Born and Bred in Islamabad
We moved to Islamabad at the time when Junejo shrunk the sizes of all cars for bureaucrats. So from a fleet of cars and an army of security personnel, in our palatial house in the province we moved to a shrunken car, no security, no trees and a rented place we never could call home. It was so small even our cats ran away. Within a year we moved to F-6 where every one we knew lived a door or a street away. Life was suddenly good for my eight year old understanding, for I had a lawn and pets again. The air was clean, the trees plenty. It was almost as if the entire city was germless, spick and span. Then Islamabad used to be called thirty minutes from Pakistan, apparently a city so perfect it had none of the problems that Pakistan had.
We didn’t understand that even then Islamabad was divided, keeping a certain class into the G-sectors and some into the F-sectors. We hardly went there and when we did it didn’t seem to matter. We were kids. Nothing mattered back then.
I couldn’t understand in early 1980s why the school I went to was urdu-medium. Why the state had changed that? I’d moved from a convent school to an urdu medium government school but then we didn’t have a choice. It was all what my parents could afford. No doubt it was the school where the elite in the bureaucracy sent their children.
We went for nightly drives to a silent Jinnah Market, with closed shops and our volkswagon being the only car brave enough to handle the occasional families of boars that came out of nowhere. Children had nowhere to go until they opened the Japanese park and the there was the zoo but we were happy. Happy with our half an hour of television in heated lounges. Life was simple. Every one knew every body else. The shop keepers knew our names, the neighbours were all friends and every one knew they were equals. There was no or little jealousy. We did sense how our fathers won or lost friends and visitors as he was transferred from one ministry to another, usually at the same time as change of governments. How the phone calls increased or reduced but we never talked about it. Children never talked about how cool or big their fathers were. It was discouraged and uncouth. We were all too disciplined. In fact the occasional sighting of a young lad driving his father’s official car was the scandal of the week. All wives worked voluntarily at Behbud and APWA, and the annual fairs was like a family get together.
Perhaps the first sign of things to change was when all houses got that ugly circular mass on their roof tops and suddenly your success was measured by how many or how big a dish you had.
Things changed drastically when situation in Karachi got worse and all the rich and the mighty moved to F-10, a place we in F-6 considered to be a different city. Like Rawalpindi perhaps. Pindi was also another city, <em>’paindoo’</em> was what we called it. It wasn’t cool to be from there or to visit there. We were proud of our secluded world. With F-10 came a new breed of young fashionable youth who would fight in school over who was richer, who’s house had underground parking while who’s house had a swimming pool in the basement. It didn’t mean anything to us but we learnt that apparently these things matter. Suddenly it mattered how much you spent in the school cafeteria. Those like us refrained from going near the cafeteria as we took our packed lunches. Suddenly our fathers despite being in grade 21 or 22 were ‘poor’ because we didn’t own a single car, we had not travelled abroad and so on and so forth. It didn’t matter that the Prime Minister or the ministers called our homes. That our father’s appeared daily on television with those who run the country, the fact that our fathers actually did run the country. It didn’t matter. Surprisingly we’d been taught not to be proud of it or to show it off and now our companions were all people show showed off things that mattered so little.
As we grew older none of us kids wanted to go into the civil service. We’d seen our father’s work hard, sometimes all through the night for little money and little respect from the political governments. We were told that like all good things, this elitest lifestyle will come to an end and we have to make something of ourselves. We also wanted to have jobs where we were more secure. Putting your father’s name on the CV was not generally acceptable to most people. We also wanted to have jobs where we were more secure. Most of us went into the private sector. This was at a time when multi-nationals were moving to Islamabad so opportunities were plenty. There were also NGOs where uni-sex clothing and children of the English speaking elite spoke of liberation of all under privileged, women, children, and even men over-burdened in the patriarchal system. We all grabbed our opportunities and most of us, having had studied only from state funded institutions managed to do well as we’d learnt the value of hard work. It was about being more than some one’s child. It was about making it on our own.
But things didn’t remain so forever. The areas past Fatima Jinnah Park slowly merged into the rest of Islamabad. Very soon, where you lived, what you wore and the car you drove became as important as the people you mingled with. Friends were made for networking purposes, the more important the person the more ‘friends’ he has. Ironically we’ve seen this in our childhood and see how superficial it all is.
