Tariq Majid

Infobox Military Person
name= Tariq Majid
lived= born August 1950 (age 57)
placeofbirth=
placeofdeath=


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allegiance= flagicon|PAK Pakistan
branch=Pakistan Army
serviceyears= 1971–
rank= General
current position=
commands= Infantry Division (Lahore)
DG Military Intelligence (DGMI)
Chief of General Staff (CGS)
X Corps (Rawalpindi)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
unit= Infantry (Baloch Regiment)
battles= Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Lal Masjid siege
awards=Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military)
laterwork=

Tariq Majid (born August 1950) is a Pakistani general and current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He took over the chairmanship when the out-going General Ehsan ul Haq retired on October 7, 2007. Presently, he is the highest ranking general in the Pakistan Armed Forces.

Army career

Tariq Majid was commissioned in Pakistan Army in April 1971 in the Infantry's Baloch Regiment. He is graduate of Command and Staff College, Quetta, Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College, Kuala Lumpur, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, National Defence College, Islamabad and holds masters degree in War Studies.

During his military career, he has commanded Light Anti Tank Unit and an Infantry Battalion, two Infantry Brigades, Infantry Division and has participated in Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. He served as the Director General of Military Intelligence (DGMI) from April 2001 to December 2003.cite web| url= http://www.ispr.gov.pk/Archive&Press/CurrentMonth/2-Oct-2007.htm | title= New CJCSC and VCOAS | accessdate=2007-10-02| ]

Chief of General Staff

Tariq Majid was promoted to Lieutenant General in December 2003, and given the post of Chief of General Staff, in place of Lt Gen Shahid Aziz, who proceeded as the corps commander Lahore. The post of CGS is important in a sense that it heads the bureaus of Military Intelligence and Military Operations. In fact, the corps commander Rawalpindi and the CGS are to be staunch loyalist to the army chief, in order for him to carry a successful military coup, as in the case of military coup of 1999. He was swapped by Lt Gen Salahuddin Satti as the CGS in October 2006 as the Rawalpindi Corps Commander. He originally belongs to Punjab.

Corps Commander Rawalpindi

Tariq Majid's one year stint as the corps commander was eventful as it featured the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the following mass protests, and the Lal Masjid Siege. In the latter occasion, he was himself in charge of the armed forces who were to take down the armed militias stationed inside the mosque. He gained significant publicity from this event, and was soon predicted by the media and the analysts to be given the four-star posts of either VCOAS or CJCSC. These predictions were true, when in October 2007, he was made the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.cite web| url= http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C10%5C05%5Cstory_5-10-2006_pg1_3 | title= New 10 Corps commander | accessdate=2007-04-17| ]

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tariq Majid was promoted as four-star general on 8 October 2007, and was made CJCSC in place of outgoing General Ehsan ul Haq who was due for retirement. His three year term will end in October 2010.cite web| url= http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=30092 | title= New Vice Chief | accessdate=2007-10-02| ]

uicide Attack on Majid's Residence

On October 30, a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than a kilometer from President General Pervez Musharraf’s camp office, killing seven people, three of them policemen, and injuring 31 others. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid's official residence. [ [http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/31/top1.htm Suicide attack in top security zone: Seven killed, 31 injured] "Dawn Newspaper", October 31, 2007]

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