Later Career
As a major general, a rank to which he was promoted in 1966, Gen Shariff served in the GHQ, commanded an infantry division and then became Commandant, Command and Staff College, Quetta in May 1968 continuing till January 1970. In 1970 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and posted as Pakistan's Permanent Representative at CENTO HQ in Ankara, Turkey.
During the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War then Lt Gen Shariff took over the 33rd Infantry Division from Maj Gen Chaudhry Naseer Ahmed who was wounded on 12 December 1971. After the war he handed over command to Maj Gen Iqbal Khan and headed back to Turkey. He soon returned in 1972 as Corps Commander at II Corps at Multan, overseeing the Aid-to-Civil Power during the language disturbances in Sindh in mid-1972. He ensured that not a shot was fired while restoring complete calm and quiet.
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