MR. ZAHID
HUSSAIN (June 10th, 1948 - July 19th, 1953)
Zahid
Hussain took over as first Governor of State Bank of Pakistan.
Mr. Zahid also served as Financial Advisor to the Chief Commissioner
Delhi, Financial Advisor in the supply Deptt. & the Financial
Commissioner of the Railways. As Finance Minister in H.E.H. the
Nizam's Government of Hyderabad Deccan from 1945 to 1947, first
High Commissioner for Pakistan in India from August 1947 to April
1948.
Born in 1895, he studied at Lahore & Aligarh. He was awarded the
Iqbal Gold Medal & the Morison Medal. He reorganized the Anglo-Arabic
College and Schools in Delhi on a Democratic bans in 1938 and was
the first Treasure of the Delhi University.