The Principal Secretary to the President of Pakistan is the administrative head of Aiwan-e-Sadr.

The position was considered to be very important until 2010; however, after the Eighteenth Amendment, the presidency was reduced to a mere ceremonial role.

The position holder usually belongs to the Pakistan Administrative Service.

The current principal secretary to the president is Mr Muhammad Shakeel Malik from Secretariat Group.

[1] The longest-serving Principal Secretary to the President was ace bureaucrat Qudrat Ullah Shahab, who served with three heads of state.