Shahid Baig Mirza

Lieutenant General Shahid Baig Mirza is a Pakistan Army general and the current Commander of V Corps in Karachi. He was appointed on 7 December 2016.

He was born into a military family of Chakwal, the eldest of four brothers and one sister, all officers and sons of Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Abdul Haq Mirza and Zaib-un-Nisa. The youngest, Major Umar Baig Mirza, died in a helicopter crash on 15 October 2005, and Lieutenant Colonel Amer Baig Mirza was killed in a terrorist bombing on 27 May 2009.

Then-Major General Shaid Baig Mirza was the commandant of the Command and Staff College from January 2014 to May 2015. He was awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz on Pakistan Day (23 March), 2015, and promoted to lieutenant general in April 2015.