Defence Secretary of Pakistan is the highest bureaucratic position within the Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)

The Ministry of Defence , is a federal government ministry tasked with coordinating and supervising all major government agencies and federal departments of the government relating directly to National security and the Pakistan Defense Forces...

 of Pakistan. Following is the list of the defence secretaries to date.

The current Defence Secretary is Lt Gen (R) Syed Athar Ali, the former commander V Corps

V Corps (Pakistan)

The V Corps, also known as Victory Corps, is an administrative corps of Pakistan Army assigned in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. The V Corps is the only corps that is stationed in the Sindh Province, while the II Strike Corps and the IV Corps are both stationed in Punjab Province...

, Karachi and DG Joint Staff. He took over in November 2008 vice Kamran Rasool.

List of Defence Secretaries

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!align=center|Name of Defence Secretary
!align=center|Entered Office
!align=center|Left Office
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|Maj Gen Iskander Mirza
|October 1947
|May 1954
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|Akhter Husain

Akhter Husain

Akhter Husain , HPk, OBE, was an eminent senior statesman and civil servant of Pakistan. He was appointed Governor of West Pakistan in September 1957 succeeding Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani and then continued in office during the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan until April 1960.-Early life:Mr...

|June 1954
|August 1957
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|Muhammad Khurshid
|March 1958
|June 1959
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|S Fida Hussain
|July 1958
|August 1961
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|Nazir Ahmed
|August 1961
|September 1965
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|S Fida Hussain
|September 1965
|June 1966
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|S I Haque
|June 1966
|December 1966
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|S. Ghias Uddin Ahmed
|December 1966
|August 1973
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|Maj Gen (R) Fazal Muqeem Khan
|August 1973
|October 1977
|-
|Ghulam Ishaq Khan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan , abbreviated as GIK, was the seventh President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993 and a career statesman from the start to the end of cold war...

 (Secretary General)
|October 1975
|July 1977
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|Lt Gen Ghulam Jilani Khan
|October 1977
|April 1980
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|Maj Gen (R) M Rahim Khan
|November 1980
|December 1985
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|Asif Rahim
|June 1981
|June 1984
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|Aftab Ahmad Khan
|February 1984
|August 1985
|-
|Ijlal Haider Zaidi

Ijlal Haider Zaidi

Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi is a retired member of the Civil Service of Pakistan . He served in various key administrative and secretarial capacities, including Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, Director General of Radio Pakistan, Chief Secretary of Azad Kashmir, Chief Secretary of North-West Frontier...

|August 1985
|November 1989
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|Salim Abbas Jilani
|November 1989
|November 1996
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|Hasan Raza Pasha
|November 1996
|May 1997
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|Lt Gen (R) Iftikhar Ali Khan

Iftikhar Ali Khan (general)

Lieutenant General Iftikhar Ali Khan , HI, SBt, was the former Secretary of Defence and Chief of General Staff of the Pakistan Army. He was the elder brother of National Assembly opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan...

|May 1997
|October 1999
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|Lt Gen (R) Naseem Rana

Naseem Rana

Lieutenant-General Naseem Rana is a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army, who in the course of Pakistan war in Afghanistan, played a pivotal role in leading the ISI in promoting Pakistani Interest during the Afghanistan Civil War to provide help to irregular hardline Taliban forces...

|October 1999
|March 2001
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|Lt Gen (R) Hamid Nawaz Khan

Hamid Nawaz Khan

Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz Khan, HI, is a career Pakistan Army soldier who served as Federal Interior Minister from November 2007 to April 2008 and Defence Secretary of Pakistan from 2001 to 2005...

|March 2001
|May 2005
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|Lt Gen (R) Tariq Waseem Ghazi
|May 2005
|April 2007
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|Kamran Rasool
|April 2007
|November 2008
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|Lt Gen (R) Syed Athar Ali
|November 2008
|November 2011
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|Lt Gen (R) Naeem Khalid Lodhi
|November 2011
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See also

• Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
  Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
  The Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan is the bureaucratic head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Secretary, as in all other ministries of Government of Pakistan, works under the Minister who is the member of National Assembly...
  
  
• Finance Secretary of Pakistan
  Finance Secretary of Pakistan
  Finance Secretary of Pakistan is the highest bureaucratic position within the Ministry of Finance of Pakistan. There were at least three instances when finance ministry was headed by Secretary-General...
  
  
• Interior Secretary of Pakistan
  Interior Secretary of Pakistan
  Interior Secretary of Pakistan is the highest bureaucratic position within the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan. Following is the list of the interior secretaries to date....
  
  

External links

• Ministry of Defence Year Book 2004-2005