Former ISPR DG Lt-Gen Asif Ghafoor has been appointed Corps Commander Quetta, 24NewsHD TV channel reported Wednesday.

According to a statement issued by ISPR, Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor was appointed in place of his predecessor Lt-Gen Sarfraz Ali who embraced martyrdom in a helicopter crash due to bad weather in Lasbella Balochistan.

He was serving as inspector general for Communication and Information Technology. He served as director-general for Inter-Services Public Relations in 2016 until he was succeeded by Babar Iftikhar in 2020 as the 21st director general.