President Pervez MusharrafAsif Ali ZardariMamnoon HussainPreceded by General Pervez MusharrafSucceeded by General Raheel SharifDirector General of the Inter-Services IntelligenceIn officeOctober 2004 October 2007President Pervez MusharrafPreceded by Ehsan ul HaqSucceeded by Nadeem TajChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CommitteeActingIn office8 October 2013 29 November 2013Preceded by Khalid Shameem WynneSucceeded by General Rashad MahmoodPersonal detailsBorn 20 April 1952 (age 63)Gujar Khan Tehsil, Punjab, PakistanAlma mater Pakistan Military AcademyCommand and Staff CollegeUS Army Command and General Staff CollegeNational Defence UniversityMilitary serviceNickname(s) KayaniSoldier's SoldierQuiet GeneralAllegiance PakistanService/branch Pakistan ArmyYears of service 19712013Rank US-O10 insignia.svg GeneralUnit Baloch RegimentCommands 12th Infantry DivisionDG Inter Services IntelligenceDG Military OperationsX CorpsVice Chief of Army StaffBattles/wars Indo-Pakistani war of 1971Bangladesh War of LiberationAshfaq Parvez Kayani, (Urdu: ????? ????? ??????, born 20 April 1952; NI(M), HI), is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chief of Army Staff from 29 November 2007 to 29 November 2013. He succeeded General Pervez Musharraf as the chief of army staff on 29 November 2007. He also held the acting charge of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from October to November 2013. In addition, General Kayani formerly served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and director of the Directorate-General of Military Operations (DGMO). On 24 July 2010, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani extended Kayani's term as Chief of the Army Staff by three years, making him the first four-star officer to receive a term extension from any democratic government.[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 [hide] 1 Early life1.1 Education2 Career2.1 1971 war experience2.2 Academia and professorship2.3 Staff and Command appointments3 Intelligence service3.1 Directorship of Inter-Services Intelligence4 Chief of Army Staff4.1 Withdrawal of military from civilian government4.2 2008 general election4.3 Perceptions of Kayani as COAS4.4 Recent events5 Retirement6 Awards and decorations7 See also8 References9 External linksEarly life[edit]Education[edit]Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was born at Manghot, a village located in Gujar Khan District 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 Non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the Pakistan Army.His humble background as the son of an NCO 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[edit]1971 war experience[edit]Ultimately, Kayani gained commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion of the famed Baloch Regiment on 29 August 1971.[5] He actively participated and joined up the military in time of 1971 war with India.[6][6]Academia and professorship[edit]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 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 as well as a keen golfer. He is currently president of the Pakistan Golf Federation.[5] 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[edit]As Lieutenant-Colonel, Kiyani commanded the 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 Kiyani 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, Kiyani was moved and appointed as the director of the DirectorateGeneral 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[edit]Directorship of Inter-Services Intelligence[edit]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[edit]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. At the time of promotion, Kayani superseded one officer, Lieutenant-General Khalid Kidwai who was on an extension for one year. On 28 November 2007, Kiyani succeeded Musharraf as chief of army staff after Musharraf's retirement. The ceremony was held at the sports stadium near General Headquarters, Rawalpindi. General Kayani is the first four-star officer in the history of Pakistan who held the position of director of ISI and then went on to become the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). The last time a Director-General of the ISI was to be made army chief in 1999, the army staged a bloodless coup to reinstate the proposed outgoing Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf.Withdrawal of military from civilian government[edit]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]Kharian, 2 November 2013, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani during "Azm-e-Nau Exercises 4" shakes hands with soldiers.2008 general election[edit]On 7 March 2008 General Kayani confirmed that Pakistan's armed forces will 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[edit]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."Recent events[edit]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]Retirement[edit]In 2013, General Kiyani was in the race for the chairmanship of joint chiefs of staff committee alongside 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 will be retiring on the 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[edit]Service Medals10 Years Service Medal20 Years Service Medal30 Years Service Medal40 Years Service MedalCommand and Staff College Centenary MedalTamgha-e-Diffa (General Service Medal)Non-operational Military AwardsNishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence Military)Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence Civilian)Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence)Commemorative MedalsQarardad-e-Pakistan Tamgha (Resolution Day Golden Jubilee Medal)Jashan-e-Wiladat-e-Quaid-e-Azam MedalTamgha-e-Istaqlal (Escalation versus India Medal)Hijri Tamgha (Hijri Medal)Tamgha-e-Jamhuriat (Democracy Medal)Independence Day Golden Jubilee MedalTamgha-e-Baqa(Nuclear Test Medal)Pakistan Military Campaign/War MedalsSitara-e-Harb(1971 War Star)Tamgha-e-Jang(1971 War Medal)Foreign AwardsLegion of Merit (United States)Order of Military Merit (Spain)Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia)[23]See also[edit]Portal icon Military of Pakistan portalIndo-Pakistani War of 1971Tariq MajidReferences[edit]Jump up ^ Khan, Iftikhar A., "Kayani to stay on as COAS till 2013: The night of the quiet general", Dawn, 23 July 2010.Jump up ^ Jan, Reza, "Continuity in a Time of Flux: Pakistan Army Chiefs Term Extended", AEI Critical Threats, 9 August 2010. 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Retrieved 6 December 2012.Jump up ^ Entous, Adam, and Matthew Rosenberg, "Pakistan Tells U.S. to Halt Drones", The Wall Street Journal, 12 April 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.Jump up ^ "Pakistan's military chief Kayani says he will retire in November". Reuters. 6 October 2013.Jump up ^ "Pakistan's powerful army chief confirms retirement". 8 October 2013.Jump up ^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/613496/kayani-may-be-retained-in-powerful-security-role-after-retirement/Jump up ^ http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-25741-Three-options-for-Gen-Kayani-on-the-table-but-Nawaz-will-decideJump up ^ http://dawn.com/news/1058927/raheel-sharif-being-appointed-new-army-chiefJump up ^ "King Abdul Aziz Medal for Gen. Kayani". Saudi Gazette. 9 November 2008. 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