Naseer Ahmad Faruqui

Who was Naseer Ahmad Faruqui?

Naseer Ahmad Faruqui OBE, SPK, HQA was a prominent civil servant of Pakistan and prior to that in British India. He was son of Dr Basharat Ahmad, a medical officer in government service and a prominent scholar and writer of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, who wrote the most comprehensive biography of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad entitled Mujaddid-i Azam.Educated at Govt. College Lahore he joined the elite Indian Civil Service in 1931 and served in the Bombay Presidency and Sindh. First as the Senior District Officer at Surat and Nasik, then as under-secretary Govt. of Bombay and Govt. of India, then as Collector of Thana, Bombay and Karachi and finally as the Official Secretary to the Governor of Sind.

He continued in the service of the Government of Pakistan after Independence and Partition serving as the Secretary to both the Governments of the Sindh and West Punjab and finishing his distinguished career as Principal Secretary to the President.

He subsequently served as Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan.

In 1946 he was Deputy Commissioner of Karachi. Later, as Chief Secretary to the government of Pakistan, he played an important role in the transfer of the capital from Karachi to Islamabad.