'Engineer-in-Chief or E-in-C', is a Colonel Commandant of the

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, Frontier Works Organisation and the Military Engineering Services of

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. In the Pakistan Army, the Engineer-in-Chief is a chief engineer and topographer of the

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and currently holds the rank of

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, advises the Pakistan Army in matters of science, engineering, and technology. Lt Gen Kashif Nazir is current E-in-C of Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, Military Engineering Service, and Frontier Works Organisation. The Engineer-in-Chief commands the Corps of Engineers, Pakistan Army and other military engineering and maintenance corps of the Army. As a senior commander and senior staff officer at the ''Army General Headquarters (GHQ)'', the Engineer-in-Chief advises the Army on

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and

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matters and serves as the Army's

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. The E-in-C also serves as the proponent for real estate and other science and engineering programs of the Army. As commander of the

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, the Engineer-in-Chief leads a major Army Engineering command in civil and military infrastructure programs. This office defines policy and guidance and plans direction for the organizations within the Corps.

Rank Structure and Uniform Insignia

Notable Engineers-in-Chief

* Lieutenant-General

Muhammad Anwar Khan Major General Raja Muhammad Anwar Khan was the first Pakistan Army Engineer Officer and the first Muslim Engineer In Chief of the Pakistan Army. He was the first Muslim to be a Sapper officer in the British Indian Army and its pre-partition ...

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...

Saad Tarique, 1972-1974 * Lieutenant-General

Zahid Ali Akbar Khan Lieutenant General Zahid Ali Akbar ( ur, ; b. 1933) , is a former engineering officer in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, who oversaw the civil construction of the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, and later directing the Engineering Research La ...

* Lieutenant-General

Javed Nasir Lieutenant-General Javed Nasir ( Urdu: جاويد ناصر; born 1936) ), is a Pakistani retired engineering officer who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), appointed on 14 March 1992 until 13 May 1993. Known ...

, 1991-1992 *

Ziauddin Butt General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi ( ur, خواجہ ضیاء الدین عباسى), also known as Ziauddin Butt ( ur, ضیاء الدین بٹ), is a retired four-star rank army generalChaudhry, Aminullah (2009) Hijacking from the Ground: The Bi ...

Shahid Niaz, HI(M) *

Asif Ali *

Khalid Asghar *

Muhammad Afsar

Notes

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