TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Gen Asim Munir, a soldier with considerable operational experience and a career steeped in intelligence, has been designated as Pakistans 11th Chief of Army Staff (COAS), after weeks of intense speculation about who will lead the powerful military following Gen Qamar Javed Bajwas impending retirement. He is first army chief to have headed both the Military Intelligence (MI) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and also the first army chief who served as the Quartermaster General (QMG), and first army chief from the OTS programme.
OTS-trained officers from 1950 to 1990, but most of its graduates ended up at the ranks of major or colonel in the army with very few rising to the rank of brigadier. He has been a close aide of the outgoing COAS ever since he commanded troops in the Force Command Northern Areas as a brigadier under Gen Bajwa, who was then Commander X Corps.
As major general he was first posted as Force Commander Northern Areas (FCNA), the division deployed along the forward lines at Siachen. He was later appointed DG Military Intelligence in early 2017, and in October next year was made the ISI chief. However, his stint as the top intelligence officer turned out to be the shortest ever, when he was abruptly replaced by Lt Gen Faiz Hamid within eight months, on the insistence of then Prime Minister Imran Khan. He was posted as Gujranwala Corps commander, a position he held for two years, before moving to the GHQ as Quartermaster General.
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