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Javed Nasir ( Urdu: جاويد ناصر; born 1936) ), is a Pakistani retired

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who served as the

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of the

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(ISI), appointed on 14 March 1992 until 13 May 1993. Known for being member of

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, 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

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when he oversaw the covert military intelligence program to support the

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against the

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, while airlifting the thousands of Bosnian refugees in Pakistan.

Biography

Javed Nasir was born in

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on 22 December 1936, and is of the Kashmiri descent. After his intermediate from Government College, Lahore, Nasir joined the

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and entered in the

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at Kakul in 1953. He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1956 and commanded a

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. Between 1957 and 1959 he was attached to the

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as an infantry officer, serving as Company 2 i/c and Staff Officer-Communications of an Infantry Battalion. He was attached to the

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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. In the 1965 War he commanded a Sapper Company attached to the

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in Operation Grand Slam and was awarded the Tamgha-i-Jurat. After the War he was assigned to a Staff Position in the Quartermaster General office in the GHQ until the end of 1966 on account of recuperating from certain war injuries. 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. In 1970 he was

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of the 21st Infantry Brigade, 11th Infantry Division (Pakistan). Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1971, he was posted to command a wing of the

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in Lahore, and in this role he fought in the 1971 War and was awarded the

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. Between 1973 and 1976 he commanded an Engineering Battalion attached to the 1st Armoured Division, Multan. He was promoted to

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in 1976. For a time between 1978 and 1980 he commanded an Infantry Battalion i.e. the 3rd Battalion, Azad Kashmir Regiment. He was thereafter posted as Colonel GS of the 25th Mechanized Division, Malir. He was promioted to Brigadier in 1981 and commanded the Independent Engineering Brigade at Gilgit until 1983. Thereafter he was posted as a Senior Instructor in Command & Staff College Quetta until 1985 until being promoted to

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. His first assignment as Major General was as Major General - Engineering attached to the office of DGMO, GHQ. He gained commissioned as 2nd-Lt. in the Corps of Engineers of the

where his career is mostly spent. In 1967, Nasir qualified as a licensed

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(PE) by the

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(PEC). He was known to have served in the

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formations during the second war with India in 1965 as

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, and later served in the

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of the third war with India in 1971 as major. After the third war with India in 1971, Maj. Nasir went to Australia where he attended and graduated in staff course from the

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. In 1980s, he was sent to attend the National Defence University (NDU) in

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, and graduated with MSc in Strategic studies. In 1983–90,

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Nasir joined the faculty of the Armed Forces War College of the

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(NDU), which he instructed courses on

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for seven years, eventually promoted as chief instructor. In the military circles, Maj-Gen. Nasir was described as a " moderate person" who rediscovered

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in 1986 during the midst of the Russian war in the neighboring

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. In 1988, Maj-Gen. Nasir gained public fame when he was appointed as inspector-general of engineering formation that investigated the

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befall at the military storage located in the

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. 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

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and

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s, 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

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that is

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. On 24 September 1991, Maj-Gen. Nasir was promoted as a three-star rank

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, having appointed to command the Corps of Engineers as its Eng-in-C at the Army GHQ in

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. On 4 February 1992,

Nasir was then posted as the chairman of the

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, Pakistan, until being appointed as the

of the

(ISI).

Director of ISI (1992–93)

On 14 March 1992, Prime Minister

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appointed

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Nasir as the

of the

(ISI) against the recommendations and wishes of General

Asif Nawaz General Asif Nawaz Janjua NI(M), HI(M), SBt, psc, (Urdu: ; 3 January 1937 – 8 January 1993) was a senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the fourth Chief of Army Staff from 16 August 1991 until his death by Arsenic poiso ...

, then- chief of army staff (COAS). The appointment was seen a political motive for Prime Minister

since General Nasir had no experience in the intelligence gathering network and was virtually a ghost in country's intelligence community. At that time,

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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

for political reasons and against

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in Europe, which further complicated the

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between two nations. He also limited the cooperation between the

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and

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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

based on a mutual understanding of such weapons may have fall in wrong hands. It was during this time when ISI had been running an intensified support for

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in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In spite of his seniority in the military, Nasir was overlooked, and was never considered for the promotion of the four-star rank and appointment by the government during the appointmentment process for the command of the

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, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).

Nasir was among the five senior and superseding army generals when the junior-most

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was elevated to the four-star rank and promotion to command the army.

Peshawar Accord and Mojaddedi administration

In April 1992, Lt-Gen. Nasir became an international figure when he played major role in amalgamating the unscattered Afghan mujahideen groups when the power-sharing formula was drafted. Due to his

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, Nasir used his persuasive power and motivational talks to agree to power-sharing formula and, witnessed to have successfully establishing an Afghan administration under cleric President Sibghatullah Mojaddedi in

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Bosnian war

In the military and political circles, Nasir had a reputation to be a practising Muslim who would not compromise on the interests of Islam and Pakistan. In 1992–93, Nasir defied the UN arms embargo placed on

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when he successfully airlifted the POF's sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles, which helped the Bosnian Muslims to force the Serbs to lift the siege much to the annoyance of the U.S. government. While airlifting sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles to Bosnian Muslims, he pushed the

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to allow the Bosnian to immigration Pakistan. In 2011, the

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demanded the custody of the former ISI director for his alleged support of the Inter-Services Intelligence activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Muslim fighters of Bosnia against the Serbian army in the 1990s, the Government of Pakistan has refused to hand Nasir to the UN tribunal, citing poor health.

