Javed Nasir
Lieutenant General Javed Nasir HI(M) SBt PEC (Urdu: جاويد ناصر; born 1936: 112 ) ), is a Pakistani retired engineering officer who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), appointed on 14 March 1992 until 13 May 1993.
Javed Nasir | |
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| Native name | جاويد ناصر |
| Birth name | Javed Nasir |
| Born | 1936 (age 87–88): 112 Lahore, Punjab, British India: 834 (Present day Pakistan) |
| Allegiance | Pakistan |
| Service/ | Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1953–1993 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Service number | PA – 5646 |
| Unit | Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers |
| Commands held | DG ISI Engineer-in-Chief Chairman POF Chief Instructor at NDC Ojhri Cantonment Frontier Works Organization |
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Kashmiri insurgency Afghan civil war Bosnian War |
| Awards | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat |
| Other work | Missionary for Tablighi Jamaat Later, a hedge fund manager, and private security contractor |
Known for being member of Tablighi Jamaat, Nasir gained national prominence as his role of bringing the unscattered mass of Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the power-sharing formula to form Afghan administration under President Mojaddedi in Afghanistan in 1992–93. Later, he played an influential and decisive role in the Bosnian war when he oversaw the covert military intelligence program to support the Bosnian Army against the Serbs, while airlifting the thousands of Bosnian refugees in Pakistan.