RAWALPINIDI – Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwapresided over the Promotion Board held from Brigadiers to Major General atGeneral Headquarters on Thursday.

According to the DG ISPR, a total of 987 officers were considered forpromotion. Of them, 37 brigadiers, including nine from Army Medical Corps,were approved for promotion to the rank of major general.

Those promoted officers are: Brigadier Babar Iftikhar, Brigadier MuhammadAhmed Malik, Brigadier Irfan Arshad, Brigadier Muhammad Shahbaz Khan,Brigadier Tahir Hameed Shah, Brigadier Irfan Ahmed Malik, Brigadier RazaAli Khan, Brigadier Zafar Iqbal, Brigadier Zahid Sarwar Malik, BrigadierKashif Nazir, Brigadier Adnan Asif Jah Shad, Brigadier Muhammad Zahid Khan,Brigadier Ghulam Jafar, Brigadier Muhammad Munir Afsar, Brigadier YousufJamal, Brigadier Ehsan Mehmood Khan, Brigadier Muhammad Yousaf Majoka,Brigadier Asad Nawaz Janjua, Brigadier Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan, BrigadierMumtaz Hussain, Brigadier Khurram Sarfraz Khan, Brigadier Nayyar Naseer,Brigadier Amer Ahsan Nawaz, Brigadier Najeeb Ahmad, Brigadier KamranKhurshid, Muhammad Asim Iqbal, Brigadier Muhammad Ayub Ahsan Bhatti andBrigadier Hassan Akhtar Kayani.

Those promoted from Army Medical Corps include Brigadier Malik MuhammadMasud, Brigadier Muhammad Salman Ashraf, Brigadier Chaudhary MuhammadQamarul Haq Noor, Brigadier Syed Raza Jaffar, Brigadier Khursheed MuhammadUttra, Brigadier Mrs Shehla Baqai, Brigadier Wasim Alamgir, BrigadierMuhammad Asad Qureshi and Brigadier Rasikh Maqsood.