40 Pakistan Army brigadiers promoted to major general

RAWALPINDI: 40 brigadiers of the Pakistan Army were promoted to the rank of major general, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday.

The approval for the promotions was given by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at an army promotion board meeting held at GHQ.

Those promoted to the rank of major general include 11 brigadiers from the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.

According to ISPR, the promoted officers include Zafar Iqbal Marwat, Shakirullah Khattak, Muhammad Owais Dastagir, Aamir Naveed, Muhammad Ijaz Mirza, Tabassum Habib, Muhammad Shujah Anwar, Dilawal Khan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Asif Mehmoof Goraya, Kamal Asfar, Muhammad Ali Khan, Kashif Azad, Majid Jahangir, Azahr Waqas, Akif Iqbal, Omer Ahmed Bukhari, Muhammad Ahsan Khattak, Inayat Hussain, Adil Yamin, Muhammad Hasan Khattak, Muhammad Aamir Najam, Muahamma Aqeel, Kamran Satti, Syed Imdad Hussain Shah, Kashif Zafar, Khurram Anwar Qadri, and Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

The medical corps officers promoted include Muhammad Aleem, Ahsan Altaf, Syed Nusrat Raza, Kamarat Hussain Shah Bukhari, Farooq Syed, Kudratullah Malik, Amir Akram, Shahid Hameed Chaudhry, Muhammad Qasim Butt, Farhan Tayab and Muhammad Afsheen Iqbal.