- Asif Nawaz
General Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua (Urdu : آصف نواز) (d. 1993) was the 10th Chief of Army Staff of thePakistan Army fromAugust 16 ,1991 tillJanuary 8 ,1993 . He took over the command from the retiringGeneral Mirza Aslam Beg . He was a highly notable General of the Pakistan Army, eventually rising to the post of Commander of the V Corps, "Karachi". [Ardeshir Cowasjee. [http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20030420.htm "Causa sine qua non"] "Daily Dawn", 20 April, 2003] He was tall, handsome, and Sandhurst-trained officer. He was straight enough to be brusque. He was easily slighted and would go into a paroxysm of nervous energy at the mere hint of being challenged. With all of this, he had no time for fools and had an enormously long memory. In short, he was not someone that a Pakistani politician would like to see as an army chief. His tenure as Chief of Army Staff was ended abruptly by his death on8 January 1993 , apparently from a heart attack. He is widely remembered as having died under mysterious circumstances. He was replaced byGeneral Wahid Kakar as the next Army Chief.Controversial death
The untimely demise of General Asif Nawaz fuelled much controversy, with FIRs being filed against Brigadier Imtiaz, the then Director Intelligence Bureau. The issue gathered momentum following General Nawaz's widow Nuzhat Janjua's filed a formal complaint to the then President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan about the unnatural circumstances surrounding her husband's death. At the time the General Asif Nawaz had been heading up "Operation Clean-Hands"- an army probe into corruption inKarachi , which lost impetus after he died. Dr Salman Shah, General Asif Nawaz Khan's son-in-law remained an ally of the MQM in Karrachi.References
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