Lately Islamabad has been changed outright. The trees, the one aspect that made Islamabad special, are being cut down. New roads are being constructed to make room for the plenty of cars although there is still no place to park them. Every single crossing has been branded by one of the million companies out there. There is nothing that sets the ‘federal capital’ apart from any other large city anymore. Most of all, now people all have problems with water shortage, sewerage system, no proper waste disposal systems, inadequate and too expensive health care and the list goes on. The barriers have been broken down. Islamabad is like any other city now.
The last straw has been the army’s genuine attempt to move from ‘pindi; to the ‘cool and happening’ Islamabad. Desperate to become the newly formed elite and to show off their newly acquired wealth and contacts, they too have moved out here. The superficiality of life that was frowned upon before has now become institutionalized. People consciously choose the sectors they live in to show their prestige, while magazines like GT show pictures of all social wanna-be’s clinging to one another for a moment in the limelight. It’s the era of the Nouveau-riche.
The car leasing companies now give out big cars to people who feel they own the world for cars are today what mobiles were five years ago. Who’s mobile was bigger and cooler than whom’s. And yet, the number of bicycles and public transport has increased. The poor have increased but are submerged and now seen in the mass of cars zooming down the roads.
Islamabad has now been taken over by this new alien culture of where every one wishes to be powerful and popular. Jobs are still given on the domiciles, or on the person’s last name if not the father’s name written prominently on paper. Those who truly are from here, who’ve seen the ups and downs of such a social set up watch from the side lines and laugh at the fickle world. New expensive restaurants are emerging for the rich, some cater to the ‘cool’ while there are hardly any that cater to all of Islamabad, except perhaps at Pir Sohawa where all gather irrespective of social status and power. Along with this has increased the number of sexual harassers on the streets, men who follow the newly liberated women in the cars and knowing they have no one to stop them. No laws against them, and the police plays no role for every one is so important today that they can’t touch anyone. Today we live in an Islamabad where every one is so important that no one is important any more.
I though ISB was always about wanting to be powerful. But the thirst for popularity sounds new.
However, like much else in Pakistan, here too we see the ‘cart-before-the-horse’ phenomenon in development. No parking lots, but bigger roads for more cars. At some point we’ll reach a breaking point and sense will pervial. Until then, mayhem.
This article made me extremely nostalgic! Great writing bushra, along with very interesting observations.
and guess what with The Monal, now even Peer Sohawa is reaking of the New Money.
This is so true and very well written! It really is sad what’s happening to Islamabad these days. I’ve been out of there for 2 years now, but I went back after a year and saw drastic changes. The most noticeable one being the one related to the traffic – new cars and the cutting down of trees to accommodate them
It’s losing all of its natural beauty and peacefulness.
What upsets me more is that Islamabad could have set a green example for every one else by constructing new parking lots, park-and-ride around the commercial centres rather than going the lahori aka Lashari aka Nawaz Sharif way (roads, roads and more roads). Apart from the main roads we also have the needless roads like the ones going to the Airforce colony or straightening of the F-6 service road. Too many trees have been cut. Islamabad has changed too much, too soon. We need an Isloo-lite to head the development of the city. Some one who knows what the city was about.
Islamabad pride, baby!
Good piece. I moved to Islanmabad five years back and used to kid with my friends that they should chop off the trees from green belts and make houses/ roads there. Thats exactly whats happening. Very sad to see the city go down like this.
“They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot…”
Somehow I feel Joni Mitchell was looking into our futures. As a child, reading Tolkien, I used to think I was an Elv living in an Elven city when it rained in Islamabad, for that’s how all the scattered huge trees smelled in the rain.
Islamabad
Besides tens of thousands of Army Men working in government-owned airline and other government-owned industries here’s list of Army Officers in Civilian Govt. Departments and Government owned industries and civilian institutions of Pakistan including Universities. Pakistan should be called “Army Inc.”
