ISLAMABAD, Dec 18 Kyodo Pakistani...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 18 Kyodo

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has carried not at home several changes in the military hierarchy including the appointment of a recently made known director general of the powerful Military Intelligence and a just discovered chief of the general staff, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday.

According to the announcement, incumbent Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Shahid Aziz has been appointed corps commander in Lahore in place of Lt Gen Zarar Azim who has been appointed as inspector general for evaluation and training of the Pakistan Army.

Lt Gen Tariq Majid, the circulating director general of Military Intelligence (DGMI), has been appointed chief of general staff while military secretary to the president Maj. Gen Taj Nadeem has been named DGMI whose unit is believed to be a powerful organization in the intelligence community after Inter Service Intelligence.

Director of military training Maj. Gen Javed Ahmad will take above as chairman of Pakistan ordinance factories in place of the generally received Chairman Lt. Gen. Abdul Qayyum who is proper to retire next month

Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen Shaukat Sultan, told Kyodo novels that the changes are routine and are not related in any way to an explosion forward Sunday on a bridge in Rawalpindi next to the firsts after President Musharraf's motorcade had passed through the whole extent of it.

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