Tariq Majid ( ; born 23 August 1950) is a retired four-star rank
army general
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in the
Pakistan Army
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who served as the 13th
Chairman
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of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
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from 2007 to 2010, the principal and highest-ranking military adviser in the
Pakistan Armed Forces
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.
Prior to this promotion, he was the field operational commander of
X Corps 10th Corps, Tenth Corps, or X Corps may refer to:
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, stationed in Rawalpindi. His other commanding staff assignments includes the Chief of General Staff (CGS) from 2003 to 2006 and Director General of the Military Intelligence (DGMI) from 2000 to 2003, all premier staff commands of the Pakistan Army. He was succeeded as chairman joint chiefs by another four-star rank general officer General
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Khalid Shameem Wynne (; 28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017), was a Pakistani four star general, four-star General (Pakistan), general who served as the 14th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Pakistan), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of St ...
.
Biography
Personal background
Tariq Majid was born on 23 August 1950 in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...
,
Punjab
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,
Pakistan
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. He was educated at Government Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore and Government College, Lahore. Tariq Majid entered in the
Pakistan Military Academy
Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) is a military academy located nearby Kakul village in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Established in October 1947, it is the only service academy in Pakistan that trains cadets to serve as army of ...
in Kakul, in 1967. He graduated with a
Bachelor's degree
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Baloch Regiment
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of
Pakistan Army
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in April 1971. After participating in the 1971 war, Majid went on to obtain
master of science
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in
Joint warfare
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Quetta
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in 1982.
Professorship and academia
Apart from active military service, Majid has tenured as professor of military and strategic studies at the both military and civilian institutions. He taught and lectured courses on military science, defense and war studies, and military policy matters at the Department of Strategic and Defense Studies of the
Quaid-e-Azam University
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in
Islamabad
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Kuala Lumpur
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where he did specialization on staff courses. From 1985 and onward, Majid went to
United States
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and joined the
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
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in
Honolulu
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,
Hawaii
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,
U.S.
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as a research associate. Majid also holds another master's degree in
War studies
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from the National Defence University in Islamabad, which he was conferred in 1991 after submitting his thesis to the university board. After his studies, he assumed the full professorship of war studies at the National Defence University and also taught strategic studies course at the
Quaid-i-Azam University
Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), founded as the University of Islamabad, is a public research university in Islamabad, Pakistan. Founded as the University of Islamabad in 1967, it was initially dedicated to postgraduate study, but later expande ...
.
Military career
As a junior officer, Tariq Majid participated in the 1971 war and commanded a light
anti-tank
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platoon against the
Indian Army
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during the conflict. After the war, he would later on served in the academic institutions of Pakistan military on deputation. On promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1988, he commanded the
Infantry battalion
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in which he was originally commissioned; in 1991, he also commanded another Infantry battalion. In February 1994, he was promoted to one star rank,
Brigadier
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and commanded two Infantry Brigades as General Staff Officer-1 (GSO-1). On elevation to the two-star rank of Major-General in February 1999, he was appointed
General Officer Commanding
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of 10th Infantry Division, stationed at Lahore.
Staff and command appointments
Tariq Majid served in the major staff and command appointments in the Pakistan military. Upon promoting to brigadier, he was appointed as the General Staff Officer Grade-1 at the Directorate-General for Military Operations (DGMO). During his military career, he accepted the professorship in the military institutions, and briefly taught courses on
military tactics
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at the School School of Infantry and Tactics (SC&T), and topics in strategic studies at the Command and Staff College in Quetta.
As a Brigadier, he was appointed Director Military Operations (Plans) in the Military Operations Directorate at General Headquarters and Deputy Commandant of
Pakistan Military Academy
Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) is a military academy located nearby Kakul village in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Established in October 1947, it is the only service academy in Pakistan that trains cadets to serve as army of ...
. In April 2001, he was appointed as director-general of
Military Intelligence
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(DGMI) which he held until December 2003.
Chief of General Staff and Corps Commander
On 19 December 2003, Major-General Tariq Majid's promotion on three-star rank,
Lieutenant-General
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Lieutenant-General
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Shahid Aziz
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, who proceeded as the corps commander Lahore. The post of chief of general staff is important in a sense that it heads the important military bureaus of
Military Intelligence
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(MI) and Military Operations.
Tariq Majid's stint as the X Corps commander was eventful as it featured the
suspension
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Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
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Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of the S ...
Operation Silence
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. In the latter occasion, he took over the planning of the Red mosque operation that was done on the direct instructions of the ousted President
Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani general and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
Prior to his career in politics, he was a four-star general and appointed as ...
. According to media reports, the warnings of DGMO and MI were bypassed by President Musharraf and issued "direct" orders to commander of X Corps Lieutenant-General Tariq Majid. However, his critics made some allegations that Majid, being one of the confident, was thoroughly briefed of the Lal Masjid siege.
Soon, he gained significant publicity from this event, and was soon predicted by the media and the analysts to be promoted to the four-star assignments of either vice chief of army staff or chairman joint chiefs. These predictions were true, when in October 2007, he was made the
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
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.
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Upon General P. Musharraf's retirement from the army, Majid's appointment to four star rank was highly speculated in the media and military science circles. As early as in August and the following month, Majid was initially in the race to be appointed as chief of army staff. In military science circles, Majid was known to be a professional soldier and though, his closeness to Musharraf become a liability in country's political science circles.
On 3 October 2007, the media in Pakistan announced that Lieutenant-General Tariq Majid was promoted to four-star rank, and his nomination to succeed general Ehsan-ul-Haq was already approved by President Musharraf. On 8 October 2007, he was sworn as chairman joint chiefs and took over the operations of Joint Staff Headquarters (JS HQ).