General Pervez Musharraf (President of Pakistan)
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Anwar (President of Azad Kashmir);
Lt Gen (Retd) Khalid Maqbool (Governor Punjab);
Commander Khalil (Governor NWFP);
Lt General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi (Federal Education Minister);
Col (Retd) S.K. Tressler (Federal Minorities & Culture Minister);
Lt Gen. Hamid Javed (Chief Executive’s Chief of Staff);
Lt General Muneer Hafeez (Chief of NAB);
Major General Usman Shah (Deputy Chief of NAB);
Major General Shujaat Zameer (Deputy Chief of NAB);
Major General Abdul Jabbar Bhatti (Chief, Regional
Accountability Bureau, RAB, Punjab);
Air Vice Marshal Zakaullah (Chief of RAB NWFP);
Major General Tariq Bashir (Chief of RAB Sindh);
Major General Owais Mushtaq (Chief of RAB Balochistan) ;
Lt General (Retd) Hamid Nawaz (Secretary Defence);
Air Marshal (Retd) Zahid Anees (Secretary Defence Production);
Lt General (Retd) Saeedul Zafar (Secretary Railways);
Major General (Retd) Fazal Ghafoor (Ambassador to North Korea);
Brigadier (Retd) Abdul Majeed Khan (Ambassador to Tajikistan);
Major General (Retd) Salimullah (Ambassador to UAE);
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Hassan Aqeel (Ambassador to Thailand);
Lt General (Retd) Asad Durrani (Ambassador to Saudi Arabia);
Vice Admiral (Retd) Shamoon Aslam Khan (Ambassador to Ukraine);
Air Marshal (Retd) Najeeb Akhtar (Ambassador to Brazil);
Major General Syed Mustafa Anwar Hussain (Ambassador to Indonesia);
Lt General (Retd) Muhammad Shafeeq (Ambassador to Bahrain);
Major General (Retd) Agha Masood Hassan (DG of Postal Services);
Major General Farrukh Javed (Chairman National Highway Authority);
Rear Admiral Ahmad Hayat (Chairman Karachi Port Trust);
Rear Admiral Sikandar Viqar Naqvi (Chairman Port Qasim Authority);
Vice Admiral Tauqir Hussain Naqvi (Chairman National Shipping Corporation) ;
Major General (Retd) Muhammad Hassan (Chief of National Fertilizer Corporation) ;
A Lt. General (Chairman Pakistan Steel Mills);
Lt Colonel (Retd) Akbar Hussain (Export Processing Zone Authority);
Major General Shehzad Alam Malik (Chairman Pakistan Telecommunications Authority);
Air Vice Marshal Azhar Masood (Chairman National Telecommunications Authority);
Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Saleem (Chairman NADRA);
Brigadier Mirza Babar Aziz (DG NADRA);
Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Anwar Khan (DG NADRA NWFP);
Major General Raza Hussain (Chairman SUPARCO);
Major General Sabihuddin Bokhari (Surveyor General of Pakistan);
Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema (DG National Crisis Management Cell);
Air Marshal (Retd) Shafeeq Haider (Chairman Federal Public Service Commission);
Lt General Arshad Hussain (Member Federal Public Service Commission);
Lt General (Retd) Jehangir Nasrullah (Chairman Punjab Public Service Commission);
Major General (Retd) Arshad Chaudhry (Member Punjab Public Service Commission);
Major General (Retd) Arshadullah Tarar (Member Punjab Public Service Commission);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Aliuddin (DG Civil Aviation Authority);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Arshad Saleem (Deputy DG Civil Aviation Authority);
Major General Zafar Abbas (DG Anti-Narcotics Force);
Major General Syed Haider Javed (DG National Logistics Cell);
Major General (Retd) Inayatullah Khan Niazi (DG Auqaf, the Deptt. of Historical Relics);
Major General Pervez Akmal (MD OGDC);
Brigadier (Retd) Rizvan Ashraf (General Manager OGDC);
Brigadier (Retd) Ishtiaq Ali Khan (MD Pakistan Mineral Development Authority);
Major General (Retd) Hamid Hassan Butt (Chairman Pakistan Railways);
Lt General (Retd) Syed Shujaat Ali Khan (Rector Engineering University Lahore);
Lt General (Retd) Arshad Mehmood (Vice Chancellor Punjab University);
Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sardar Khan (Vice Chancellor Engineering University Peshawar);
Captain (Retd) U.A.G. Isani (Vice Chancellor Islamabad University);
Lt General (Retd) Sardar Ali (DG National Institute of Public Administration) ;
Brigadier (Retd) Maqsoodul Hassan (DG Directorate of Education);
Brigadier Muhammad Ejaz (Home Secretary Punjab);
Brigadier Abdur Rehman (Director Health NWFP);
Brigadier Shadab (Secretary C&W Punjab)
Brigadier Anees (Chairman Punjab Privatisation Commission);
Colonel (Retd) Shahid Qureshi (DIG Sindh Telecommunications) ;
Colonel (Retd) Ghulam Hussain (Secretary S&GAD NWFP);
Brigadier Mukhtar (Home Secretary, Sindh);
Brigadier Zaheer Qadri (DG, KDA, Sindh and not Secretary C&W NWFP);
Brigadier (Retd) Akhtar (Secretary to Governor Sindh);
Major General (Retd) Imtiaz (Chairman Pakistan Athletics Federation);
Brigadier Saulat Abbas (DG Pakistan Sports Board).
