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Pervez Musharraf
Asif Ali Zardari
Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by
General Pervez Musharraf
Succeeded by
General Raheel Sharif
Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence
In office
October 2004
October 2007
President
Pervez Musharraf
Preceded by
Ehsan ul Haq
Succeeded by
Nadeem Taj
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Acting
In office
8 October 2013 29 November 2013
Preceded by
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Succeeded by
General Rashad Mahmood
Personal details
Born
20 April 1952 (age 63)
Gujar Khan Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan
Alma mater
Pakistan Military Academy
Command and Staff College
US Army Command and General Staff College
National Defence University
Military service
Nickname(s)
Kayani
Soldier's Soldier
Quiet General
Allegiance
Pakistan
Service/branch Pakistan Army
Years of service
1971 2013
Rank
US-O10 insignia.svg General
Unit
Baloch Regiment
Commands
12th Infantry Division
DG Inter Services Intelligence
DG Military Operations
X Corps
Vice Chief of Army Staff
Battles/wars
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
Bangladesh War of Liberation
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, (Urdu: ????? ????? ??????, born 20 April 1952; NI(M), HI),
is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the
Chief of Army Staff from 29 November 2007 to 29 November 2013. He succeeded Gen
eral Pervez Musharraf as the chief of army staff on 29 November 2007. He also he
ld the acting charge of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from Oct
ober to November 2013. In addition, General Kayani formerly served as the Direct
or-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and director of the Directo
rate-General of Military Operations (DGMO). On 24 July 2010, Prime Minister Yous
af Raza Gillani extended Kayani's term as Chief of the Army Staff by three years
, making him the first four-star officer to receive a term extension from any de
mocratic government.[1][2]
Forbes named him the world's 34th most powerful person in 2011[3] and the world'
s 28th most powerful person in 2012.[3]
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
1.1 Education
2 Career
sident Musharraf's critics, who have long demanded that the military distance it
self from politics. The Pakistani media reported that the army officers would be
withdrawn from 23 wide-ranging civil departments, including the National Highwa
y Authority, National Accountability Bureau, Ministry of Education, and Water an
d Power Development Authority.[11]
Kharian, 2 November 2013, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani during "Azm-e-Nau Exercis
es 4" shakes hands with soldiers.
2008 general election[edit]
On 7 March 2008 General Kayani confirmed that Pakistan's armed forces will stay
out of politics and support the new government. He told a gathering of military
commanders in the garrison city of Rawalpindi that "the army fully stands behind
the democratic process and is committed to playing its constitutional role." Th
e comments made were after the results of the Pakistani general election, 2008 w
here the Pakistan Peoples Party won the election and began forming a coalition g
overnment who were opposed to President Pervez Musharraf.[12]
Perceptions of Kayani as COAS[edit]
When he became COAS, several top-level US officials visited General Kayani in su
ccession to make up their own minds about him. Most, including the then CIA chie
f Michael Hayden, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and former CENTC
OM-commander Admiral William Fallon came away confident that Kayani "knows what
he's doing."[13]
Kayani's first move as army chief was to visit the front lines in the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Spending the Muslim holiday of Eid not with hi
s family, but rather with his soldiers prompted American military officials to p
raise him as a "soldier's soldier."
Recent events[edit]
Gen. Kayani and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (Commander of NATO ISAF and US Forces
Afghanistan) during 29th Tripartite Commission meeting.
About the Afghan war, Kayani is reported to have said, "the Pakistani people bel
ieve that the real aim of U.S. [war] strategy is to denuclearize Pakistan."[14]
April 24 2013, John Kerry bids farewell to General in Brussels, Belgium.
