Hamid Javaid

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Hamid Javaid , HI, HI(M), AFWC, PSC, (October 1947-2019) was a Pakistan Army general who served as Chief of Staff (COS) to President Pervez Musharraf for six years from September 2001 to December 2007. Javaid was the son of Mohammad Ashraf, a leader of Allama Mashriqi's Khaksar Tehrik.

He played a major role in ensuring that governance was transparent at the highest level and also worked to ensure harmonious relations between the civil and the military bureaucracies. He started the Al-Zarrar and Al-Khalid main battle tank projects while working as the director-general of Heavy Industries Taxila.

In February 2011 he became President of Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital in Rawalpindi.

Military career Javaid attended Cadet College Hasan Abdal and was commissioned in the Armoured Corps of the Pakistan Army on 31 October 1965. He received basic training from the School of Armour and Mechanized Warfare in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa followed by training in the US Army Armor School in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He was a graduate of the Command and Staff College, Quetta and National Defence College, Rawalpindi.

Javaid served as the military attaché to the United States from 1986 to 1990. He later commanded the XXXI Corps Reserve at Bahawalpur for two years after which he headed Heavy Industries Taxila.

During his four years stint as Chairman Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) he successfully completed the R&D on Al-Khalid and delivered to the Pakistan Army the first batch of its indigenously manufactured world class Main Battle Tank. Lt Gen (R) Hamid Javaid also successfully conceived and produced Tank Al-Zarrar and several other armored and security vehicles.

Chief of Staff In 2001, he became Chief of Staff (COS).