Brig. Khalid Javed, DG Projects Directorate, NADRA, Islamabad
Col Talmeez Abbas, DG Dataware Housing, NADRA, Islamabad
Maj Tahir M. Alvi DDG, Project Directorate, NADRA, Islambad
Brig Safdar Husain Awan is the Secy (C&W) NWFP Brig Qadri is DG KDA;
Brig Mohtarim is Home Secretary Sindh
Major General (Retd) Hashmi, Registrar, Pakistan Engineering Council;
Major General (Retd) Anis Bajwa, Chairman PTDC;
Major Genera (Retd) Asif Riaz Bokhari, NRB;
Brig Muhammad Toseef Uz Zaman Khan, Civil Aviation Authority;
Brig Saeed Ahmed Malik, WAPDA Head Qtrs Lahore;
Brig Muhammad Iqbal, WAPDA HQ Lahore;
Brig Mushtaq Ahmed, WAPDA HQ, Lahore;
Brig Khalid Sohail Cheema, DG Pak PWD;
Brig Shamshad Khan, GM NWFP NHA;
Brig (Retd) Zareen Khan, Project Incharge Ghazi Brotha Dam WAPDA;
Brig (Retd) Mukhtar Ahmed Tariq, GM Admin OGDC;
Brig (Retd) Muhammad Hamayoun Khan, GM Procurement OGDC;
Brig (Retd) Sardar Javed Ashraf, MD KW&SB;
Brig (Retd) Nisar, IG Prisons (Sindh);
Brig (Retd) Zafar Ahmed Malik, Karachi Building & Control Authority;
Brig (Retd) Aftab Ahmed, DG PHA;
Brig (Retd) Dilbar Husain Naqvi, MD National Construction Company;
Colonel Rauf, IG Prisons, NWFP;
Colonel Asif Jamal, MD, Multan Development Authority;
Colonel (Retd) Najam ul Hasan Malik, TMO Rawalpindi;
Colonel (Retd) Hafiz Abdur Rehman Malik, MD WASA, Rawalpindi;
Colonel (Retd) Kanwar Muhammad Sherbaz Khan, GM CS&E OGDC;
Lt Col Muhammad Azim, GM NHA;
LT Col Naqeeb Amjad Malik, Manager CS&E OGDC;
Lt Col (Retd) Aziz ul Haque Mirza, Member (Operations) NHA;
Lt Col (Retd) Hafeezullah Awan, MD WASA Quetta.
Major General (Retd) Shujaat Ali Khan, Ambassador to Morocco;
Major General (Retd) Badruddin, Ambassador to Brunei;
Vice Admiral(Retd) Khalid Mir, Ambassador to Lebanon;
Brig (Retd) Muhammad Nisar, Ambassador to Argentina;
Brig. Sikandar Ali, Director, Anti Narctics Force;
Brig (R) Saeed Ahmad Rafi, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (He was inducted by Gen Musharraf into Foreign Service as incharge of overseas polling for Presidential Referendum in April);
Brig (R) Mian Khalid Habib, Chief of Protocol, M/o foreign Affirs;
Brig Tipu Sultan, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Group Capt (R) Khalid Aziz Babar, Director General, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Naval Lt (R) Ghalib Iqbal, Consul General, Toronto (son-in-law of former Air Chief Anwar Shamim) {Anwer Shamim is a Quadiyani and had served General Zia {Ameer ul Momineen as per Jamat-e-Islami} , Anwer Shamim has huge ranches in California, USA, which he
and his brother in Law Khursheed Anwer Mirza made through trafficking Narcotics during so-called Afghan Jihad {the Time Weekly that carried this news was banned in Pakistan in 80s}.
