ISLAMABAD – General Zubair Mehmood Hayat the Chairman Joint Chief of StaffCommittee is set to retire on November 27 and his successor is likely tobe named by the government over the next few days.
The top contenders for the office of Chairman Joint Chiefs of StaffCommittee (CJCSC) are Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Director General LtGen Sarfraz Sattar, Chief of General Staff (CGS) Lt Gen Nadeem Raza andCommander V Corps, headquartered at Karachi, Lt Gen Humayun Aziz.
The government must be, by now, mulling over the advice received from theMinistry of Defence on who should be promoted.
Unlike the intense debate over the filling of the two vacancies offour-star generals witnessed in 2013 and 2016, the race for the lone postthis time is lacklustre because the government had in August announced afull second term for the incumbent Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), GenQamar Bajwa.
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In the current hierarchy of the armed forces, the position of CJCSC istechnically superior to that of the COAS with jurisdiction over all threeservices — army, navy and air force — but with the latter being practicallymore powerful than the former, there is little public interest in who getselevated.
