Gen Bajwa visits Bahawalpur Corps & Okara Garrison in farewell call

Gen Bajwa visits Bahawalpur Corps & Okara Garrison in farewell call. Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa paid a farewell visit to Bahawalpur Corps and Okara Garrison on Thursday ahead of his retirement this month.

According to a statement by the military’s media wing, the top military commander interacted with soldiers and laid floral wreath at Martyrs’ monument at Bahawalpur Corps headquarters

Commander 31 Corps Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed was also present at the ceremony, the ISPR said.

COAS Bajwa also witnessed Integrated Fire Power Manoeuvre Exercise at Khairpur Tamewali (KPT) where troops of Bahawalpur Corps along with PAF JF-17 thunder aircrafts, Cobra Gunship Helicopters and Mechanized elements displayed coordinated fire power in battlefield conditions.

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The top general appreciated the training standards, operational preparedness and high morale of officers and troops. He directed troops to keep serving the nation with traditional zeal and passion under all circumstances.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa is a Pakistani army general and the tenth and current Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan Army since 29 November 2016. Bajwa is scheduled to retire on 29 November 2022 following the final day of his second three year term as army chief. In 2018 he was ranked 68th in the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful People.

Originally from Gakhar Mandi, Gen Bajwa was born into a Punjabi Jat family of Bajwa clan in Karachi Bajwa was educated at the F.G. Sir Syed College and Gordon College in Rawalpindi before joining the Pakistan Military Academy in 1978.

Bajwa was commissioned in 1980 in the 16th Battalion of the Baloch Regiment. Prior to his appointment as the Chief of Army Staff, he served at the General Headquarters as the Inspector General of the Training and Evaluation from September 2015 to November 2016 and as field commander of the X Corps from August 2013 to September 2015 which is responsible for the area along the Line of Control in Kashmir.

In addition, he served as a Brigadier in the UN mission in Congo and as a brigade commander in 2007.