RAWALPINDI, Feb 26: The following 15 brigadiers have been promoted to the rank of major-general on assumption of new appointments mentioned against each of the army officials, according to an ISPR press release, issued here on Tuesday.

Brig Mohammad Hameed ud Din, director-general, budget, GHQ; Brig Khalid Mushtaq, joint staff headquarters; Brig Sikandar Afzal, general officer, commanding division; Brig Ijaz Ahmad Bakhshi, commander, Regional Accountability Bureau, Sindh; Brig Khalid Shamim Wynne, member of the logistics reforms committee, corps headquarters, Lahore; Brig Muhammad Waheed Akhtar Malik, director-general, special communication organization; Brig Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, general officer commanding, army air defence division; Brig Shahid Niaz, director-general, frontier works organization; Brig Muhammad Yousaf, deputy chief of staff to chief executive, chief executive’s secretariat; Brig S. Absar Hussain, commander, army strategic forc command; Brig Javed Zia, additional secretary (BS-21), chief executive/s secretariat; Brig Muhammad Javed, director-general, military, land & cantonments; Brig Ghulammad Haider, director-general, ordinance services, GHQ; Brig Shujaat Zamir Dar, deputy chairman, National Aaccounatbility Bureau; and Brig Mohammad Tariq Masood, director-general (Research), National Defence College.—APP