Northlines RANA BANERJI Lieutenant General Azhar Saleh Abbasi, chief of logistics staff at the Pakistan army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, retired on April 1. An officer belonging to the armoured corps, General Abbasi was commissioned in the 74th Pakistan military academy long course in September 1986. He served as General Officer Commanding, 9 Division, Kohat when it was re-located to Wana, South Waziristan during anti-militancy operations Zarb e Azb and Radd ul Fasad. He also did a long stint as vice chief of general staff (A) at GHQ before being promoted as lieutenant general and proceeding to command the Pakistan army’s strike corps, I Corps, Mangla (April 2017- October 2018).