Asif Ghafoor

Asif Ghafoor is a serving Lieutenant General in Pakistan Army. He was commissioned on 9 September 1988 in 87 SP Medium Regiment Artillery after 4 years of training (1984-1988) as Cadet at JCB & PMA Kakul (1986–88). He participated in the Kargil operation during 1999 as a Major, operations against terrorists in tribal areas of FATA and Swat during 2008-10 as a Lieutenant Colonel and has commanded a Division at Swat, Malakand during 2016 as a Major General. General has also served as Director Military Operations at Army Headquarters GHQ as a Brigadier commanded Divisional Artillery deployed along the Line of Control and infantry brigade along eastern border. He has been on faculty of Command and Staff College Quetta and was the Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations from December 2016 to February 2020. He played a key role during Pak-India stand off of 27-29 Feb 2019 which brought him title of Mr Surprise and nation commemorates 27 February as Surprise Day based on his quote. He is also named as Gerasimov of South Asia.