Removal from the ISI

The Chairman joint chiefs General Shamim Allam had completely lost the control of the

when the agency was running under Nasir's command. General

, the army chief at that time, had been at odds with Lt-Gen. Nasir due to his preaching of Islamic tradition in the military. In the views of senior military officers in the

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and the civilian officials of the

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, Lt-Gen. Nasir was often a figure of fun whose intellect was far from being as outstanding as his white beard. During this time, the

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led by Prime Minister

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levelled several accusations against him of supporting the

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, the Indian Mafia and Dawood Ibrahim– the accusations he swiftly denied in 2008. At home, Nasir began facing accusations from

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politicians of supporting the conservative Islamic agenda in the country. In 1993, the United States formally registered their complaints to Pakistan when U.S. secretary of State

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written a memo to Prime Minister Sharif of putting his country on a terror watch list and was in danger of being listed as terror-supporting nation. Responding to the complaint, Prime Minister Sharif used diplomacy when he sent his

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and Pakistan Senator

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to United States of assuring Pakistan's policy of not supporting the militancy in the region. During this time, several

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such as

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, and the

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, lodged a strong protest against Nasir of supporting the radical movements in their respected countries. Following the removal of Prime Minister Sharif, the caretaker Prime Minister Balakh Sher Mazari fired and sacked Nasir from the directorship of the ISI, and

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to relocate itself in

permanently. Expulsion from Pakistan, many escaped to

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to participate in the war. According to many political commentators and journalists, Nasir's firing from ISI was not at the behest of the United States but, it was the friendly

' protests and pressure at the

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(OIC) that resulted in his departure from ISI and the retirement from his 40-year long service with the military.

Later life

After his premature retirement, Nasir became a

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for a

, and went to the

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where he managed and chaired the

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firm and

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, the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), when he was appointed on 14 July 1997 for a two-year contract. In 1998, he was appointed as chairman of Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, a pro-Sikhism organization in Pakistan promoting the religious activities of

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. In October 1998, Prime Minister Sharif appointed him as his intelligence adviser but this appointment remained for short period of time. For sometime, he served on the security details as head of security for the

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, but the PML(N)'s lawmakers and Sharif family cut off their links and distanced themselves from Nasir after the

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in the United States in 2001. In 2002–03, Nasir filed a lawsuit at the Anti Terrorism Court against the media corporations: the ''

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'', and the ''News International'', for character defamation when investigative articles published on him regarding monetary embezzlement when he managed the private hedge fund in Lahore. In 2008, he appeared on the

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and denied any allegations of terror-supporting that was levelled on him during his time as Director ISI, when interviewed by Iftikhar Ahmad. At this detailed and hour-long interview, he was of the view of 9/11 was an inside job, and maintained on his stance on the suppressing of the free-energy by the U.S. and

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. In 2011, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former

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demanded the custody of Nasir for his alleged authorization of the covert program to support to the

against the Serbian army in 1990s, the Government of Pakistan refused to hand Nasir to the UN tribunal, citing poor health and memory loss due to a road accident. In 2013, Nasir reportedly spoke against Afghan Taliban and the terrorism at the Supreme Court convention, and criticised the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

as an armed violent group and criticised them of supporting the violent terrorism for their cause, in a response to the church bombing.

References

External links

Article about Javed Nasir by Ardeshir Cowasjee

Editorial about Gen Nasir fleeing the country

Lt. Gen. testifies Pakistani Vessel Shipping Arms to Bosnia

* http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010417/main2.htm * http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_060705a.html
Interview with Geo TV
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nasir, Javed Living people 1936 births Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent People from Lahore Pakistan Military Academy alumni Pakistani civil engineers Engineers from Lahore Government College University, Lahore alumni Pakistani expatriates in Australia Pakistani military engineers National Defence University, Pakistan alumni National Defence University, Pakistan faculty Pakistani generals Pakistani Sunni Muslims Directors General of Inter-Services Intelligence Military personnel of the Bosnian War Pakistani Islamists Kashmiri Islamists Muslim missionaries Sikhism in Pakistan Pakistani Muslim activists People acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Pakistani conspiracy theorists 9/11 conspiracy theorists Free energy conspiracy theorists Pakistani corporate directors People with amnesia Tablighi Jamaat people

Biography

Director of ISI (1992–93)

Peshawar Accord and Mojaddedi administration

Bosnian war

Removal from the ISI

Later life

See also

References

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