🇵🇰 Pakistan is my country and I was born here. I was raised here and I think there is no match to Pakistan to anywhere in the world. Nigar Johar Khan
Lt Gen. Johar is the first and only woman in the history of Pakistan Army to reach the rank of lieutenant-general, and the third to reach the rank of major-general.
Lieutenant General Johar hails from Panjpir, a small town in the district Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. She is currently serving as Commandant Military Hospital (CMH) in Rawalpindi.
In 2015, she was featured in an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) video honouring women in the Pakistan Armed Forces. At the time, she was the deputy commandant of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Rawalpindi. In the video, she says, “Pakistan is my country and I was born here. I was raised here and I think there is no match to Pakistan to anywhere in the world,” while adding, “Think of all the Muslim countries, think of all those developing nations. This is the only country which has had female general officers. No one else,” she added.
Lt Gen. Nigar Johar Khan
She completed her high school at the Convent Girls High School, Rawalpindi in 1978. She joined the Army Medical College in 1981 graduating in 1985. She is from the 5th MBBS course of Army Medical College and she has served as female company commander of Ayesha Company at the same college.
Lt Gen. Nigar Johar Khan
In 2010, she completed the examination for membership of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. In 2012, she completed her diploma in Advance Medical Administration through the Armed Forces Post Graduate Medical Institute and in 2015; she has received a Master of Public Health degree from the same institute.
“The officer has also been appointed as the first female Surgeon General of the army,” said a press release by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistan army.