LIST CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF (FROM INDEPENDENCE TO TILL

List of Chiefs of Army Staff[edit]

#	Name	Rank	Photo	Appointment Date	Left Office	Unit of Commission	Decorations
Commander in Chief of Pakistan Army (C in C)[6]
1.	Sir Frank Messervy	General		15 August 1947	10 February 1948	9th Hodson's Horse	KCSI, KBE, CB, DSO
2.	Sir Douglas Gracey	General		11 February 1948	16 January 1951	1st Gurkha Rifles	KCB, KCIE, CBE, MC
3.	Muhammad Ayub Khan	Field Marshal		16 January 1951	26 October 1958	1/14 Punjab Regiment	NPk, HPk, HJ, GCMG,MBE
4.	Muhammad Musa	General		27 October 1958	17 June 1966	6/13 Frontier Force Rifles	HPk, HJ, HQA, MBE
5.	Muhammad Yahya Khan	General		18 June 1966	20 December 1971	4/10 Baluch Regiment	HPk, HJ, SPk
6.	Gul Hassan Khan	Lieutenant General		20 December 1971	3 March 1972	Armoured Corps	SPk, SQA
Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army (COAS)
7.	Tikka Khan	General		3 March 1972	1 March 1976	Artillery	HJ, HQA, SPk
8.	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	General		1 March 1976	17 August 1988	Armoured Corps
9.	Mirza Aslam Beg	General		17 August 1988	16 August 1991	Baloch Regiment	NI(M), SBt
10.	Asif Nawaz	General		16 August 1991	8 January 1993	Punjab Regiment	NI(M), SBt (Bar)
11.	Abdul Waheed	General		11 January 1993	12 January 1996	Frontier Force Regiment	NI(M), SBt
12.	Jehangir Karamat	General		12 January 1996	6 October 1998	Armoured Corps	NI(M), TBt
13.	Pervez Musharraf	General		6 October 1998	28 November 2007	Artillery	NI(M), TBt
14.	Ashfaq Parvez Kayani	General		29 November 2007	29 November 2013	Baloch Regiment	NI(M), HI
15.	Raheel Sharif	General		29 November 2013	Present	Frontier Force Regiment	NI(M), HI

List of Army Vice Chiefs[edit]

The post of Vice Chiefs of Army Staff existed whenever the Chief of Army Staff was also the President of Pakistan.

No.	Name	Rank	Photo	Appointment Date	Left Office	Unit of Commission	Decorations
1	Abdul Hamid Khan	General		25 March 1969	20 December 1971	Baloch Regiment	HQA, SPk
2	Mohammad Sawar Khan	General		13 April 1980	23 March 1984	Artillery	NI(M)
3	Khalid Mahmud Arif	General		22 March 1984	29 March 1987	Armoured Corps	NI(M), SBt
4	Mirza Aslam Beg	General		29 March 1987	17 August 1988	Baloch Regiment	NI(M), SBt
5	Muhammad Yusaf Khan	General		8 October 2001	6 October 2004	Armoured Corps	NI(M)
6	Ahsan Saleem Hayat	General		7 October 2004	7 October 2007	Armoured Corps	NI(M)
7	Ashfaq Pervez Kayani	General		8 October 2007	28 November 2007	Baloch Regiment	NI(M), HI

8 gernal raheel sharif                                GENERAL                        29 NOV,2013 TO PRESENT