Major General Md Saiful Alam, chief of the Directorate General of Forces (DGF) Intelligence, has been appointed as the quartermaster general (QMG) of Bangladesh Army while Major General Ahmed Tabrej Shams Chowdhury takes over DGFI as its new head, reports bdnews24.com.
Alam has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general with the new assignment, says a statement on Sunday. He had been assigned to DGFI as its director general in February 2020.
Gen SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, who was appointed chief of the Bangladesh Army in June, was the previous QMG.
Alam will now take up the post he left vacant. Alam was commissioned to the army as a cadet of the 14th Long Course. He then served as the GOC of the Barishal Sheikh Hasina Cantonment and the area commander of Barishal.
After that, he served as the commander of the 11th Infantry Division of the Bogura Cantonment prior to his assignment with the DGFI. He has won the Sword of Honour and the Academic Gold Medal.
Major General Ahmed Tabrej Shams Chowdhury, the GOC of the 10th Infantry Division and area commander in Cox's Bazar, has been assigned to DGFI as its director general.
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