KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified promotions of BS-19 and BS-20 officers of both Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) and Inland Revenue Service (IRS).

According to details, 20 officers in BS-20 of IRS have been promoted to BS-21 on regular basis. These include Khawar Saeed Akhtar, Jehanzeb Mahmood, Rehmatullah Khan Wazir, Faheemul Hail Khan, Ahmed Saeed Siddiqui, Naushad All Khan, Masood Akhtar Shaheedi, Salim Raza Asif, Manzoor Hussain Shad, Hafiz Muhammad Ali Indhar, Muhammad Asif, Shaukat Mahmood, Ms. Nausheen Javaid Amjad, Shahid Zaman, Muhammad Muzaffar Khan Lashari, Ms. Iram Adnan, Mansoor Ahmad Bajwa, S. Ashraf Ahmad Ali, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed and Syed Ayaz Mahmood.

As many as 12 BS-20 officers of PCS have been promoted to BS-21.

These include Shaukat Ali, Rubina Wasti, Samaira Nazir Khan, Juneid Akram, Adila Rehman, Sarwat Tahira Habib, Muhammad Zahid, Muhammad Javed Ghani, Fazal Yazdani Khan, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Muhammad Saleem Ahmed Ranjha and Imtiaz Ahmad Khan.

As many as 39 officers in BS-19 of IRS have been promoted to BS-20 on regular basis. These include Muhammad Umar Farooq, Ms. Naheed Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Naeem, Ch. Muhammad Tarique, Sardar All Khawaja, Anwar ul Haq, Muhammad Azam Sheikh, Shamsuddin Qazi, Karamatullah Khan Chaudhry, Abdul Wahid Uqaily, Jahangir Ahmad, Khalid Mahmood Lodhi, Dr. Muhammad Sarmad Qureshi, Syed Syedain Raza Zaidi, Ms. Tehmina Aamer, Qasim Raza Khan, Muhammad Tahir, Mohammad Farooq Azam Memon, Ms. Laila Ghafoor, Imtiaz Ali Solangi, Nasir Khan, Ms. Fouzia Fakhar, Muhammad Irfan Raza, Abid Mehmood, Aqeel Ahmed Siddiqui, Muhammad Tariq Arbab, Shah Khan, Asem Iftikhar, Ms. Shazia Abid, Muhammad Nasir Khan Ghouri, Naveed Ahmad Nawab, Najeeb Ahmad Memon, Zubair Bilal, Ms. Shazia Memon, Amjad Farooq, Javaid lqbal, Muhammad Azhar Ansari, Sahibzada Abdul Mateen and Zafar Iqbal Khan.

As many as 21 BS-19 officers have been promoted including Dr. Ahmed Mujtaba Memon, Dr Kamal Azhar Minhas, Abdul Basit Ch, M Zubair Yousafani, Muhammad Aamir, Dr Farid Iqbal Qureshi, Dr Saifuddin Junejo, Syed Hamid Ali, Zulfiqar Younis, Ms Seema Raza Bukhari, M Ali Raza Hanjra,Dr M Saeed Khan Jadoon, Ashhad Jawwad, Zafar Akhtar, Ch Muhammad Javed, Irfan-ur-Rehman Khan, Muhammad Junaid Jalil Khan, Ms Shazia Ikram, Saeed Akram, Muhammad Yaqoob Mako and Syed Shakil Shah.

It may be mentioned here that Director Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) Wajid Ali was recommended for promotion into BS-20 by the Central Selection Board, but due to his one-year ex-Pakistan leave, his name did not come up in the list of promoted officers.

Wajid Ali is counted among highly reputed and competent officers and his promotion was not deferred nor he was superseded. As per the requirement of Establishment Division, his one-year ACR was not completed. After his return from leave and joining the office, Wajid Ali had served only nine months so far. His case will be taken up in the upcoming meeting.