Mutawakkil Kazi

Dr Mutawakkil Kazi was a noted civil servant and economist of Pakistan.

Kazi was born in Karachi, British India in 1944. His paternal grandfather Ali Mohammad Kazi was in the Indian Police and became District Superintendent, a post not normally assigned to Indians. He convinced Mutawakkil to opt for government service to keep the family tradition intact. His father Mumtaz Kazi was also a senior government officer while his uncle Mushtak Ali Kazi was a judge of the High Court of Sindh. His maternal grandfather Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE was an educationist, who was appointed the first Director of Public Instructions of the Sindh province in 1936. His mother Khaki was an angelic person whose younger sister Ayesha was married to another senior civil servant Ahmed Hussain A Kazi. His mother had two brothers – the elder one Aftab - better known as A G N Kazi joined the Indian Civil Service in 1944 and became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Finance in 1973 - he is now leading a retired life in Islamabad after 50 years consecutive service from 1944-1994. The younger brother Justice Bashir Ghulam Nabi Kazi studied law and was elevated as a judge of the High Court of Sindh and subsequently to the Federal Shariat Court. He married Bina Kazi in 1976 and had two daughters Aasiya and Nadia. His sister Rabia was married to Mukhtiar Ahmad Junejo who was a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan.

Mutawakkil Kazi grew up in Karachi where both his grandfathers had built homes adjoining each other on Britto Road. The house next to theirs' belonged to Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto Adviser to the Governor of Bombay and father of statesman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Lady Bhutto would often invite them on weekends in their house. In 1965 he became the first economics graduate from Forman Christian College Lahore, Pakistan to become a Richardson Scholar. However, he could not leave as war broke out and all seaports and airports were closed to the civilians. Later he got his masters in economics from the Williams College, USA in 1974, and finally secured his doctorate in economics from the Boston University in 1985.

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