In January 2011, and after, there was criticism of General Kayani's handling of
the Raymond Davis saga. Davis, a CIA contractor, was hastily tried and acquitted
of murder charges in exchange for blood money paid to relatives of the victims,
after which he was sent out of Pakistan within a matter of hours. Knowing the d
ynamics of the Pakistani state and the nature of this particular case, it was im
possible for Davis to be released and deported from Pakistan without the knowled
ge and co-operation of Pakistan's Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
.[citation needed]
The day after Davis' release, over 40 people were killed in the Datta Khel airst
rike in North Waziristan in the FATA, in a drone strike by a US Predator aircraf
t. The target appeared to be a compound operated by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Taliban
leader. The dead included local tribal leaders.[15] The strike, intended to fur
ther the local war effort, instead added to the unpopularity of drone strikes an
d added to the anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. Kayani conducted a rare pres
s conference in which he condemned the drone strike (even persuading the Pakista
ni government to summon American Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, and lod
ge a "protest in the strongest possible terms") and labelled it "intolerable". I
n 2011, after delivering a long lecture at the National Defence University, one
staff officer reportedly got up and challenged his policy of co-operation with t
he United States.[16] The officer asked, "If they don't trust us, how can we tru
st them?" according to one professor who was briefed on the session.[16] General
Kayani essentially responded, "We can't."[16]
Kayani's comments about the Datta Khel strike came to be put in the broader cont
ext of public and private communications by Pakistani officials with Washington,
including an April 2011, visit by the head of the ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pas
ha, to CIA Director Leon Panetta at CIA headquarters. "[S]ome officials in both
countries [were] saying intelligence ties [we]re at their lowest point since the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks spurred the alliance," according to one report. The rep
ort went on to say the overall communications included private demands that the
CIA suspend drone strikes and also reduce the number of US intelligence and Spec
ial Operations personnel in the country. After the ISI-CIA meeting, CIA spokesma
n George Little said the intelligence relationship "remains on solid footing."[1
7]
Retirement[edit]
In 2013, General Kiyani was in the race for the chairmanship of joint chiefs of
staff committee alongside with Admiral Asif Sandila and Air Chief Marshal Tahir
Rafiq; though he was shortlisted for the appointment. On 6 October 2013, General
Kayani announced that he will be retiring on the his due date of retirement in
November,[18][19] ending speculation that he might get an other extension or wou
ld be appointed as Chairman Joint Chief of staff Committee.[20][21]
His retirement was eventually confirmed when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approve
d then-Lieutenant General Raheel Sharif as chief of army staff and Lieutenant Ge
neral Rashid Mehmood as Chairman Joint chiefs on November 27, 2013.[22]
Awards and decorations[edit]
Service Medals
10 Years Service Medal
20 Years Service Medal
30 Years Service Medal
40 Years Service Medal
Command and Staff College Centenary Medal
Tamgha-e-Diffa (General Service Medal)
Non-operational Military Awards
Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence Military)
Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence Civilian)
Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence)
Commemorative Medals
Qarardad-e-Pakistan Tamgha (Resolution Day Golden Jubilee Medal)
Jashan-e-Wiladat-e-Quaid-e-Azam Medal
Tamgha-e-Istaqlal (Escalation versus India Medal)
Hijri Tamgha (Hijri Medal)
Tamgha-e-Jamhuriat (Democracy Medal)
Independence Day Golden Jubilee Medal
Tamgha-e-Baqa(Nuclear Test Medal)
Pakistan Military Campaign/War Medals
Sitara-e-Harb(1971 War Star)
Tamgha-e-Jang(1971 War Medal)
Foreign Awards
Legion of Merit (United States)
Order of Military Merit (Spain)
Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia)[23]
See also[edit]
Portal icon
Military of Pakistan portal
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Tariq Majid
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Khan, Iftikhar A., "Kayani to stay on as COAS till 2013: The night of
Raheel Sharif
Preceded by
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Acting)
2013
Succeeded by
Rashad Mahmood
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Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Pakistan
Shariff Adm. Shariff Iqbal Rahimuddin Akhtar Sirohey Alam Feroze Karamat Musharr
af Aziz Haq Majid Wynne Kayani Mahmood
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