Mian Muhammad Hilal Hussain is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army who is 32nd and current

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. Proceeded by lieutenant general Ikram Ul Haq, he was appointed to the post on 24 August 2020 by the

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. Before retiring from the military service, his last assignment included commander of Army Strategic Forces Command.

Military career

Hussain graduated from the Command and Staff College and the National Defence University, in addition to obtaining his education from

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. He was commissioned in the

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with posting at an uncertain

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in 1982. He served as a

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while stationed at

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. During his career as

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, he was posted at the

Line of Control The Line of Control (LoC) is a military control line between the Indian and Pakistanicontrolled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir—a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but serve ...

(LoC), and

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for operational areas with additional charges to command western border. Prior to his appointment as commander of the Army Strategic Force Command in September 2015, he was appointed to

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as a general officer commanding after succeeded by Umar Farooq Durrani in October 2015. His instructional assignments includes

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Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations The Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations ( ur, ) is Pakistan's diplomatic representative to the United Nations (UN). The permanent Representative ( UN ambassador) is the head of Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the Unite ...

and military secretary to the

president of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.Federally Administered Tribal Area The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA; ps, فدرالي قبايلي سيمې; ur, ) was a autonomous administrative division, semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with neighb ...

(FATA), he served as director general of

Pakistan Rangers The Pakistan Rangers ( ur, ) are a paramilitary federal law enforcement organization in Pakistan, operating under the authority of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan. Their primary purpose is to secure and defend sites of significance in the ...

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and director general for Military Training at the

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Other works

In 2017, he was elected president of Pakistan Golf Federation for the term of four years which ended in 2020 before serving as defence secretary.

References

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