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Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani اشفاق پرویز کیانی | |
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 A. P. Kayani in 2010 | |
| 8th Chief of Army Staff | |
In office 29 November 2007 – 29 November 2013 | |
| Preceded by | General Pervez Musharraf |
| Succeeded by | General Raheel Sharif |
| Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee | |
In office 8 October 2013 – 29 November 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Gen. Khalid Shameem Wynne |
| Succeeded by | General Rashad Mahmood |
| Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence | |
In office 3 October 2004 – 8 October 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Shaukat Aziz |
| Preceded by | Lt-Gen. Ehsan-ul-Haq |
| Succeeded by | Lt-Gen. Nadeem Taj |
| Commander X Corps, Rawalpindi | |
In office October 2003 – October 2004 | |
| Director General of Military Operations at GHQ | |
In office 2000–2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ashfaq Pervez Kayani (1952-04-20) 20 April 1952 Gujar Khan Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Citizenship |  Pakistan |
| Alma mater | Military College Jhelum Pakistan Military Academy Command and Staff College US Army Command and General Staff College National Defence University |
| Civilian awards |  Hilal-i-Imtiaz (civilian) |
| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | Kayani Soldier's Soldier Quiet General |
| Allegiance | Pakistan |
| Branch/service |  Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1971–2013 |
| Rank |   General |
| Unit |  10th Baloch |
| Commands | Vice Chief of Army Staff Director-General Military Operations X Corps in Rawalpindi GOC 12th Infantry Division, Murree Mil Secy to First Benazir Ministry |
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
War on Terror
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| Military awards |  Nishan-e-Imtiaz (military) Legion of Merit Order of Military Merit Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud |
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (Urdu: اشفاق پرویز کیانی; born 20 April 1952), NI(M), HI(C), LOM, is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), being appointed on 29 November 2007 until 29 November 2013.
Initially appointed as Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) under then-President Pervez Musharraf on 8 October 2007, he formally took over the command of the army when President Pervez Musharraf retired from his military service on 29 November 2007. In addition, General Kayani served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and as director of the Directorate-General of Military Operations (DGMO), overseeing major war efforts in the war on terror. On 24 July 2010, Kayani's commission was renewed for three more years by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani to continue the war efforts against the insurgent outfits.[1][2]
Forbes named him the world's 34th most powerful person in 2011[3] and the world's 28th most powerful person in 2012.[3]
Contents
1 Early life
1.1 Education
2 Career
2.1 1971 war experience
2.2 Academia and professorship
2.3 Staff and Command appointments
3 Intelligence service
3.1 Directorship of Inter-Services Intelligence
4 Chief of Army Staff
4.1 Withdrawal of military secondment from civilian institutions
4.2 General elections in 2008
4.3 Perceptions of Kayani as COAS
4.4 War in Afghanistan and the United States
5 2012 Supreme Court Rulings
6 Retirement
7 Awards and decorations
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Education
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was born at Manghot, a village located in the Punjab Province, on 20 April 1952. The town of Manghot is situated on the Pothohar Plateau bounded on the east by the Jhelum River, on the west by the Indus River. Ashfaq's father was a Junior commissioned officer (JCO) in the Pakistan Army as Subedar major.
His humble background as the son of a JCO has endeared him to the junior ranks of the army. After attending a local high school, Ashfaq successfully enrolled in the Military College Jhelum, Sarai Alamgir and made a transfer to Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1971 in his class of 45th PMA Long Course.[4]
Career
1971 war experience
Ultimately, Kayani was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the famed Baloch Regiment on 29 August 1971.[5] He actively participated and joined the military in the time of 1971 war with India.[6][6]
Academia and professorship
After the war, Ashfaq continued to resume his studies and became more involved with his studies after joining the Command and Staff College in Quetta.[4] After his graduation, Kayani departed to the United States on deputation and educated at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and the United States Army Infantry School at the Fort Benning.[5] After graduating from the military institutions in the United States, Ashfaq returned to Pakistan and attained his Master of Science in War studies from the National Defence University.[5]
Kayani is a chain smoker. During his long military career, Ashfaq has been on the faculty of School of Infantry and Tactics, also in Quetta.[5] Ashfaq briefly taught war courses at the Command and Staff College in Quetta and later moved on to accepting the professorship of strategic studies and joined the teaching faculty at the National Defence University in Islamabad.[5]
Kayani is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. He belongs to Kayani clan which claims ancestry from Persian Kayanian dynasty.
