History
After Partition and independence of Pakistan, Central Statistical Office (CSO) was set up by the Government of Pakistan, led by Premier Liaquat Ali Khan, in 1950 as an attached department of Economic Affairs Division. Since then statistical system was reviewed from time to time by both local and foreign consultants. In 1972, on the recommendation of IBRD Mission, Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto upgraded Central Statistical Office (CSO) to a full-fledged Statistics Division. The Bureau was re-organized in 1981 and its technical wing (the then CSO) was converted into Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) as one of its attached departments. Former Finance Minister of Pakistan dr. Mahbub ul Haq took revolutionary steps to re-organized the Bureau.
In 2003, a team of Pakistani statisticians and mathematicians met the officials of Government of Pakistan where they had urged the government to established the Separate Division to mathematically modeled the country's economy. The following years, the Statistics Division was established under the technical direction of Scientist Emeritus of PAEC, dr. Asghar Qadir. As of today, Asif Bajwa is the current secretary-general of the Statistics Division. And, Minister responsible for the Division is Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Finance Minister of Pakistan.
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