KARACHI: The Islamabad High Court has vacated the stay granted against the promotion list recommended by the Central Selection Board (CSB) and now the recommended officers would be upgraded shortly.

Sources said that the Establishment Division would forward the said list to Prime Minister for approval in a day or two. It is likely that the PM would accord the approval in a week.

The Central Selection Board (CSB) had recommended promotion of 12 Grade-20 Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) officers into Grade-21 including Shaukat Ali, Ms Rubina Wasti, Ms Samera Nazir Khan, Junaid Akram, Ms Adeela Rehman, Ms Sarwat Tahira Habib, Mohammad Zahid, Mohammad Javed Ghani, Fazal Yazdani, Abdul Rasheed Shaikh, Saleem Ranjha and Imtiaz Ahmed Khan.

The Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officers who have been recommended for promotion in Grade-22 include Mohammad Ashraf Khan, Ms Azra Mujtaba, Abdul Rehman Dogar, Ms Fiza Muzaffar  and Ms Samira Yasmin.

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

CSB recommended 20 officers of Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) to be promoted in Grade-20 against 30 vacancies. These officers include Faiz Ahmed Chadarh, Zubair Yousafani, 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.