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Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
Incumbent Asad Rehman Gilani
Prime Minister's Office
Reports to	Prime Minister of Pakistan
Appointer	Prime Minister of Pakistan
Website	Prime Minister's Office

The Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan (also referred to as SPM or PM's Chief of Staff) is the administrative head and highest-ranking official of the Prime Minister's Office. The position holder is usually an officer belonging to the Pakistan Administrative Service serving in BPS-22 grade. The secretary advises and assists the prime minister on all the official business routed through the PM Office, and because of this the SPM is generally regarded as the most crucial aide to the prime minister.

The current secretary to the prime minister is Asad Rehman Gilani.

Being the administrative head of the Prime Minister's Office, the secretary wields significant amount of power over the daily affairs of the Government of Pakistan. The duties of the secretary includes, but are not limited to; advising the prime minister on national policy and its implementation, dealing with official paperwork in the Prime Minister's Office, placing before the prime minister critical files of importance for approval, coordinating activities in the Prime Minister's Office, and preparing notes on issues to be discussed by the PM with senior politicians, bureaucrats and other dignitaries.

List of principal secretaries to PM

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See also

• Principal Secretary to the President of Pakistan
• Government of Pakistan
• Federal Secretary
• Interior Secretary of Pakistan
• Finance Secretary of Pakistan

References

1. "Asad Rehman Gilani made secretary to PM". 4 March 2024.
2. "Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao Meets with Principal Secretary Javed Aslam to the Prime Minister of Pakistan". Fmprc.gov.cn. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
3. "PM changes his principal secretary with ECP nod". www.thenews.com.pk.

v t e Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
Anwar Zahid (Junejo) Usman Ali Isani (Junejo, Bhutto, Jatoi) Salim Abbas Jillani (Bhutto) Anwar Zahid (Sharif) Qazi M. Alimullah (Sharif, Mazari) Shamsher Ali Khan (Sharif) Mohammad Ahmed Sadik (Bhutto) Aminullah Chaudry (Khalid) A. Z. K. Sherdil (Sharif) Saeed Mehdi (Sharif) Nasiruddin Ahmed (Jamali) Shuja Shah (Jamali) Javed Sadiq Malik (Aziz) Khalid Saeed (Aziz) Siraj Shamsuddin (Gillani) Nargis Sethi (Gillani) Khushnood Akhtar Lashari (Gillani) Muhammad Ayub Qazi (Ashraf) Seerat Asghar Jaura (Khoso) Khawaja Siddique Akbar (Khoso) Nasir Mahmood Khosa (Sharif) Javaid Aslam (Sharif) Fawad Hasan Fawad (Sharif, Abbasi) Suhail Aamir (Mulk) Azam Khan (Khan) Syed Tauqir Shah (Sharif, Kakar) Khurram Agha (Kakar)
Note: The names in brackets are the Prime Ministers to whom they were Principal Secretaries.

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