23 Facts About Javed Nasir

Javed Nasir was born in Lahore, Punjab in British India on 22 December 1936, and was Punjabi Kashmiri.

Javed Nasir was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1958 and commanded a sapper platoon.

Javed Nasir was attached to the East Pakistan Rifles as a company commander between 1959 and 1962.

Javed Nasir was then posted as a senior instructor in the Military College of Engineering, Risalpur until 1969.

Javed Nasir was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1971 and to Colonel in 1976.

Javed Nasir was thereafter posted as Colonel GS of the 25th Mechanized Division, Malir.

Javed Nasir was promioted to brigadier in 1981 and commanded the Independent Engineering Brigade at Gilgit until 1983.

Javed Nasir gained commission as second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers of the Pakistan Army, where his career was mostly spent.

Javed Nasir was known to have served in the combat engineering formations during the second war with India in 1965 as army captain.

Javed Nasir went to Australia where he attended and graduated in staff course from the Australian Army Staff College.

Javed Nasir was described as a "moderate person" who rediscovered Islam in 1986 during the midst of the Russian war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Javed Nasir gained public fame when he was appointed inspector-general of engineering formation that investigated the environmental disaster befall at the military storage located in the Rawalpindi Cantonment.

Javed Nasir personally led his formation at the ground to clear out the entire storage containing the chemical and explosive materials, as well as the missile ordnance in mere two weeks.

Javed Nasir was promoted as a three-star rank army general, having appointed to command the Corps of Engineers as its Eng-in-C at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi.

On 4 February 1992, Lieutenant-General Javed Nasir was then posted as the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories at Wah in Punjab, Pakistan, until being appointed the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence.

The appointment was seen as a political motive for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif since General Javed Nasir had no experience in the intelligence gathering network and was virtually a ghost in country's intelligence community.

In spite of his seniority in the military, Javed Nasir was overlooked, and was never considered for the promotion of the four-star rank and appointment by the government during the appointment process for the command of the Army, the Chief of Army Staff.

Lt-Gen Javed Nasir was among the five senior and superseding army generals when the junior-most Lt-Gen Abdul Waheed Kakar was elevated to the four-star rank and promotion to command the army.

Javed Nasir became an international figure when he played major role in amalgamating the unscattered Afghan mujahideen groups when the power-sharing formula was drafted.

Javed Nasir was often a figure of fun whose intellect was far from being as outstanding as his white beard.

At home, Javed Nasir began facing accusations from Pakistan Peoples Party politicians of supporting the conservative Islamic agenda in the country.

In 2013, Javed Nasir reportedly spoke against Afghan Taliban and the terrorism at the Supreme Court convention, and criticised the Taliban as an armed violent group and criticised their supporting the violent terrorism for their cause, in a response to the church bombing.

Javed Nasir died in Lahore on 16 October 2024, at the age of 87.