Gen. Kayani honoured

NEW YORK : Pakistan’s Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has been inducted into the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s International Hall of Fame, a high honour reserved for top military officers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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 Helmly, the defence attache at the US Embassy in Islamabad, wrote in a letter congratulating General Kayani on March 20, the newspaper said.
Gen. Kayani took command of Pakistan’s Army last November.
The Pakistan Army chief is a 1988 graduate of the Army college, which is at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and provides advanced training to the Army’s most promising officers and to some foreign officers.
Lt. Gen. William 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. The Army has admitted 227 officers from more than 60 countries since the hall was established in 1973.