Rashid Qureshi

Rashid Qureshi راشد قریشی SI(M), SBt, is a retired two-star general, and the close aide of former President General Pervez Musharraf. He is the current spokesman of Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League.[1][2]

Rashid Qureshi
راشد قریشی
Birth nameRashid Qureshi
Allegiance Pakistan
Service/branch Pakistan Army
Years of service1971–2003
Rank Major-General
Commands heldDG Inter Services Public Relations
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1971
Siachen conflict
Kargil War
2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
AwardsSitara-i-Imtiaz (military)
Sitara-e-Basalat
Other workPresidential Spokesperson

Major General Rashid Qureshi,

Military career

Rashid Qureshi was commissioned in the Pakistan Army on 17 April 1971 after the 44th Pakistan Military Academy Long Course. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he was stationed at the Lahore Sector. After the war, Qureshi's company was stationed at the Rawalpindi sector where he became a staff officer at the General Headquarters (Pakistan Army) (GHQ). In 1987, he was promoted as Lieutenant Colonel, and was made Officer commanding of the 10th Battalion. In 1991, he became Colonel in the Army, and was made Military secretary at the Joint Chief of Staff Committee Secretariat.

Inter-Services Public Relations

In 1996, Qureshi joined the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). In 1997, he was promoted as one-star general (brigadier-general) in the Army. In 1998, he was made director-general of the ISPR.

However his promotion to two star General ( Major General) was highly controversial, as some assumed he had used back door channels and to some extent nepotism within the army ranks.[2]

He was also a principal military spokesperson of General Pervez Musharraf regime.[3][1]

References
  1. "Musharraf's political party launched". Dawn (newspaper). 9 June 2010. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. Rashid Qureshi posted as DG National Guards Dawn (newspaper), Published 12 May 2003, Retrieved 27 March 2019
  3. Pakistan Says India Tensions Peaking Again After Soldier's Death Agence France Presse, Published 23 June 2002, Retrieved 27 March 2019
Military offices
Preceded by
Ghazanfar Ali		 Director General of the ISPR
1998–2003		 Succeeded by
Shaukat Sultan
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