Tariq Pervez

Tariq Parvez (born 30 December 1948) is a Pakistani former Police officer and a bureaucrat who served as Home Minister in the Punjab government, only to oversee the general elections held in 2013.

[1] He began as a police officer and rose to become the director-general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency from 2005 to 2008.

Presently member of NACTA's committee of experts as well as president, Advisory Board, National Initiative against Organized Crime, Pakistan, a non partisan, independent think tank, based in Lahore.

[6] During his tenure as head of CID Punjab he played a major role in eliminating their sectarian network in the 1990s.

During his FIA career, Parvez resolved several terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings in the wake of 9/11.