Naweed Zaman
Naweed Zaman is a retired three-star rank general of the Pakistan Army.
Military career
Zaman was formally commissioned into the Pakistan Armed Forces in 1980, after graduating from the Pakistan Military Academy with a Sword of Honour, at which he later also served an instructor at the School of Infantry and Tactics.He also attended the National Defence University, Pakistan, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK and Royal College of Defence Studies, UK.
He served as General Officer Commanding of the 7th Infantry Division, Corps Commander of the IV Corps and as Military Secretary at Army General Headquarters.
During his service as the GOC of the 7th Infantry Division, he partook in Operation Rah-e-Nijat which cleared out the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and other associated militant groups from Pakistan's South Waziristan Agency, and brought it back under the control of the Government of Pakistan.
Zaman is a recipient of the Hilal-i-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan.
In September 2014, Zaman was reportedly shortlisted as a candidate by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to succeed Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Zaheer-ul-Islam, who was about to retire. Ultimately Major General Rizwan Akhtar was selected and appointed to the job.
Among the officers fired for corruption