Last Updated on: 26th June 2023, 05:29 pm
What is the Lt. General Asim Munir Retirement Date?
Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, met in London with his older brother Nawaz Sharif, leader of the PML-N and Prime Minister for three terms, and discussed issues related to the election of the new leader of the Pakistan Army. . , according to information released Friday night.
According to rumors circulating in the Pakistani media, the Nawaz-Shehbaz meeting decided that the army chief of staff would be appointed on the basis of merit and would be the senior general (COAS).
General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the current COAS, will step down later this month. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reports that General Bajwa has begun paying farewell visits to various formations of the Pakistan Army.
Lieutenant General Asim Munir is the eldest of the six Lieutenant Generals to appear on a series of CVs sent to the Prime Minister for the post of Military Leader and currently serves as Quartermaster General at GHQ. He was originally scheduled to retire in September 2022. However, due to a temporary leave of absence following his promotion to Lieutenant General, he will retire in November 2022.
Amir served as military secretary to then-President Asif Ali Zardari. He is currently the Gujranwala Corps Commander. According to Toor, he also has a good chance of being appointed army chief.
Journalists Umer Cheema and Azaz Syed also claimed that Asim Munir and Azhar Abbas were selected by the government for promotion to the 4-star rank. One of them will be the chief of the army and the other the chairman of the committee of chiefs of staff, reveal Azaz Syed and Umar Cheema.
Who is Lieutenant General Asim Munir?
Lieutenant General Asim Munir will be the most experienced person in selecting the new CJCSC and COAS. Although he received a two-star overall promotion in September 2018, he didn’t land the role until two months later.
On 27th November when the current CJCSC and COAS remove their military uniforms, his four-year tenure as a lieutenant general would come to an end. General Bajwa will decide whether to include his name and the Prime Minister will make the final decision as the proposals and decisions for the appointment of the two four-star generals are made a little earlier. He’s a great officer, but given the details, he could still be the classic dark horse.
Munir enlisted in the Army and was enlisted in the Frontier Force Regiment after completing the Officer Training School (OTS) program in Mangla. He has been a close associate of the current COAS since serving as brigade commander of Force Command Northern Areas under General Bajwa, who was then in command of X Corps. He was then promoted to DG of Military Intelligence in early 2017 and appointed Head of ISI in October of the same year.
However, his tenure as a senior intelligence official was the shortest in history, as he was replaced by Lieutenant General Faiz Hamid after just eight months at the urging of then Prime Minister Imran Khan. He was appointed Gujranwala Corps Commander and served in that capacity for two years before moving to GHQ as Quartermaster General.