Gen Raheel Sharif Wanted To Return To Pakistan After Arab-America Summit. General Raheel Sharif (born 16 June 1956), NI(M), HI(M), is a retired four-star rank army general, who served as the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 29 November 2013 till his retirement on 29 November 2016.
He carried out operations in North Waziristan, namely Operation Zarb-e-Azb which stabilized the North-west of the country. He expanded the role of paramilitaries in Karachi which is widely credited with reducing the level of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital. The Pakistani military under his command has also supported the democratically elected government on the federal level and the Baloch provincial and local government in ending the Balochistan insurgency by pursuing reconciliation and integration of former militants back into mainstream Pakistani society. General Sharif also developed a new brigade-level military unit to help protect and secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which runs through Balochistan province. General Sharif helped to develop Pakistan's indigenous deference industry which resulted in the savings of more than $1.14 billion of Pakistan's forex, over a year and half time period.
