Days after Islamabad and New Delhi agreed to a ceasefire, Pakistan promoted General Asim Munir to the rank of Field Marshal. The decision was made during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Munir was felicitated in a grand ceremony attended by senior politicians and ministers, including Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. <br /> <br />"Today, we have gathered to pay our tribute to Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir," Shehbaz Sharif said at the ceremony. <br /> <br />The only other person to hold this rank in Pakistan was General Ayub Khan in 1959, a year after he seized power in a military coup.
