KARACHI, June 23: The Federal Board of Revenue (EBR) has promoted a number of officers belonging to income tax, customs and excise group to next higher grades.

Hassan Sardar and Mohammad Asghar Khan (deputy collectors) have been promoted as additional collectors on regular basis while S Tahir Raza Zaidi and Dr Mohammad Zubair Yousfani, earlier promoted on acting charge basis in BS-19 as additional collectors, have been regularised.

Wajid Ali, Ms Rabab Sikandar, Zulfiqar Younas, Mohammad Sadiq, Abdul Qadir Memon, Shahnaz Maqbool, Ahmad Rauf, Seema Raza Bukhari, Ms Lubna Jaffar, Mirza Mubashir Baign, Mohammad Ali Raza Hanjra, Mohammad Akram Chaudhry and Dr Mohammad Sarmad Qureshi have also been promoted as additional collectors in BPS-19 on temporary basis.

The following income tax group officers, earlier promoted on temporary basis in BPS-19 as additional commissioners, have been regularised: Shahid Siddiq Bhatti, Dr Nauman Ikram, Aftab Fahim Mirza, Abdul Rashid, S A Masood Raza Qazilbash, Altaf Mohammad Khan, Anwar Hussain, Saeed Ahmad Siddiqui, Mohammad Naseer Butt, Sajidullah Siddiqui, Dr Shafqat Hussain Kehar, Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmed, Ziaduddin Malik, Dr Hamid Ateeq Sarwar, Ms Amina Hussan, Mirza Imtiaz Ahmad and Nawab Khan.

Forty deputy commissioners of income tax officers have been promoted as additional commissioners of income tax in BS-19 on temporary basis. They are: Ghulam Mustafa Rahu, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Saleem, Mohammad Waseem Altaf, Syed Ghulam Abbas Kazmi, Mohammad Saeed Nashir, Tauqeer Ahmad Memon, Shahid Iqbal Baloch, Ahmad Shuja Khan, Zulfiqar Hussain Khan, Bakhtiar Mohammad, Mohammad Qasim Samad Khan, Dr Tauqeer Irtiza, Anwarul Haq, Amjad Mahmood, Ahmad Shahab, Badaruddin Ahmad Qureshi, Ms Ambreen Iftikhar, Ms Nabila Iqbal Butt, Yousif Hyder Shaikh, Qaiser Mahmood, Mir Badshah Khan Wazir, Malik Amjad Zubair Tiwana, Hyder Ali Dharejo, Ms Sadia Sadaf Gilani, Mohammad Azam Shaikh, Syed Mahmood Hussain Jafari, Mohammad Iqbal, Rizwan Ahmad Urfi, Mohammad Abid Raza Bodla, Syed Aslam Ali, Abdul Mutakabbir Chughtai, Ms Aiysha Khalid, Karamatullah Khan Chaudhry, Abdul Wahid, Jahangir Ahmad, Khalid Mahmood Lodhi, Muneeb Arslan, Sajid Nazir Malik and Shahid-ul-Hassan Chattha.