Director General of the Inter Services Public Relations
In office 2008–2012
Preceded by
Waheed Arshad
Succeeded by
Asim Saleem Bajwa
Personal details
Born
23 June 1955[1] Lahore
Education
Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, National Defence University, Quaid-i-Azam University
Awards
Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)[1]
Military service
Allegiance
Pakistan
Branch/service
Pakistan Army
Years of service
1976 – 2012
Rank
Major General
Unit
Army Armored Corps
Commands
6th Armoured Division, Kharian
DG Quartering and Lands
DG Inter-Services Public Relations
Battles/wars
Indo-Pakistani War of 1999
War in North-West Pakistan
Operation Sherdil
Operation Black Thunderstorm
Operation Rah e Raast
Khyber Pass offensive
Operation Rah-e-Nijat
Orakzai and Kurram offensive
Major General Athar Abbas is a former Director General of the ISPR and former Ambassador of Pakistan to Ukraine from 2015 to 2018.[1][2] He retired from active military service after 35 years in June 2012.[1]
^ abcdProfile of Athar Abbas on Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan website Retrieved 28 November 2017
^"Athar Abbas takes over as new DG ISPR (Profile of Athar Abbas)" (Press release). ISPR. 2008-01-14. Archived from the original on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
Major General AtharAbbas is a former Director General of the ISPR and former Ambassador of Pakistan to Ukraine from 2015 to 2018. He retired from active...
Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi FAHA (1921–1994) was a modern historian of medieval India, mainly focused on history of Islam in South Asia. Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi...
four brothers, Maj. Gen. (R) AtharAbbas, Zaffar Abbas, Anwer Abbas, and Azhar Abbas. In 2008, Abbas's brother, AtharAbbas, became the director general...
heroines. "Asma Abbas diagnosed with cancer, well-wishers send her prayers". Retrieved 2019-02-17. Athar, Arslan (2019-02-08). "Asma Abbas Opened Up About...
General of the ISPR In office June 2012 – December 2016 Preceded by AtharAbbas Succeeded by Asif Ghafoor Personal details Born 5 December 1968 Sadiqabad...
the point of distraction" Banarsi Prasad Saksena 1992, p. 431. Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi 1987, p. 42:"Mubarak Shah could have ruled for many years without...
TTP announcements and said Mehsud was in good health. Major General AtharAbbas, ISPR spokesman, and Robert Gibbs of the White House said his death could...
Shah, Founder of Haidarabad. Asia Publishing House. p. 6. Rizvi, Saiyid AtharAbbas (1986). A Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā ʼAsharī Shīʼīs in India:...
same ancestry "in their 3rd / 4th upward generation". Rizvi, Saiyid AtharAbbas (1986). A Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā ʼAsharī Shīʼīs in India:...
Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-4438-2525-2. OCLC 827209160. Rizvi, Saiyid AtharAbbas (1983). History of Sufism in India. Vol. 2. Munshiram Manoharlal. OCLC 79480628...
Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 307, 315. ISBN 9789004147577. Rizvi, Saiyid AtharAbbas (1983). A History of Sufism in India. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal...
thoughts on the location of Ibadat Khana. Saeed Ahmed Mararavi, followed by AtharAbbas Rizvi and Vincent Flynn suggested that the mound between Jama Masjid...
London: Reaktion Books. pp. 266. ISBN 1-86189-185-7. Rizvi, Saiyid AtharAbbas (1983). A History of Sufism in India. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Mushiram Manoharlal...
Shah Haider succeeded him as Imam and a minister in the court. Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi, "A Socio-Intellectual History of Isna Ashari Shi'is in India"...
she visits Islamabad with school friends, meeting with Major General AtharAbbas and giving a public speech. With her father, Yousafzai speaks at many...
Naseerabadi Ghulam Rasool Noori Moulvi Muhammad Baqir Dehlvi Professor Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi Justin Jones, "Shi'a Islam in Colonial India", p. 5, Cambridge...
Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā Asharī Shīaīs in India – Page 346 by Saiyid AtharAbbas Rizvi, – 1986 – Majmaʻulafkār – Page 15 by Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi, K̲h̲udā...
poster Directed by Shoaib Mansoor Written by Shoaib Mansoor Produced by AtharAbbas Syed Mujtaba Tirmizi Starring Shaan Shahid Iman Ali Rasheed Naz Naseeruddin...
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