Brigadier Khalid Mehmood, retd was commissioned in 1982 in a self-propelled medium regiment artillery. The officer is a graduate of Command and Staff College Quetta and did techinal staff course from Shrivenham, UK. He is also War Course qualified from NDU Islamabad. He has commanded a medium self-propelled artillery regiment, an armoured divisional artillery and a corps artillery. He holds a MPhil degree in peace & conflict studies from NDU. Has experience of director human resource at NLC.