Commander of Artillery Corps
Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed was later nominated for the ceremonial post of Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Artillery at the Artillery Regimental Center on 17 March 2001. He had replaced the outgoing colonel commandant Lieutenant General Saeed Uz Zafar. Mahmud was later replaced by Lt General Khalid Kidwai as the colonel commandant on 13 October 2004.
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