Staff and Command appointments
As Lieutenant-Colonel, Kayani commanded an Infantry Battalion and an Infantry Brigade, as Brigadier.[4] Later, he served in the government of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as her deputy military secretary during her first stint as prime minister. Upon his promotion to two-star rank, Major-General Kayani served as the general officer commanding of the 12th Infantry Division stationed in Murree, deployed all over the LoC region and which comes under the X Corps.[4] In 2000, Kayani was moved and appointed as the director of the Directorate–General of Military Operations (DGMO).[4] In 2001, it was during his tenure as DGMO that the intense military standoff between Pakistan and India took place.[4] Reportedly, Kayani only slept a few hours a night during that period as he diligently oversaw the unified armed forces mobilisation and preparedness on the border.[4]
In September 2003, Kayani's promotion to three-star assignment was approved by the President Musharraf and subsequently elevating him to three-star rank, Lieutenant-General. The same year, he was appointed as the field operational commander of the X Corps in Rawalpindi.[4] The promotion indicated Musharraf's significant trust in Kayani, since chief of army staff cannot build a military coup without the help of the X Corps commander. Kayani led the X Corps until October 2004, when he was transferred to the ISI as its director-general.[4]
During Kayani's tenure at the X Corps, he led the successful investigation of the two back-to-back suicide attacks against Musharraf in December 2003. It is believed that Kayani won the trust of Musharraf after the investigation, and a prelude to Kayani's appointment as the sensitive position of ISI chief.[7] He was awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz, the civilian medal, for his achievement.
Intelligence service
Directorship of Inter-Services Intelligence
In October 2004, Lieutenant-General Ashfaq Kayani was appointed as the director general of Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in place of General Ehsan-ul-Haq, who was promoted as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.[4] General Kayani directed the ISI operations and her operatives during a bleak period, with widely spread insurgencies in North-West Pakistan and Balochistan, disclosing of the nuclear proliferation case, and waves of suicide attacks throughout Pakistan emanating from the northwestern tribal belt.[4] In his final days at the ISI, he also led the talks with Benazir Bhutto for a possible power sharing deal with Musharraf.[7] In October 2007, after three years, he was replaced at the ISI by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj.[8]
Kayani was also present at the March 2007 meeting that took place between Musharraf and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, when the former military ruler informed the top judge that he was suspended. Accounts of that meeting narrated that Kayani was the only one among Musharraf's aides who did not speak a word.[9]
Chief of Army Staff
In October 2007, Kayani's promotion papers for the appointment to the four-star rank was approved by the President Musharraf, and appointed him as the Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS). At the time of the promotion, Kayani ultimately superseded the senior-most army general, Lt-Gen. Khalid Kidwai, who was on an extension for one year. On 28 November 2007, Kayani succeeded Musharraf as chief of army staff after Musharraf's retirement.
General Kayani is noted as the second four-star army general who held the directorship of the ISI but later then went on to become the Chief of Army Staff. The first appointment of ISI director being appointed to four-star appointment was in 1999 when General Ziauddin Butt was the first army general who was appointed as army chief after his brief tenure as ISI director.
Withdrawal of military secondment from civilian institutions
In January 2008 General Kayani passed a directive which ordered military officers not to maintain contacts with politicians.[10] It was further made public on 13 February 2008 that General Kayani ordered the withdrawal of military officers from all of Pakistan's government civil departments. It was an action that reversed the policies of his predecessor, President Musharraf. It was welcomed by President Musharraf's critics, who have long demanded that the military distance itself from politics. The Pakistani media reported that the army officers would be withdrawn from 23 wide-ranging civil departments, including the National Highway Authority, National Accountability Bureau, Ministry of Education, and Water and Power Development Authority.[11]
General elections in 2008
On 7 March 2008 General Kayani confirmed that Pakistan's armed forces would stay out of politics and support the new government. He told a gathering of military commanders in the garrison city of Rawalpindi that "the army fully stands behind the democratic process and is committed to playing its constitutional role." The comments made were after the results of the Pakistani general election, 2008 where the Pakistan Peoples Party won the election and began forming a coalition government who were opposed to President Pervez Musharraf.[12]
Perceptions of Kayani as COAS
When he became COAS, several top-level US officials visited General Kayani in succession to make up their own minds about him. Most, including the then CIA chief Michael Hayden, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and former CENTCOM-commander Admiral William Fallon came away confident that Kayani "knows what he's doing."[13]
Kayani's first move as army chief was to visit the front lines in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Spending the Muslim holiday of Eid not with his family, but rather with his soldiers prompted American military officials to praise him as a "soldier's soldier."
War in Afghanistan and the United States
Gen. Kayani and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (Commander of NATO ISAF and US Forces Afghanistan) during 29th Tripartite Commission meeting.
About the Afghan war, Kayani is reported to have said, "the Pakistani people believe that the real aim of U.S. [war] strategy is to denuclearize Pakistan."[14]
April 24 2013, John Kerry bids farewell to General in Brussels, Belgium.
