Maroof Afzal (died 10 December 2020) was a Pakistani civil servant who belonged to the

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and served as the

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and

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Biography

He served in BPS-22 grade as the

under Prime Minister

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and as

under Prime Minister

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. He belonged to the

. 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

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. Afzal was promoted to the rank of

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in December 2017. Other key

grade 22 Grade 22 (also referred to as BPS-Apex) is the highest attainable rank for a Civil Servant in Pakistan. Grade 22 is equal to a 4-star rank of the Pakistan Armed Forces. With over five hundred thousand civil servants and bureaucrats in Pakistan, on ...

positions which he 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

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and chairman of the

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. He belonged to the 15th CTP and was batchmates with

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, Rizwan Ahmed and

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. After his retirement from the civil services, Afzal was appointed as member of the

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in April 2020. Later in November 2020, he was notified as Chairman of the

however he could not take oath of his office as he contracted coronavirus. On 10 December 2020, he died from

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during the

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Biography

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