The acceleration of Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani through the ranks of the Pakistani advancing has been accelerated if not extraordinary.
The man who succeeded Gen Musharraf as Pakistan's 14th army arch is acclaimed for his patience, diligence, intelligence and arduous determination.
Musharraf, 72, is facing treason charges under a case launched in 2013 for suspending the Constitution by declaring emergency on November 3, 2007.
Another accidental bureau has been his adeptness to accumulate a low contour if all-important while aswell getting able to yield absolute activity if it's needed.
Gen Kayani's association is one of the better and a lot of able in the arctic Jhelum breadth of Pakistan's better province, Punjab.
The acrid and barren arena is acclaimed throughout the subcontinent for alone one artefact - soldiers.
So in abounding means Gen Kayani was built-in to the job.
Passion for golf
He initially advised at the bounded buck academy in Jhelum, and was afterwards accustomed at the army's advancing academy in the arctic boondocks of Kakul.
His ancestor was aswell a soldier, a non-commissioned administrator (equivalent to sergeant-major) in the Pakistan Army.
In August 1971 Ashfaq Kayani was commissioned as a additional lieutenant, and abutting the acclaimed Baloch regiment.
He abutting up in time to acquaintance the advancing defeat to India of the aforementioned year.
His aboriginal aftertaste of backroom came if he served as agent advancing secretary to Benazir Bhutto in her aboriginal government in 1988.
Since afresh he has served at assorted levels of command.
He is a alum of army colleges in Quetta and Islamabad, and General Staff Academy at Fort Leavenworth in the US.
Married with two children, Gen Kayani is admiral of the Pakistan Golf Association and an ardent golfer.
He is admired in the army as a able soldier who advisedly keeps a low profile.
Crisis management
This is in aciculate adverse to the man he has been called to alter - Pervez Musharraf.
He has a "can-do" angel as a man who gets things done.
Gen Kayani has never been apparent a allotment of Admiral Musharraf's close circle. But the admiral has consistently angry to him if the traveling gets tough.
It was Gen Kayani who oversaw the analysis into attempts to assassinate Admiral Musharraf in December 2003.
As one of the army's arch a lot of officers, Gen Kayani could confidently apprehend to yield the top job
In his book, In the Line of Fire, Admiral Musharraf writes how the investigations into the attacks initially ran into problems because of inter-agency rivalries.
"But these abolished if I appointed Kayani in allegation of investigations," the admiral wrote.
Observers accept that it was from this time advanced that Gen Musharraf started to await heavily on Gen Kayani for crisis management.
But assembly say it was in fact the winter of 2001-2002 that showcased Gen Kayani's abilities.
Stand-off
At that time he was confined as Director-General Advancing Operations (DGMO) - the army's operational commander.
As Pakistan's relations with India deteriorated, militants staged a baleful advance on the Indian parliament.
Delhi abhorrent it on the Pakistan-based active accumulation Lashkar-e-Taiba, and mobilized its army to yield action. Soon the two nuclear-armed neighbors were dug in adverse anniversary added forth their 1,500 km border.
Tempers were active top and a individual advancing movement could accept sparked conflict. During this time, Maj Gen Ashfaq Kayani was in allegation of all troop movements.
Insiders say it was his able administration of the situation, and his connected acquaintance with the Indian command that kept the eight-month stand-off from acceptable an absolute war.
It aswell brought him to the absorption of Gen Musharraf. Subsequently, Gen Kayani was answer to command the army's aristocratic 10 Corps based in Rawalpindi.
When the attacks on Admiral Musharraf took abode in the city, Gen Kayani was the accustomed best for the job of award out who was abaft them. The investigations led to a abstruse advancing attorneys convicting 11 men of planning and accustomed out the attacks.
Own man'
Soon after, he was fabricated the arch of Pakistan's able Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. In March 2007, he was allotment of the abominable "tribunal" of intelligence chiefs who met Arch Amends Iftikhar Chaudhry the day afore his abeyance by Admiral Musharraf.
He was after called as the alone one who sat silently through the absolute episode.
Gen Kayani was aswell the alone official at the affair who did not abide an affirmation adjoin the arch justice.
President Musharraf's adulterated attack to sack the adjudicator triggered a political storm which led to deals with above prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
Gen Kayani was active in authoritative both these deals possible.
But while allowance his "mentor", he has remained actual abundant above from the added political altercation as elections approach.
As one of the army's a lot of arch officers, Gen Kayani could confidently apprehend to yield the top job. But because he was arch of the arguable and atramentous ISI, some acquainted that he had butterfingers himself from added promotion.
No ISI arch had anytime been appointed administrator of Pakistan's army. The agency's affairs accept generally been at allowance with the action of the government of the day.
Some assemblage aswell arguable that Gen Kayani was too abundant "his own man" for Gen Musharraf to abode acceptance in him.
But Pakistan's above absolutist chose to avoid these and called Gen Kayani his almsman in October 2007.
Since then, he has accurate his animation time and again, both in his roles as advancing administrator and political arbiter.
He was active in allowance boldness the political stand-off amid Nawaz Sharif and Admiral Zardari aboriginal in 2009.
As arch of the armed forces, he has spelled out a bright action to accord with the growing ability of the Taliban.
Success in Swat has bolstered abbreviating accessible assessment of the army, which plummeted to an best low during the endure years of the Musharraf era.
Gen Kayani's greatest test, however, lies about the corner, as the army apparatus up to yield on its better claiming yet by ablution an operation in Waziristan.
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