I. Date of Birth 6.8.1907
II. Place of Birth West Pakistan
III. Academic Career
1. Education:
i) St. Stephen's College, Delhi
ii) Forman Christian College, Lahore
2. B.A. (Honours in Philosophy) 1927
3. M.A. (English) 1928
4. Honours in Persian 1926
5. Honours in Urdu 1928
Academic career full of medals, scholarships and other distinction. Set up a new record in the B.A. in Honours in Philosophy at the Punjab University, and also stood first among those who took Arabic.
6. Member, University Training Corps (4th U.T.C., I.T.F.) 1928-1929
7. Editor College Magazine (1926-1928) Editor-in-Chief 1929
8. Part-time Lecturer in Arabic and Urdu 1928
IV. Service Career
1. Joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service on pure merit in an open All-India Competition held with the Public Service Commission, New Delhi. (not nominated against the Muslim quota). 6.3.1931
2. Deputy Comptroller Sind (Youngest Officer to hold post of this status. Received the thanks of the Government for good work). 1936-1939
3. Selected for the Finance and Commerce cadre of the Government of India (commonly known as the "Pool"). 1938
4. Under Secretary, Government of India, Finance Department. 1939
5. Private Secretary to Sir Jeremy Raisman, Finance Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. 1939-1942
6. Deputy Controller General of Foodstuffs, Lahore. 1943
7. Deputy Financial Adviser, Food. 1943
8. Deputy Financial Adviser, Military Finance. 1943-1946
9. Private secretary to Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan (last Finance Member of Viceroy's Executive Council and First Prime Minister of Pakistan). 1946-1947
10. Member, main Partition Committee on Assets and Liabilities at the time of the Partition of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Also in supervisory charge of various Sub-Committees. 1947
11. Training in Reserve Bank of India and Bank of England. 1947
12. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan (including Financial Adviser, Military Finance and Member, Central Board of Revenue). 1948-1952
13. Acting Governor, State Bank of Pakistan. 1952
14. Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Chairman, Central Board of Revenue. 1952-1959
15. Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Pakistan. 1959-1962
16. Managing Director, National Bank of Pakistan. 1962-1967
17. Chairman, Pakistani Banks Association. 1962-1967
18. Chairman, Bankers' Executive Committee (Joint Committee of Pakistani and Foreign Banks). 1962-1967
19. Chairman, National Investment Trust. 1964-1967
20. Chairman, Ad hoc Public Accounts Committee for West Pakistan. 1969-1972
21. Chairman, National Pay Commission. 1970-1972
22. Chairman, Defence Services Pay Commission. 1971-1973
V. Other Official Assignments
1. First Chairman, National Bank of Pakistan. 1949-1950
2. Chairman, Pakistan Security Printing Corporation. 1953-1959
3. Director, Pakistan Refugees Rehabilitation Finance Corporation. 1948-1951
4. Director, State Bank of Pakistan. 1951
5. Director, National Bank of Pakistan. 1950-1951 and 1952-1959
6. First Government Director PICIC. 1958-1959
7. Member (for a time Leader) of Military Mission to Europe, the UK, the USA, and Canada. 1951
8. Attended a large number of CommonWealth, Indo-Pakistan and International Conferences as Senior Official in Charge from Pakistan.
