Ameer Faisal Alavi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistan army officer
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Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya
About Ameer Faisal Alavi
- Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi (28 March 1954 – 19 November 2008) was a Pakistan Army two-star general and special operations expert who was the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the elite Special Service Group of Pakistan Army.
- A former member of Special Service Group, he was credited with masterminding the Angoor Ada operation in 2004, where many Arabs and Chechens based in the tribal areas were killed or arrested and turned over to the Americans.On 19 November 2008, while driving to work in his car in Islamabad, he was shot dead by three unknown gunmen.
- It was alleged that Ilyas Kashmiri, the chief of Jammu & Kashmir chapter of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, was behind the murder of Maj-Gen Faisal Alavi at the behest of the Taliban in North Waziristan.
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