Gen Kayani selected for Int’l Hall of Fame

NEW YORK—Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has been selected for the United States Army Command and General Staff College’s International Hall of Fame, according to the New York Times.
General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is one of the four Pakistani High Military officers who were awarded that honor. The hall “honors those officers of United States allies’ militaries who have attained the highest command positions in their national service component or within their nation’s armed forces,” Maj. Gen. James R. Helmly, the embassy’s defense representative, wrote in a letter to General Kayani on March 20.
According to New York Times, it is just a coincident that General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was honored at that time when high officials of the US government and Army paid several visits to Pakistan.
Asked whether General Kayani’s selection was an attempt to curry favor with the officer, one American military official said Tuesday, “Absolutely not.”
General Kayani is a 1988 graduate of the Army College, which is at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and provides advanced training to the Army’s most promising officers and to some foreign officers.
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the commander of the Army’s Combined Arms Center, which includes the college, said that General Kayani was the fourth Pakistani officer named to the hall, and met the requirements that he was a graduate and the chief of his service.

—Agencies