RAWALPINDI: Newly appointed COAS General
Qamar Javed Bajwa took charge of the Pakistan Army
from former General Raheel Sharif in an ongoing ceremony at the Army Hockey Stadium in Rawalpindi on Tuesday (today).
General Raheel Sharif, hands over the baton to Gen Bajwa at a formal change of command ceremony at the GHQ, completing the transition after months of speculation as to who will be his successor.
Lt Gen
Qamar Javed Bajwa, a career infantry off
icer belonging to the Baloch Reg
iment, was chosen as Pakistan’s next Chief of Army Staff on Saturday. He
would be promoted to the rank of a four-star general and
would take up his new post
from today, the day the current army Chief Raheel Sharif retires.
