Raza Muhammad

Raza Muhammad
Birth nameRaza Muhammad
Born (1957-08-28) 28 August 1957 (age 67)
Havelian, Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa
AllegiancePakistan
Service / branchPakistan Army
Years of service1978-2014
RankMajor General
Unit20 Sindh Regiment
Commands
Battles / wars
AwardsHilal-i-Imtiaz (Military)
Alma materPakistan Military Academy
Command and Staff College
Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr
National Defence University

Raza Muhammad is a retired two-star general of the Pakistan Army, and has served as the High Commissioner of Pakistan to Mauritius. He was concurrently accredited to Republic of Seychelles, Republic of Madagascar and Union of the Comoros. Raza has also been awarded Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) for his meritorious services to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

He is currently serving as President Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI). Earlier, he was an Advisor to President National Defence University (NDU) from 2019 to 2022. He had also served in Army Welfare Trust (AWT) as an Executive Director(Services).

He has served at the Inter-Services Intelligence as one of the Director Generals before he was deputed to the Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP), Rawalpindi as Additional Secretary.

He is from the Sind Regiment and was promoted to the rank of Major General in August 2008.[1][2] After being promoted, he was deputed as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) Infantry Division Pakistan where he was transferred command by the then GOC General Raheel Sharif . Before his promotion to the rank of Major General, he served as Chief of Staff Corps Headquarter, Director Military Intelligence Operations at the General Headquarters (Pakistan Army) Rawalpindi and Commander Independent Infantry Brigade Group.

  1. ^ "Selection Board for Promotion of Brigadiers". Pakistan Defence. 8 August 2008. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "26 Pak army Brigadiers promoted to rank of Major General". The Nation (Pakistan). 8 August 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2019.