General Qamar Javed Bajwa appointed as new Pakistan Army chief

General Qamar Javed Bajwa appointed as new Pakistan Army chief, Lt Gen Qamar Bajwa has been appointed as the chief of Pakistan Army by the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He will replace Gen Raheel Sharif who will retire on November 29, 2016. Lt Gen Zubair Hayat also appointed as the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee. Bajwa is currently serving at the GHQ as Inspector

General of Training and Evaluation.He headed the Pakistan Army’s largest formation Rawalpindi-based X Corps which is responsible for LoC operations.He has served in Congo with the United Nations.

Pakistan Army :

♦ The Pakistani army is the sixth largest in the world in terms of active military personnel and the largest among Muslim countries.

♦  Pakistan has given the largest number of troops for the UN peacekeeping mission which gives Pakistan an eminent position among rest of the nations.