9. Participated in a Seminar in Berlin under the auspices of the Institute of Developing Countries. 1961
10. Senior Vice-President, Asiatic Economic Planners Conference, New Delhi. Presided over most of the Conferences. December 1961
11. Leader, Pakistan team to the CENTO Economic Banking Seminar, Istanbul. 1962
12. Presided over a session of Banking Seminar of the International Chamber of Commerce, Tehran. 1965
VI. Educational and Cultural Activities
a) Foreign
1. Honorary Member, Italian Institute of the Middle and Far East (ISMEO) Rome. Since 1953
2. Life Fellow, Royal Economic Society, London. Since 1938
3. Honorary Life Member, Shibli Academy, Azamgarh - India. Since 1957
b) In Pakistan
1. Chairman, National Commission for UNESCO. 1957-1958
2. President, Pak-German Forum, Karachi. 1957
3. President, Pak-American Cultural Centre. 1969-1970
4. President, Pak-Iranian Cultural Association. 1965-1970
5. Chairman, Urdu Development Board, Karachi. 1959-1968 and 1970
6. Vice-President, Iqbal Academy, Karachi (Educational Ministry of Central Government as the officio President). 1954-1968
7. President, Museum Association of Pakistan. 1958
8. President, All Pakistan Educational Conference. 1968
9. President, Happy Education Society, Karachi. 1956
10. President, Happy Dale School, Karachi (School now Nationalised along with others in 1963). 1956-1973
11. Chairman, Advisory Committee, National Museum of Pakistan. 1958
12. Chairman, Governing Body of the Anglo-Arabic Boys' Schools, Delhi (before Partition). 1944-1947
13. Chairman, Organising Committee of the Central Islamic Research Institute. 1957-1958
14. Chairman, Mohammad Ali Habib Education Trust, Karachi. 1964
15. President, Urdu Trust. 1956-1959
16. President, Pak. Moghals Sports Club. 1948
17. President, Panel of Judges of various Literary Prizes of the Writers' Guild Pakistan. 1963
18. Founder Member - Life Member of the British Council Karachi. 1948
19. Founder Member of the Halqa-e-Arbab-e-Zauq, Karachi. 1947
20. Member, College Committee, Islamic College, Lahore. 1931-1934
21. Member, General Council, Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam, Lahore. 1931-1934
22. Member, Advisory Board of the Institute of Business Administration, set up by the Pennsylvania University in Karachi. 1955-1959
23. Member, Governing Body of the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu (Trustee since 1964). Since 1949
24. Member, Governing Body of the Urdu College, Karachi (College nationalised since 1973). 1962-1973
25. Member, Governing Body of the Central Urdu Development Board, Lahore. 1961-1971
26. Member, Governing Body of the PECH Society Girls' School, Karachi (school nationalised in 1973). 1958-1973
27. Member, Governing Body of the Sir Syed Girls' School, Karachi (school nationalised in 1973). 1965-1973
28. Member, Board of Directors for the History of Muslim Philosophy (published in two volumes by Messrs. Horrosowitz of Germany).
29. Trustee, Hyderabad Relief and Rehabilitation Trusts (Vice-Chairman since 1972). 1964
30. Vice-Chairman, Begum Sufi's Trust. 1972
31. Chairman, Riffat Sultana Memorial Trust, Karachi. 1958
32. Chairman, Sakina Begum Mohd. Hasan Trust, Karachi. 1959
VII. Universities
1. Honorary Professor of Economics, Karachi University. 1955-1958
2. Member, Karachi University Senate. 1957-1960
3. Member, Syndicate, Punjab University. 1968-1970
4. Member, Finance Committee of the Punjab University. 1968-1970
5. Member, Oriental College Committee, Punjab University. 1968-1970
6. Member, Academic Council, Karachi University. 1968
7. Member, Finance Committee, Karachi University. 1968
VIII. Broadcasting
1. Has been a broadcaster since 1939 and has broadcast over the BBC, All-India Radio, Radio Pakistan, Iranian Radio, German Radio, Australian Radio and American Radio.
2. Chairman, Broadcasting Committee appointed by the Government to enquire into the present state of broadcasting and television and suggest improvements where necessary (report presented on 28th April, 1967).
IX. Press
1. Trustee National Press Trust (Acting Chairman for a time). 1964-1968
2. Director:
i) Morning News
ii) Pakistan Times
iii) Mashriq
iv) Akhbar-i-Khawateen (All of the above 1964-1968)
X. Lectures and Foreign Invitations
1. Guest of the Iran-Pakistan Cultural Association, Tehran on Iqbal's birthday. 1958
2. Delivered inaugural lectures at the foundation of the Iqbal chair of Philosophy at the Punjab University. 1965
3. Lectured in Italy (Turin, Rome and Naples) on Iqbal and Urdu Literature as guest of the Italian Institute of the Middle and Far East. 1959
4. Guest of the British Council in England. 1959
5. Guest of the German Government. 1959
6. Invited by the Imperial Court of Iran to the World Congress on Iranology at Tehran. Presented a paper. 1965
7. Guest of the Government or Iran (received in audience by his Imperial Majesty). 1968
8. Guest of the Imperial Court of Iran for the 2500th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Iranian Monarchy. 1971
9. Invited by the Director General of UNESCO to a Conference of experts in Tunis to consider measures for the preservation of Cultural property and development of Cultural Tourism. 1968
10. Participated in the Quaker International Seminar on Asian Leadership in Kathmandu. 1969
XI. Publications
1. Helped to compile and publish "Iqbal, Poet and Philosopher" for the Pakistan-German Forum. Wrote an Introduction to the book which contains a number of his translations of Iqbal into English and also an article by him. 1961
2. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, C.F. Usborne's English translation of "Hir and Ranjha", a Punjabi Classic. Now republished in London (Peter Owan Ltd.) under the auspices of UNESCO. 1966
3. Compiled and edited, with an Introduction and Notes, the poems of Nadir Kakorvi (Urdu Development Board publication). 1962
4. "Stray Thoughts on Economic Development in Pakistan", a collection of speeches on economic and banking subjects. 1966
5. "In Quest of Daibul", a collection of speeches and writings on certain aspects of the cultural heritage of Pakistan with an Introduction by Professor Tucci. 1969
6. Paper on the Background of Pakistan, published in the "Partition of India - Policies and Perspectives", edited by Professor Philipps, Director, School of Oriental and African Studies.
