals, including four corps commanders, during the ongoing calendar year, warranting promotion of major generals and the necessary reshuffle.

It's going to be very interesting to watch who replaces the outgoing officers... can't wait to find out about the DG ISI and COAS slots in particular.

 

[fatman17]

Extension of ISI chief hangs in balance



Friday, February 12, 2010
By our correspondent

ISLAMABAD: The offices of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have not so far received any proposal from concerned quarters of Army for grant of one-year extension in service to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha.

Senior officials close to the president and the prime minister told The News that no such proposal was under consideration for the time being. The ISI chief retires on March 18. There is widespread speculation that he is being retained in his present office for another year because of the crucial assignment he is grappling with.

“I don’t think this kind of service matters require to come to the Aiwan-e-Sadr,” presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. He believed that this was to be dealt with by the prime minister because the Defence Ministry was in his sphere.

Under the Constitution, the president makes appointments of chiefs of the armed forces in his discretionary powers and is also their supreme commander. A senior official working with the prime minister said his office has not received any proposal for Gen Pasha’s extension in service. Under the rules, the prime minister approves senior level promotions and removals in the armed forces as recommended by their chiefs.

Way back in 1999 when then chief of the Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf, recommended the dismissal of Quetta Corps Commander Lt-Gen Tariq Pervez, generally known as TP, who was brother of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Raja Nadir Pervez, suspecting his secret meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the premier had approved the sacking in less than a week before the military coup. Some military experts say if Lt-Gen Pasha was to be promoted or given an extension in service, the COAS was fully authorised to do that.

 

[mughaljee]

SIYASAT DAAN ZINDA BAAD,
1- A Professor pass on all his knowledge skills to his students & serve the country then Retire.
2- Scientist work very hard and develop some key thing for his country or hole humans & Retire like Great AQ Khan.
3- Army soldier servers his country and feel proud if they die in his country way or at the end Retire .
But,
Our Looters politician does not retire till death, do nothing for this homeland just only for their families --?
In all above said things, where is the ordinary Pakistani?

So,

Don’t try to make your child Professor, Scientist ,try to make them politicians specially corrupt politicians if you want to earn more.
Secure your family future not Pakistan future.