Major General Hamidul Haque new DG, DGFI

 
Army Headquarters (AHQ) on Wednesday named Major General Hamidul Haque as the next Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), replacing Major General Ahmed Tabrej Shams Chowdhury who was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Lieutenant Colonel Abu Hayder Mohammad Rasheluzzaman, the director at Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), confirmed the information. According to an order issued by the AHQ's Military Secretary Major General Khan Firoz Ahmed, the incumbent DG of DGFI, Tabrej Shams, will be made the general officer commanding (GOC) at Army Training and Doctrine Command, better known as ARTDOC in Mymensingh Cantonment on his promotion.

In the same order, the incumbent GOC-17 Major General Hamidul Haque was named as the next chief of the military intelligence unit. Hamidul Haque was born in 1970 in Cox's Bazar.

Hamidul Haque joined Bangladesh Army in 1988. After successfully completing his training, Hamidul Haque was commissioned and placed in Infantry Division on 22 June 1990.