ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: In a reshuffle of the federal bureaucracy, the government on Friday filled important positions of the establishment and cabinet secretaries.

Ismail Qureshi has been appointed secretary to the Establishment Division and Zafar Mahmood secretary to the Cabinet Division.

Housing Secretary Samiul Haq Khilji has been transferred to the Pakistan Railways. The railway secretary has been posted at the science and technology ministry.

The other changes made in the bureaucracy, according to a late night notification issued by the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, are: Salman Ghani (commerce secretary), Ashraf Hayat, secretary to the Planning Division, Abdur Rauf (education secretary), Sibtain Fazal-i-Haleem (health), G.M. Sikandar (housing), Tariq Puri, additional secretary (investment), and Mirza Karim Baig, secretary to the Trade Development Authority. Former FIA DG Tariq Pervaiz has been appointed coordinator of the National Counter-Terrorism Authority, according to the notification.

—Khawar Ghumman