New Delhi, May 21 -- The Pakistan government on Tuesday promoted army chief Gen Asim Munir to the rank of field marshal for his role in the recent hostilities with India, marking only the second time in the country's history that a military official has been elevated to the status. The decision was announced following a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who congratulated the nation on the "success" of Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos, Pakistan's response to India's Operation Sindoor, which was launched on May 7 to target terrorist infrastructure at nine locations. Munir is the first Pakistani military officer to hold the rank since 1959, when Ayub Khan, the country's first military dictator, declared himself a fiel...