{ "id": "adm-lahore-current-2026-08-01", "recordType": "administrationSnapshot", "title": "Current Lahore civil administration", "status": "Dated official directory transcription", "checkedOn": "2026-08-01", "evidenceState": "reconstructed", "reviewState": "reviewed", "citations": [ "cit-lahore-district-directorate-2026-08-01", "cit-lahore-district-core-team-2026-08-01", "cit-lahore-dc-functions", "cit-lahore-deputy-commissioner-history", "cit-lahore-division-core-team-2026-08-01", "cit-lahore-division-functions", "cit-punjab-civil-administration-act-section-3", "cit-mcl-administrator-2024", "cit-plga-2025-transition-savings", "cit-lgcd-notifications-catalog-2026-08-02", "cit-mlc-lahore-cantonment-profile", "cit-mlc-walton-cantonment-profile", "cit-mlc-cbcare-centers", "cit-ecp-cantonment-ward-schedule-2026", "cit-app-cantonment-ward-schedule-2026", "cit-business-recorder-cantonment-election-hearing-2026", "cit-cantonments-act-local-area-wards" ], "nodeIndex": { "offices": [ { "id": "off-punjab-government", "name": "Government of Punjab" }, { "id": "off-lahore-division-commissioner", "name": "Commissioner, Lahore Division" }, { "id": "off-lahore-deputy-commissioner", "name": "Deputy Commissioner, Lahore" }, { "id": "off-lahore-assistant-commissioner", "name": "Assistant Commissioner" } ], "people": [ { "id": "per-nauman-yousuf", "name": "Nauman Yousuf" }, { "id": "per-muhammad-ali-ijaz", "name": "Capt. 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Muhammad Ali Ijaz", "tenure": "January 2026 to present", "phone": "042-99211003-4", "email": "dclahore@punjab.gov.pk", "source": "https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/directorate" }, "divisionBranches": [ { "id": "asg-additional-commissioner-coordination-2026-08-01", "office": "Additional Commissioner, Coordination", "officeholder": "Vacant", "portfolio": "Coordination" }, { "id": "asg-additional-commissioner-revenue-2026-08-01", "office": "Additional Commissioner, Revenue", "officeholder": "Abdul Jabbar", "portfolio": "Revenue administration" }, { "id": "asg-additional-commissioner-consolidation-2026-08-01", "office": "Additional Commissioner, Consolidation", "officeholder": "Muhammad Arshad Bhatti", "portfolio": "Land consolidation" }, { "id": "asg-assistant-commissioner-general-2026-08-01", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, General", "officeholder": "Wajiha Sameer", "portfolio": "General branch" }, { "id": "asg-assistant-commissioner-revenue-2026-08-01", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Revenue", "officeholder": "Aleem Ahmad", "portfolio": "Revenue branch" }, { "id": "asg-assistant-commissioner-protocol-2026-08-01", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Protocol", "officeholder": "Not named in directory", "portfolio": "Protocol" }, { "id": "asg-director-development-finance-2026-08-01", "office": "Director, Development and Finance", "officeholder": "Javaid Rasheed Chohan", "portfolio": "Development and finance" }, { "id": "asg-deputy-director-technical-2026-08-01", "office": "Deputy Director, Technical", "officeholder": "Vacant", "portfolio": "Technical branch" }, { "id": "asg-assistant-director-planning-2026-08-01", "office": "Assistant Director, Planning", "officeholder": "Hafiz Iqbal", "portfolio": "Planning" }, { "id": "asg-assistant-director-security-2026-08-01", "office": "Assistant Director, Security", "officeholder": "Wasim Tahir", "portfolio": "Security" } ], "districtBranches": [ { "office": "Additional Deputy Commissioner, General", "officeholder": "Abdullah Khan", "portfolio": "Health, education, social welfare, agriculture, sports and elected-member coordination", "phone": "042-99212498, 042-99210612", "functionSource": "https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/adc-gen" }, { "office": "Additional Deputy Commissioner, Revenue", "officeholder": "Hafiz Karim Dad", "portfolio": "Revenue courts and records, state land, elections, encroachment and land-record systems", "phone": "042-99210614-15", "functionSource": "https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/adc-rev" }, { "office": "Additional Deputy Commissioner, Headquarters", "officeholder": "Kashif Jaleel", "portfolio": "Law