Mutawakkil Kazi

Mutawakkil Kazi in 2004.

Dr Mutawakkil Kazi was a Pakistani civil servant and economist.

Family and early life

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.

Childhood and education

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.[1][2]

Career

Dr Mutawakkil Kazi seen with Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in 2003

Kazi entered government service in the Planning and Development cadre of the Government of Sindh during the early 1970s. He was Director General Monitoring in his department when invited to join the Federal Ministry of Production as Joint Secretary in 1986. He subsequently remained in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat during the tenures of prime ministers Moeen Qureshi and Benazir Bhutto. Subsequently he was appointed as Member Planning Commission (Pakistan) and Chairman Planning and Development Board Punjab. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary by Prime Minister Mian Muhammmad Nawaz Sharif just a few days before he was ousted from power in 1999. He remained Secretary Ministry of Planning and Development from 2000 till 2003. Subsequently he was Chief Secretary of Sindh in 2003-2004[3] before reverting to the Federal government as Secretary Industries and Production. After retirement from regular government service he worked as Member of the Federal Public Service Commission till January 2008.[4]

Death

After the end of his constitutional term in the Federal Public Service Commission, Kazi helped several social sector ministries in an advisory capacity through his expertise. He died suddenly on 1 June 2008 due to cardiac arrest.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Alumni of the Boston University in economics
  2. ↑ Column of popular journalist Ardeshir Cowasjee
  3. ↑ News report of Dr Kazi calling on the Governor of Sindh immediately after his appointment as Chief Secretary
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Federal Public Service Commission, 2008
  5. ↑ News report of Dr Kazi’s passing away
Government offices
Preceded by
Fazalullah Qureshi		 Planning Secretary, Government of Pakistan
2000–2003		 Succeeded by
Javed Sadiq Malik
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