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Sources told Dawn that three-star generals who would stay in uniform beyond the term of Gen Kayani were Commander Army Air Defence Lt-Gen Syed Mohammad Awais, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt-Gen Asif Yasin Malik, Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority Deputy Chairman Lt-Gen Haroon Aslam, Inspector General of Training and Evaluation Lt-Gen Waheed Arshad and Lahore Corps Commander Lt-Gen Rashad Mahmood. Lieutenant-Generals Awais and Malik will retire on March 31, 2014, and the other three on April 9, 2014.
Six lieutenant generals will retire this year. They are National Defence University President Lt-Gen Mohammad Yousaf (September 16), Mangla Corps Commander Lt-Gen Mustafa Khan (October 1), Strategic Force Commander Lt-Gen S. Absar Hussain (October 22), Quarter Master General Lt-Gen Zahid Hussain Khan (October 25), Rector of the National University of Science and Technology Lt-Gen Mohammad Asghar (October 31) and Karachi Corps Commander Lt-Gen Shahid Iqbal (November 7).
Three serving lieutenant generals currently on a one-year extension will retire in March next year. They are Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Commander of UN force in Liberia Lt-Gen Sikandar Afzal and IT and Communication Inspector General Lt-Gen Tanvir Tahir.
Eight three-star generals will complete their term in 2011. They are IG Arms at GHQ Lt-Gen Tahir Mehmood, Bahawalpur Corps Commander Lt-Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi, Chief of General Staff Lt-Gen Khalid Shamim Wyne, Pakistan Ordnance Factories Chairman Lt-Gen Shujaat Zamir Dar, Adjutant General Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj, GHQ Military Secretary Lt-Gen Mohsin Kamal, Gujranwala Corps Commander Lt-Gen Jamil Haider and Quetta Corps Commander Lt-Gen Javed Zia.
Chairman of Heavy Industries in Taxila Lt-Gen Salim Rana and Army's Surgeon General Lt-Gen Mohammad Rehan Burney will retire in 2012.
Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lt-Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan, Director General Joint Staff Lt-Gen Sardar Mahmood Ali Khan, Chief of Logistics Staff Lt-Gen Alam Khatak and Multan Corps Commander Lt-Gen Shafqaat Ahmad will retire on October 4, 2013.
At present one position of a three-star general is lying vacant, after the retirement of Engineer-in-Chief Lt-Gen Shahid Niaz. A major-general is temporarily working on the position.
Lt-Gen Sikandar Afzal is the most senior among the serving lieutenant generals. He will retire on his return from Liberia next year. Let-Gen Khalid Shamim Wyne is next on the seniority list, followed by Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj and Lt-Gen Javed Zia.
