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Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan SBP (BAR), psc (Bengali: ইকবাল করিম ভূঁইয়া; born 2 June 1957) is a retired Bangladeshi army officer who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from 2012 to 2015. [2] [3] He took office of Army Chief at 25 June 2012 and retired on 25 June 2015.
During the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, Maj. Gen. M. A. Rab (then Lt Col) was the Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Army under the combined command of Bangladesh Forces which served as the origins of Bangladesh Armed Forces and General M. A. G. Osmani was the Commander-in-Chief. [4]
On 3 April 2016, Major General Shafiqur Rahman was replaced as general officer commanding (GOC) by Major general Jahangir Kabir Talukder. [ 2 ] The division covers the Chittagong Hill Tracts . 24th Infantry Division is the largest infantry division that comprises 33% of the personnel of the Bangladesh Army.
Generals holding appointments of the army headquarters and ministries within the government have been written in bold format (e.g. Master General of Ordnance - MGO); Other appointments apart from general officer commanding are indicated with the corresponding appointments, such as the vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals is designated as (VC BUP).
He was a cadet of Mirzapur Cadet College, Tangail.He was commissioned in the infantry regiment (East Bengal Regiment) of the Bangladesh Army on 30 November 1976 from the Bangladesh Military Academy's 3rd SSC (short service commission) course with Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, who became full general in 2012.
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It is the highest achieved rank in the Bangladesh Army. General ranks above the three star rank of Lieutenant general. The rank is denoted as a full-fledged general to extricate subordinate officers - Lieutenant general and Major general which are also general officers. The rank was established in 2007, when Moeen U Ahmed was promoted to this rank.