General Aziz Ahmed has taken over the command of Bangladesh army as the Chief of Army Staff.
He took over the charge from the outgoing chief General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq at Army headquarters Monday, according to an ISPR press release.
According to the Bangladesh Army website, before assuming his latest assignment, he had been serving as the ‘Quarter Master General’ of the Army.
Born on Jan 1, 1961 in Chandpur, Aziz was commissioned in the Corps of Artillery on Jun 10, 1983 with 8th BMA long course.
The general is a graduate of Defense Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur, Bangladesh.
He is a science graduate and holds Master’s degree in Defense Studies and Masters in Business Administration.
He has also completed Long Gunnery Staff Course from School of Artillery, Deulali, India.
Aziz attended a number of professional courses, seminars and symposiums at home and abroad. He has a good number of military and non-military publications to his credit and is now pursuing PhD.
In his long glorious military career, General Aziz served various staff, instructional and command appointments.
He was previously the GOC of Army Training and Doctrine Command and Director General of Border Guards Bangladesh.
He has a vast experience of command at different stages of his military career.
He commanded 33 Infantry Division as GOC and also commanded 6 Air Defense Artillery Brigade and 33 Artillery Brigade as Brigade Commander.
He commanded a BGB Sector as Sector Commander as well.
At the early stage of his career, he also commanded one Artillery Regiment and one BGB Battalion.
In his colorful military career, he held a number of important staff appointments.
He actively participated in Counter Insurgency Operations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts as GSO-3 (Operations).
He also served as Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade, GSO-2 in AHQ Military Training Directorate and GSO-1 of AHQ Pay, Pension and Allowance Directorate.
The General also served as an instructor for more than seven years in Artillery Center and School and School of Military Intelligence.
He worked very efficiently as a Military Observer in the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) in the war-ravaged situations in 1995-1996. He also served as Military Assistant to Force Commander of Sudan (UNMIS) in 2005-2006.
He is a widely-travelled personality. He has visited number of countries notably mentionable are the USA, Canada, Russia, Singapore, India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Cyprus, Fiji, Australia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Bahrain, Malaysia, Mongolia, Sierra Leon, Egypt, Turkey and most of the countries in the Europe.
The general has keen interest in reading and playing golf.
He is happily married to Dilshad Nahar Aziz and is a proud father of three sons.