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KARACHI: Former Karachi commissioner and known bureaucrat Shahid Aziz Siddiqui passed away on Thursday. He was 74.
Born in Lucknow in January 1945, Mr Siddiqi had topped the CSS exam in 1968 before joining civil service where he spent more than four decades as a career bureaucrat.
Apart from serving as Karachi commissioner in the early 1980s, he also served as chairman of the State Life Corporation (SLC) and National Highway Authority (NHA). He also served as the managing director of the Rice Export Corporation of Pakistan (RECP), director general of Ports and Shipping, labour director as well as deputy commissioner of Thatta, Sanghar and Larkana.
Mr Siddiqui also headed Sui Southern Gas Company’s board of directors. He held a postgraduate degree in development economics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a masters degree from the University of Karachi.
Published in Dawn, November 8th, 2019