7. "Ghalib, An Individualist" published as part of "Aspects of Ghalib" (a publication of Pakistan-American Cultural Centre, Karachi). 1970
8. A number of translations, in prose, of selected poems of Goethe's West-Oestlicher Diwan, published in the "Adabi Dunya", Lahore.
9. Large number of speeches and articles on subjects of academic, literary, historical, archaeological, scientific and economic interest.
10. Has written Forewords, Prefaces, Introductions to:
i) "Ernst Trumpp", a lecture on Ernst Trumpp by Professor Annemarie Schimmel.
ii) The Gujrati translation by Mr. Azizuddin Munadi of selected poems of Goethe's "West-Oestlicher Diwan".
iii) "Iqbal in Picture", a pictorial biography of Iqbal.
iv) Iqbal's "Ilm-ul-Iqyisad", a book written by Iqbal in Urdu, on economics in 1903.
v) Dr. Nur-ud-Din's "Iqbal and Tasswwuf", a dissertation on Iqbal and Mysticism.
vi) Mohammad Hussain Azad's classic Urdu Primers I, II, III, and IV, reprinted by the Urdu Development Board.
vii) "Urdu Zaban Aur Asalib" of Makhmoor Akbarabadi.
viii) "Harf-i-Bashash" a collection of the poems of Nazir Ahmed Nazir.
ix) an Urdu translation of a selected Modern German Short Stories.
x) "Anwar-i-Iqbal", a collection of Iqbal's unpublished letters and writings in Urdu, publication by the Iqbal Academy.
xi) "Letters and Writings of Iqbal", a collection of unpublished letters and writings of Iqbal in English, published by the Iqbal Academy.
xii) Urdu and other Manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationals in Paris by Agha Iftikhar Hussain.
xiii) Introductions to a number of publications brought out on the occasion of Coronation of Their Imperial Majesties the Shahanshah and Shehbano of Iran, particularly "Iran and Pakistan".
xiv) Rang-o-Ahang, a collection of poems by the late Saharanpuri.
xv) The Story of the National Bank of Pakistan.
xvi) "A Study in Iqbal's Philosophy" by B.A. Dar.
xvii) "Nukta-i-Raz" by Shanul Haq Haqqee.
xviii) "Poetical Works" by Afaq Dehlavi.
xix) "Economic Development and Controls" by Kizilbash.
xx) "Economic Development in Pakistan" by A.F.S. Salahuddin.
xxi) etc. etc.
11. In preparation for publication:
i) a selection of Urdu Writings.
ii) Two inaugural lectures delivered on Iqbal under the auspices of the Punjab University, Lahore.
iii) Translations into English and Urdu, of a number of German folk songs.
iv) A brochure in English on Goethe, including some speeches and writings on him.
v) "The Influence of English on Urdu Literature".
vi) "Fitzgerald and Umar Khayyam".
vii) "Diogenese the Cynic".
XII. Honours
1. Sitara-e-Pakistan. (S.Pk.) 1958
2. Knight Commander of the Order of Merit, Germany (Das Grosse Verdiensthreuz Mit Stern) 1959
3. Nishan-i-Sipas, Iran 1963
4. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Germany (Das Grosse Verdienskreaz Mit Stern Und Schulterband) 1968
5. Goethe Medal (Germany) 1968
6. Gold Medal of Merit for Culture (Italy) 1969
7. LL.D. (honoris causa) of the Unversity of Punjab 1968