and order, price control, arms, emergency work, markets and dangerous buildings", "phone": "042-99211000", "functionSource": "https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/adc-hq" }, { "office": "Additional Deputy Commissioner, Finance and Planning", "officeholder": "Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan", "portfolio": "District development and budgets, road patchwork, streetlights, PHA, LWMC, parking and transport coordination", "phone": "042-99210611, 042-99211012", "functionSource": "https://lahore.punjab.gov.pk/adc-fp" } ], "linkedDistrictInstitutions": [ { "institution": "District Health Authority", "office": "Chief Executive Officer", "officeholder": "Dr. Muhammad Asif", "relationship": "District institution listed in the DC office directory", "phone": "042-99200980" }, { "institution": "District Education Authority", "office": "Chief Executive Officer", "officeholder": "Tariq Mehmood", "sourceNameVariant": "The directorate page spells the surname Mahmood.", "relationship": "District institution listed in the DC office directory", "phone": "042-99205101" }, { "institution": "Metropolitan Corporation Lahore", "office": "Chief Corporation Officer", "officeholder": "Kaleem Yousaf", "relationship": "Municipal institution listed in the DC office directory", "phone": "042-99214327-8" } ], "recentDeputyCommissioners": [ { "officeholder": "Capt. (Retd.) Muhammad Ali Ijaz", "tenure": "January 2026 to present" }, { "officeholder": "Syed Musa Raza", "tenure": "August 2024 to January 2026" }, { "officeholder": "Rafia Haider", "tenure": "February 2023 to August 2024" }, { "officeholder": "Muhammad Ali", "tenure": "August 2022 to February 2023" }, { "officeholder": "Muhammad Umer Sher", "tenure": "August 2021 to August 2022" }, { "officeholder": "Mudassar Riaz Malik", "tenure": "October 2020 to August 2021" }, { "officeholder": "Danish Afzal", "tenure": "October 2019 to October 2020" }, { "officeholder": "Salaha Saeed", "tenure": "October 2018 to September 2019" }, { "officeholder": "Capt. (R) Muhammad Anwar-ul-Haq", "tenure": "June 2018 to October 2018" }, { "officeholder": "Sumair Ahmad Syed", "tenure": "January 2017 to June 2018" } ], "municipalTransition": { "institution": "Metropolitan Corporation Lahore", "status": "Last verified municipal arrangement during transition", "administrator": "Deputy Commissioner Lahore, last verified appointment", "evidenceState": "inference", "explanation": "A 2024 Gazette appointed the Deputy Commissioner as administrator. Sections 191 and 196 of the 2025 Act continue public services and save earlier appointments unless replaced. The official catalogue checked on 2 August 2026 showed no later replacement. The catalogue may be incomplete.", "sources": [ { "label": "Punjab Gazette appointment, 31 May 2024", "url": "https://lgcd.punjab.gov.pk/system/files/Notification%2021%20May%202024.pdf" }, { "label": "Punjab Local Government Act 2025, sections 191 and 196", "url": "https://lgcd.punjab.gov.pk/system/files/PLGA_2025.pdf" }, { "label": "LGCD notifications catalogue, checked 2 August 2026", "url": "https://lgcd.punjab.gov.pk/notifications" } ] }, "cantonmentBoards": [ { "institutionId": "ins-lahore-cantonment-board", "placeId": "plc-pk-punjab-lahore-cantonment", "name": "Lahore Cantonment Board", "shortName": "LCB", "system": "Federal local body under the Military Lands and Cantonments system", "institutionState": "verified", "geometryState": "open", "statedAreaAcres": 9745, "statedCivilPopulation": 374872, "phone": "+92-42-111-042-522", "address": "42 Sarwar Road, Lahore Cantt", "complaintRoute": "CBCARE citizen portal, phone or Board office", "complaintUrl": "https://mlc.gov.pk/citizen-login", "source": "https://mlc.gov.pk/lahore-cantonment", "boundaryGap": "No current gazetted boundary description or authoritative digital boundary has been obtained." }, { "institutionId": "ins-walton-cantonment-board", "placeId": "plc-pk-punjab-lahore-walton-cantonment", "name": "Walton Cantonment Board", "shortName": "WCB", "system": "Federal local body under the Military Lands and Cantonments system", "institutionState": "verified", "geometryState": "open", "statedAreaAcres": 