Auqaf, Hajj, Religious and Minority Affairs Department

Auqaf Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an administrative Department under Schedule of the Government Rules of Business, 1985 headed by an administrative Secretary who also acts as Chief Administrator Auqaf, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It has the office of Administrator Auqaf as an autonomous body, normally headed by an officer from Provincial Service. Auqaf Administrator’s office is a self-generating body (autonomous body) and meets its daily expenditure from its own revenue sources which include rents/lease amount received from Waqf Properties (both agricultural as well as commercial). The income received from these sources is utilized on repair/maintenance, construction of mosques, shrines under the management of Auqaf Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, salaries of the staff of Administrator Auqaf and other religious welfare and charitable purpose.