Ameer Faisal Alavi

Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi
Major General Ameer Faisal Alavi with General Bryan D. Brown
Personal details
Born	Ameer Faisal Alavi (1954-03-28)28 March 1954 British Kenya
Died	19 November 2008(2008-11-19) (aged 54) Islamabad, Pakistan
Relations	Nadira Naipaul (sister) V. S. Naipaul[1] (brother-in-law)
Children	2 daughters
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Branch/service	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1974–2005
Rank	Major General
Unit	Army Armoured Corps (26th Cavalry)
Commands	General Officer Commanding SSG
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1999 War in North-West Pakistan Battle of Wana

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.^[2]

2 months before his death, he threatened to expose Pakistani army generals who had made deals with Taliban militants. He had given a copy of a letter he had sent to then Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to author Carey Schofield and told her to publish it if he was killed. The letter contained names of two generals.^[3] 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,^[4] was behind the murder of Maj-Gen Faisal Alavi at the behest of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in North Waziristan.^[2]