Shahid Ashraf Tarar is a BPS-22 Pakistani civil servant who has served as Caretaker Federal Minister for Communications, Maritime and Railways from 17 August 2023 to 4 March 2024. His career spans various senior roles, including Chairman of the National Highway Authority and Federal Public Service Commission. Notably, he was appointed the Executive Director of the World Bank Group on behalf of seven countries, including Pakistan. Prior to his civil service, Tarar served ...
in the Pakistan Army, retiring with the rank of Captain. Currently, He is serving as Advisor to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Special Initiatives. He is also holding the charge of Chairman of the Ravi Urban Development Authority and Chairman of Air Punjab (Pvt.) Ltd. For one year, he also held the charge of Chairman of the Punjab Central Business District Development Authority Currently serving as the Chairman of the Ravi Urban Development Authority, Shahid Ashraf Tarar brings decades of leadership and administrative expertise to transform urban development in Punjab. A distinguished member of the Pakistan Administrative Service (13th CTP), he has held several high-profile national and international positions. He served as Federal Caretaker Minister for Communications, Maritime Affairs, and Railways (August 2023 – March 2024). His tenure as Chairman and member of the Federal Public Service Commission (January 2021 – August 2023) reinforced transparency and efficiency in federal civil service recruitment. Tarar has also represented Pakistan and allied countries as Executive Director at the World Bank Group (2018–2021), where he also chaired the Human Resources Committee. As Chairman of the National Highway Authority (2014–2017), he successfully led the completion of multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects, including key initiatives under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). He also served as Federal Secretary for Communications, Secretary for Excise & Taxation, Punjab, Director General at NAVTTC, and Head of the Trade & Economic Section at the Consulate General of Pakistan in Los Angeles. Tarar aims to guide RUDA in its mission to redefine urban living and foster sustainable growth.
Independent
Directors
Maj Gen (R) Dr. Azhar Mahmood Kayani
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Independent Director
Maj. Gen. Dr. Azhar Mahmood Kayani (R) is a highly accomplished interventional cardiologist and healthcare administrator with over three decades of experience in advanced cardiovascular medicine. A transformative leader in both military and civilian sectors, he previously served as Director General Medicine of the Pakistan Armed Forces and Commandant of the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC). Following these pivotal ...
roles, Maj. Gen. Kayani (R) established the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) as a premier institution, leading it as Executive Director. His strategic influence has long extended to high-level national policy, having served as a Temporary Advisor to the WHO on Cardiovascular Diseases and as the Personal Physician to the President and Prime Ministers of Pakistan. Currently, he drives national health policy as the Advisor to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Health and serves as the Chair of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Health. Renowned for academic and clinical excellence, Maj. Gen. Kayani (R) is the Dean of Cardiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (Cardiology), a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh & Glasgow), a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He holds memberships with the American Heart Association and the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology, publishing extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA and the American Heart Journal. Maj. Gen. Kayani (R) has held prominent leadership positions, including Chairman of the National Interventional Cardiology Board, as well as President of both the Pakistan Cardiac Society and the Pakistan Society of Interventional Cardiology. He continues to shape the future of cardiac care as the Chairman of the Board of Governors at Nawaz Sharif Institute of Cardiology, Sargodha and Chairman of the Board of Management at Sahiwal Institute of Cardiology. He remains dedicated to patient care as Director & Chief Cardiologist at Medikay Cardiac Centre and Chief Cardiologist at Jhelum Cardiac Centre. Beyond medicine, he drives social change through the Abdul Razzaq Welfare Trust (ARWT), founded in honour of his father to provide free education, healthcare, support for hearing-impaired children, and youth sports development in Jhelum.
