Islamabad: The Pakistan Army Promotion Board headed by the Chief of Army staff approved the promotions of twenty-two brigadiers to Major -General.
The promotions approved at board meeting held at the General Headquarters Rawalpindi headed by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir.
The promoted officers include Brigadiers include Imran Sartaj, Brigadier Yahya Usman, Brigadier Adnan Sultan, Brigadier Usman Kiyani, Brigadier Usman Iqbal, Brigadier Jolian, Brigadier Saeed Anwar, Brigadier Arfan Ramay and Brigadier Attiq.
Those promoted from the Infantry include Brigadier Tajdeed, Brigadier Bilal Sarfraz, Brigadier Khurram Shabbir, Brigadier Mehr Omer, Brigadier Imtiaz Gillani, Brigadier Ahmed Jawad, Brigadier Faisal Saud, Brigadier Abid Mazhar, Brigadier Shehryar Muneer, Brigadier Shehryar Qureshi, Brigadier Adil Iftikhar, Brigadier Amjad Aziz, and Brigadier Zulfikar Shaheen.
Brigadiers who were promoted to the two-star rank belonged to various corps – including Armed Corps, Artillery, Air Defense, Aviation, Infantry Corps of Military Intelligence and EME while among the officers included current military secretaries of the President and the Prime Minister.