Ehsan ul Haq

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Ehsan ul Haq

Born	(1949-09-22) September 22, 1949 Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1969–2007
Rank	General
Unit	Army Air Defense (AD)
Commands held	3rd Air Defense Division, Sargodha 16th Infantry Division, Pano Aqil DG Military Intelligence (DGMI) XI Corps, Peshawar DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff War in North-West Pakistan
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military)

General Ehsan ul Haq (born September 22, 1949 in Mardan), is a retired four-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan Military until October 8, 2007. After the military coup of 1999 in which General Pervez Musharraf came to power, General Ehsan was given some of the most important posts in the Pakistan Army which included commanding the Army corps in the restive tribal region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; directing the ISI, the principal intelligence body; and chairmaning Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Commander-in-chief of Pakistan Armed Forces.

Army career

Ehsan ul-Haq graduated from PAF Public School Sargodha in 1967,^[1] and was commissioned in Anti Aircraft Artillery (later formed as the arm of Army Air Defense) in October 1969 in the 41st PMA Long Course. While serving in the Army, General Ehsan commanded an Infantry and an Air Defense division. Some of Ehsan's achievements consist of graduating from Command and Staff College, Quetta, and National Defense University, Islamabad. He was promoted Brigadier in June 1992 and Major General in June 1996. After promotion to Major General, Ehsan served as the GOC of 16th Infantry Division (Pano Aqil) near Sukkur, Sindh.^[2] He was decorated with Hilal-e-Imtiaz for his meritorious military services.

During the army takeover in 1999, Maj Gen Ehsan was Director General of Military Intelligence (DGMI), a post he continued till April 2001, when he was replaced by Major General Tariq Majid. He was then promoted as Lieutenant General and posted as the commander of Peshawar Corps, a post he continued for few months till October 2001.

Director General ISI

On May 14, 2001, Major General Ehsan was promoted to a three-star general and by October 2001 was given the command of Inter-Services Intelligence, the intelligence body of Pakistan. This command changeover was part of a major reshuffle that took place after the events of 9/11, and with Pakistan siding with the United States in the War on Terror. This reshuffle was also important in a sense that Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed, the former ISI chief and a Taliban sympathizer, was prematurely retired ahead of US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

After completing the term as ISI chief, in October 2004, General Ehsan was promoted to four-star general and was given the chairmanship of JCSC, replacing General Aziz Ahmed Khan, who was due to retire from the Pakistan Army.^[3]^[4] His appointment to four-star appointment was controversial,^[4] and superseding Admiral Shahid Karimullah to the post. His appointment was brutally criticized by the media and many in the media did not welcomed his promotion.^[4] In army alone, General Ehsan was eighth in seniority when he ascended to the four-star post, hence superseding seven senior generals. Following were the senior-most Lieutenant Generals; Hamid Javaid, Javed Hassan, Munir Hafiez, Ahsan Saleem Hyat (who was promoted to four-star post of VCOAS), Tariq Waseem Ghazi, Muhammad Akram, Syed Parwez Shahid, and Ehsan ul Haq.^[4] Haq retired from military service on October 8, 2007 and was replaced by General Tariq Majid as Chairman. his appointment was brutally criticized by the media.^[4]

General Ehsan ul Haq was later nominated as the first ever Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Defense (AD) on December 18, 2004. The Colonel-in-Chief is usually a general, and is the ceremonial head of his parent arm / service. General Ehsan was recommended to that position by General Pervez Musharraf, who himself was commissioned in a Light Anti Aircraft Regiment.^[5]

Notes

↑ 'PAF College Sargodha Alumni'
↑ "Missile Firing Competition" Dawn, December 31, 1997
↑ 'Appointment of new CJCSC and VCOAS'
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 By Arshad Sharif. "New JCSC chief, VCOAS appointed". 03 October 2004. Dawn, 03 October 2004. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
↑ "Air defense to be modernized says President" President of Pakistan Press Release, December 18, 2004

Military offices
Preceded by Mahmud Ahmed	Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence 2001 – 2004	Succeeded by Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Preceded by Aziz Ahmed Khan	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee 2004 – 2007	Succeeded by Tariq Majid

v t e Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Pakistan

Shariff Adm. Shariff Iqbal Rahimuddin Akhtar Sirohey Shamim Alam Farooq Feroze Karamat Musharraf Aziz Ehsan ul Haq Tariq Majid Wynne Kayani Mahmood

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Name	Ehsan ul Haq
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Date of birth	September 22, 1949
Place of birth	Mardan, KPK
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