Akhter Husain

Akhter Husain اختر حسین OBE
2nd 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 March, 1902 Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh, British India (Now India)
Died	15 July, 1983 (aged 81) Pakistan

Akhter Husain (Urdu:اختر حسین), HPk, OBE, (1 March 1902 – 15 July 1983) was an eminent 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 office during the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan until April 1960.

Mr. Akhter Husain was born on 1 March 1902 at Burhanpur (Central Province India) and received his early education from Hakimia High School, Burhanpur before proceeding to MAO College at Aligarh (which became Aligarh Muslim University), graduating later from Allahbad University. He was selected for the prestigious Indian Civil Service in 1924 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. Mr. Husain received a British Govt. award of O.B.E. for his ground breaking work of settlement in the district of Gurgaon in the Punjab in 1943. He was appointed Chief Secretary in the undivided Punjab in 1946, a position he occupied during and until the partition of India.

He continued to serve as the Chief Secretary of West Punjab in the newly formed State of Pakistan in 1947.

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