Sunane Giti becomes first female Maj Gen in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Army on Sunday got the first woman major general as Brigadier General Sunane Giti was promoted to the rank.
The chief of army staff, General Aziz Ahmed, and the quarter master general, Lieutenant General Md Shamsul Haque, adorned her with the rank badge at a simple function at Army Headquarters, said a press release from the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate later on the day. 
Major General Sunane Giti is the head of pathology department at Armed Forces Medical College.
She joined Bangladesh Army as captain completing a special course in 1986 after passing MBBS from Rajshahi Medical College in 1985. 
She also achieved FCPS degree in hematology as the first woman physician in 1996. She also served UN peace mission and different military hospitals as pathology specialist. 
Her husband Brigadier General (retd) Asadullah M Hossain Saad was also a successful military physician.
In 2016, Colonel Nazma Begum, a female officer from Bangladesh Army has drawn the special attention of all while she was deployed in Ivory Coast and performing her duties as a Military Contingent Commander and the Country Senior. 
The role of women in Bangladesh Armed Forces for a long time was limited to the medical profession doctors and nurses. 
In 2000, the women’s entry as regular commissioned officers in Armed Forces started with ‘a view to empowering the women’. 
A good number of female officers of Bangladesh Army are now serving in the Special Security Force, Army Aviation and Military Police Units along with other different Arms and services. 
Any woman officer of the regular courses of Bangladesh Army is yet to be promoted to such senior position.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net