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For other people with the same name, see Abdul Qayyum.
Abdul Qayyum
Nickname(s)General Qayyum
BornChakwal District, Pakistan
Allegiance Pakistan
Service/branch Pakistan Army
Years of service1968 – 2004
Rank Lieutenant-General
UnitPakistan Army Artillery Corps
Commands heldInfantry Brigade and Army Artillery Division[citation needed]
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1971
AwardsHilal-i-Imtiaz (military)
Other workFormer Chairman of Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF)
Chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills

Lieutenant General Abdul Qayyum (Urdu: عبدالقیوم) is a retired three-star general of the Pakistan Army who has been the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories and chairman of board of Pakistan Steel Mills.

Early life

Abdul Qayyum, Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military), is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan army. He hails from the rural areas of Chakwal District of Punjab province of Pakistan.[citation needed]

Career

He entered the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, in May 1966 as a cadet and was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in April 1968 and retired as a three-star general in January 2004. He remained the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories from September 1998 to January 2004.[1]

Retirement

After his retirement, he became chairman of the board of Pakistan Steel Mills in 2004 and remained there until September 2006.[2] He resigned from there under protest[citation needed] against a privatization attempt of Pakistan's largest integrated steel plant which was later cancelled by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Currently, he is the president of Association for Citizen Empowerment which works in the rural areas of Pakistan focusing on health care, education and development of individual skills.[citation needed] Qayyum is also the president of the Ideology Of Pakistan forum in Islamabad under the patronage of renowned journalist, Majid Nizami.[citation needed] He is also the president of the Columnist Club of Pakistan[citation needed] and he contributes a column to daily Nawa-i-Waqt every Friday under the title of Fikr-o-Khayal.[3] He appears frequently in television talk shows as a politico-defense analyst.

The retired general joined politics in April 2012 and is now part of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (N).[4] He is also a member of senate of Pakistan.

Bibliography[citation needed]

Qayyum is an author of four books namely:

  • Islam in perspective
  • Fikr-o-khayal Part 1&2
  • Pakistan kay androoni masail
  • Pakistan aalmi tanazur main

References

  1. ^ http://www.awaztoday.tv/profile_Lt-Gen-R-Abdul-Qayyum_377.aspx
  2. ^ http://www.awaztoday.tv/profile_Lt-Gen-R-Abdul-Qayyum_377.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.dhudialnews.com/09Columns/02QAYYUM/
  4. ^ http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/04/20/lt-gen-r-abdul-qayyum-joins-pml-n/

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