Brigadier Fouad is a retired Frontier Force officer who served on various command, staff and instructional appointments during his military career, including platoon commander and adjutant at Pakistan Military Academy, instructor in School of Infantry & Tactics, brigade major of an infantry brigade and Defence Attaché of Pakistan to Jordan. He commanded an infantry battalion, a paramilitary corps, and an infantry brigade. The officer is a graduate of Command and Staff College, Quetta and The Royal Jordanian Command and Staff College, Amman.