Asim Munir: The son of an Imam, a ‘muhajir’, and Pakistan Military chief who ‘triggered’ Pahalgam terror assault

Pakistan Military Chief Asim Munir’s current speech on Kashmir is being extensively seen because the precursor to the Pahalgam assault, the place 26 folks died by the hands of terrorists.

Munir made the provocative speech on April 17, simply 5 days earlier than 4 terrorists opened fireplace at Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadow, killing vacationers on trip.

Who’s Munir, and the way did his assertion on Kashmir set off the phobia assault in Pahalgam?

What did he say?

Munir floated the two-nation principle and confused that India and Pakistan are two totally different nations, as he delivered a provocative speech on the  Abroad Pakistanis Conference in Islamabad.

Addressing the general public final week, Munir stated that the folks of Pakistan are totally different from Hindus by way of their tradition, ambition, ideologies, and many others.

“You need to narrate Pakistan’s story to your youngsters in order that they don’t overlook it when our forefathers thought we had been totally different from Hindus in each potential facet of life. Our faith is totally different, our customs are totally different, our traditions are totally different, our ideas are totally different, our ambitions are totally different; that’s the place the inspiration of the two-nation principle was laid. We’re two nations, we aren’t one nation,” the military normal stated.

He reiterated that Pakistanis mustn’t overlook the “story of Pakistan”, the way it was shaped, and the sacrifices made by its forefathers, “in order that their bond with Pakistan by no means weakens, whether or not it’s the third era, or the fourth era, or the fifth era, they know what Pakistan is for them.”

Son of an Imam

Basic Munir was born to a father who was a college instructor and an imam, suggesting that the military chief was raised in a religiously religious setting. This assertion is fixed by the situations the place Munir has employed Islamic verses in his speeches.

The military chief, a Hafiz-e-Quran or somebody who has memorised the Islamic Holy Ebook in its entirety, has repeatedly delivered speeches selling Islamic ideologies, and his earlier speeches on Kashmir have equally been provocative in nature.

A spy chief who wasn’t

Munir held the highest submit of Pakistan’s spy company, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), in 2018. However he didn’t get to carry the submit for lengthy, as eight months later, Munir was changed by Lt.Gen Faiz Hamid on the orders of the then Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.

However after Khan’s dismissal from the federal government following a no-confidence movement, Munir got here again to the scene and was made the nation’s military chief.

His profession within the navy started in 1986 underneath the Zia-ul-Haq administration. After graduating from the Officers Coaching Faculty (OTS) in Mangla and incomes the celebrated Sword of Honour, Munir was commissioned into the twenty third Battalion of the Frontier Power Regiment.