Afsir Karim

Major General (Retd) Afsir Karim AVSM a paratrooper, was commissioned in the Army in June 1954. He is a graduate of the Defence Service Staff College, Wellington and the National Defence College. In 1978, he assumed command of an Infantry Brigade in high altitudes of the Northern Sector. In May 1984, he took over command of an Infantry Division of the Southern Command. Later, he was appointed as Major General Operational Logistics at the Northern Command. He retired from the IA on 31 May 1989.He is the author of Counter-Terrorism: The Pakistan Factor, Transnational Terrorism: The Danger in the South and The Story of the Indian Airborne Troops. Co-author of the Sri Lankan Crisis.