ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Some 18 officials of grade 21 are waiting for the issuance of their promotion orders by the establishment division despite the fact that approval in this regard has already been given by President Gen Pervez Musharraf a few days ago, it is reliably learnt.

Sources in the establishment division told Dawn that a third batch of grade 21 officials had been promoted to grade 22 and the establishment division directed to issue official orders.

The sources said the establishment division was also waiting for approval of the meetings’s minutes in which the president had given approval for the promotion.

The minutes of the meeting would be approved by the Chief Executive Secretariat.

They said the military government, in its tenure, had already promoted two batches of grade 21 officials, comprising 25 officials each.

Formal orders for the fresh promotion of 18 officials would be issued by the establishment division before the formation of a new government, these sources said.

The government, they said, had kept names of some officials secret. However, some of them are: Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed, Shakeel Durrani and Masud Alam Rizvi of District Management Group (MDG), Dr Waqar Masud, Ismail Patel and Abdur Rashid Khan of Secretariat Group, Syed Masud Shah of Police Group, Khursheed Ahmed Khan of Accounts Group, Javed Hassan Aali of Income Tax Group, Aziz Ahmed Khan and Riaz Khan of Foreign Services Group.

The sources said formal orders effecting promotion of the third batch of grade 21 officials are likely to be issued within the next two days.