Akhter Husain
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Akhter Husain | |
|---|---|
اختر حسین | |
| 7th Governor of West Pakistan | |
| In office September 1957 – 12 April 1960 | |
| President | Iskander Mirza Muhammad Ayub Khan |
| Preceded by | Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani |
| Succeeded by | Amir Mohammad Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 August 1902 |
| Died | 15 July 1983 (aged 81) |
Akhter Husain (Urdu: اختر حسین), HPk, OBE, (1 August 1902 – 15 July 1983) was a senior statesman and civil servant of Pakistan. He was appointed Governor of West Pakistan in September 1957 succeeding Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani and then continued in this office during the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan until April 1960.[1]
Akhter Husain was born on 1 August 1902 at Burhanpur (Central Province, British India) and received his early education from Hakimia High School, Burhanpur before proceeding to MAO College at Aligarh[2] (which later became Aligarh Muslim University), graduating later from Allahabad University. He was selected for the Indian Civil Service in 1924[3] and completed his education and training at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. Upon return from England, he was posted to serve in the province of Punjab in 1926. He served in various administrative positions in different districts of the province, before being appointed as Under Secretary in the Government of India in 1930. He returned to Provincial administration in 1936. Akhter Husain received a British government award of Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 1 January 1944 for his groundbreaking work of settlement in the district of Gurgaon in Punjab in 1943. He was appointed Chief Secretary in the undivided Punjab in 1946, a position he occupied during the partition of British India.[3][4]
Pakistan Government Service
He continued to serve as the Chief Secretary of West Punjab in the newly formed Dominion of Pakistan in 1947.[5]
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