Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor of the Pakistan army has been appointed as the Commander XII Corps (Quetta), succeeding Lt Gen Sarfraz Ali, who was killed in a helicopter crash, Dawn reported on Thursday.
Lt Gen Ghafoor has previously served as the ISPR head.
In his new role, he is “replacing Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ali … who embraced shahadat (martyrdom) in a helicopter crash due to bad weather during flood relief operations in Lasbela, Balochistan, on 1 August 2022 (Monday),” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement issued late on Wednesday night.