Upon taking the JS HQ secretariat, Majid became the only officer from the
Baloch Regiment
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after
Rahimuddin Khan
Rahimuddin Khan (21 July 1926 – 22 August 2022) was a four-star rank Pakistani general who briefly served as the 16th Governor of Sindh in 1988. Previously, he had served as the fourth Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1984 to 19 ...
to ascend to chairman joint chiefs. At the time of promotion, Tariq Majid was fourth on the seniority list. Lieutenant Generals Khalid Kidwai,
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (Urdu: ; born 20 April 1952), is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who served as the eighth chief of army staff, being appointed on 29 November 2007 after his predecessor Pervez Musharraf retired from his ...
(who was also promoted as four-star and made VCOAS), and Malik Arif Hayat were all senior to him, all of whom stood superseded and sought retirement. On race to the promotion to this four-star assignment, lieutenant-General Khalid Kidwai was already on a year's extension and another lieutenant-general Malik Arif Hayat had never commanded a corps thus virtually taking him out of the race for the top two slots in the army.
Less than a two weeks of being chairman joint chiefs, a suicide attack was struck on Majid when a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of
Rawalpindi
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on October 30. It was carried out less than a kilometer from President General
Pervez Musharraf
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Prior to his career in politics, he was a four-star general and appointed as ...
's camp office, killing seven people, three of them policemen, and injuring 31 others. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid's official residence. During the armed escalations with India, Majid served as the top military adviser to
government
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and it was widely circulated that he, together with chiefs of
navy
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,
army
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and
air force
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, had advised the president Asif Ali Zardari to take back his statement made last month, that his country would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict with India". Responding to the India's military movement at the India-Pakistan border in 2010, General Majid told the Pakistan's media representatives at the ISPR that "the
Indian army
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knows the capacity of the
Pakistan armed forces
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. Responding to the
Indian Army
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's
Chief of Staff
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's statement of Indian military preparations to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously, Majid told the journalists that "leave alone China, General Deepak Kapoor knows very well what the Indian Army can not and Pakistan Armed Forces can pull off militarily.
As chairman joint chiefs, Majid notably terminated all military debriefings of senior scientist
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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and recognized his services done to the country publicly on first week of November 2008. Earlier to this, Majid was known for welcoming dr. Qadeer Khan in the country's military science circles where Qadeer Khan was still welcomed. In 2010, while lecturing on nuclear weapons politics, Majid endorsed Qadeer Khan's services and stressed to the fact that: "Pakistan had to be mindful of a blatant pursuit of military preponderance in its eastern neighborhood". Lecturing at the National Defence University, General Majid argued that "a proposed
fissile material cutoff treaty
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would target Pakistan specifically. Islamabad has refused to allow talks on such a pact to proceed at the International Conference on Disarmament. As chairman joint chiefs, Majid had asserted his role as principal military adviser to the government of
Prime minister
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Yousaf Raza Gillani
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and
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Asif Ali Zardari
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on the matters involving the nuclear policy, military affairs, and geostrategic positions of Pakistan. He presented the government a tri-services combat framework to tackle the joint combat operations against the extreme elements; a plan which was duly approved by Prime minister Gillani as part of his war strategy. While presenting this plan Majid noted to Prime minister Gillani that there is a need to harmonize individual capacities of the services so that efforts are synergized within a framework of jointness and inter-operability to meet present and future challenges. He played a vital role in devising the government to change its foreign policy to neutral matters in Afghanistan, and to lessen the American influence in the country which had dismayed the
civil society
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Views on nuclear disarmament
About the
Afghan war
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, Majid is reported to have said, "Pakistan has become a "
punching bag
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History
Punching bags have been used in martial arts ...
" in the
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, specifically the
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." In a secret conversation with American ambassadorAnne W. Patterson General Majid added, "It got to the point where we are looking at our own contingencies." Ambassador Patterson later replied that his statement was astonishing. In 2007, Majid maintained to the country's media representatives, about the security of country's strategic nuclear arsenals that the nuclear and strategic assets are well protected with robust safeguards and very elaborate security system. Any irresponsible "act by any one against it will be responded very strongly at all levels of command", Majid quoted.
In a speech at the National Defence University and
Quaid-i-Azam University
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, Majid outlines that atomic deterrence against a possible aggression was a compulsion, and not a choice for Pakistan. Majid exhorted to the world delegation at the NDU that, "World must accept Pakistan as
nuclear power
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." While dismissing all the concerns on the safety of country's nuclear arsenal, Majid maintains to the fact: "We are shouldering our responsibility with utmost vigilance and confidence. We have put in place a very robust regime that includes "multilayered mechanisms" and processes to secure our strategic assets, and have provided maximum transparency on our practices. We have reassured the international community on this issue over and over again and our track record since the time our atomic bomb programme was made overt has been unblemished".
Retirement
Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gillani
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send the nomination of General Shameem Wynne as next Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
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on October 8, 2010. In the military circles, he well established his reputation as "pragmatic general" and "embodiment of professionalism thorough professional officer who sets and strives for high standards of excellence." General
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Khalid Shameem Wynne (; 28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017), was a Pakistani four star general, four-star General (Pakistan), general who served as the 14th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Pakistan), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of St ...
who was the senior-most general serving as Chief of General Staff (CGS) at the GHQ. Before retiring, General Majid completed all of his farewell meetings with important and key political and military leadership. In a simple but dignified ceremony amid Guard of Honour, General Majid handed over the operations of joint staff secretariat to incoming General Khalid Shameem Wynne.
Awards and decorations
Foreign decorations
See also
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Military science
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