The Planning Commission (denoted as PC) () is a

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and

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development institution of the

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of Pakistan. The Commission comes under Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives 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

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(MoF). Since 1952, the commission have had a major influence and role in formulating the highly centralized and planned

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for the national economy, for most of the

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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 Programme (PSDP) also placed under the domain of the planning commission. The commission's authoritative figures includes a

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who is the

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, assisted by the deputy chairman, and a science advisor. Other officials of the commissions includes Planning and Development Secretary of Pakistan; Chief Economist; Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; Executive director of Policy Implementation and Monitoring (PIM); and members for Social Sectors, Science and Technology, Energy, Infrastructure and Food and Agriculture.

History

Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan (1 October 189516 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan (, Roman Urdu, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the he ...

established an independent institution, a Development Board (DB), in the Ministry of Economics Affairs (MoEA) in 1948. Finally, in 1953 Prime minister

Khawaja Nazimuddin Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964), also spelled Khwaja Nazimuddin, was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second Governor-General of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and later as the second Prime Minister ...

decided to give commission to an institution that was set up on 18 July 1953. Ultimately, Zahid Hussain, former

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was appointed its first deputy chairman and two other members.

List of Deputy Chairman Planning Commission

This is the list of the former deputy chairmen of the planning commission of Pakistan. # Zahid Hussain, 1953 – 1958 # G. Ahmed, 1958 – 1959 # Mumtaz Hassan Khan, 1959 – 1961 # Said Hasan, 1962 – 1966 # M. M. Ahmad, 1967 to 1969 # M. H. Soofi, 1969 to 1970 # Mahboob Ullah Rashid, 1970 – 1971 #

Qamar ul Islam Qamar ul Islam (27 January 1948 – 18 September 2017), was an Indian politician who was the Six-term Member of the Karnataka Legislative assembly, one-term Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Kalaburagi and All India Congress Committee ...

, 1971 – 1973 # Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, 30-08-1978 to 21-04-1979 #

Mahbub ul Haq Mahbub ul-Haq (; ) was a Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician who served as the minister of Finance from 10 April 1985 to 28 January 1986, and again from June to December 1988 as a caretaker. Regarded as o ...

, 07-03-1982 to 13-04-1983 # V. A. Jafary, 22-09-1985 to 10-07-1986 #

A G N Kazi Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi (; 6 November 1919 – 9 August 2016) , also known as AGN Kazi, was a Pakistani civil servant and a bureaucrat during the Cold War and during the post cold war. Kazi was born in Sindh, Bombay Presidency, in 1919 to an a ...

, 10-07-1986 to 23-08-1993 # Saeed Ahmed Qureshi, 24-08-1993 to 30-06-1994 # Qazi M. Alimullah, 01-07-1994 to 05-11-1996 # Dr. Hafiz Pasha, 12-11-1996 to 12-08-1998 # Ahsan Iqbal, 13-08-1998 to 12-10-1999 # Dr. Shahid Amjad, 27-07-2000 to 08-08-2003 # Engr. Dr. M. Akram Sheikh, 15-03-2004 to 07-05-2008 # M. Salman Faruqui, 09-05-2008 to 28-11-2008 # Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali, 29-11-2008 to 13-01-2010 # Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, 15-01-2010 to 31-04-2010 # Dr. Nadeem ul Haque 01-05-2010 to 07-06-2013 # Ahsan Iqbal, 08-06-2013 to 28-07-2017 # Sartaj Aziz, 13-08-2017 to 31-05-2018 # Khusro Bakhtiar, 20-08-2018 to 01-08-2019 # Dr. Jehanzeb Khan, 01-08-2019 to 11-06-2022 # Ahsan Iqbal, 12-06-2022 t0 24-08-2023 # Dr. Jehanzeb Khan, 25-08-2023 to 29-08-2024 # Ahsan Iqbal, 30-08-2024 to date

List of Chief Economist of Pakistan

This is the list of the history of all Chief Economists of Pakistan. # Mr. M.L. Qureshi, 1956-1961 # Dr. Mahbub ul Haq, 1967-1970 # Dr. Jawaid Azfar, 1981-1983 # Mr. Mansur Hassan Khan, 1983-1986 # Dr. Arshad Zaman, 1987-1992 # Mr. Fasihuddin, 1992-1995 # Dr. A.R. Kemal, 1997-1999 # Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad, 1999-2000 # Dr. Pervez Tahir, 2000-2006 # Dr. M. Shaukat Ali, 2006-2007 # Dr. Rashid Amjad, 2008-2010 # Dr. Jaffar Qamar, 2010-2011 # Dr. M. Nadeem Javaid, 2014-2018 # Mr. Syed Ejaz Wasti, 2018-2018 # Dr. Muhammad Ahmad, 2021-2022 # Dr. M. Nadeem Javaid, 2022-2023

Vision 2025

The Vision 2025 is the country's long–term development

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which aims to create a globally competitive and prosperous country providing a high quality of life for all its citizens. Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, Minister Planning and Dr. M. Nadeem Javaid, advisor to Minister prepared Vision 2025 by carrying out wider consultations with line ministries, provincial governments, civil society and business community. National Economic Council approved it in July 2014, subsequently a PSDP Project was created named "High Impact Initiative of Vision 2025" to implement it across the various tiers of the Government. Dr. Asif Chishti from Harvard University was called in to lead as Project Director.

Priority Areas

* Integrated Energy * Modernization of Infrastructure * Institutional reform and modernization of the public sector * Value-addition in Commodity Producing Sectors * Export promotion * Water and food security * Private sector-led growth and entrepreneurship

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, is a

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research institute, and a public policy think tank located in the vicinity of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan Planning and Management Institute

The Pakistan Planning and Management Institute (PPMI) is one of the divisions of the Planning Commission. The main objectives of PPMI are to improve technical and analytical skills and enhance expertise of the federal, provincial and

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governments’ officers through training in areas of

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, Social development and application of Information Technology in Project management.

Federal Drought Emergency Relief Assistance (DERA) Unit

The function of DERA Unit is to facilitate the implementation of the project in the drought-hit areas of all the four provinces and coordinate activities carried out in the provinces to mitigate the effects of drought.

References

External links

Official Website

National Fertilizer Development Centre

Centre for Rural Economy

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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