Lieutenant General Jamshaid Gulzar Kayani | |
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Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission | |
In office 14 October 2004 – 30 March 2006 | |
Preceded by | Aziz Ahmad Bilour |
Succeeded by | Shahid Aziz |
Personal details | |
Born | Jamshaid Gulzar Kiani 20 July 1944 Bombay, British India (present-day Mumbai, India) |
Died | 1 November 2008 CMH Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan | (aged 64)
Cause of death | Acute abdomen |
Resting place | Westridge cemetery |
Citizenship | Pakistan |
Alma mater | Pakistan Military Academy National Defence University |
Nickname(s) | James Kiyani |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Pakistan |
Branch/service | Pakistan Army |
Years of service | 1964–2004 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
Unit | Baloch Regiment |
Commands | Baloch Regiment X Corps, Rawalpindi Adjutant General at Army GHQ DG Military Intelligence 111th Infantry Brigade |
Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Bangladesh Liberation War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 Indo-Pakistani standoff in 2001–02 War in North-West Pakistan |
Awards | Hilal-e-Imtiaz Sitara-e-Jurat Sitara-e-Basalat Tamgha-i-Jurat |
Lieutenant-General Jamshed Gulzar Kiani (Urdu: جمشید گلزار کیانی; b.20 July 1944 – 1 November 2008), HI(M), SJ, SBt, TJ, was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, intelligence officer and the former Colonel Commandant of the Baloch Regiment and commander of X Corps.[1]
An illustrative and long career army and intelligence officer, Kiani came into limelight when he had served as Director-General of the Pakistan Army's Military Intelligence and the commander of the X Corps.[1] Having remembered as an upright and an honest officer during his military career, Kiani had served as a chairman of Federal Public Service Commission during the General Musharraf's regime and had to leave when he and the then Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz developed differences.[2]