Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi with General Bryan D. Brown
Personal details
Born
Ameer Faisal Alavi
(1954-03-28)28 March 1954 British Kenya
Died
19 November 2008(2008-11-19) (aged 54) Islamabad, Pakistan
Relations
Nadira Naipaul (sister)
V. S. Naipaul[1] (brother-in-law)
Children
2 daughters
Military service
Allegiance
Pakistan
Branch/service
Pakistan Army
Years of service
1974–2005
Rank
Major General
Unit
Army Armoured Corps (26th Cavalry)
Commands
General Officer Commanding SSG
Battles/wars
Indo-Pakistani War of 1999
War in North-West Pakistan
Battle of Wana
Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi (28 March 1954 – 19 November 2008) was a Pakistan Army two-star general and special operations expert who was the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the elite Special Service Group of Pakistan Army. A former member of Special Service Group, he was credited with masterminding the Angoor Ada operation in 2004, where many Arabs and Chechens based in the tribal areas were killed or arrested and turned over to the Americans.[2]
2 months before his death, he threatened to expose Pakistani army generals who had made deals with Taliban militants. He had given a copy of a letter he had sent to then Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to author Carey Schofield and told her to publish it if he was killed. The letter contained names of two generals.[3] On 19 November 2008, while driving to work in his car in Islamabad, he was shot dead by three unknown gunmen. It was alleged that Ilyas Kashmiri, the chief of Jammu & Kashmir chapter of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami,[4] was behind the murder of Maj-Gen Faisal Alavi at the behest of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in North Waziristan.[2]
^"Mystery grows over general's slaying in Pakistan". Reuters. 15 December 2008.
^ abHamid Mir. "How an ex-Army commando became a terrorist" The News, 20 September 2009
^"The mystery of Maj-Gen Alavi's murder". 15 December 2008.
^Amir Mir. "Ilyas Kashmiri had planned to attack COAS" The News, 18 September 2009
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