GENERAL RAHEEL SHARIF

PRESENTED BY QASIM
KHAN
OVERVIEW
• Early life
• Military service
• Role in Counter Terrorism
• Chief of Army Staff
• Saudi-led military alliance
EARLY LIFE

• General Raheel Sharif was born in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province. He belongs to

a Rajput family with roots in Punjab.
•  He has a prominent military background, and is the son of Major Rana Muhammad Sharif. He is
the youngest sibling among three brothers and two sisters.

•  0ne of his brother Shabbir Sharif was a Pakistani Army officer who was awarded the Nishan-e-
Haider during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

• He is married and has three children,  two sons and a daughter.

 MILITARY SERVICE

• Sharif received his formal education from the Government College in Lahore

and afterward attended the 54th long course (L/C) of Pakistan Military
Academy (PMA) . After his passing out in October 1976, he was commissioned
into the 6th Battalion of the Frontier Force Regiment.
ROLE IN COUNTER TERRORISM

• General Raheel Sharif has spearheaded a thinking in Pakistan military since 2007 that fighting
Taliban inside Pakistan is more important than focusing on India, Pakistan's arch rival since
independence.

• During his career an operation was held in North Waziristan commonly known as  Operation
Zarb-e-Azb in 2014.
CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF

• On 27 November 2013, Sharif was appointed as the 9th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan
Army by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

• In 2013, Sharif was conferred with Nishan-e-Imtiaz (military). Raheel Sharif retired as Chief of

Army Staff (Pakistan) on 29 November 2016.
 SAUDI-LED MILITARY
ALLIANCE

In April 2017, Raheel got the approval of the Government of

Pakistan to serve as head of a Saudi-led 39-nation Islamic
military alliance.
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