Asif Ghafoor

Lieutenant General
Asif Ghafoor
HI(M)
Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor HI(M)
	Asif Ghafoor as Major General
President of the National Defence University
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; November 2023
Corps Commander XII Corps
	In office; 4 August 2022 – 24 November 2023
Preceded by	Sarfraz Ali
Succeeded by	Rahat Naseem
Inspector General Communication & Information Technology
	In office; 28 November 2020 – 2 August 2022
General Officer Commanding 40th Infantry Division, Okara
	In office; 31 January 2020 – 28 November 2020
20th Director-General of the ISPR
	In office; 15 December 2016 – 31 January 2020
President	Mamnoon Hussain; Arif Alvi
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif; Shahid Khaqan Abbasi; Imran Khan
Preceded by	Asim Saleem Bajwa
Succeeded by	Babar Iftikhar
General Officer Commanding 21st Artillery Division, Swat
	In office; February 2016 – 15 December 2016
Personal details
Alma mater	Pakistan Military Academy, Command & Staff College Quetta, Command & Staff College Bandung (Indonesia), National Defence University, Islamabad
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Branch/service	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1986–present
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	Kargil War; War in North-West Pakistan Operation Sherdil; ; Insurgency in Balochistan; Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad; 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes Operation Swift Retort; ;
Service number	PA-27699

Asif Ghafoor HI(M) (Urdu: آصِف غفور ) is a Lieutenant General in the Pakistan Army, currently serving as the President of the National Defence University, Islamabad. He was most recently serving as the Corps Commander Quetta. Ghafoor has also served as the 20th Director General of the ISPR.

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