Army chief Gen Kayani, DG ISI Lt Gen Zaheer-ul-Islam on Forbes most powerful people list

Two Pakistanis, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence (DG ISI) Lieutenant General Zaheer-ul-Islam, have been included in the Frobes list of the most powerful people.

Interestingly, both the personalities belong to the country’s military. According to the details, military chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is on 28 while the top spymaster is ranked 52.

President Barack Obama, for the second year in a row, led the ranking, with Forbes noting that he won both the popular vote and a crucial Electoral College majority in the November election.

The silver medal of power went to Merkel, the German chancellor, whom Forbes described as the backbone of the 27-member European Union and the person who carries the fate of the euro on her shoulders.

Third place went to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was re-elected to a third term “after a few years swapping posts with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev,” and “officially regains the power that no one believes he truly gave up.”

Microsoft founder Bill Gates was fourth, while Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, ranked fifth. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was 25th. He dropped from 9th in last year’s ranking because Facebook’s debut this year as a listed company was a dud, Forbes said.

Forbes said it assembled the list using four criteria: power over lots of people, financial resources controlled, whether the person has power in various spheres of life, and whether that person actively uses their power.

The magazine’s 2012 list of the world’s most powerful people also featured those who might raise an eyebrow or two: a Mexican drug baron, and the young leader of North Korea, a hermit state assailed for pursuing a nuclear program at the expense of feeding its very poor people.

Forbes said it assembled the list using four criteria: power over lots of people, financial resources controlled, whether the person has power in various spheres of life, and whether that person actively uses their power.

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