Naval Lt (R) Qasim Raza Mutaqqi, Counsellor, Rome;
Col (R) Salik Nawaz, Deputy Chief of Protocol, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Masood Akhtar, Deputy Chief of Protocol, M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Shaukat Muqaddam, Counsellor, Dublin;
Capt (R) Zaighamuddin Azam Khan, Counsellor, Berlin;
Capt (R) Sohail Ittehad Hussain, Director General,M/o Foreign Affairs;
Capt (R) Khalid Durrani, Director, M/o Foreign Affairs.
General ?? Jahangeer Karamat, Ambassador of Pakistan in USA.
Brigadier ?? Ejas Shah, Director General Intelligence Bureau.
The above list was of 2002. In 2003, as many as 104 serving and retired Lieutenant Generals, Major Generals or equivalent ranks from other services are among the 1,027 military officers inducted on civilian posts in different ministries, divisions and Pakistani missions abroad after Oct 12, 1999 military takeover. The number of army Brigadiers or their equivalent ranks from the Navy and Air Force is even higher at 160, according to an annexure placed before the Senate library.
There have been 14 ambassadors and a high commissioner from the military ranks during this period.
Of these 1,027 military officers inducted on civilian posts, 27 military officers have been given the prized grade of 22 while 62 officers have been adjusted in grade 21. A whopping figure of 150 officers occupy civilian positions in Grade 20. There are 276 officers between grade 20 and 22 alone. The nature of their jobs varies from deputation, secondment, re-employment to contract basis. These military officers occupy civilian posts in a situation where, according to Incharge Cabinet Division Raza Hiraj, there are 700 ‘unabsorbed’ surplus civilian employees. There are 33 officers on special duty (OSD) just in grades between 19 and 21.
The range of fields where military officers are working on civilian posts encompasses every sector of human endeavour including communications, education, diplomacy, water and electricity management, information, post office, jails, local bodies, think tanks, industrial production, shipping, minority affairs, population welfare, health, agriculture, railways, highways, housing, labour and manpower, social and women development, law and justice and sub-sectors of sports from cricket to hockey.
A close look at the figures shows that these military personnel occupy 13 posts in the cabinet division, 5 posts in the commerce ministry, 98 in communications ministry, 113 in the defence division, 52 in the defence production division, 9 in the education ministry, 16 in the establishment division, 24 in the ministry of foreign affairs, 6 in the ministry of food, agriculture and livestock. There are 88 military officers working in the ministry of interior, 2 in the health ministry, 6 in the housing and works ministry, 29 in the industries and production ministry, 3 in the information and broadcasting ministry, 58 in the ministry of Information Technology, 25 in the Kashmir affairs and northern affairs ministry, five in the labour and manpower division, 17 in the ministry of minorities affairs, 39 in the ministry of petroleum and natural resources, just one each in the ministry of population welfare, the planning and development division and the ministry of religious affairs. There are two military officials working in the revenue division (CBR), 21 in the ministry of science and technology, 72 in the ministry of railways/railway board, 37 in the ministry of water and power, 5 in the ministry of women development, 6 in the Wafaqi Mohtasib (Federal Ombudsmen). There are another 37 officers who have been inducted under the military’s 10 per cent quota in civilian posts over and above these appointments.
In the Foreign Affairs 13 Lieutenants and Major Generals were appointed as ambassadors in different countries, while one Brigadier and a Major also got ambassadorial positions.
Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani was appointed as ambassador in Riyadh (contract expired on October 2002).
Vice-Admiral (retd) Shamoon Alam Khan was appointed as ambassador in Kyiv (up to August 28, 2003),
Vice-Admiral (retd) Khalid M Mir was appointed ambassador in Beirut (up to July 2003),
Lt-Gen (retd) Nasim Rana as ambassador in Kuala Lumpur (up to July 2003),
Air Marshal (retd) Muhammad Farooq Qari as ambassador in Tripoli,
Lt-Gen (retd) Agha Jehangir Ali Khan as ambassador in Mexico,
Maj-Gen (retd) Shujaat Ali Khan as ambassador in Rabat (up to September 2003),
Maj-Gen (retd) Fazal Ghafoor as ambassador in Tashkent (contract expired on April 2002),
Maj-Gen (retd) Salim Ullah as ambassador in Abu Dhabi (up to June 2003),
Lt-Gen (retd) Mohammad Shafique as ambassador in Bahrain (contract expired on October 2002),
Maj-Gen (retd) Muhammad Hassan Aqeel as ambassador in Thailand (up to June 2003),
Maj Gen (retd) Syed Mustafa Anwar Hussain as ambassador in Indonesia (up to August 2003) and Maj-Gen (retd) Sultan Habib as ambassador in DPR Korea (up to October
2003).
