Jamshed Gulzar Kiani

Lieutenant General Jamshed Gulzar Kayani
Kiani (1944–2008), c. 1999.
Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission
In office 14 October 2004 – 30 March 2006
Preceded by	Aziz Ahmad Bilour
Succeeded by	Shahid Aziz
Personal details
Born	Jamshed Gulzar Kiani (1944-07-20)July 20, 1944 Bombay, British India (present-day Mumbai, India)
Died	1 November 2008(2008-11-01) (aged 64) CMH Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Cause of death	Acute abdomen
Resting place	Westridge cemetery
Citizenship	Pakistan
Alma mater	Pakistan Military Academy National Defence University
Nickname(s)	James Kiyani
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Branch/service	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1964–2004
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Unit	Baloch Regiment
Commands	Baloch Regiment X Corps, Rawalpindi Adjutant General at Army GHQ DG Military Intelligence 111th Infantry Brigade
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Bangladesh Liberation War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 Indo-Pakistani standoff in 2001–02 War in North-West Pakistan
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz Sitara-e-Jurat Sitara-e-Basalat Tamgha-i-Jurat

Lieutenant-General Jamshed Gulzar Kiani (Urdu: جمشید گلزار کیانی; b.20 July 1944 – 1 November 2008), HI(M), SJ, SBt, TJ, was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, intelligence officer and the former Colonel Commandant of the Baloch Regiment and commander of X Corps.^[1]

An illustrative and long career army and intelligence officer, Kiani came into limelight when he had served as Director-General of the Pakistan Army's Military Intelligence and the commander of the X Corps.^[1] Having remembered as an upright and an honest officer during his military career, Kiani had served as a chairman of Federal Public Service Commission during the General Musharraf's regime and had to leave when he and the then Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz developed differences.^[2]