Javed Nasir | |
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Birth name | Javed Nasir |
Born | British Indian Empire |
Allegiance | Pakistan |
Service/branch | Pakistan Army |
Years of service | 1958-1993 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
Service number | PA – 5646 |
Unit | Corps of Engineers |
Commands held |
Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C) Inter-Services Intelligence Pakistan Ordnance Factories Joint Intelligence Technical (JIT) Chief Instructor National Defence University Frontier Works Organisation Skardu Airport Ojhri Camp Kahuta Research Laboratories |
Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Soviet war in Afghanistan Bosnian War |
Awards | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) |
Lieutenant-General Javed Nasir (Urdu: جاويد ناصر; HI(M)), is a now-retired engineering officer and former director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence, directed from March 1992 until May 1993.
An educator and professor by profession, Nasir played an instrumental role in uniting the scattered mass of warring Mujahideen groups after the Soviet retreat, Nasir played an integrated role installing the first Mujahideen government in Afghanistan. Nasir played an active role on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina and provided logistics and ammunition supplies to Bosnian Army, while harboring Bosnian immigrants to Pakistan.
Javed Nasir passed the university entrance exams with high academics and enrolled in the Military College of Engineering to study engineering in 1954 at the same time, Nasir entered in the Pakistan Military Academy. In 1958, Nasir obtained B.Sc.(Hons) in Civil engineering and graduated from PMA in October 1958 in the 18th PMA Long Course. Ultimately, he was elevated to 2nd Lieutenant in the Pakistan Army and served in the 141st Engineer Brigade posted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.