In January 2011, and after, there was criticism of General Kayani's handling of the Raymond Davis saga. Davis, a CIA contractor, was hastily tried and acquitted of murder charges in exchange for blood money paid to relatives of the victims, after which he was sent out of Pakistan within a matter of hours. Knowing the dynamics of the Pakistani state and the nature of this particular case, it was impossible for Davis to be released and deported from Pakistan without the knowledge and co-operation of Pakistan's Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).[citation needed]
The day after Davis' release, over 40 people were killed in the Datta Khel airstrike in North Waziristan in the FATA, in a drone strike by a US Predator aircraft. The target appeared to be a compound operated by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Taliban leader. The dead included local tribal leaders.[15] The strike, intended to further the local war effort, instead added to the unpopularity of drone strikes and added to the anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. Kayani conducted a rare press conference in which he condemned the drone strike (even persuading the Pakistani government to summon American Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, and lodge a "protest in the strongest possible terms") and labelled it "intolerable". In 2011, after delivering a long lecture at the National Defence University, one staff officer reportedly got up and challenged his policy of co-operation with the United States.[16] The officer asked, "If they don't trust us, how can we trust them?" according to one professor who was briefed on the session.[16] General Kayani essentially responded, "We can't."[16]
Kayani's comments about the Datta Khel strike came to be put in the broader context of public and private communications by Pakistani officials with Washington, including an April 2011, visit by the head of the ISI, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, to CIA Director Leon Panetta at CIA headquarters. "[S]ome officials in both countries [were] saying intelligence ties [we]re at their lowest point since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks spurred the alliance," according to one report. The report went on to say the overall communications included private demands that the CIA suspend drone strikes and also reduce the number of US intelligence and Special Operations personnel in the country. After the ISI-CIA meeting, CIA spokesman George Little said the intelligence relationship "remains on solid footing."[17]
2012 Supreme Court Rulings
The Supreme Court of Pakistan issued a series of rulings holding the military accountable for human rights abuses and political meddling.
Retirement
In 2013, General Kayani was in the race for the chairmanship of joint chiefs of staff committee along with Admiral Asif Sandila and Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafiq; though he was shortlisted for the appointment, on 6 October 2013, General Kayani announced that he would be retiring, his due date of retirement in November,[18][19] ending speculation that he might get an other extension or would be appointed as Chairman Joint Chief of staff Committee.[20][21]
His retirement was eventually confirmed when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved then-Lieutenant General Raheel Sharif as chief of army staff and Lieutenant General Rashid Mehmood as Chairman Joint chiefs on November 27, 2013.[22]
Awards and decorations
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See also
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Tariq Majid
References
^ Khan, Iftikhar A., "Kayani to stay on as COAS till 2013: The night of the quiet general", Dawn, 23 July 2010.
^ Jan, Reza, "Continuity in a Time of Flux: Pakistan Army Chief’s Term Extended", AEI Critical Threats, 9 August 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
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^ ab Syed Shoaib Hasan (17 June 2009). "Rise of Pakistan's 'quiet man'". BBC.
^ ab Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain. "The Next Musharraf" Newsweek, 8 October 2007
^ Ayaz Amir. "Is change in the air?" Dawn, 1 December 2006
^ "The Insider Brief". Shaan Akbar. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
^ "Pakistan military withdraws officers from civilian duties" Archived 4 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Monsters and Critics, 12 February 2008
^ "New Pakistan Army Chief Orders Military Out of Civilian Government Agencies, Reversing Musharraf Policy" The New York Times, 2 February 2008
^ Khalid Qayum. "Pakistan's Army Chief Kayani Pledges to Stay Out of Politics" Bloomberg L.P., 6 March 2008
^ Chauhan, Swaraaj, "General Kayani: USA’s New ‘Poster Boy’ In Pakistan?", The Moderate Voice, 13 February 2008.
^ DeYoung, Karen, "New estimates put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal at more than 100", Washington Post, 31 January 2011.
^ Rodrigue, Alex (18 March 2011). "Pakistan denounces U.S. drone strike". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
^ abc Perlez, Jane (15 June 2011). "Pakistan's Chief of Army Fights to Keep His Job". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
^ Entous, Adam, and Matthew Rosenberg, "Pakistan Tells U.S. to Halt Drones", The Wall Street Journal, 12 April 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
^ "Pakistan's military chief Kayani says he will retire in November". Reuters. 6 October 2013.
^ "Pakistan's powerful army chief confirms retirement". 8 October 2013.
^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/613496/kayani-may-be-retained-in-powerful-security-role-after-retirement/
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^ http://dawn.com/news/1058927/raheel-sharif-being-appointed-new-army-chief
^ "King Abdul Aziz Medal for Gen. Kayani". Saudi Gazette. 9 November 2008. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
External links
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- Official profile at ISPR website
- Official profile at Pakistan Army website
- Profile at BBC News
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| Preceded by Ehsan ul Haq | Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence 2004–2007 | Succeeded by Nadeem Taj |
| Preceded by Ahsan Saleem Hyat | Vice Chief of Army Staff 2007 | Post abolished |
| Preceded by Pervez Musharraf | Chief of Army Staff 2007 – 2013 | Succeeded by Raheel Sharif |
| Preceded by Khalid Shameem Wynne | Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Acting) 2013 | Succeeded by Rashad Mahmood |
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