Defence Secretary (Pakistan)

Defence Secretary of Pakistan is the Federal Secretary for Ministry of Defence of Pakistan. Following is the list of the defence secretaries to date. At times the post has been designated Secretary General of the Ministry of Defence.

List of Defence Secretaries

Name of Defence Secretary	Entered Office	Left Office
Maj Gen Iskander Mirza	October 1947	May 1954
Akhter Husain	June 1954	August 1957
Muhammad Khurshid	March 1958	June 1959
S Fida Hussain	July 1958	August 1961
Nazir Ahmed	August 1961	September 1965
S Fida Hussain	September 1965	June 1966
S I Haque	June 1966	December 1966
S. Ghias Uddin Ahmed	December 1966	August 1973
Maj Gen (R) Fazal Muqeem Khan	August 1973	October 1977
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Secretary General)	October 1975	July 1977
Lt Gen Ghulam Jilani Khan (Secretary General)	October 1977	April 1980
Rasheed Ud Din Arshad	May 1980	September 1980
Maj Gen (R) M Rahim Khan	November 1980	December 1985
Asif Rahim	June 1981	June 1984
Aftab Ahmad Khan	February 1984	August 1985
Ijlal Haider Zaidi	August 1985	November 1989
Salim Abbas Jilani	November 1989	November 1996
Hasan Raza Pasha	November 1996	May 1997
Lt Gen (R) Iftikhar Ali Khan	May 1997	October 1999
Lt Gen (R) Naseem Rana	October 1999	March 2001
Lt Gen (R) Hamid Nawaz Khan	March 2001	May 2005
Lt Gen (R) Tariq Waseem Ghazi	May 2005	April 2007
Kamran Rasool	April 2007	November 2008
Lt Gen (R) Syed Athar Ali	November 2008	November 2011
Lt Gen (R) Naeem Khalid Lodhi	November 2011	January 2012
Nargis Sethi	January 2012	July 2012
Lt Gen (R) Asif Yaseen Malik	July 2012	August 2014
Lt Gen (R) Alam Khattak	August 2014	August 2016
Maj Gen Muhammad Abid Nazir (Acting)	August 2016	August 2016
Lt Gen (R) Zamir ul Hassan Shah	26 August 2016

See also

• Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
• Finance Secretary of Pakistan
• Interior Secretary of Pakistan

External links

• Ministry of Defence Year Book 2004-2005