Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has been in the news. According to several media reports, Pakistan’s army chief General Asim Munir, who was made a marshal after promotion, has been in the headlines for some time now.
He is a nefarious opponent of India; during his tenure, the work of harboring terrorists in Pakistan and using them against India became much more intense.
PAK General Asim Munir’s Jalandhar connection
The same Pakistan Marshal Army chief Asim Munir has been linked to Jalandhar. In fact, according to the report, Asim Munir’s family history is connected to Punjab, India.
A surprising connection of Chief general is traced from Punjab’s Jalandhar. According to the reports Chief’s family has flee to Pakistan during the India partition.
The India 1947, India partition, the un ceremonial formation of Pakistan, has resulted in cossword migration from both lands, causing 15 million people to be uprooted and a casualty count of 2 million.
The year witnessed one of the most brutal killings including the massacre of Rawalpindi that resulted in thousands dead.
Amid the roits and mass killings, General Munir’s father, Syed Sarwar Munir, flee to Pakistan with his family.
Munir belongs to a Muslim Syed family and according to media reports, his family lived in Jalandhar before the partition of the country
The oldest area in the centre of Jalandhar city is Qazi Mohalla, where only people of the Muslim community lived before 1947 and at that time the city’s Kaji, whose cottage is still in Kaji Mohalla, lived in Kothi.
His family first stayed for some time in the Toba Tek Singh district of Pakistani Punjab, then they settled in the Hassanabad area of Rawalpindi. He was a Muhajir (Muslim migrant) who started a new life in Pakistan.
79-year-old Harpreet, who lives in Kila Mohalla along with Qazi Mohalla, says that people from all the Muslim community in Qazi Mohalla lived with their families. After the partition of 1947, all Muslim families left Qazi Mohalla and went to Pakistan. He said that when all Muslim families left here, Asim Munir’s family also left here. Anil Kheda, who runs a chemist shop in the market along with Qazi Mohalla, said that the first chemist shop in Punjab was opened by his family in 1894. The same was said from his father that all Muslim families lived in Qazi Mohalla and Muslim people used to run tanga in the chowk of the market and used to sell vegetables in the vegetable shop. His elders and father used to tell that there were more Muslims in Qazi Mohalla, than the Hindu families.
Munir’s father was the principal of a school in Rawalpindi and also played the role of the imam of the local mosque. He was considered an educated, religious and disciplined man, whose influence can be clearly seen in the thinking and upbringing of Asim Munir. General Munir’s early education took place in Dar-ul-Tajweed, an Islamic madrasah in Rawalpindi, where the emphasis is on recitation of the Quran, Tajweed and religious studies. Later, he entered the services of the Pakistani army and gradually rose to the top. But his early upbringing and religious background deeply influenced his outlook. It is an interesting fact that this jihadi general, known for his anti-India statements and policies, has his roots in the same land of India from where his family went at the time of partition.
Pakistan’s army chief General Asim Munir is not only targeted by dense storm clouds in the subcontinent these days, but he is a storm himself. It is no coincidence that he was the head of Pakistan’s notorious spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI when it planned the horrific Pulwama terror attack.
Pulwama attack, in which 40 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force were martyred on February 16, 2019. 6 years later, Munir is now the real ruler of Pakistan in a sense and is once again in the crosshairs of India. He is reportedly the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack. On April 22, 25 tourists and a local man were shot dead in Kashmir’s Alpine paradise. The Modi government is preparing to give a military response to the worst slaughter of civilians in the valley in two decades.