Shahid Ashraf (original) (raw)

Commodore Shahid Ashraf (born 1947), is a retired one-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy and a former spy whose role was central in a massive military scandal took place during the second administration of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He was accused to receiving monetary corruption when he led the Naval Intelligence office under the staff of Admiral Mansurul Haq, the Chief of Naval Staff from 1994 until 1997. He was subsequently court-martial but his matter was later subjected to cover-up by the Pakistani military under the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.