Six Major Generals promoted as Lt Generals: DG ISPR

Major Asim announces Lt General Rizwan Akhtar appointed DG ISI

RAWALPINDI – The Pakistan Army on Monday promoted six Major Generals to the rank of Lieutenant Generals. The Major Generals who got the three Stars promotions were Maj Gens Rizwan Akhtar, Hilal Hussain, Ghayur Mahmood, Nazir Butt, Navid Mukhtar and Hidayat Ur Rehman.

The newly promoted Lt General Rizwan Akhtar has been posted as DG ISI, Lt General Hidayatur Rehman will be Corps Commander Peshawar; Lt General Navid Mukhtar, Corps Commander Karachi, Lt General Hilal Hussain,Corps Commander Mangla, Lt General Ghayur Mahmood, Corps Commander Gujranwala and Lt General Nazir Butt, C&IT.

The announcement was made by Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major Asim Bajwa on Twitter. The new Director General ISI, General Rizwan was earlier posted as Director General Rangers in Sindh and also served as General officer commanding (GOC) in militancy hit Waziristan. General Rizwan and Gen Naveed Mukhtar were close contenders due to their experience of intelligence.

The decision by the military headquarters had come at a time when a joint operation by police and Rangers against terrorists and criminal elements in Karachi had been in its full swing. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had raised serious reservations against the operation in which, they had said, dozens of the MQM workers and sympathisers had fallen victim to extrajudicial killings.