Islamabad : Five three-star generals, including spymaster Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar, are due to retire on Monday in Pakistan, reported leading English daily “Dawn” last Saturday.
Besides director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Mukhtar, the others 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.
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 premier intelligence agency. He assumed the office of ISI director general on Dec 11, 2016.
