President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif have jointly conferred the baton of Field Marshal upon Chief of the Army Staff ,Syed Asim Munir, during a special investiture ceremony in Islamabad.

Pakistan’s prime minister has promoted the country’s powerful army chief, Gen. Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal, making him only the second military officer in Pakistan’s history to hold the title.

There is a joke in Pakistan’s political circles that former Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq knew only a few verses of the Quran and stayed in power for over a decade till his death in 1988. Whereas the present Pakistan army chief,