1. Tariq Majid HI LoH is a retired four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army who served as the 13th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 2007 to 2010, the principal and highest-ranking military adviser in the Pakistan Armed Forces.
Tariq Majid's other commanding staff assignments includes the Chief of General Staff from 2003 to 2006 and Director General of the Military Intelligence from 2000 to 2003, all premier staff commands of the Pakistan Army.
Tariq Majid was succeeded as chairman joint chiefs by another four-star rank general officer General Khalid Shameem Wynne.
Tariq Majid was born on 23 August 1950 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Tariq Majid was educated at Government Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore and Government College, Lahore.
Tariq Majid entered in the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, in 1967.
Tariq Majid graduated with a Bachelor's degree from PMA in 1971 and commissioned in the Pakistan Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 28th Light anti-tank weapon Battalion of the Baloch Regiment of Pakistan Army in April 1971.
Apart from active military service, Tariq Majid has tenured as professor of military and strategic studies at the both military and civilian institutions.
Tariq Majid taught and lectured courses on military science, defense and war studies, and military policy matters at the Department of Strategic and Defense Studies of the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad.
From 1985 and onward, Tariq Majid went to United States and joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, US as a research associate.
Tariq Majid holds another master's degree in War studies from the National Defence University in Islamabad, which he was conferred in 1991 after submitting his thesis to the university board.
Tariq Majid served in the major staff and command appointments in the Pakistan military.
However, his critics made some allegations that Tariq Majid, being one of the confident, was thoroughly briefed of the Lal Masjid siege.
In military science circles, Tariq Majid was known to be a professional soldier and though, his closeness to Musharraf become a liability in country's political science circles.
On 3 October 2007, the media in Pakistan announced that Lieutenant-General Tariq Majid was promoted to four-star rank, and his nomination to succeed general Ehsan-ul-Haq was already approved by President Musharraf.
At the time of promotion, Tariq Majid was fourth on the seniority list.
In 2010, while lecturing on nuclear weapons politics, Tariq Majid endorsed Qadeer Khan's services and stressed to the fact that: "Pakistan had to be mindful of a blatant pursuit of military preponderance in its eastern neighborhood".
Tariq Majid presented the government a tri-services combat framework to tackle the joint combat operations against the extreme elements; a plan which was duly approved by Prime minister Gillani as part of his war strategy.
In 2007, Tariq Majid maintained to the country's media representatives, about the security of country's strategic nuclear arsenals that the nuclear and strategic assets are well protected with robust safeguards and very elaborate security system.