PESHAWAR: In a massive reshuffle in the provincial bureaucracy, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, led by the governor, transferred most administrative secretaries, divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners.

A notification from the Human Resource Management Department (HRMD) said Amjad Ali Khan, the industries secretary, has been transferred and posted as the home and tribal affairs secretary. Matiullah Khan, the information department secretary, has been transferred and posted as the health secretary.

Inayatullah Wasim, chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Abbottabad, has been posted as secretary of the elementary and secondary education (ESE) department, while Muhammad Khalid, ESE secretary, has been directed to report to HRMD.

Shahid Sohail Khan, secretary of the administration department, has been posted as law and parliamentary affairs secretary, while Akhtar Saeed Turk, the incumbent secretary, has been directed to report to HRMD. Muhammad Ayaz, secretary of the inter-provincial coordination department, has been posted as finance department secretary, while Kamran Afridi has been directed to report to HRMD from the finance department.

Most secretaries, commissioners, deputy commissioners replaced

Similarly, Amir Sultan Tareen, the CM’s principal secretary, has been posted as the industries secretary, while Fakhr Alam, who was awaiting posting in HRMD, has been posted as the secretary of the population welfare department. Yousaf Rahim has been posted as secretary of the relief, rehabilitation and settlement department.

Abidullah, chairman of the KP Textbook Board, has been transferred and posted as the secretary of the higher education department. Tahir Orakzai has been posted as the housing department secretary, while Manzoor Ahmed has been posted as secretary of public health engineering.

Tashfeen Haider, special secretary of the elementary and secondary education department, has been transferred and posted as secretary of the administration department.

Nisar Ahmed, energy and power secretary, has been transferred and posted as secretary of the science and information technology department, while Muhammad Zubair has been transferred from the transport and mass transit department to the energy and power department.

Mines and Mineral Secretary Muhammad Israr, Communication and Works Secretary Ziaul Haq, Religious Affairs and Haj Secretary Attaur Rehman, Irrigation Secretary Abid Khan, Housing Secretary Anwar Khan, Higher Education Department Secretary Amber Ali Khan, Relief and Rehabilitation Secretary Sohail Khan and Population Secretary Aneela Mahfooz Durrani have been asked to report to HRMD.

Zubair Ahmed, special secretary of the finance department, has been posted as the secretary of the transport and mass transit department, while Amir Latif has been posted as the mines and minerals secretary.

Saqib Raza has been posted as the communication and works department secretary, while Idress Khan, secretary of the Benevolent Fund department, has been posted as the secretary of the auqaf, hajj and religious and minority affairs department. Hamidullah Shah has been posted to the excise and taxation department, while Amir Afaq has been appointed as the agriculture department secretary.

Khalid Ilyas, secretary of the excise and taxation department, has been transferred and posted as secretary of the irrigation department. Masood Younas has been posted as the inter-provincial coordination secretary, while Bakhtiar Khan has been posted as the secretary of information and public relations.

Fayyaz Ali Shah, the health department secretary, has been transferred and directed to report to HRMD, while Mian Adil Iqbal, from the science and information technology department, has also been directed to report to HRMD. Bannu Commissioner Khalid Mah­mood has been posted as the Peshawar commissioner, while Muhammad Ali Shah, who was awaiting posting in HRMD, has been posted as the Mardan commissioner.

Naeemullah, the PDMA director, has been transferred and posted as the Bannu commissioner, while Perwaiz, the special secretary of the agriculture department, has be­en posted as Kohat commissioner.

Shahrukh Ali, special secretary of the home and tribal affairs department, has been transferred and posted as Hazara commissioner. Iqbal Hussain, joint secretary from the federal government, has been posted as the Malakand commissioner.

Meanwhile, Peshawar Commis­sioner Riaz Khan Mehsud, Mardan Commissioner Habibullah Arif, Ko­­hat Commissioner Motasim Billah Shah, Malakand Commissioner Ma­­sood Ahmed and Hazara Com­mis­sioner Shahidullah Khan have been directed to report to HRMD. Besides, most deputy commissioners across the province have also been transferred.

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2026