Javed Nasir

Who is Javed Nasir?

Lieutenant-General Javed Nasir, is a now-retired engineering officer and former director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence, directed from March 1992 until May 1993.

An educator and professor by profession, Nasir played an instrumental role in uniting the scattered mass of warring Mujahideen groups after the Soviet retreat, Nasir played an integrated role installing the first Mujahideen government in Afghanistan. Nasir played an active role on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina and provided logistics and ammunition supplies to Bosnian Army, while harboring Bosnian immigrants to Pakistan. Noted for being the first general to have a full-grown beard against military tradition of having only clean-shaved generals in the Pakistan Army, Nasir joined the Islamist parties after his military retirement and since has been an active writer on political Islam and Islamic parties in Pakistan.