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Six Pakistan Army Major Generals promoted to Lieutenant General rank

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RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army has promoted six major generals to the rank of Lieutenant General and assigned them new responsibilities.

The newly-promoted Lieutenant Generals include Lt Gen Amir Najam, Lt Gen Tabbasum Habib, Lt Gen Azhar Waqas, Lt Gen Arshad Naseem, Lt Gen Hassan Khattak, and Lt Gen Ahsan Gulrez.

Lt Gen Ahsan Gulrez, who was promoted last year, has been appointed as the Corps Commander Multan (Corp ll). Prior to this, he was serving as the Director General Joint Staff (DG JS).

Lt Gen Arshad Naseem has been appointed Surgeon General/Director General Medical Services (Inter-Services) GHQ, Lt Gen Amir Najam will be President of the National Defence University (NDU) Islamabad.

Lt Gen Tabbasum Habib has been made Director General Joint Staff (DG JS) at JS HQ Rawalpindi, and Lt Gen Azhar Waqas has become Adjutant General (AG), GHQ, Rawalpindi.

Lt Gen Hassan Khattak has been posted as Quarter Master General (QMG) at the GHQ after the previous QMG, Lt Gen (R) Muhammad Ali, was assigned as Secretary of Defence. Earlier, he was serving as DG (K) in ISI.

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