But he did say Wednesday that he plans to surrender his position as army chief by the end of November.
General Pervez Musharraf indicated he was prepared to relinquish his post as army chief if elected for another five-year term as president.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup but stepped down as army chief last November, attended the ceremony as a civilian.
Eric Shinseki was pushed into early retirement as army chief of staff, after predicting the Iraq war would take hundreds of thousands of troops to win.
Bhutto and other opposition members have threatened to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections unless the restrictions imposed by Musharraf come to an end and he resigns as army chief.
Hunt said he had told Bhutto of Washington's wish for Musharraf to lift the state of emergency, quit as army chief and free opposition politicians and the media.
His continued political campaigning, however, was criticised by then-president Juan Carlos Wasmosy, who asked him to step down as army chief in 1996 - an order he ignored.
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General Musharraf has appointed the country's head of intelligence to replace him as army chief, a job he has said he will give up before being sworn in next month.
This week has gone from bad to worse for Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999 when he was serving as army chief and spent nearly a decade in power before being forced to step down in 2008.
Less than a month later, Musharraf did step down as army chief, but only after transferring many powers -- including the ability to lift the emergency order -- to the presidency and handpicking his successor to lead Pakistan's military, which controls its nuclear arsenal.
According to Afghan and American officials, Karzai decided to remove Bismillah Khan as Army chief over fears that he was packing the middle ranks of the Afghan officer corps with fellow Jamiat officers who might be more loyal to him than to the Afghan state.
"General Musharraf's act today underscores his disregard for due legal process and indicates his assumption that as a former army chief and military dictator he can evade accountability for abuses, " said Hasan in a statement sent to reporters.
On 24 November 1998, Mr Milosevic appointed Mr Ojdanic as his army's chief of general staff, after sacking Momcilo Perisic over disagreements regarding the policy towards Kosovo.
Musharraf has promised he'll resign as chief of the army if Pakistan's high court confirms his re-election win.
The most recent victim of this purge is General Momcilo Perisic, dismissed as the Yugoslav army's chief of staff.
So severe was the criticism from Democratic cabinet members like Interior Secretary Harold Ickes that Lindbergh resigned his reserve commission as an Army colonel rather than serve under FDR as his commander in chief.
He was also the first African-American to serve in his previous position as the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.
In June, 2010, President Hamid Karzai removed General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi from his post as chief of staff of the Afghan Army, and transferred him to the Ministry of Interior.
The order had amounted to a second coup by Mr Musharraf, enabling him to rule by decree, sack troublesome judges such as Mr Chaudhry and become president while remaining army chief.
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Mr Ahtisaari referred to his previous military background as a chief of staff of the Finnish army as he described the weapons inspected as being capable of causing destruction in Northern Ireland.
Wiranto played a key role in Sudarto's promotion to strategic-intelligence chief, as well as his appointment as army commander.
As chief coach of the U.S. Army Crew, he forced his dysfunctional varsity rowing crew to wrestle each other four days before a major race.
It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
The army chief, General Anupong Paochinda, said on television that Mr Somchai should resign as prime minister but Mr Somchai is, so far, staying.
As Chief of staff (1939-1945), he directed the U.S. army during World War II.
It was announced earlier that a career army officer, Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, would replace Field Marshal Tantawi as both armed forces chief and defence minister.
Small wonder that, like another admired Army chief of staff, World War II hero Omar Bradley, Shinseki has had a second career as the head of the Veterans Administration.
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