Jamshed Burki

Jamshed Burki (born 1 August 1936) is a Pakistani former military officer and retired Grade 22 District Management Group (DMG) civil servant. As the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, Burki was responsible for the hostage release from the Afghan Embassy during the 1994 Peshawar school bus hijacking. Alongside Lt. General Ghulam Malik, he ordered the assault on the three hostage takers resulting in their deaths.

Jamshed first gained popularity while serving as the Home Secretary & Tribal Affairs Department North-West Frontier Province in the 1980s.

In February 2009, he was invited to give a speech at the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Association seminar on the Defence of Pakistan.

Geoffrey Moorhouse in his book, To the Frontier: A Journey to the Khyber Pass, recalled his initial meeting with Jamshed in the 1980s, depicting him as a "brisk, hatchet-faced man, friendly enough but at pains to indicate how very busy he was."

In his autobiography, Jahan Zeb of Swat writes, "After the merger, I once contacted Jamshed Burki; he was Commissioner here and he was always very nice to me, respectful and friendly. He was interviewing boys for admission to medical college. And my chauffeur wanted his son to get into that college. So I telephoned Jamshed and said I had this small recommendation. "No Sir, no Sir, they will go by merit! And merit only!", I liked that very much — he being devoted to me, yet saying: By merit."

In 1977, Dervla Murphy, in her book Where the Indus is Young, wrote, "Aurangzeb still represents Swat in the National Assembly— as a member of the opposition, naturally—and is on the friendliest terms with Captain Jamshed Burki, the very able and charming D.C. who has been appointed by Mr. Bhutto to replace the Wali. To me this seems a measure both of Aurangzeb’s fair-mindedness and Captain Burki’s tact."

Emma Duncan described him as, "a professional high-flyer with snob value, being from a good family and Imran Khan's cousin."