Sikandar Sultan Raja

Sikandar Sultan Raja سکندر سلطان راجہ
Nationality	Pakistan
Occupation	Career Bureaucrat

Sikandar Sultan Raja is a Pakistani bureaucrat serving in BPS-22 grade (highest attainable rank for a serving officer) as Petroleum Secretary of Pakistan. Raja holds the honour of having served as Chief Secretary of two governments (Azad Kasmir and Gilgit-Baltistan). He belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service and is batchmates with Fawad Hasan Fawad, Jawad Rafique Malik, Rizwan Ahmed, Zafarullah Khan and Allah Dino Khawaja.

Raja's father remained a Major in Pakistan Army. Raja is son-in-law of Saeed Mehdi- a former top bureaucrat who served as Principal Secretary to PM Nawaz Sharif. Raja's wife, Rabab Sikandar, is a serving Customs official.

Raja did his FSc from Cadet College Hasan Abdal and then went on to King Edward Medical University to earn a bachelor’s degree in medicine. He was then inducted into the Pakistan Administrative Service and started off his career with his first post as Assistant Commissioner Islamabad in 1989.

Raja has served on key positions, including Deputy Commissioner Islamabad and Punjab's provincial Secretary. He has also served as Chief Secretary for the provinces of Gilgit Baltistan as well as Azad Jammu Kashmir. He remained as Director General Immigration and Passport under the administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Raja was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in 2017.

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