9745, "statedCivilPopulation": 708707, "phone": "+92-42-99220406", "address": "Ahmed Buksh Road, R A Bazar, Lahore", "complaintRoute": "CBCARE citizen portal, phone or Board office", "complaintUrl": "https://mlc.gov.pk/citizen-login", "source": "https://mlc.gov.pk/walton-cantonment", "boundaryGap": "No current gazetted boundary description or authoritative digital boundary has been obtained." } ], "cantonmentWardProcess": { "announcedOn": "2026-01-16", "reportedPreliminaryListDate": "2026-03-05", "reportedFinalListDate": "2026-04-20", "currentState": "Final Lahore-area ward files not obtained", "evidenceState": "42-board announcement; Lahore reported; Board-specific scope open", "explanation": "The ECP announced a 42-board exercise. Named official-news reporting says Lahore was included and supplies the dates. The sources obtained do not name Lahore Cantonment Board and Walton Cantonment Board individually. Direct final lists and maps remain open.", "boundaryRule": "Ward lines must stay within the cantonment local area. They cannot by themselves prove an outer boundary we have not obtained.", "electionGate": { "status": "Federal election-date coordination unresolved in the latest record located", "evidenceState": "named hearing report; direct ECP order missing", "explanation": "Business Recorder reported on 22 July that a federal summary had been pending since 31 May and that the ECP bench directed its secretariat to approach the Prime Minister's office. No notified poll date was located by 2 August.", "checkedOn": "2026-08-02", "source": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40431179/lg-polls-in-cantonments-defence-ministry-says-ready-to-support-ecp" }, "source": "https://ecp.gov.pk/ecp-notifies-schedule-for-delimitation-of-wards-in-42-cantonment-boards" }, "areas": [ { "id": "asg-ac-lahore-cantt-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Lahore Cant", "displayName": "Lahore Cantt", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Cantonment", "officeholder": "Syeda Sumbal Javed", "phone": "042-99214398" }, { "id": "asg-ac-model-town-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Lahore Model Town", "displayName": "Model Town", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Model Town", "officeholder": "Abdul Sami Sheikh", "phone": "042-99231490" }, { "id": "asg-ac-shalamar-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Lahore Shalamar", "displayName": "Shalamar", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Shalamar", "officeholder": "Muhammad Amir", "phone": "042-99332063" }, { "id": "asg-ac-lahore-city-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Lahore City", "displayName": "Lahore City", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, City", "officeholder": "Amar Liaqat", "phone": "042-99210608" }, { "id": "asg-ac-raiwind-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Lahore Raiwand", "displayName": "Raiwind", "sourceLabel": "Lahore Raiwand", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Raiwind", "officeholder": "Babar Ali Rai", "phone": "042-35397619" }, { "id": "asg-ac-allama-iqbal-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Allama Iqbal", "displayName": "Allama Iqbal Town", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Allama Iqbal Town", "officeholder": "Tariq Shabbir", "phone": "042-35294088" }, { "id": "asg-ac-nishter-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Nishter", "displayName": "Nishter", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Nishter", "officeholder": "Muhammad Saleem Aasi" }, { "id": "asg-ac-saddar-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Saddar", "displayName": "Saddar", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Saddar", "officeholder": "Abid Mumtaz", "phone": "042-99223164" }, { "id": "asg-ac-wahga-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Wahga", "displayName": "Wahga", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Wahga", "officeholder": "Hafiz Muhammad Zeeshan", "phone": "042-36526440" }, { "id": "asg-ac-ravi-2026-08-01", "tehsil": "Ravi", "displayName": "Ravi", "office": "Assistant Commissioner, Ravi", "officeholder": "Humaira Shah", "phone": "042-37700660" } ] }