Barrister Zafarullah Khan
Hilal-e-Imtiaz
Independent Director
Zafarullah Khan, Barrister-at-Law, is a senior legal professional, former Federal Minister of the Government of Pakistan, and Head of Chamber. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, and holds advanced academic qualifications in law and international relations from renowned institutions in the United Kingdom and Pakistan. He has held several key positions in ...
public service, including Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister/Minister of State for Law and Justice, Parliamentary Affairs, Cabinet and Economic Affairs. His career reflects deep engagement with constitutional governance, the rule of law, and public-sector reform. Barrister Khan has extensive experience working with United Nations agencies, international donors, and civil society organisations on human rights, women’s rights, child protection, labour standards, and legislative reform. He has represented Pakistan before multiple UN treaty bodies and led national delegations on international human rights forums. An accomplished academic and author, he has taught law, human rights, and international relations at leading universities and professional training institutions in Pakistan. His scholarly work spans law, human rights, Islam, Sufism, and international relations, reflecting his broad intellectual interests and commitment to public service.
Karamat Ullah Chaudary
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Independent Director
Engineer Karamat Ullah Chaudry, FCIArb, is a highly accomplished civil engineer and infrastructure leader with over five decades of national and international experience in engineering consultancy, project management, arbitration, and institutional leadership. A founding member of National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK), he served the organisation for more than 35 years, including four years as Managing Director, and played a pivotal ...
role in leading complex, high-profile projects in partnership with leading multinational consultants. During his distinguished career, Engineer Chaudry has held several senior leadership and advisory roles, including Managing Director of Engineering Consultancy Services Punjab (ECSP), Technical Adviser to Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) Australia, and Managing Director of Central Boulevard (Pvt.) Ltd. He has also served as President of the Association of Consulting Engineers Pakistan (ACEP), President of the Technical Consultancy Development Program for Asia and Pacific (TCDAP), Member of the Governing Body of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Executive Board Member of the National Highway Authority (NHA), and Independent Director of multiple public-sector organisations. A practising professional engineer since 1969, his expertise spans highways and transportation engineering, rapid transit systems, water resources, construction management, business development, and corporate governance. He is fully conversant with FIDIC Conditions of Contract and has served as Arbitrator, Umpire, and Chairman/Member of Dispute Adjudication Boards in over 45 disputes. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London). Engineer Chaudry holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, and a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK. A Fellow of leading professional institutions in Pakistan, the UK, and the United States, he is also a PEC-certified director. Beyond his professional career, he has contributed extensively to sports administration and philanthropy and remains actively involved with charitable and welfare organizations in Pakistan.
Dr. Basmaa Ali
Hilal-e-Imtiaz
Independent Director
Dr. Basmaa Ali (MD, MBA) is a physician-leader, academic, and health-technology entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in clinical medicine, digital health innovation, and healthcare systems strengthening across the United States and Pakistan. She is the Founder of Deosai MedTech, a Boston-based health-tech venture focused on deploying AI-enabled solutions to improve healthcare delivery, beginning in low- and middle-income countries. ...
Dr. Ali is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she has led research and teaching initiatives on culturally competent care, physician well-being, and community health, including a landmark multicenter study on domestic violence in Muslim women. She also serves as a Resident Scientist at Lahore University of Management Sciences, where she co-developed interdisciplinary courses bridging neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and health, and authored digital health and wellness curricula for online learning platforms. Previously, Dr. Ali founded and served as Medical Director of Zanjabee Integrative Medicine & Primary Care in Boston, growing the practice to over 3,000 patients while pioneering technology-enabled, lifestyle-focused care models for chronic diseases such as migraine, fatigue, and depression. She has led hospital quality-improvement initiatives, developed tele-mentoring programs for medical students in Pakistan, and co-investigated AI-driven predictive models for personalised migraine prevention in collaboration with MIT researchers. Dr. Ali holds an MBBS from King Edward Medical College and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on AI in healthcare, women’s health, and population health. Fluent in multiple languages, she brings a global, systems-oriented perspective aligned with JMC’s mission of innovation, equity, and excellence in healthcare delivery.
Ex-Officio
Directors
Lt. General Arshad Naseem
Ex-Officio Director
Lt. Gen. Arshad Naseem (HI(M)) is the Surgeon General of the Pakistan Armed Forces and an Ex-Officio Director on the Board of Jinnah Medical Complex. A senior officer of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps, he is a highly qualified physician with specialisation in Medicine, Pulmonology, and Critical Care. He brings extensive leadership experience in military healthcare management and oversees the ...
armed forces’ medical services, including the Combined Military Hospitals network.
