The Finance secretary of Pakistan (Urdu: ) is the federal secretary for the Ministry of Finance. The federal finance secretary is one of the most powerful bureaucrats in the country. Being the head of the Finance Division, the secretary plays an important part in shaping the country's economic and financial policies. The position holder is a BPS-22 grade officer, usually belonging to the Pakistan Administrative Service. The current finance secretary is Imdadullah Bosal. The finance secretary is assisted by one Special Secretary of grade 22, six additional secretaries of grade 21 and one Special Assistant of grade 17-18, the most number of deputies any secretary has in the federal government, due to the enormous workload.
List of secretaries No. Name Entered office Left office 1 Sir Victor Turner 14 August 1947 1 February 1950 2 Abdul Qadir 2 February 1950 25 February 1952 3 Mumtaz Hasan 25 February 1952 1 November 1958 4 Hafiz Abdul Majid 1 November 1958 29 July 1960 5 Mohammed Ayub 29 July 1960 19 June 1961 6 Mumtaz Mirza 19 June 1961 6 March 1963 7 Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad 6 March 1963 30 May 1966 8 Ghulam Ishaq Khan 31 May 1966 8 September 1970 9 Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi 8 September 1970 20 August 1973 10 Abdur Rauf Shaikh 20 August 1973 6 October 1977 11 Aftab Ahmad Khan 9 October 1977 1 August 1979 12 Habibullah Baig 1 August 1979 7 June 1987 13 Izharul Haq 8 June 1987 14 August 1988 14 Saeed Ahmad Qureshi 15 August 1988 21 January 1989 15 R.A. Akhund 22 January 1989 August 1990 16 Saeed Ahmad Qureshi September 1990 31 July 1991 17 Qazi Alimullah 1 August 1991 24 September 1992 18 Khalid Javed 25 September 1992 24 April 1993 19 Qazi Alimullah 28 October 1993 30 June 1994 20 Javed Talat 30 June 1994 1 March 1996 21 Mian Tayeb Hasan 1 March 1996 31 October 1996 22 Chaudhry Mueen Afzal 1 November 1996 5 November 1998 23 Khalid Javed 5 November 1998 21 October 1999 24 Muhammad Younis Khan 22 October 1999 July 2002 25 Nawid Ahsan July 2002 January 2006 26 Tanwir Ali Agha January 2006 July 2007 27 Ahmad Waqar 20 July 2007 8 January 2008 28 Dr. Waqar Masood Khan 9 January 2008 2 May 2008 29 Farrukh Qayyum 3 May 2008 1 September 2008 30 Dr. Waqar Masood Khan 2 September 2008 3 February 2009 31 Salman Siddiq 4 February 2009 20 December 2010 32 Dr. Waqar Masood Khan 21 December 2010 11 February 2012 33 Abdul Wajid Rana 12 February 2012 April 2013 34 Dr. Waqar Masood Khan April 2013 20 January 2017 35 Tariq Bajwa 3 February 2017 17 June 2017 36 Shahid Mahmood 17 June 2017 5 January 2018 37 Arif Ahmed Khan 10 January 2018 21 March 2019 38 Mohammad Younus Dagha 22 March 2019 23 May 201939Naveed Kamran Baloch23 May 201924 December 202040Kamran Ali Afzal24 December 202030 May 202141Yusuf Khan30 May 20213 December 202142Hamid Yaqoob Sheikh3 December 202118 May 202343Imdad Ullah Bosal18 May 2023
See also Finance Minister of Pakistan Governor of State Bank of Pakistan Planning Commission (Pakistan) Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan Interior Secretary of Pakistan Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs Commerce Secretary of Pakistan Planning and Development Secretary of Pakistan
References
External links Ministry of Finance The Bank Notes of Pakistan – 1947 to 1972 by Peter Symes The Bank Notes of Pakistan 1972 – 2000 by Peter Symes