Shahida Malik

Shahida Malik
Birth name	Shahida Malik
Nickname(s)	"Lady General"
Born	Karachi, Sindh Province Pakistan
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1969-2004
Rank	Major-General
Unit	Pakistan Army Medical Corps
Commands held	Combined Military Hospital Army Medical College CMH Rawalpindi Deputy Commander, AMC National Institute of Health
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Soviet war in Afghanistan Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 2002 Indo-Pakistani standoff
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Major-General Shahida Malik (Urdu: شاهدا ملک; HI(M), SI(M), SJ), is a retired and high-ranking two-star general officer and a former deputy commander (Surgeon-General) of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.

She is the first woman in the Pakistan Armed Forces to have reached to a two-star rank, and was also a first woman general officer in the history of Pakistan as well as in the Muslim world. Trained as an army medic and a field combat officer, her army career well served in the Indo-Pakistani wars and is also a recipient of highest military decoration as well as the most-decorated female general officer. She took an honorary retirement in 2004 and retired as the inspector-general and deputy commander of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.

Early life

She graduated with her MBBS degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore and got selected for Army Medical Corps in 1970.^[1]

First woman general

She was promoted to Major General rank on 17 June 2002 on the orders of the then Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf.^[2]

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