Imdad Ullah Bosal
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Ex-Officio Director
Imdad Ullah Bosal is a career civil servant with over 28 years of experience in key administrative and policy-making positions in the Government of Pakistan. Before joining as Finance Secretary, Mr. Imdad Ullah Bosal has held important positions of Secretary, Industries & Production and Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). He has also worked as Additional Secretary (Expenditure) and Additional Secretary (Banking/Investment/Inter-governmental Finance) ...
in the Ministry of Finance in the years 2020-2022. Mr. Bosal has also served as Secretary to the Chief Minister Punjab, Special Secretary Finance (Punjab) and as Commissioner of two important regions of Punjab, i.e. Rawalpindi and Lahore. Mr. Bosal is a result-oriented leader with expertise in public finance, public administration and political economy. He is a dynamic government servant with a direct understanding of governance systems and political economy of Pakistan. He has done a Master’s of Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and an M.Sc. in Political Economy of Development (Distinction) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has been awarded the national award of Sitara-e-Imtiaz for recognition of his contribution in public service by the Government of Pakistan.
Muhammad Aslam Ghauri
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Ex-Officio Director
Muhammad Aslam Ghauri is a senior civil servant belonging to the 21st Common of the Secretariat Group, currently holding the acting charge of Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination, Government of Pakistan. With a distinguished career spanning over three decades, he has held key leadership positions across federal and provincial governments, particularly in finance, health, governance, and ...
public administration. He is presently serving as Special Secretary (BS-22) in the Ministry of NHSR&C, and has previously served as Special Secretary and Additional Secretary in the Finance Division (Military Finance), as well as Joint Secretary at the federal level. At the provincial level in Sindh, he has served as Secretary for multiple departments, including Environment, Information, and Training Management & Research, along with leadership roles such as Director General, Sindh Coastal Development Authority, and Managing Director, Sindh Public Procurement Regulatory Authority. Mr. Ghauri also has international experience, having served as Community Welfare Attaché/Consul Welfare at the Consulate General of Pakistan in Barcelona, Spain. Academically, he holds an M.Sc. in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), an MBA (IT) with Gold Medal from SZABIST, an M.A. in Islamic Culture, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology. He brings to the Board extensive expertise in public sector governance, financial management, regulatory frameworks, and institutional development.
Dr. Sohail Munir
Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Ex-Officio Director
Dr. Sohail Munir is a seasoned technology and public-sector transformation leader with over twenty-five years of executive experience spanning digital government, GovTech, FinTech, smart cities, and C4I systems. He is widely recognised as a thought leader in digital transformation, with deep expertise in digital identity, blockchain, API economy, open data, cloud computing, digital payments, AI, AIOps, and machine learning. Dr. ...
Munir is the Founding Chairperson of the Pakistan Digital Authority, where he is leading the national digital transformation agenda under the Digital Nation Pakistan vision. In this role, he is shaping Pakistan’s digital economy, digital government, and digital society pillars, steering reforms in digital regulation, public-sector modernisation, national digital identity, secure data exchange, AI governance, and sectoral digital stacks. Internationally, Dr. Munir has held senior advisory and leadership roles with leading governments. He served as Advisor for Enterprise Architecture and Digital Governance to the Abu Dhabi Government’s Department of Government Enablement, leading initiatives in decentralised trust, verifiable credentials, blockchain adoption, and next-generation government platforms. Previously, he advised the Saudi Data and AI Authority, contributing to the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Software Engineering and Emerging Technologies and the NEOM Cognitive Cities Digital Masterplan. As Director and Advisor for Emerging Technologies at Smart Dubai, Dr. Munir led the Dubai Blockchain Initiative, was a principal architect of the Dubai Paperless City Initiative, and conceived and delivered UAE PASS, the UAE’s national digital identity platform. He has also delivered major digital transformation programs in Pakistan’s defence and public-safety sectors and remains actively engaged as an investor, founder, and advisor to startups across FinTech, LawTech, and PropTech. His work integrates strategic foresight with technological depth to enable governments and enterprises to transition confidently into an AI-native, data-driven future.