Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid ( ur, , July 1901 – after 1950) was the first Pakistani governor of the

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

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and a former Chief Commissioner of

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. Prior to the independence of Pakistan, the governor had been appointed by the government of

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

(based in

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and later

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). For almost two years after independence, Pakistan continued to have British governors until the appointment of Sahibzada Khurshid. Sahibzada Muhammad Khurshid was educated in India and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant onto the Unattached List for the Indian Army on the 31 August 1922. He was attached to the 2nd battalion, the Cameronians, as of 12 October 1922, as all new Indian Army officers did a year attached to a British Regiment in India. He was admitted to the Indian Army and posted to the 1st battalion 14th Punjab Regiment as of 23 October 1923. He was promoted Lieutenant 30 November 1924. He transferred to the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India 30 June 1927, and by January 1931 he was the Assistant Political Agent, Zhob (Baluchistan). He was promoted Captain 31 August 1931. By January 1939 he was the Assistant Political Officer, Chitral, and by October 1939 he was the Political Agent Dir, Swat & Chitral.Indian Army List October 1939 He was a competent bureaucrat which brought him in the good graces of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and thus earned him the highest nomination in KPK.

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Governors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa British Indian Army officers 1901 births Year of death missing {{Pakistan-politician-stub