Chief of Army Staff (Bangladesh)

Chief of 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	Army HQ, Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appointer	The President and PM of Bangladesh
Formation	12 April, 1971
First holder	General M. A. G. Osmani
Website	Official Website Showing Chiefs

Chief of Army Staff (abbreviated as CAS) of Bangladesh Army also known as 'army chief' is the professional head of the Bangladesh Army. The current CAS is General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq .^[1] The first army chief was General M. A. G. Osmani.

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

List of former Chiefs of Army staff

#	Name	Photo	Term Began	Term Ended	Decoration	Unit of Commission	Commission category
1st	General M. A. G. Osmani		12 April 1971	6 April 1972	Bangabir	Army Services Corps, British Indian Army, East Bengal Regiment, Pakistan Army, Commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Liberation War, retired as a colonel from Pakistan Army in 1967 and in 1971 got Battlefield promotion to full general	BDF Chief of Staff 1971
2nd	Major General Kazi M Shafiullah	File:KM Shafiullah.png	7 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	28 Apr 1978	Bir Uttom	East Bengal Regiment	BDF War Commander 1971
6th	Lieutenant General Hussain Mohammad Ershad		29 Apr 1978	30 Aug 1986	psc	East Bengal Regiment	Repatriated
7th	Lieutenant General Atiqur Rahman	File:Atiqur Rahman.png	31 Aug 1986	30 August 1990		Regiment of Artillery	Repatriated
8th	Lieutenant General Nuruddin Khan		Aug 1990	Aug 1994		Corps of Engineers	Repatriated
9th	Lieutenant General Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim		Aug 1994	Aug 1996	Bir Bikram	East Bengal Regiment	BDF Officer 1971
10th	Lieutenant General Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman		May 1996	December 1997		Corps of Engineers	Repatriated
11th	Lieutenant 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	15 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 (Pakistani)	Repatriated
14th	General Moeen U Ahmed	General Moeen U Ahmed	16 June 2005	15 June 2009	ndc, psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
15th	General Md Abdul Mubeen		16 June 2009	25 June 2012	ndc, psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
16th	General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan		26 June 2012	25 June 2015	psc	East Bengal Regiment	After independence
17th	General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq		26 June 2015	present	ndc,psc	Armoured Corps	After independence