The Planning Commission (denoted as PC) ( ur, ) is a financial and

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development institution of the

Government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...

of Pakistan. The Commission comes under Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms. The Planning Commission undertakes research studies and state policy development initiatives for the growth of

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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 Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is co ...

five-year plans Five-year plan may refer to: Nation plans *Five-year plans of the Soviet Union, a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union *Five-Year Plans of Argentina *Five-Year Plans of Bhutan, a series of national economic developm ...

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

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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. , the chairman is

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, Mr.

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

and the current deputy chairman is

Dr. Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...

, a senior ranking officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service.

History

Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan ( ur, ; 1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951), also referred to in Pakistan as ''Quaid-e-Millat'' () or ''Shaheed-e-Millat'' ( ur, lit=Martyr of the Nation, label=none, ), was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, political theorist ...

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 ( bn, খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন; ur, ; 19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964) was a Pakistani politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. He is noted as being the first Bengali to ha ...

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

Mahbub ul Haq Mahbub ul Haq ( ur, ; ) was a Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician who served as the Minister of Finance of Pakistan from 10 April 1985 to 28 January 1986, and again from June to December 1988 as a caret ...

, 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 ( ur, آفتاب غلام نبی قاضی; 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 Si ...

, 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 Sartaj Aziz ( ur, ; born 7 February 1929) is a Pakistani economist and a strategist, having previously served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, member of the federal cabinet as the ''de facto'' Minister for Fo ...

, 13-08-2017 to 31-05-2018 # Khusro Bakhtiar, 20-08-2018 to 01-08-2019 #

Dr. Jehanzeb Khan Doctor is an Academic degree, academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an Agent noun, agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europ ...

, 01-08-2019 to present

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. Vision 2025 Director: Dr Asif Chishti

Priority Areas

* Integrated Energy * Modernization of Infrastructure * Institutionalreform 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

post-graduate Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. The organization and struc ...

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 the one of the division of 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

Project Management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...

Social development Social development can refer to: * Psychosocial development * Social change * Social development theory * Social Development (journal) * Social emotional development * Social progress or social regress The word decadence, which at first meant ...

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

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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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