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Javed Ashraf Qazi ( ur, جاوید اشرف قاضی), HI(M),

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, (born 4 September 1941) is a Pakistani general and politician who is currently a

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in the

Parliament of Pakistan The Parliament of Pakistan ( ur, , , "Pakistan Advisory Council" or "Pakistan Consultative Assembly") is the federal and supreme legislative body of Pakistan. It is a bicameralism, bicameral federation, federal legislature that consists of ...

. During his army career, Qazi headed the ISI from 1993 to 1995 and

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from 1990 to 1991. During his political career, he served as a cabinet minister under

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-General

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

, first as Communications Minister (2000–2002) and then as Education Minister (2004–2007). He is accused of transferring tens of hundreds of acres of prime railway land in Lahore to a Malaysian firm during General Musharraf's regime in 2001 for development of a golf course called Royal Palms Gold and Country Club at throwaway rates.

Military career

Qazi joined

Pakistan Military Academy Pakistan Military Academy ( ur, ), also referred to by its acronym PMA. PMA is an officers training school located near Kakul village in the city and district of Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established in 1947. It is the sole service academy ...

after graduating from

Cadet College Hasan Abdal Cadet College, Hasan Abdal (CCH) Urdu/Pashto :کیدت کالج/کیڈٹ کالج حسن ابدال is a residential secondary school located in Hasan Abdal, Attock District, Punjab, Pakistan. The college has over 500 enrolled students aged 13 ...

. He was commissioned in the

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April 1962 in the 25th PMA Long Course in the Regiment of Artillery. He later rose in his career to be the DG

under General

Mirza Aslam Beg General Mirza Aslam Beg ( ur, ; born 2 August 1931), also known as M. A. Beg, was a Pakistan Army officer, who served as the 3rd Chief of Army Staff from 1988 until his retirement in 1991. His appointment as chief of army staff came when hi ...

in 1990. Promoted to Lieutenant General in 1992, Qazi served as Master-General of Ordnance (MGO) from 1992 to 1993. He was then brought in to head the ISI by General

Abdul Waheed Kakar General Abdul Waheed Kakar ( ur, ; born 23 March 1937), was a senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the 5th Chief of Army Staff, appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 January 1993 upon death of his predecessor Asif Nawaz ...

in May 1993. Gen Waheed mandated Qazi not only to cleanse the ISI of "Islamists" but to rein in the "Jehadis" in

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. Qazi left the post in 1995 to assume the command of XXX Corps at Gujranwala. Qazi retired from the army in February 1996 thus relieving the corps.

Political career

Qazi started his political career after taking over as the Secretary of Science and Technology Division in 1996. He continued this post under

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Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

until 1997. He was later inducted as the Secretary of Railways in October 1999 by the new military leader General

, which he continued until 2000. Then he became the Minister of Communications and Railways in addition to Housing and Works from 2000 to 2002. He successfully fought the Senate seat in 2003, and became a senator on

Pakistan Muslim League (Q) The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) ur, ; ''Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf)'', Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League") is a Conservative nationalist political party in Pakistan. As of the 2018 parliamentary election, it has a re ...

seat. The government later inducted him as Minister of Education in 2004 replacing Zubaida Jalal. His three-year stint ended in 2007, when the 5-year mandate for PML-Q government ended. Presently he is senator of PMLQ.

Controversies

During his tenure as Federal Education Minister in General

's cabinet, Mr. Qazi stirred up quite a controversy when in a talk show he erroneously mentioned that

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has 40 parts (

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) instead of 30.

References

External links

Profile of Senator Javed Ashraf QaziRoundtable with Lt. General (ret.) Javed Ashraf Qazi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Qazi, Javed Ashraf Pakistani generals Directors General of Inter-Services Intelligence 1941 births Living people People from Shimla Federal ministers of Pakistan Members of the Senate of Pakistan Cadet College Hasan Abdal alumni Pakistan Military Academy alumni Education Ministers of Pakistan Communications Ministers of Pakistan