| Shahida Malik | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Shahida Malik |
| Nickname | "Lady General" |
| Place of birth | Karachi, Sindh Province Pakistan |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan |
| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1969-2004 |
| Rank |
 Major-General |
| Unit | Pakistan Army Medical Corps |
| Commands held |
Combined Military Hospital Army Medical College CMH Rawalpindi Deputy Commander, AMC National Institute of Health |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Soviet war in Afghanistan Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 2002 Indo-Pakistani standoff |
| Awards |
Hilal-e-Imtiaz Sitara-i-Imtiaz Sitara-i-Jurat |
Major-General Shahida Malik (Urdu: شاهدا ملک; HI(M), SI(M), SJ), is a retired and high-ranking two-star general officer and a former deputy commander (Surgeon-General) of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.
She is the first woman in the Pakistan Armed Forces to have reached to a two-star rank, and was also a first woman general officer in the history of Pakistan as well as in the Muslim world. Trained as an army medic and a field combat officer, her army career well served in the Indo-Pakistani wars and is also a recipient of highest military decoration as well as the most-decorated female general officer. She took an honorary retirement in 2004 and retired as the inspector-general and deputy commander of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.
Early life[edit | edit source]
She graduated with her MBBS degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore and got selected for Army Medical Corps in 1970.[1]
First woman general[edit | edit source]
She was promoted to Major General rank on 17 June 2002 on the orders of the then Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Major General Shahida Malik". Defencejournal.com. http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/july/shahida.htm. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ↑ "Welcome to Big Sisters". Bigsister.org.uk. http://www.bigsister.org.uk/worldbigsisters.php?id=1. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
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