Major general naveed mukhtar biography

ISLAMABAD: Four three-star generals are due to retire on Monday, informed sources told Dawn on Saturday.

Spymaster Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar is also retiring this month.

Among those retiring on Oct 1 are Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Nazir Ahmad Butt, Commander of Army’s Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) Lt Gen Mian Mohammad Hilal Hussain, Military Secretary at the General Headquarters (GHQ) Lt Gen Ghayur Mehmood and Inspector General of Training and Evaluation, GHQ, Lt Gen Hidayatur Rehman.

The new ISI chief Lt Gen Mukhtar has headed the counter- terrorism wing of the spy agency in Islamabad.

Commissioned in the armoured corps regiment in 1983, Lt Gen Mukhtar is a graduate of the Command and Staff College, Quetta; National Defence University, Islamabad; and the United States Army War College.

He had commanded a mechanised division and served as director general of Rangers before being promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and posted as corps commander of Karachi in September 2014.

He served there till Dec 7, 2016 before being posted to Islamabad to head the country’s premi