Shahid Ashraf was accused of receiving monetary corruption when he led the Naval Intelligence office under the staff of Admiral Mansurul Haq, the Chief of Naval Staff from 1994 until 1997.
10 Facts About Shahid Ashraf
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Shahid Ashraf was court-martial but his matter was later subjected to cover-up by the Pakistani military under the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.
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Shahid Ashraf was born in early 1947 months before the independence of Pakistan and partition of India, and joined the Pakistan Navy in 1964.
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Shahid Ashraf participated in both the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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In 1995, Captain Ashraf was appointed to the Naval Headquarters and was appointed as the Hydrographer of the Navy Hydrographic Department under then-Admiral Mansurul Haq, the Chief of Naval Staff.
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In 1996, Captain Shahid Ashraf was promoted to one-star rank and was appointed as the Director-General of the Naval Intelligence.
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Shahid Ashraf later confronted Haq, but joined the latter when Haq subsequently pressured him, according to the official inquiry of Naval Intelligence.
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In 1997, Shahid Ashraf handed over command of Naval Intelligence to Rear-Admiral Tanvir Ahmed and traveled to Great Britain to attend the war course at the Royal College of Defence Studies.
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However, Shahid Ashraf maintained in the court-martial that he had sought permission of leading an attempt to catch the foreign agent who was giving bribe money to naval officers, but was not allowed to do so by the NHQ.
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Shahid Ashraf claimed that the corruption charges leveled against the Bhutto-Zardari family, were politically motivated when the Sharif family was the largest beneficiary of the Agosta submarine deals.