Planning Commission (Pakistan)

Planning Commission of Pakistan
Agency overview
Formed	July 8, 1952 (1952-07-08)
Jurisdiction	Government of Pakistan
Headquarters	Islamabad, Pakistan
Annual budget	See (2011 Federal Budget)
Agency executives	Nawaz Sharif, Prime minister, Chairman Ahsan Iqbal, Deputy Chairman
Website	www.pc.gov.pk

The Planning Commission (denoted as PC), is a financial and public policy development institution of the Government of Pakistan. The Planning Commission undertakes research studies and state policy development initiatives for the growth of national economy and the expansion of the public and state infrastructure of the country, in tandem with the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

Since 1952, the commission have had a major influence and role in formulating the highly centralized and planned Five-year plans for the national economy, for most of the 20th century in Pakistan. Although, the five-year plans were replaced by Medium Term Development Framework, the commission still played an influential and central role in the development of the programme. Furthermore, the Public Sector Development Programmes (PSDP) also placed under the domain of the planning commission. The commission's authoritative figures includes a Chairman who is the Prime Minister, assisted by the deputy chairman, and a science advisor.

Other officials of the commissions includes Secretary of Planning and Development Division; chief economist; Director of PIDE; Executive Director of Policy Implementation and Monitoring (PIM); and members for Social Sectors, Science and Technology, Energy, Infrastructure, and Food and Agriculture.^[1]

As of 2013, the Chairman is Prime Minister of Pakistan and the current Deputy Chairman is Ahsan Iqbal who is also the Federal Minister for Planning and Development.^[2]

History

In spite of the grave economic and financial problems which beset the Government of Pakistan soon after her independence, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan established an independent institution, a Development Board (DB), in the Ministry of Economics Affairs (MoEA) in 1948. The institute was visioned to deal with questions of rapid economic and financial development of the country. In 1950, Prime Minister Ali Khan drafted a six-year development plan and embodied in the Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and South East Asia. This was essentially an outline plan and delineated only a broad pattern of development.

Finally, in 1953, Prime minister Khawaja Nazimuddin decided to give commission to an institution that was set up on 18 July 1953. Ultimately, Zahid Hussain, former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan was appointed its first deputy chairman and two other members.^[3]

List of Deputy Chairman Planning Commission

This is the list of the former deputy chairmen of the planning commission of Pakistan.^[4]

1. Zahid Hussain, 1953 TO 1958
2. G. Ahmed, 1958 TO 1959
3. Mumtaz Hassan Khan, 1959 TO 1961
4. Saeed Hassan, 1962 TO 1966
5. M. M. Ahmad, 1967 TO 1969
6. M. H. Soofi, 1969 TO 1970
7. Mahboob Ullah Rashid, 1970 TO 1971
8. Qamar ul Islam, 1971 TO 1973
9. Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, 30-08-1978 TO 21-04-1979
10. Mahbub ul Haq, 07-03-1982 TO 13-04-1983
11. V. A. Jafary, 22-09-1985 TO 10-07-1986
12. A G N Kazi, 10-07-1986 TO 23-08-1993
13. Saeed Ahmed Qureshi, 24-08-1993 TO 30-06-1994
14. Qazi M. Alimullah, 01-07-1994 TO 05-11-1996
15. Dr. Hafiz Pasha, 12-11-1996 TO 12-08-1998
16. Ahsan Iqbal, 13-08-1998 TO 12-10-1999
17. Dr. Shahid Amjad, 27-07-2000 TO 08-08-2003
18. Engr. Dr. M. Akram Sheikh, 15-03-2004 TO 07-05-2008
19. M. Salman Faruqui, 09-05-2008 TO 28-11-2008
20. Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali, 29-11-2008 TO 13-01-2010
21. Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, 15-01-2010 TO 31-04-2010
22. Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque 01-05-2010 To 07-06-2013
23. Ahsan Iqbal, 08-06-2013 TO date.

See also

• Five-year plans of Pakistan
• Finance Secretary of Pakistan
• Governor of State Bank of Pakistan

References

External links

• Official Website
• Framework for Economic Growth, 2011

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