Who is Lt Gen Asim Munir?: Pakistan's new COAS

Lieutenant General Asim Munir has been nominated as Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Lieutenant General Sahir Shamshad Mirza has been named as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday.

Here is a look at the new COAS’s profile:

Lt Gen Asim Munir- who headed both the Military Intelligence (MI) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)- joined Pakistan Army from the Mangala Officers Training School programme and became a commissioned officer in the Frontier Force Regiment.

Asim Munir Shah commanded the Northern Areas Force as a brigadier and was appointed the director-general of the Military Intelligence in the year 2017.

In the year 2018, Asim Munir was appointed as Director-General (DG) of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He was succeeded by Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed.

He was then posted as Corps Commander Gujranwala. When he was picked for, he is serving as the Quarter Master at the General Headquarters (GHQ).

Lt Gen Asim Munir is a Hafiz-e-Quran and is the first army chief who has headed both the MI and ISI in the past.

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