Post Retirement
General Arif retired from the Army and was Succeeded by General Mirza Aslam Begin as Chief of Army Staff. After his retirement, General Arif focused on poetry and authored a book "Khaki Shadows" in 2001, giving accounts of military history of Pakistan during the context of cold war.
Currently, he is Chairman of the Pakistan Security and Development Association, a non-government and autonomous research body. He is also a prolific writer, contributing articles to national newspapers, and is well known for his first book "Working with Zia", published by Oxford University Press, and for his anthologies of Urdu poetry.
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