Maroof Afzal


Maroof Afzal is a retired Pakistani civil servant who served in BPS-22 grade as the Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan under Prime Minister Imran Khan and as Establishment Secretary under Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. He belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service. He is among the very few civil servants in the country's history to have served at both the coveted positions of Secretary Cabinet and Secretary Establishment; two bureaucratic posts which report directly to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Afzal was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in December 2017.
Other key grade 22 positions which he has previously held include Federal Secretary for Industries and Production and Federal Secretary for Information Technology. As a grade 21 officer, Maroof served as chairman of the Capital Development Authority and chairman of the National Highway Authority. He belongs to the 15th CTP and is batchmates with Jawad Rafique Malik, Fawad Hasan Fawad, Sikandar Sultan Raja, Rizwan Ahmed and Hussain Asghar.
After his retirement from the civil services, Afzal was appointed as member of the Federal Public Service Commission.