KARACHI: The Central Selection Board (CSB) has recommended 18 Grade-20 officers of Inland Revenue Service (IRS) for promotion on the available vacancies in Grade-21.

These officers include Khawar Saeed Akhtar, Jehanzeb Mehmood, Rehmatullah Khan Wazir, Ahmad Saeed Siddiqui, Naushad Ali Khan, Masood Akhtar Shaheedi, Salim Raza Asif, Manzoor Hussain Shad, Hafiz Mohammad ali Indhar, Mohammad Asif, Shaukat Mehmood, Nausheen Javed Amjad, Muhammad Muzaffar Khan Lashari, Iram Adnan, Mansoor Ahmad Bajwa, S Ashraf, Ahmed Ali, Dr. Manzoor Ahmad and Syed Ayaz Mehmood.

The IRS officers of Grade-20 who missed the recommendation for promotion include Sohail Afzal, Vishno Alias Raja, Rakhshanda Aziz, Faheemul Haq Khan, Shahzada Tahir Zaman, Abdul Hameed Sangi, Sheraz Mirza, Basharat Ahmed Qureshi, Ejaz Asad Rasool, Rukhsana Saeed, Shahid Zaman, Khawaja Adnan Zahir and Rana Muhammad Luqman.

The Central Selection Board (CSB) has recommended a number of Grade-19 officers of Inland Revenue Service (IRS) for promotion to the available vacancies in Grde-20.

These recommendations have been sent to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for approval. These officers include Ms Naheed Azhar, Dr. Mohammad Naeem, Ch. Mohammad Tariq, Sardar Ali Khawaja, Anwar-ul-Haq, Mohammad Azzam Shaikh, Shamsuddin Qazi, Karamatullah Khan Chaudry, Abdul Wahid Uqaily, Jahangir Ahmad, Khalid Mehmood Lodhi, Dr. Mohammad Sarmad Qureshi, Syedain Raza Zaidi, Ms Tehmina Amir, Qasim Raza Khan, Mohammad Tahir, Mohammad Farooq Azam Memon, Ms Laila ghafoor, Imtiaz Ali Solangi, Nasir Khan, Faozia Fakhar, Mohammad Irfan Raza, Abid Mehmood, Aqeel Ahmed Siddiqui, Mohammad Tariq Arbab, Shah Khan, Asem Iftikhar, Shazia Abid, Mohammad Nasir Khan Ghori, Naveed Ahmed Nawab, Najeeb Ahmed Memon, Zubair Bilal, Shazia Memon, Amjad Farooq, JAved Iqbal, Mohammad Azhar Ansari, Shafiullah Khan Niazi, Sahibzada Abdul Mateen and Zafar Iqbal Khan.

The IRS officers of Grade-19 who missed the recommendation for promotion include Pervez Ismail Memon, Azizuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Syed Habib Ahmed, Ghulam Shabbir Memon, Mir Alam Khan, Riaz Ahmed shah, Farooq Ahmed Khan, Najeebul Haq, Lubna Ayub Asif, Muhammad Mustafa Kamal, Dr. Shahid Siddiq Bhatti, Aftab Faheem Mirza, Muhammad Saleem, Dr. Muhammad Naeem, Sajidullah Siddiqui, Dr. Shafquat Hussain Kehar, Muhammad IMtiaz, Muhammad Waseem Altaf, Muhamma dTaj Hameed, Mirza Imtiaz Ahmed, Khalid Javed, Tariq Muataf Khan, Muhammad Saeed Nashir, Hassan Sardar, Dr. Aftab Imam, Shahid Iqbal Baloch, Dr. Tauqeer Irtiza, Badruddin Ahmd Quraishi, Syeda Fatima Hussain, Nabila Faran Baig, Yousaf Hyder Shaikh, Qaiser Mahmood, Muhammad Azam Sheikh, Mehmood Hussain Jafari, Rizwan Ahmed Urfi, Afaque Ahmed Qureshi, Sheikh Mehmood Sheikh, Ardsher Saleem Tariq, Syeda Naureen Zahra, Nasir Iqbal, Khurshid Ahmed Khan Marwat, Muzaffar Ali, Faheem Muhammad, Arif Haider Orakzai, Asif Rasool, Imtaiz Ahmed, Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan, Kazi Afzal, Tahir Tanveer, Sajjad Akbar Khan, Syed Sajid Hussain Shah and Dr. Muhammad Idrees.

To recall, the Central Selection Board has recommended 18 officers of Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) to be promoted in Grade-20. There were 30 vacancies on Grade-20 against which 18 officers of Grade-19 have been recommended by the CSB for promotion.

These officers include Kamal Azhar Minhas, Mohammad Amir, Dr. Fareed Iqbal Qureshi, Saifuddin Junejo, Wajid Ali, Syed Hamid Ali, Zulfikar Yunus, Ms Seema Raza Bukhari, Mohammad Ali Raza Hanjra, Zafar Akhtar, Saeed Khan Jadoon, Ashhad Jawwad, Chaudry Mohammad Javed, Irfan-ur-Rehman Khan, Mohammad Junaid Jalil Khan, Saeed Akram, Mohammad Yakoob Mako and Syed Shakeel Shah.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has approved the promotion of Lutfullah Virk in Grade-22. A notification to this effect would come shortly, reliable sources said.

Virk is presently the Director General of Intelligence & Investigation –FBR and he is also the focal person of anti-smuggling organization (ASO) Customs.

The Central Selection Board (CSB) concluded its 2-day sitting on Wednesday recommended promotion of 12 Grade-20 officers into Grade-21.

According to confirmed reports, these PCS officers include Shaukat Ali, Ms Rubina Wasti, Ms Samera Nazir Khan, Junaid Akram, M.s Adeela Rehman, Ms Sarwat Tahira Habib, Mohammad Zahid, Mohammad Javed Ghani, Fazal Yazdani, Abdul Rasheed Shaikh, Saleem Ranjha and Imtiaz Ahmed Khan.

The PCS officers who did not get the Board recommendation for promotion include Ms Riffat A Hasan Abidi, Wahid Khursheed Kunwar, Khawar Fareed Manika, Imran Tariq, Mohammad Ibrahim Vighio, Syed Zulfikar Ali Shah Kazmi, Mohammad Nasir Khan, Khawaja Umar Mehdi and Syed Tanveer Ahmed.

These officers were not recommended for promotion because they did have their NMC, NDC courses; some of these were rejected because of departmental inquiries and negative intelligence reports against them.