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Biography
Jawad Rafique Malik (Urdu: جواد رفیق ملک) is a Pakistani civil servant who serves in BPS-22 grade (highest attainable rank for a serving officer) as the Communications Secretary of Pakistan. Malik belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service and hails from Lahore.
Career
Jawad Rafique Malik serves as the Communications Secretary of Pakistan, in office since July 2019. Previously, he served as Chairman of the National Highway Authority. Malik was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in 2017, and served as Federal Secretary of the National Assembly of Pakistan from April 2017 to December 2017. Malik belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service and is batchmates with Sikandar Sultan Raja, Fawad Hasan Fawad, Rizwan Ahmed, Allah Dino Khawaja and Zafarullah Khan. Before serving in the federal government, Malik served in the Government of Punjab as the provincial Health Secretary and Commissioner Lahore.