{"id":60199,"date":"2024-12-24T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=60199"},"modified":"2024-12-24T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:53:14","slug":"lt-gen-asif-ghafoor-retires-from-pakistan-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lt-gen-asif-ghafoor-retires-from-pakistan-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Gen. Asif Ghafoor retires from Pakistan Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor, the former director general (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fact-check-indian-medias-claim-regarding-retirement-of-four-lt-gen-of-pakistan-army\/\">ISPR<\/a>), bid farewell on Monday after a glittering 40-year career in the Pakistan Army.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-ub-dailypakistan.com.pk_1689057861141\">\n<div id=\"unibots-video\">\n<div id=\"ubVideo\" class=\"ub-loaded unsticky\">\n<div id=\"content_video\" class=\"video-js vjs-big-play-centere content_video-dimensions vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v8 vjs-has-started vjs-playing vjs-user-active\" lang=\"en-us\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"region\" translate=\"no\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div class=\"vjs-control-bar\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"vjs-progress-control vjs-control\">\n<div class=\"vjs-progress-holder vjs-slider vjs-slider-horizontal\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"slider\" aria-valuenow=\"0.68\" aria-valuemin=\"0\" aria-valuemax=\"100\" aria-label=\"Progress Bar\" aria-valuetext=\"00:04 of 10:17\">\n<div class=\"vjs-play-progress vjs-slider-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"vjs-time-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Ghafoor, 57, was currently serving as the President of the National Defence University (NDU), and held key postions during his distinguished carrer.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">Ghafoor served as General Officer Commanding Sawat, Corps Commander Balochistan, and Commanders XII Corps.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">The celebrated officer was commissioned on September 9, 1988, in the 87 SP Medium Regiment Artillery, and served at coveted positions throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">He served as Brigade Major, Assistant Military Secretary, GSO-I in Military Operations at GHQ, and Director of Military Operations before becoming DG ISPR from 2016 to 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Known for his outspoken press conferences, Ghafoor was a prominent spokesperson during the 2019 Pakistan-India standoff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor, the former director general (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), bid farewell on Monday after a glittering 40-year career in the Pakistan Army. Ghafoor, 57, was currently serving as the President of the National Defence University (NDU), and held key postions during his distinguished carrer. Ghafoor served as General Officer Commanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4487,22995],"class_list":["post-60199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-dg-ispr","tag-lt-gen-asif-ghafoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60201,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions\/60201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}