Ameer Faisal Alavi
Military Person
1954 – 2008
Who was Ameer Faisal Alavi?
Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi was a Pakistan Army two-star general and special operations expert who was the first General Officer Commanding of the elite Special Service Group of Pakistan Army. A former member of Special Service Group, he was credited with masterminding the Angoor Ada operation in 2004, where many Arabs and Chechens based in the tribal areas were killed or arrested and turned over to the Americans.
On 19 November 2008, while driving to work in his car in Islamabad, he was shot dead by three unknown gunmen. It was alleged that Ilyas Kashmiri, the chief of Jammu & Kashmir chapter of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, was behind the murder of Maj-Gen Alavi at the behest of the Taliban in North Waziristan.
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1954
Nairobi - Also known as
- Amir Faisal Alavi
- Education
- Abbottabad Public School
- Died
- Nov 19, 2008
Islamabad
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on July 23, 2013
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