Brigadier Abdul Majid Khan was appointed as ambassador in Dushambe (contract expired on June 2002), while
Major Badruddin was posted as high commissioner to Bender Seri Begawen. In the cabinet division,
Maj-Gen Khalid Bashir was appointed as Member (Tech) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) (up to November 2001),
Maj-Gen Raza Hussain as chairman SUPARCO and
Maj-Gen Shahzada Alam Malik as Chairman PTA.
These inductions were made on regular basis. Similarly, in the ministry of communications, Maj-Gen Tariq Javed was inducted as National Highway Authority chairman on November 11, 2000 but was later repatriated. In his place Maj Gen Furrakh Javed was appointed as NHA chief on November 5, 2001 on a secondment basis. He already had served as deputy director general (Dev) in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Likewise,
Maj-Gen (retd) Agha Masood Hasan was appointed as Director General Pakistan Post Office on a contract basis,
Vice-Admiral Taj Muhammad Khattak was appointed as Chairman Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on secondment,
Rear Admiral Muhammad Asad Qureshi was appointed as Director General PQA,
Vice Admiral (retd) S Tauquir H Naqvi as Chairman Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) on contract,
Vice Admiral (retd) S Abaid Ullah Khan as chairman (PNSC) (contract terminated on October, 2000),
Rear Admiral Bakhat Ali Jumani was appointed as Executive Director (Ship Management PNSC),
Rear Admiral (retd) Sarfraz Khan was appointed as Chairman Gwadar Port Authority (GPA),
Rear Admiral Muhammad Nashat Raffi as General Manager Karachi Port Trust (KPT),
Vice Admiral Ahmed Hayat was appointed on a contract basis as Chairman Karachi Port Trust (KPT), but prior to him Vice Admiral (retd) Khalid Mohammad Mir was serving as chairman. Maj Gen (retd) Mohsin Ahmed Vahidy was appointed as Executive Directive PNSC Karachi on a contract basis but he is not serving now, while Rear Admiral Sikandar Viqar Naqvi was appointed chairman PQA (not serving). Similarly, in the ministry of defence, Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz Khan was re-employed on a contract basis as secretary ministry of defence but earlier Lt-Gen (retd) Nasim Rana was serving in this capacity whose contract was terminated on July 8, 2001. Rear Admiral Irfan Ahmad was appointed as Additional Secretary (contract terminated), then Maj-Gen Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry was made Additional Secretary, defence ministry, on secondment basis.
Maj-Gen Javed Iqbal was appointed as Director General Military Land and Cantonments (ML&C) on secondment but he was later retired. Later,
Maj Gen Muhammad Jawed was appointed as DG ML&C on secondment.
Maj-Gen Mahboobul Muzaffar and Maj-Gen Sabihuddin Bokhari were appointed as Surveyor General of Pakistan.
After their retirement, Maj-Gen Tariq Javed was appointed in their place on secondment basis. Rear Admiral Arshad Munir Ahmed was appointed Ex-Managing Director Karachi Shipyard (contract expired),
Air Vice Marshal S Javed Raza as Director Pre Engineering PIA,
AVM (retd) Niaz Hussain Director (Engineering) PIA and
AVM Arshad Rashid Sethi as Deputy Director General, CAA (not working).
In the Defence Production Division, Air Marshal (retd) Zahid Anis was appointed as secretary D P Division. Earlier Lt-Gen (retd) Lehrasab was working in his place. Similarly, Maj-Gen Ali Baz was appointed as Additional Secretary D P Division. Earlier, Maj-Gen Rehmat Khan was serving as Additional Secretary D P Division. Maj-Gen M Salimuddin was re-employed after his retirement from the army as Chief Scientists and Scientific Adviser DESTO in place of Maj-Gen Akbar Saeed Awan, while Maj-Gen Syed Ali Hamid was appointed as Director General DEPO on secondment basis while AVM Aurangzeb Khan was appointed Chairman Pakistan Aeronautical Complex board, Kamra.
