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Syed Asim Munir NI(M) (سید عاصم منیر) is a Pakistani army general and the current Chief of Army Staff since 29 November 2022. Prior to becoming the army chief, he was posted at the GHQ as Quartermaster general. He commanded the XXX Corps in Gujranwala from 17 June 2019 to 6 October 2021. He served as the 23rd Director-General of the ISI until he was replaced by lieutenant general Faiz Hameed on 16 June 2019. Munir received the prestigious Sword of Honour for his performance as a cadet in the Officers Training School, Mangla.

Early life and education
Munir was born into a Punjabi Syed family, with their roots lying in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, from where his parents migrated following the 1947 partition of India. They moved to Toba Tek Singh before settling down in Rawalpindi's Dheri Hassanabad. His late father, Syed Sarwar Munir, was the principal of the FG Technical High School, Lalkurti, Rawalpindi and the imam of a mosque, Masjid-al-Quraish, situated in a locality of Dheri Hassanabad, where he often delivered the Friday Khutbah sermon. Munir has two siblings, Syed Qasim Munir and Syed Hashim Munir. One of his brothers is a government school teacher.

Munir graduated from the Fuji school, Japan, the Command and Staff College, Quetta, the Malaysian Armed Forces College, Kuala Lumpur and the National Defence University, Islamabad, where he earned his MPhil in Public Policy and Strategic Security Management.

Military career
Munir is from the 17th course of the Officers Training School in Mangla. He was commissioned in the 23rd Battalion of the Frontier Force Regiment. He started his military career on 25 April 1986.

As a Lieutenant Colonel, Munir served in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of close defence cooperation between Riyadh and Islamabad, and also served at the Siachen Glacier. While he was a Brigadier, he served as the Chief of Staff of Pakistan's I Strike Corps Mangla, and commanded an infantry brigade in Northern Areas. He was promoted to the rank of Major-general in 2014 served as the commander of the Troops deployed in the Northern Areas of Pakistan in 2014. Munir also served as Director-General of Military Intelligence in 2016. He was awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in March 2018. Munir was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in September 2018 and was subsequently appointed as DG ISI. In June 2019, Munir was replaced by Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed as the new DG ISI. Subsequently, Munir was appointed as Corps Commander of XXX Corps in Gujranwala in 2019. From 2021 to November 2022, Lt-General Munir was posted at GHQ as the Quartermaster General of Pakistan Army. In November 2022, Lieutenant General Munir was promoted to the four-star General rank and appointed as the Chief of the Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. At the time of his appointment as COAS, Munir was the senior most lieutenant general of the Pakistani army. In December 2022, General Munir received the Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Military) award from President Arif Alvi. At the Aiwan-e-Sadr, top military officials were given special investitures in front of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, diplomats, lawmakers, and federal ministers were present during the ceremony.

General Munir is the only recipient of Sword of Honour who has risen to the position of army chief in the military history of Pakistan. Additionally, he is the only army chief in the history of Pakistan who has earlier served as chief of both premier military intelligence agencies of Pakistan, namely, Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence.

General Munir is the first Quartermaster General of Pakistan Army who has been elevated to the post of Chief of Army Staff.

On his appointment as COAS, Al-Jazeera described Munir as an officer with an “impeccable reputation”, while The Times of India described him as a "tough guy" for his hawkish attitude.