Rashid Qureshi


Rashid Qureshi, راشد قریشی SI, SBt, is a retired two-star general, and the close aide of former President General Pervez Musharraf. He is the current spokesman of Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League.

Military career

Rashid Qureshi was commissioned in the Pakistan Army on 17 April 1971 after the 44th Pakistan Military Academy Long Course. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he was stationed at the Lahore Sector. After the war, Qureshi's company was stationed at the Rawalpindi sector where he became a staff officer at the General Headquarters . In 1987, he was promoted as Lieutenant Colonel, and was made Officer commanding of the 10th Battalion. In 1991, he became Colonel in the Army, and was made Military secretary at the Joint Chief of Staff Committee Secretariat.

Inter-Services Public Relations

In 1996, Qureshi joined the Inter-Services Public Relations. In 1997, he was promoted as one-star general in the Army. In 1998, he was made director-general of the ISPR.
However his promotion to two star General was highly controversial, as some assumed he had used back door channels and to some extent nepotism within the army ranks.
He was also a principal military spokesperson of General Pervez Musharraf regime.