Saturday, August 09, 2008
RAWALPINDI: The Selection Board (SB) of the Pakistan

Army, headed by the Chief of the Army Staff, General Ashfaq

Parvez Kayani, on Friday recommended 26 brigadiers for

promotion to the rank of major general.

The meeting of the SB for promotion of brigadiers to the rank of major general for the year 2008 was held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) here on Friday.

The brigadiers recommended for promotion to the rank of major general include Brigadier (Brig) Shahid Hamid Khan, Armoured Corps; Brig Asif Nawaz Janjua, Armoured Corps; Brig Syed Tariq Nadeem, Artillery; Brig Muhammad Ijaz Chaudhry, Artillery; Brig Javaid Iqbal Nasir, Artillery; Brig Zahir Shah, Engineers; Brig Junaid Rahmat, Engineers; Brig Muhammad Azeem Asif, Engineers; Brig Muhammad Rafiq Sabir, Engineers; Brig Muhammad Khalid, Signals;

Brig Muhammad Saeed Aleem, Infantry; Brig Wasim Sadiq, Infantry; Brig Naveed Zaman,

Infantry; Brig Muhammad Nawaz, Infantry; Brig Raza Muhammad, Infantry; Brig Khawar Hanif, Infantry;

Brig Maqsood Ahmad, Infantry; Brig Tanveerullah Khan, Aviation;

Brig Niaz Kausar Sheikh,

Army Services Corps; Brig Muhammad Shahid, Electrical & Mechanical Engineers; Brig Obaid Bin Zakaria, Electrical & Mechanical Engineers; Brigadier Ziaullah Khan, Army Medical Corps; Brig Azhar Mahmood, Army Medical Corps; Brig Muhammad Hamid Akram, Army Medical Corps; Brig Asif Ali Khan, Army Medical Corps and Brig Suhaib Ahmad, Army Medical Corps.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=129106

A lot of people made Major-Gens not so long ago too. Do as many people get promoted every year...how many MGs would that make?
Maybe as many retired.

Why does this make national news? Has it any political implications?

The problem is that in Pakistan, people get promoted because they have a certain philosophy or support the Chief of Army or other non sensical reasons but NOT for their ability as a soldier and military personnel.

PROVE your claim. IF that was the reason then we would have been crushed by india in 65 and 71!!!

some of the most powerful positions like DG ISI,the boss of 10th Corps,DG SPD etc require go ahead from chief himself...otherwise the army has a strict merit system for promotions which is based on ACR's,courses taken,assignments etc..26 brigs got promoted..how can each one of dem be judged by the chief himself?? he has other things to do

Thats at high level posts only.usually for Lt generals only(CGS,CJSC,QMG,DG ISI etc).Brigadier and below this isnt the case.

This is news for u bro.The Chief discusses each n every case and then gives the go ahead for every promotion after discussing it with concerned officers in meeting room.

650 brigadiers were recommended for promo..how can the chief discuss each n every one of dem??
FYI there is an MS directorate in GHQ which oversees promos..they basically do their home work and shortlist the candidates.only in the final meeting is the chief present wid his CC's and some GOC's..their the shortlisted candidates are discussed wid him and given go ahead..the main job of assessing ACR's,intelligence reports,overall reputation etc is done by the MS branch as i said before

Chief discusses each n every case(which are put upto him,26,maybe i shud have written in first post) and then gives the go ahead for every promotion after discussing it with concerned officers in meeting room.There u go.FYI i also know abt MS DTE.

He even discusses cases that are put upto him by several key posts generals for promotion but after discussion,they can be rejected.

achi baat hai sir..