serviceyears servicenumber branch rank article_title name
1964 -- 1999 pa -- 6989 pakistan 30px general ziauddin butt
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ziauddin khawaja -lrb- -rrb- , also known as ziauddin butt -lrb- -rrb- , is a four-star general of the pakistan army and a career operations and infantry formations commander , head of intelligence and engineering officer .
ziauddin has served as director-general of pakistan 's premier intelligence agency isi .
he was nominated for the post of pakistan army chief on 12 oct 1999 by then-prime minister nawaz sharif after the dismissal of general pervez musharraf , who had begun a coup against the government .
the coup went ahead regardless of this appointment as ziauddin told his supporters not to resist the move as it would cause dangerous in-fighting among the army .
both sharif and ziauddin were arrested by the coup-makers and taken to different locations .
ziauddin was kept in solitary confinement for two years , and was subject to three army investigations which aimed to find some element of wrongdoing on his part .
musharraf decided to use a ` scouts penalty ' -- a discretionary punishment not requiring a crime , to dismiss general ziauddin from service .
he revealed in october 2011 that according to his knowledge the then former director-general of intelligence bureau of pakistan -lrb- 2004 -- 2008 -rrb- , brigadier ijaz shah , had kept osama bin laden in an intelligence bureau safe house in abbottabad .
