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Four officers promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General: ISPR

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On Friday, the Inter-Services Public Relations announced the promotion of four Major Generals to the ranks of lieutenant generals. The media wing of the Pakistan Army announced that that Major General Nauman Mahmood, Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Major General Faiz Hameed, and Major General Azhar Abbas have been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Lieutenant General Nauman Mahmood has been appointed as the Director General Analysis of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and Lieutenant General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, who had earlier served as the DG Military Operations, will now be serving as the Vice Chief of General Staff. Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed will now be serving as the DG Counter Intelligence at the ISI, and Lieutenant General Azhar Abbas has been appointed as the Commandant of School of Infantry and Tactics Quetta.

The officers who were promoted to the rank of Major Generals also included 11 brigadiers of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.

Earlier in April, ISPR announced the promotion of 40 Brigadiers of the Pakistan Armed Forced to the rank of Major General. The ISPR revealed that the names of the officers promoted to the rank of Major General included, Zafar Iqbal Marwat, Shakirullah Khattak, Muhammad Owais Dastagir, Aamir Naveed, Muhammad Ijaz Mirza, Tabassum Habib, Muhammad Shujah Anwar, Dilawal Khan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Asif Mehmoof Goraya, Kamal Asfar, Muhammad Ali Khan, Kashif Azad, Majid Jahangir, Azahr Waqas, Akif Iqbal, Omer Ahmed Bukhari, Muhammad Ahsan Khattak, Inayat Hussain, Adil Yamin, Muhammad Hasan Khattak, Muhammad Aamir Najam, Muhammad Aqeel, Kamran Satti, Syed Imdad Hussain Shah, Kashif Zafar, Khurram Anwar Qadri, and Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

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The officers who were promoted to the rank of Major Generals also included 11 brigadiers of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps. ISPR revealed that the names of the promoted officers included, Muhammad Aleem, Ahsan Altaf, Syed Nusrat Raza, Kamarat Hussain Shah Bukhari, Farooq Syed, Kudratullah Malik, Amir Akram, Shahid Hameed Chaudhry, Muhammad Qasim Butt, Farhan Tayab and Muhammad Afsheen Iqbal.