Zahid Husain (1893 – 1957) was the founder and the first
governor of
State Bank of Pakistan from June 1948 to July 1953.
[Profile of Zahid Hussain](_blank)
State Bank of Pakistan Museum website, Retrieved 8 September 2021 He also served as Pakistan's first
High Commissioner to
India from August 1947 to April 1948.
He was close aide of
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and also the father of
Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice (R)
Nasir Aslam Zahid
The Honourable Justice ( R) Nasir Aslam Zahid (Urdu:ناصر اسلم زاہد); Barrister-at-Law, is a Pakistani judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and then a judge of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and Suprem ...
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[State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to set up Zahid Husain chair: Higher studies]
Dawn (newspaper), Published 9 November 2001, Retrieved 8 September 2021
Career
Zahid served as
vice-chancellor of
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a Public University, public Central University (India), central university in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Orie ...
, the founding Governor of the
State Bank of Pakistan and the first chairman of the
Planning Commission besides being the author of Pakistan's first five-year plan.
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See also
* Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
References
External links
State Bank of Pakistan Past Governors
Government Islamia College alumni
Pakistani civil servants
Governors of the State Bank of Pakistan
1890s births
1957 deaths
Vice-Chancellors of the Aligarh Muslim University
High Commissioners of Pakistan to India
Pakistan Movement activists
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