Kotli Sattian is a tehsil (subdivision) of Rawalpindi District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its name is derived from the mountain town of Kotli and the Satti tribe.
This subdivision is geographically a part of Murree and Kahuta hills. It was declared a subdivision in 1990 by breaking up 40 villages out of both subdivisions.
Lt General (r) Salahuddin Satti is a chancellor of the Iqra University, Karachi, and the Member of Advisory Board at The South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI). He was appointed as a chancellor in October 2016. He was also appointed as the ambassador of Pakistan to Brunei in 2009. Prior to this he served as a Chief of General Staff, Deputy DG ISI, Corps Commander Rawalpindi and DG Rangers Sindh during his tenure in the Pakistan Army.
Salahuddin Satti is known for his close association with ex President Musharraf which dates back to the latter’s tenure
in Siachen. He had served with the Special Services Group
(SSG) in Siachen as a Brigadier. In fact, Musharraf’s dependence on Satti could be gauged
from the fact that he was appointed as Brigadier General 111
Brigade, in September 1999 to checkmate Sharif’s plans to
oust Musharraf. The 111 Brigade, part of the Rawalpindi
Corps, protects Islamabad and is the first military respondent in case of a coup. Satti later worked as the Chief of Staff at the 10 Corps
HQ Chaklala and as a Brigade Major under Musharraf. He was promoted to Major General on December 7, 1999. He has served
as DG Rangers and Deputy DG ISI.
From the Punjab Regiment, Satti, in his 36 years of service,
has commanded an Infantry Division and an Infantry
Brigade. He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College,
Quetta, National Defence College, Islamabad and Turkish
Armed Forces War College.
General Satti is considered as a highly competent officer
in the military circles. As the Chief of General Staff (CGS), he
supervised army intelligence and operations.
Nasir Mehmood Satti is a Deputy Inspector General of Police Headquarters, Islamabad. Previously he has served in National Highways and Motorways Police (NH&MP) under the Ministry of Communication.
Prior to join police Nasir Satti served in Pakistan Navy and retired as a Lieutenant. He earned his Masters degree in Criminology from The University of Birmingham, UK. He hails from Ghel Sattian, New Murree.
Dr Shahid Mahmood Satti is a Senior Research Engineer at OPTICOM, Erlangen Area, Germany. Prior to join Opticom he was a Senior Researcher at Vrije University Brussels, Belgium.
He completed his PhD degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from University of Brussels, Belgium and Masters in Communication System from Techniche University Munich, Germany. He obtained B.E in Electronics and Communications from UET Taxila, Pakistan.Dr Shahid Satti defended PhD thesis titled "Scalable Single and Multiple Description Scalar Quantization" with highest distinctions. He was awarded a Post-Doctoral fellowship based on my PhD work and for the continuation of my research in the area of error-resilient video coding. Shahid is a hard-working competent individual, capable of contributing in high-quality research work in engineering. He distinguishes for his versatility, responsibility and his meticulousness. During his studies towards the Ph.D. degree, Shahid contributed into producing important publications in highly rated conference proceeding and journals. He was responsible for testing and verification of mobile stack software delivery to customers. His skills of handling multiple tasks and working under pressure were quite impressive. His specialties are HTTP adaptive video streaming, Subjective/objective video quality assessment for adaptive video, Image/video compression standards, JPEG/JPEG2000, H.264/AVC/SVC, HEVC. algorithm design, optimizations, mathematical modeling, statistics, simulations.
Dr Muhammad Sultan Satti is a Senior Researcher at National Centre For Physics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has completed his Post Doctoral research in Physics from University of California, Berkeley US, and his PhD in Physics from Freie University Berlin, Germany. He attended Quaid-i-Azam University for his Masters Degree. He originally hails from Malot Sattian.
