Who is Gen Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid India crisis?

The crisis with India has led to a hyper-nationalist fervour in Pakistan, and Gen Asim Munir has been encouraged to stand up for the whole of Pakistan. Photograph: Rehan Khan/EPA

In the 77 years since Pakistan was established, its affairs and politics have long been governed by the whims of powerful military generals.

Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.