20th Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (Pakistan)
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Lieutenant General
Asif Ghafoor
HI(M)
Asif Ghafoor as Major General
President of the National Defence University
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2023
Corps Commander XII Corps
In office 4 August 2022 – 24 November 2023
Preceded by
Sarfraz Ali
Succeeded by
Rahat Naseem
Inspector General Communication & Information Technology
In office 28 November 2020 – 2 August 2022
General Officer Commanding 40th Infantry Division, Okara
In office 31 January 2020 – 28 November 2020
20th Director-General of the ISPR
In office 15 December 2016 – 31 January 2020
President
Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Imran Khan
Preceded by
Asim Saleem Bajwa
Succeeded by
Babar Iftikhar
General Officer Commanding 21st Artillery Division, Swat
In office February 2016 – 15 December 2016
Personal details
Alma mater
Pakistan Military Academy, Command & Staff College Quetta, Command & Staff College Bandung (Indonesia), National Defence University, Islamabad
Awards
Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Military service
Allegiance
Pakistan
Branch/service
Pakistan Army
Years of service
1986–present
Rank
Lieutenant General
Battles/wars
Kargil War
War in North-West Pakistan
Operation Sherdil
Insurgency in Balochistan
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad
Service number
PA-27699
Asif GhafoorHI(M) (Urdu: آصِف غفور ) is a Lieutenant General in the Pakistan Army,[1] currently serving as the President of the National Defence University, Islamabad. He was most recently serving as the Corps Commander Quetta. Ghafoor has also served as the 20th Director General of the ISPR.[2]
^Hussain, Abid (2020-01-18). "Pakistan two-star general: Farewell to a social media celebrity". BBC News. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
^"6 Pak Army major generals promoted to lieutenant general rank". DAWN.COM. 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
AsifGhafoor HI(M) (Urdu: آصِف غفور ) is a Lieutenant General in the Pakistan Army, currently serving as the President of the National Defence University...
Babur Iftikhar replaces AsifGhafoor as DG ISPR". 16 January 2020. "Pakistan military spokesperson Major General AsifGhafoor replaced, sent to command...
commercial properties throughout Asia. Spacious was founded in 2013 by AsifGhafoor, former Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered Bank development manager...
rank". Samaa. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015. "Maj Gen AsifGhafoor appointed DG ISPR". Dawn. 15 December 2016. "Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar appointed...
Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General AsifGhafoor, stated that three IAF teams were spotted approaching the Pakistan border...
Regiment (Guides) - 78 PMA Long Course Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) 04 AsifGhafoor President National Defence University, Islamabad 87 (SP) Medium Regiment...
the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018. "Major General AsifGhafoor also tweeted about it". forces.net. 2 July 2018. Archived from the original...
Lahore), Lt Gen Sardar Hassan Azhar Hayat (XI Corps Peshawar), and Lt Gen AsifGhafoor (XII Corps Quetta), have expressed their concerns regarding the operation...
General Julian Peter Major General Noel Israel Khokhar Major General AsifGhafoor, former DG ISPR, GOC Okara 40th Infantry Division Major General Babar...
sought a report from the authorities. In February 2019, Major General AsifGhafoor, announced that two senior military officers were being held on espionage...
Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed (Urdu: عبدالغفور احمد ; 26 June 1927 – 26 December 2012) was a Pakistani politician who represented Jamaat-e-Islami in National...
announcement was followed by a tweet of Director-General of the ISPR, Maj Gen. AsifGhafoor, which revealed that the Pakistan Air Force had shot down two Indian...
accuse him and the PTM of "foreign backing". In May 2019 Major General AsifGhafoor, serving as a spokesman for the Pakistani military, alleged that Indian...
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not made any prior bookings. The Pakistan Army spokesman Major General AsifGhafoor told the journalist Hamid Mir not to invite PTM members on media in response...
Retrieved 15 April 2020. A spokesman for Pakistan's armed forces, Maj. Gen. AsifGhafoor, on Tuesday posted on Twitter four images of a forested area pockmarked...
operation to be successful. On 21 August 2017, Director General ISPR Maj Gen AsifGhafoor announced the successful completion of Operation Khyber-4. The ground...
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