In the Establishment Division, Maj-Gen (retd) Rahmatullah was appointed as Managing Director Federal Employees Benevolent Fund and Group Insurance. Earlier, Maj-Gen (retd) Inayatullah Khan Niazi was working in his place. Air Marshal (retd) Shafique Haider was appointed as Chairman Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) while Lt-Gen (retd) Arshad Hussain was appointed Member, FPSC.
Maj-Gen (retd) Sikander Shami was appointed as Director General of Head of Institute of NIPA, Lahore, while Lt-Gen (retd) Sardar Ali as Director NIPA, Lahore, both on a contract basis. Maj-Gen Muhammad Iqbal Khan was appointed as Managing Director PASSCO on contract in the ministry of food, agriculture and livestock, Maj-Gen Ahsan Ahmad as Director General health on secondment but was replaced by Maj-Gen (retd) Muhammad Aslam also on secondment/contract in the health ministry.
In the interior ministry Maj-Gen (retd) Zahid Ehsan was appointed as Chairman Nadra (posted out) while in the ministry of industries and production Maj-Gen (retd) M Mohsin was appointed as chairman NFC (national finance commission) on contract. AVM Azhar Maud was appointed National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) chairman.
In the ministry of information and broadcasting Maj-Gen (retd) Jamshed Ayaz Khan was appointed as president Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, on contract. In the minorities, culture, sports, Maj-Gen (retd) Inayat Ullah Khan Niazi was appointed Chairman ETPB (contract expired), while Maj-Gen Anis Ahmad Bajwa was appointed as Managing Director PTDC Islamabad on contract. He had already served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Chief Executive in the Prime Minister’s secretariat. Lt-Gen Hamid Javed was appointed as Chief of Staff to the President in the president’s secretariat.
Similarly in the Prime Minister’s secretariat Lt-Gen Ghulam Ahmad was appointed as chief of staff to Chief Executive in place of Lt-Gen Hamid Javed.
Maj-Gen Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, Maj-Gen Shafaatullah Shah and
Maj-Gen Muhammad Yousaf were also appointed as deputy chief of staff to chief executive.
Maj-Gen Haroon Sikandar Pasha was appointed as Director Chief Executive’s secretariat.
Maj-Gen Nadeem Taj had also served as Military Secretary (MS) to Chief Executive (posted as MS to the president from January 2002).
Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (now Governor Punjab) and Lt-Gen Syed Muhammad Amjad were appointed as Chairm an National Accountability Bureau (NAB), while Maj-Gen Abdul Jabbar Bhatti,
Maj-Gen Ijaz Ahmed Bakhshi and
Maj-Gen Ovais Mushtaq Qureshi,
AVM (retd) M Saleemud
Din, Maj-Gen Muhammad Sabir,
Maj-Gen Nazakat Ali Khan,
Maj-Gen Shujaat Zamir Dar,
Maj-Gen Syed Usman Shah and
Maj-Gen Tariq Bashir,
Rear Admiral Ihsanul Haq,
Real Admiral Ubaid Sadiq, AVM Masood Akhtar,
AVM Zakaullah Khan and
AVM (retd) Khuda Dad were subsequently appointed as Director General, NAB
Maj-Gen (retd) Syed Asif Riaz Bokhari was appointed as Member, NRB on a contract basis.
Maj-Gen Parvez Akmal was appointed as Managing Director Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) (not working) while Maj-Gen (retd) Syed Usman Shah was appointed as Director General Intelligence and Investigation.
In the railways ministry Lt-Gen (retd) Javaid Ashraf Qazi was appointed as secretary/chairman Pakistan Railways. After his contract was terminated Lt-Gen (retd) Saeeduz Zafar replaced him. On termination of his contract, Maj-Gen (retd) Hamid Hassan Butt was appointed as General Manager M & SPR but his contract too was terminated. Lt-Gen (retd) Zulfiqar Ali Khan was appointed as WAPDA Chairman on secondment/contract while Maj-Gen (retd) M Aslam Zuberi was appointed Adviser in the Wafaqi Mohtasib secretariat (contract expired). Those who were appointed in the attached departments include Air Marshal (retd) Sharbat A Changazi who was appointed as Director State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan and Rear Admiral (retd) Ejaz Husain appointed as General Manager Special Project, Pakistan State Oil Company Ltd. {4}