An Indian-origin Saudi-based entrepreneur has been appointed Major General of Kyrgyzstan. According to a report of Khaleej Times, Keralite Shaikh Rafik Mohammed was appointed Major General of Kyrgyzstan by Defence Minister of Kyrgyzstan Ali Mirza at an official ceremony held in that country. <br/><br/>Rafik earlier worked as an adviser to the former Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev whom he met in Iran where the young Indian entrepreneur was developing a major steel plant. Rafik developed wide network of friends in the Central Asian country which has witnessed a rapid flow of foreign investment and reversal of socialist mode of development to a capitalist mode of production. <br/>