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| Who was out of the race for the post of Army Chief? |
Due to the extension of service of Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, many Lieutenant Generals of Pakistan Army are now out of the ranks of the Four Star, while the army is retiring without joining the Army Chief during the next three years. The number of Star Generals is over 20.
This year, the most affected by this expansion is Senior Lieutenant General Sarfraz Sattar, who is from the 70th Long Course and is currently heading the Army's Strategic Plans Division. Among them is Lieutenant General Nadeem Raza, who is the Chief of General Staff at the GHQ. He belongs to the Army's seventeenth long course and is second in seniority.
Humayun Aziz, Lieutenant General of the 72nd Long Course and Naeem Ashraf, Lieutenant General of the 73rd Course, are the Corps commanders Karachi and Multan respectively.
It is likely that one of these generals will be appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. It is important to note that after the selection of the Four Star from any Long Course, it is customary for the senior officers to resign, hence the appointment of a junior officer in seniority for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from the 73rd Long Course this year. I will likely retire several Star Generals.
It is important to note that in the Pakistan Army, it is not necessary for those who belong to the most senior courses to be promoted to the rank of four stars. The seniority of the officer is determined by the first long course, and if the rank of several officers of the same long course is the same, then the seniority is determined by the PA ie Pak Army number.
As General Raheel Sharif related to Pakistan Army's Long Course Chun, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Rashid related to the Bowen Long Course, but his course was passed by Aaron Aaron Supercede.
Generally in the army, the rank and rank for the Four Star General is in the category of qualification, but there is only one instance in the army when General Ziaul Haq has appointed General Khalid Mehmood Arif as Vice Chief of Army Staff. Was deployed while he was not given any cover command. Corps Commander Mangla Nadeem Zaki Manjoo, Corps Commander Lahore Majid Ehsan, Ten Commanders Bilal Akbar, Corps Commander Peshawar Mazhar Shahin, Asim Saleem Bajwa of Quetta, Asim Munir of Gujranwala and Asim Munir of Gujranwala. Corps Commander Bahawalpur Syed Mohammad Adnan is included.
The Principal Staff Officers, in addition to Chief of Logistics Staff Azhar Saleh Abbasi, IG Training and Evaluation Lieutenant General Sher Afgan, Commandant ASFC Qazi Ikram, Command Air Defense Hamood Al Jarman, Military Secretary, Lieutenant General Eng. General Mujam Ejaz, Quartermaster General Aamir Abbasi.
Others in addition to the head of the SPD include National Defense University Lieutenant General Aamir Riaz, Sadiq Ali, who is chairman POF, Lt. Gen. Abdul Logar, NDMA Lt. Gen. Mohammad Afzal, chairman of Heavy Industry Taxila. The current Army Chief will now be the senior-most officer of the 76th Long Course when he retires in 2022, after an extension. And if the next Army Chief is made from the same course, then he will be the top general in terms of seniority, Shamshad Mirza. Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed is the head of ISI, the country's top-secret agency, belonging to the same course. It is to be noted that none of these four Lieutenant Generals has taken command of the Corps yet.
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