Moazzam Ilyas
Moazzam Ilyas | |
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| File:IMG-20180125-WA0010-01.jpg Rear Admiral Moazzam Ilyas | |
| Born | May 10, 1965 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Allegiance |  Pakistan |
| Service/ |  Pakistan Navy |
| Years of service | 1984 - Present |
| Rank |   Rear Admiral |
| Unit | Naval Operations Branch |
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| Battles/wars | 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff 2016 India-Pakistan military confrontation India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2019) |
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Rear-Admiral Muhammad Moazzam Ilyas (Urdu: محمد معظم الياس; b. 10 May 1965), HI(M), SI(M), is a two-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy, currently serving as Director General Joint Warfare and Training at Joint Staff Headquarters (JSHQ) since 2019.
Biography
He joined the Pakistan Navy in 1980 and commissioned in the term 84-A. He is a graduate of Joint Command and Staff College Shrivenham, UK. He has master's degrees in Defence Studies from King's College London, and Strategic Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
Commands and Military Life
His command appointments include commands of two Destroyers Badr & Babur as well as three missile boats named PNS Jalalat, Himmat and Haibat. He has also served as Naval and Air Attache at Tehran, Iran from 2006 to 2009. From there, he was promoted to Commodore in 2009.
Ashore he has served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Operations (ACNS-Ops), Chief Staff Officer to Commander Pakistan Fleet (CSO to COMPAK), as well as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Plans (ACNS-P). Afterwards, he was appointed to Commander North (COMNOR), from where he was promoted to Rear Admiral.[1]
Rear Admiral Moazzam took over command of Combined Task Force 150 from August 2015[2] to January 2016.[3][4]
He went to become Chief Instructor, Allied Officers Division at the NDU (CI-AOD). He was made Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Training and Evaluation (DCNS T&E) in 2016 and then served as Commandant of the PNWC and Commander Central Punjab (COMCEP) in Lahore.
He was appointed Commander Coastal Areas (COMCOAST) from 1 November 2017.[5] He was shifted to Joint Staff Headquarters (JSHQ) on 20 January 2019 as Director General Joint Warfare & Training (DG JW&T). He is also a member of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.
References
- ^ "Two PN Commodores promoted as Rear Admirals". nation.com.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
- ^ "Welcome to ISPR". ispr.gov.pk. Retrieved 2017-11-08.