Abul Hasan Quraishi

In January 1933 Quraishi passed the ICS examination. After a probation period in London, as mentioned above, he joined the Indian civil service on 5th Oct 1933 and arrived in India on Nov. 1933. He was appointed at Murshidabad in Bengal, India as Assistant Magistrate and Collector.^[1][3] He was promoted as joint magistrate and sub-divisional officer, in July 1935. He became a special officer, in the finance department in Nov 1937. In Jan 1942 he became district magistrate and collector, Jan. 1942. Afterward, in Oct 1944, he was sent to the Government of India with a secretary position under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry/ or department under the aforementioned ministry, holding the office until 1946.^[4]: 306 By the end of 1946, 90-odd ICS officers from the Muslim community inclined to have gone on to serve independent Pakistan except for a few with their names as reported.^[5] Many of them were from northern India or the Bengal cadre of the ICS (including the aforementioned Quraishi) and formed the core of a new central service called the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS).^[6]

Quraishi died in Karachi, Pakistan.^[7]