After a brief stint as Additional Chief Secretary of West Pakistan, he was appointed Chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority.

As a leading civil servant, Kazi passed through several major events in the history of Pakistan, including the removal of Bhutto and the mysterious death of General Zia-ul-Haq.

In 1993, he was appointed as the chairman Privatization Commission and was again given the status of a Federal Minister as Chief Executive of the Pakistan Investment Board.

His father was a veteran educationist of Sindh who had been awarded the MBE by the British Government for his services to humanity and social development.

Anybody who suggests that a Khan Bahadur and an MBE was a member of the middle class during British colonial rule of India is being modest.

He graduated with a BS in statistics in 1941, and later went on to gain MSc in physics and Master of Arts in mathematics from the University of Bombay.

Thus, Kazi started a career that would last for half a century making him the longest serving civil servant in the history of Pakistan.

[citation needed] The British Raj appointed Kazi as Deputy Commissioner in Bihar and Orissa where he served until 1947.

[citation needed] After the amalgamation of all provinces in the western wing of the country in 1955, Kazi was appointed Finance Secretary of West Pakistan.

He was appointed Advisor to the President on Economic Affairs in 1977 with the rank of a full Cabinet Minister on the imposition of martial law in July 1977.

[5] He served there for eight years and this period was characterised by excellent financial discipline in the banking sector coupled with good relations with the federal government.