Javed Nasir

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

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

After his intermediate from Government College, Lahore, Nasir joined the Pakistan Army and entered in the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul in 1953.

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

Between 1958 and 1959 he was attached to the Frontier Force Regiment as an infantry officer, serving as Company 2 i/c and staff officer-communications of an infantry battalion.

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

Thereafter he commanded a pioneer company attached to the Independent Engineering Brigade, Force Command Northern Areas Gilgit between 1962 and 1964.

Promoted to major in 1964, he was posted as an instructor at the Engineering Corps Recruit & Training Depot Risalpur.

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

In 1966, he was assigned to a staff position in the Quartermaster General office in the GHQ until the end of the year.

In 1967, Nasir qualified as a licensed professional engineer (PE) by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

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

He attended the Command & Staff College Quetta for senior Command Course (to be eligible to command Battalions and Brigades) in 1969–1970.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1971 and to Colonel in 1976.

After the third war with India in 1971, Maj. Nasir went to Australia where he attended and graduated in staff course from the Australian Army Staff College.

For a time between 1978 and 1980 he commanded an infantry battalion i.e. the 3rd Battalion, Azad Kashmir Regiment.

In 1980s, he was sent to attend the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad, and graduated with MSc in Strategic studies.

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

In 1983–90, Major-General Nasir joined the faculty of the Armed Forces War College of the National Defense University (NDU), which he instructed courses on war studies for seven years, eventually promoted as chief instructor.

Thereafter he was posted as a Senior Instructor in Command & Staff College Quetta until 1985 until being promoted to major general.

His first assignment as major general was as major general – engineering, attached to the office of DGMO, GHQ.

He gained commissioned as second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers of the Pakistan Army, where his career is mostly spent.

In the military circles, Maj-Gen. Nasir was described as a "moderate person" who rediscovered Islam in 1986 during the midst of the Russian war in the neighbouring Afghanistan.

In 1988, Maj-Gen.

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

Against the United States, German and French military estimation, Maj-Gen.

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.

In 1989, he was appointed as director-general of Frontier Works Organization (FWO) and supervised the civil construction of the Skardu International Airport that is 11944 ft above sea level.

On 24 September 1991, Maj-Gen. 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.

Lieutenant General Javed Nasir HI(M)  SBt  PEC (born 1936 ) ), is a Pakistani retired engineering officer who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), appointed on 14 March 1992 until 13 May 1993.

Known for being member of Tablighi Jamaat, Nasir gained national prominence as his role of bringing the unscattered mass of Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the power-sharing formula to form Afghan administration under President Mojaddedi in Afghanistan in 1992–93.

Later, he played an influential and decisive role in the Bosnian war when he oversaw the covert military intelligence program to support the Bosnian Army against the Serbs, while airlifting the thousands of Bosnian refugees in Pakistan.

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

On 14 March 1992, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt-Gen Nasir as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) against the recommendations and wishes of General Asif Nawaz, then-chief of army staff (COAS).

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

At that time, Prime Minister Sharif had family relations with Lt-Gen.

Nasir Javed, and knew him very well.

In the military, he was of the view of anti-American sentiments, accusing the United States of using Islam for political reasons and against Russians in Europe, which further complicated the foreign relations between two nations.

He also limited the cooperation between the ISI and CIA to fight against the global terrorism, thwarting any joint efforts to fight against extremism.

Though, he did help the US to relocate and retrieve the missing guided missiles from Afghanistan based on a mutual understanding of such weapons may have fall in wrong hands.