Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army

Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Army CAS
Flag of the Bangladesh Army
Incumbent General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq since 25 June 2015
Bangladesh Army
Seat	Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appointer	The President and PM
Formation	26 March 1971
Website	Official Website

Chief of Army Staff (abbreviated as CAS) of Bangladesh Army is the professional head of the Bangladesh Army. The current CAS is General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq .^[1]

The Chief of Army Staff functions from the Army Headquarters, which is located in the Dhaka Cantonment.

List of Chiefs of Army staff

#	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	Decoration	Unit of Commission	Commission category
1st	Major General Mohammad A. Rab	3 January 1972	5 April 1972	Bir Uttom	Army Service Corps	BDF War Commander 1971
2nd	Major General Kazi M Shafiullah	5 April 1972	24 August 1975	Bir Uttom	East Bengal Regiment	BDF War Commander 1971
3rd	Major General Ziaur Rahman	24 August 1975	3 November 1975	Bir Uttom	East Bengal Regiment	BDF War Commander 1971
4th	Major General Khaled Mosharraf	3 November 1975	7 November 1975	Bir Uttom	East Bengal Regiment	BDF War Commander 1971
5th	Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman	7 November 1975	Feb 1979	Bir Uttom	East Bengal Regiment	BDF War Commander 1971
6th	Lieutenant General Hussain Mohammad Ershad	Feb 1979	Aug 1986	psc	East Bengal Regiment	Repatriated
7th	Lieutenant General Atiqur Rahman	1 September 1986	August 1990		Regiment of Artillery	Repatriated
8th	Lieutenant General Nuruddin Khan	November 1990	June 1994		Corps of Engineers	Repatriated
9th	Lieutenant General Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim	June 1994	June 1996	Bir Bikram	East Bengal Regiment	BDF Officer 1971
10th	Lieutenant General Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman	May 1996	December 1997		Corps of Engineers	Repatriated
11th	General Mustafizur Rahman	24 December 1997	23 December 2000	Bir Protik	Corps of Engineers	Freedom Fighter
12th	Lieutenant General M Harun-Ar-Rashid	24 December 2000	16 June 2002	Bir Protik	East Bengal Regiment	BDF Officer 1971
13th	Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury	16 June 2002	15 June 2005	awc, psc	Frontier Force Regiment	Repatriated
14th	General Moeen U Ahmed	15 June 2005	15 June 2009	ndc, psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
15th	General Md Abdul Mubeen	15 June 2009	25 June 2012	ndc, psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
16th	General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan	25 June 2012	25 June 2015	psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
17th	General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq	25 June 2015		PhD, ndc, psc	Armoured Corps	After independence

References

↑ http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=87380&cid=2

Military of Bangladesh

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Wars and Conflicts	Bangladesh Liberation War Gulf War 2001 Bangladeshi-Indian border skirmish Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict

War Leaders	Tajuddin Ahmed Syed Nazrul Islam Muhammad Mansur Ali A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman M.A.G. Osmani Moni Singh Maulana Bhashani Ziaur Rahman M. Hamidullah Khan Khaled Mosharraf M. A. Jalil Abul Manzoor Shafaat Jamil Abu Osman Chowdhury Quazi Nuruzzaman Abu Taher

Decorations	Bir Shreshtho Bir Uttom Bir Bikram Bir Protik

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