Lieutenant General (Retd) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal is Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Energy, with the status of Minister of State, appointed in October 2026. Before this appointment, he chaired the National Coordination and Management Council and led negotiations on revising contracts with power producers as part of the national energy task force. During his military career, he commanded the Army Air Defence Command and served as General Officer Commanding of an air defence division in Karachi and an infantry division in Sialkot. In 2022, he was National Coordinator of the National Flood Response and Coordination Centre. He has been awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) and the Sitara-i-Basalat. He was educated at Military College Jhelum and was commissioned into the Pakistan Army from the Pakistan Military Academy in 1989.