Musharraf picks up his successor

[Neo]

Musharraf picks up his successor​

22 September 2007

ISLAMABAD — In a significant move, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday announced a major shake up in army hierarchy that spurred speculations he has already picked up his successor as the army chief.

President Musharraf promoted six major generals as lieutenant generals and named new chief of ISI and commander of the key Ten Corps Rawalpindi. However, he withheld the announcement regarding the fresh assignment for the incumbents who are believed to be in the run for the top two posts in the army.

Lt-Gen. Ashfaque Kyani, Director-General of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), was replaced by Maj-Gen. Nadim Taj who has been promoted as lieutenant general.

Maj-Gen. Mohsin Kamal has been promoted and replaced Lt-Gen. Tariq Majid as commander of Ten Corps Rawalpindi that has been a key force in every military takeover in country’s history.

The new assignment of Kyani and Majid was not announced implicitly confirming reports that Gen. Majid will be new army chief and Gen. Kyani will be named chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), a cosmetic post coordinating operations of all three services, the navy, army and air force.

Apart from Kamal and Taj, four other major generals — Javed Zia, Jamil Haider, Shujaat Zamir Dar and Mohammad Asghar — have also been promoted and posted in GHQ.

Nadim Taj, who also served as Musharraf’s military secretary at the time of the coup, has been the main interlocutor with PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto when he was director-general of Military Intelligence (MI).

Kyani who belongs to the Potohar region near Rawalpindi, had recently replaced Taj in negotiations with Benazir Bhutto.

Media reports have indicated that Benazir Bhutto was also asked to give her preference in the impending changes in the army.

Musharraf has promised to quit army post after winning presidential election due on October 6 and before taking the fresh oath of office on November 16.

There are strong speculations that he will announce changes in the army on October 7, a day before the present JCSC chief Gen. Ehsanul Haq and Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ahsan Aslam Hayat will retire.

Both have already begun traditional dining out trips to various formations.

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[fatman17]

my vote is for kiyani as coas
majid will get cjsc

 

[saracen]

Musharraf picks up his successor​

22 September 2007

ISLAMABAD — In a significant move, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday announced a major shake up in army hierarchy that spurred speculations he has already picked up his successor as the army chief.

President Musharraf promoted six major generals as lieutenant generals and named new chief of ISI and commander of the key Ten Corps Rawalpindi. However, he withheld the announcement regarding the fresh assignment for the incumbents who are believed to be in the run for the top two posts in the army.

Lt-Gen. Ashfaque Kyani, Director-General of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), was replaced by Maj-Gen. Nadim Taj who has been promoted as lieutenant general.

Maj-Gen. Mohsin Kamal has been promoted and replaced Lt-Gen. Tariq Majid as commander of Ten Corps Rawalpindi that has been a key force in every military takeover in country’s history.

The new assignment of Kyani and Majid was not announced implicitly confirming reports that Gen. Majid will be new army chief and Gen. Kyani will be named chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), a cosmetic post coordinating operations of all three services, the navy, army and air force.

Apart from Kamal and Taj, four other major generals — Javed Zia, Jamil Haider, Shujaat Zamir Dar and Mohammad Asghar — have also been promoted and posted in GHQ.

Nadim Taj, who also served as Musharraf’s military secretary at the time of the coup, has been the main interlocutor with PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto when he was director-general of Military Intelligence (MI).

Kyani who belongs to the Potohar region near Rawalpindi, had recently replaced Taj in negotiations with Benazir Bhutto.

Media reports have indicated that Benazir Bhutto was also asked to give her preference in the impending changes in the army.

Musharraf has promised to quit army post after winning presidential election due on October 6 and before taking the fresh oath of office on November 16.

There are strong speculations that he will announce changes in the army on October 7, a day before the present JCSC chief Gen. Ehsanul Haq and Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ahsan Aslam Hayat will retire.

Both have already begun traditional dining out trips to various formations.

Khaleej Times Online - Musharraf picks up his successor

Neo
Who will be the next COAS then? What are you reading between the lines, and your guess?

 

[Awesome]

Neo
Who will be the next COAS then? What are you reading between the lines, and your guess?

Tariq Majid would be my guess because of his current position. Kiyani, an ISI chief, would not be well suited to become COAS.

 

[Neo]

Ex-spymaster is Pakistan's army No.2​

Islamabad - A former spymaster took over as Pakistan's deputy army chief Monday, setting him up to succeed President Pervez Musharraf as leader of the military in a key step to restoring civilian rule.

General Ashfaq Kiyani is a Musharraf loyalist who has helped spearhead the fight against Taliban and Al-Qaeda violence and has represented the president in crunch political negotiations.

Musharraf, a key US anti-terror ally, had promised to step down as head of the nuclear-armed military if he won another five-year term in a presidential election on Saturday.

He won by a landslide, but must now wait at least nine days for the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the election by the national parliament and provincial assemblies before the result is declared official.




Kiyani, the former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, received a guard of honour as he arrived at army headquarters in Rawalpindi, a military statement said.

"A ceremony was held at the general headquarters to formally welcome the newly appointed vice chief of army staff on assuming charge of the new appointment," the military statement said.

"A smartly turned out contingent of the Pakistan army presented a guard of honour to the vice chief of army staff."

The army has described Kiyani as the designated successor to Musharraf, who has been army chief since the year before he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.

Since then Musharraf has come under mounting pressure from his backers in Washington and the international community for a return to democratic rule.

The chain-smoking Kiyani has formed good relations with the United States amid the Pakistani military's campaign to drive Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels from the troubled tribal belt.

In an indication of the scale of that task, at least 58 people including 16 soldiers were killed on Sunday in two major battles between Islamist insurgents and troops in the troubled North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.

Kiyani also led Musharraf's side in recent power-sharing talks with former premier Benazir Bhutto, which led last week to a reconciliation agreement that gives the exiled ex-premier an amnesty on corruption charges.

He was also Bhutto's deputy military secretary during one of her two terms in power in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Bhutto is set to fly back to the southern city of Karachi on October 18 to lead her Pakistan People's Party in general elections due by mid-January.

A day earlier, the Supreme Court is due to resume hearing legal challenges against the presidential election.

Analysts, however, say it is unlikely to overturn Musharraf's overwhelming victory over two token rivals -- achieved after almost the entire opposition either resigned or abstained.

Musharraf has been at loggerheads with the court since his botched attempt earlier this year to remove the nation's chief justice, a move that triggered mass protests and sent the president's popularity plummeting.

He is also battling a wave of Islamist violence unleashed when government forces stormed the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.

Kiyani was succeeded as the ISI chief last month by Nadeem Taj, who served as Musharraf's military secretary after his 1999 coup.

IOL: Ex-spymaster is Pakistan's army No.2

 

[BATMAN]

He hails from Jehlum district (Sparta-land of Pakistan).
Jhelum District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandar fought it's most fierce fight in Jehlum and so does British.