Ministry of the Government of Pakistan
The Ministry of Finance is a Cabinet-level ministry of the Government of Pakistan in charge of government finance, physical policy and financial regulation. It is headed by a Finance Minister, an executive or cabinet position.
The Minister is responsible each year for presenting the federal government's budget to the Parliament of Pakistan.
History of Ministry of Finance
Established as a first administrative ministry of the Pakistan's executive branch in 1947, the ministry of finance considered among the powerful portfolio and prestigious executive assignment in Pakistan's political spectrum. Ghulam Muhammad was the first finance minister of Pakistan had neither watermark nor security thread.
In the line of session to the prime minister, the Finance Minister is second-in-line, and many have ascended as Prime Minister after serving first as Finance Minister.
Divisions
Finance
The Finance Division comes under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance. The division's bureaucracy is divided into several wings and units, which include
- Human Resource Management Wing: Basic functions include the official business management of the organisation through the provision of effective human resource. The wing also provides logistic support to various other units of the organisation.[1]
- Budget Wing: Basic functions include the coordination, preparation, printing and publishing of fiscal budgets and related documents for the federal government. The wing is also responsible for the implementation of the budgetary targets and preparing monthly reports thereon.[2]
- Corporate Finance Wing: Basic functions include looking after the finance, financial, and corporate affairs of all Public Sector Entities (PSEs) that work under the administrative control of various federal ministries and their divisions.[3]
- Economic Adviser's Wing: Basic functions include the publication of the Economic Survey of Pakistan, both in Urdu and English, prior to the announcement of the federal budget. The budgetary supplement evaluates the overall economic performance of the country based on various economic factors as evident in the preceding fiscal year's data.[4]
- Expenditure Wing: Basic functions include the revision and finalisation of the federal budget, enforcement of economic measures and disbursements of pension funds.[5]
- External Finance Wing: Basic functions include the arrangement of economical from international financial institutions for balance of payments and budgetary support. The EF wing also allocates and utilises the foreign exchange and releases and maintains the funds for both civil departments and the armed forces.[6]
- External Finance Policy Wing: Basic functions include the compilation of the Pakistan government's principal policy for macroeconomic governance and poverty reduction. The EFP wing also deals with multilateral and bilateral institutions like the World Bank, Department for International Development (DFID), Citizens Damage Compensation Programme (CDCP), SAARC Development Fund (SDF), ECO Trade and Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Strengthening Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Project (SPRSMP), Pakistan One UN Programme and the Joint Ministerial Commissions (JMCs/JECs).[7]
- Economic Reforms Unit: Basic functions include the formulation of development strategies for the private sector and reviewing law, rules and regulations, pertaining to business environment that are obsolete, overlapping and inconsistent or unduly add to the cost of doing business.[8]
- Military Wing: Basic functions include procurement of all defence equipment for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP). The wing also prepares, executes and monitors the budget and expenditure of the armed forces, MoD, MoDP, inter-services organisations and defence production establishments.[9]
- Development Wing
- Internal Finance Wing
- Investment Wing
- Provincial Finance Wing
- Regulations Wing
Revenue
The Revenue Division comes under the supervision of the Federal Secretary for Revenue, who is usually the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue.
