The Chief secretary of Balochistan (Urdu: ), also referred to as CS Balochistan, is the bureaucratic chief and highest-ranking official of the Government of Balochistan, Pakistan. The appointment of the chief secretary is appointed directly by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The position of chief secretary is equivalent to the rank of Federal Secretary and the position holder usually belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service.
The chief secretary is the province's administrative boss as all the divisional commissioners and administrative secretaries of province report to him. The CS in turn reports to the chief minister of Balochistan, however the chief secretary is not under the charge of the chief minister as only the prime minister can appoint or remove the CS from his position. The chief secretary also serves as the chief advisor to the chief minister and as secretary to the provincial Cabinet.
List of chief secretaries The following table lists down the names of chief secretaries that have remained in office since 1970. No. Name of Chief Secretary Entered office Left office1Rifat Pasha SheikhJuly 1970June 19722S.B AwanJune 1972November 19753Syed Munir HussainNovember 1975October 19764Nasr U MinallahOctober 1976July 19775Raja Ahmed KhanJuly 1977April 19806Zia Ud Din KhanApril 1980October 19807Jamil AhmedOctober 1980October 19828Saleem Abbas JillaniOctober 1982June 19859Faqir Muhammad BalochJune 1985November 198610S.R PoneegarNovember 1986September 199011Javed TalatSeptember 1990September 199112A.Z.K SherdilSeptember 1991September 199413Sikandar Hayat JamaliSeptember 1994November 199614Syed Roshan ZameerNovember 1996April 199715Syed Shahid HussainApril 1997May 199816Muhammad Younas KhanMay 1998February 199917Mirza Qamar BaigFebruary 1999February 200018Maj (R) Muhammad Ashraf NasirFebruary 2000March 200119Maj (R) Ayub KhanMarch 2001November 200120Pervaiz SaleemDecember 2001January 200321Maj (R) Muhammad Ashraf NasirJanuary 2003August 200422Maj (R) Naeem KhanAugust 2004May 2005 23 KB Rind May 2005April 2008 24 Nasir Mahmood Khosa April 2008 February 201025 Mir Ahmed Bakhsh LehriFebruary 2010March 2012 26 Babar Yaqoob Fateh MuhammadMarch 2012 June 2014 27 Saifullah Chattha June 2014 March 2017 28 Shoaib Mir Memon March 2017 May 2017 29 Aurangzeb Haque May 2017 June 2018 30 Akhtar Nazir June 2018 August 2019 31 Fazeel Asghar August 2019 February 2021 32 Mather Niaz Rana February 2021 April 2022 33 Abdul Aziz Uqaili April 2022 August 2023 34 Shakeel Qadir Khan August 2023 Incumbent
See also Federal Secretary Pakistan Administrative Service Establishment Secretary of Pakistan Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan Chief Secretary Sindh Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Punjab Chief Secretary (Pakistan)
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External links Chief Secretary Website