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President Asif Ali Zardari connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) approved the assignment of the service chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arsenic Pakistan's archetypal Chief of Defence Forces for a play of 5 years.
President Zardari approved the summary submitted by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, formally asking him to name Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Munir arsenic the archetypal CDF of Pakistan.
Last month, the parliament passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment providing to make the station of CDF with the nonsubjective to make unity of bid and expedite the determination making successful immoderate captious situation.
The CDF replaced the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), the station for which was abolished.
The President extended his champion wishes to Mr. Munir, a merchandise from President’s bureau said successful Islamabad.
Mr. Zardari besides approved a two-year hold successful the work of Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar Sidhu, Chief of Air Staff, to instrumentality effect from the completion of his contiguous tenure connected March 19, 2026.
According to a connection by the PM Office, the Prime Minister had earlier approved the summary for the assignment of Field Marshal Munir arsenic the service main and the CDF, and past referred it to the President House.
Field Marshal Munir was appointed arsenic COAS successful November 2022 initially for 3 years, but his tenure was extended for 5 years successful 2024.
The determination to contented a ceremonial notification has enactment to remainder rumours regarding hold successful the assignment of the CDF, which was owed since November 27, erstwhile the past CJCSC General Sahir Shamshad Mirza retired.
Earlier, Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, addressing a property conference, had said that determination was nary ineligible oregon governmental obstacle regarding the notification of the assignment of the Chief of Defence Forces and this notification would beryllium issued soon.
