Ø  General Qamar Javed Bajwa is the 10th and current Chief of Army Staff (Army head) of the Pakistan Army since 29 November 2016.

Ø  In 2018, he was ranked as the 68th most influential person in the world by Forbes magazine.

Ø  Born in Karachi, General Bajwa was educated at the Sir Syed College and Gordon College in Rawalpindi before joining the Pakistan Military Academy in 1978.

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Ø  Longest-serving General Musa Khan (27 October 1958 – 17 September 1966)

No.

Portrait

Took office

Left office

Time in office

Unit of Commission

1

Tikka Khan HJ, HQA, SPk

3-Mar-72

1-Mar-76

3 years, 364 days

2 Fd Regt Arty

2

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

1-Mar-76

17-Aug-88

12 years, 169 days

13 Lancers

3

Mirza Aslam Beg

17-Aug-88

16-Aug-91

2 years, 364 days

16 Baloch

4

Asif Nawaz Janjua

16-Aug-91

8-Jan-93

1 year, 145 days

5 Punjab

5

Abdul Waheed Kakar

11-Jan-93

12-Jan-96

3 years, 1 day

5 FF

6

Jehangir Karamat

12-Jan-96

6-Oct-98

2 years, 267 days

13 Lancers

7

Pervez Musharraf

6-Oct-98

28-Nov-07

9 years, 53 days

16 (SP) Medium Regt Arty

8

Ashfaq Pervez Kayani

29-Nov-07

29-Nov-13

6 years, 0 days

5 Baloch

9

Raheel Sharif

29-Nov-13

29-Nov-16

3 years, 0 days

6 FF

10

Qamar Javed Bajwa

29-Nov-16

Incumbent

4 years, 293 days

16 Baloch

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