Birth name Shahida Malik Rank Major-General Nickname(s) "Lady General" Name Shahida Malik | Allegiance Pakistan Years of service 1969-2004 | |
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Battles/wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1971Soviet war in AfghanistanIndo-Pakistani War of 19992002 Indo-Pakistani standoff Battles and wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Soviet–Afghan War, Kargil War, 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff Commands held Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi | ||
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Major-General Shahida Malik (Urdu: شاهدا ملک; HI(M), SI(M)), is a retired and high-ranking two-star general officer and a former deputy commander (Surgeon-General) of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.
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She is the first lady officer in the Pakistan Army to have reached to a two-star rank. Trained as a doctor, she was appointed the Inspector-General Hospitals as well as deputy commander of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps before retiring in 2004.
Early life
She graduated with her MBBS degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore and got selected for Army Medical Corps in 1970.
First woman general
She was promoted to Major General rank on 17 June 2002 on the orders of the then Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf.
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