ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has approved the grant of Higher Time Scale-17 to 24 officers of the Customs Department with immediate effect and until further orders.
The approval follows recommendations from the Departmental Promotion Committee and is in pursuance of Finance Division regulations issued in 2015 and 2024. Zakir Hussain, second secretary of the Human Resources wing, signed the notification.
The beneficiaries include 11 Superintendents-Customs: Khawaja Hur Abbas, Nadeem Mukhtiar Bhutto, Saeed Farooqui, Jawad Sultan, Mehboob Elahi, Saeed Ahmad Khan, Nasir Zaman, Muhammad Shoaib Ranjha, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Atique-Ur-Rehman and Imran Ahmad Khan.
Two Superintendents of the Preventive Service — Imtiaz Ahmed and Farhan Saeed — were also promoted, along with 11 Principal Appraisers: Shahzad Malik, Muhammad Moosa Solangi, Amer Hussain, Nadeem Ur Rehman, Junaid Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmad Bhutter, Shakir Ali, Syed Abbas Raza, Muhammad Ishaq, Ms. Sadia Abdullah and one additional officer listed on the notification’s second page.
Officers already drawing a performance allowance will continue to receive it following the grant of the higher scale, the notification said.
The FBR congratulated the officers on the promotion. Copies of the notification were sent to senior FBR officials, collectors of customs at airports and appraisement stations across the country, and the Accountant General Pakistan Revenues offices in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad.
