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Ziauddin Butt |
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Lieutenant General (retd) |
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1998 to October 1999 |
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| Ziauddin was commissioned in Pakistan Army in the Corps of Engineers, a non-fighting arm in October 1964 in the 30th PMA Long Course. This was part of the reason Army high command sided with Musharraf in ousting Ziauddin as the Army chief since 1947 had always belonged to the fighting arm (infantry, armored corps or artillery). Ziauddin Butt was promoted to Lt. General on February 25, 1996 and made the commander of XXX Corps at Gujranwala at personal request to General Jehangir Karamat from the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. After serving as the Corps Commander, Butt was posted as the Adjutant General (AG), where he was serving at the time of promotion of General Musharraf to the Army chief in October 1998. When Lt. Generals Ali Kuli Khan and Khalid Nawaz were superseded by Musharraf, Ziauddin Butt moved to No.2 slot in the seniority list of Lt Gens. He was subsequently assigned to head the ISI by PM Nawaz Sharif, after replacing Lt. Gen. Nasim Rana who was posted as Master-General Ordnance. He was also awarded with the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military). |
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