RAWALPINDI: Twen­ty-eight brigadiers were promoted to the rank of major general at a meeting of the Army Promotion Board held here on Wednesday with Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif in the chair.

According to an ISPR statement, the officers promoted are: Brigadiers Nadeem Zaki Manj, Shaheen Mazher Mehmood, Kamran Ali, Muhammad Aamer, Shahid Pervaiz, Hafeez Ur Rahman, Amjad Ahmad Butt, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Waseem Ashraf, Muhammad Kaleem Asif, Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Sardar Tariq Aman, Tahir Masood Bhutta, Azher Abbas, Nauman Mahmood, Faiz Hamid, Nadir Khan, Muhammad Chiragh Haider, Manzoor Ahmed, Basit Raza and Anis Akbar.

Those promoted from the Army Medical Corps are Brigadiers Rahat Abbas, GDMO; Zahid Hamid, GDMO; Arshad Mahmood, urology; Shamrez Khan, radiologist; Naeem Naqi, classified medical and oncology; Tahir Mukhtar Sayed, classified medical; and Zafar Iqbal Sheikh, classified dermatologist, venerolgy.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2015

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