Wyne made chief of general staff

Published April 18, 2010

Lt-Gen Wyne will be the most senior general at the time of retirement of army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in November. - File Photo.
ISLAMABAD In a major shake-up, the Army on Saturday appointed Lt-Gen Khalid Shamim Wyne as Chief of General Staff (CGS) and commanders for three corps.

Lt-Gen Wyne, who will be the most senior general at the time of retirement of army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in November, will replace Lt-Gen Mohammad Mustafa Khan, who has been posted as Mangla Corps Commander.

Lt-Gen Rashad Mehmood will be the new corps commander of Lahore and Adjutant General Lt-Gen Javed Zia will be the new corps commander of Quetta.

Four three-star generals are due to retire on May 1. They are Mangla Corps Commander Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmed, Lahore Corps Commander Lt-Gen Ejaz Ahmad Bakshi, Lt-Gen Ahsan Azhar Hayat, Director-General of Training and Evaluation, and Lt-Gen Sajjad Akram, deputy chief of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority.

Lt-Gen Waheed Arshad has already been named as successor of Lt-Gen Azhar Hayat.

Lt-Gen Haroon Aslam, who was recently promoted along with two other three-star generals, has yet to get a posting.

Sources told Dawn that there was a possibility that Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lt-Gen Tahir Mahmood would be posted as Adjutant General at the General Headquarters and Lt-Gen Haroon Aslam would be made commander of the 10 Corps in Rawalpindi in his place.

Maj-Gen Sajjad Ghani, GOC (General Officer Commanding) at the 8th Infantry Division in Mangla (one of the two divisions conducting operation Rah-i-Raast in Swat), has been appointed as Vice-Chief of General Staff. Prior to his promotion, Lt-Gen Waheed Arshad was holding this post.

Maj-Gen Nasrullah Tahir Dogar, who was among 29 brigadiers recently promoted to two-star generals, has been made GOC in Pannu Aqil.

Maj-Gen Rizwan Akhtar, another newly-promoted officer, has been appointed as Director Organisation and Methods (O&M) at the GHQ. Maj-Gen Mohammad Asif has been appointed as GOC 8th Division. Maj-Gen Saeed Aleem has been appointed as Deputy Quarter Master General and Maj-Gen Farrukh Basheer as GOC Special Services Group (SSG).

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