[2] Kazi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh then part of the Bombay Presidency of British India on 15 August 1920.
[2] His ancestors belonged to Paat village in Dadu District and he was the only surviving child of Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi, one of the few Muslim physicians from Sindh at the time, who founded the Liaquat Medical School, Hyderabad (now the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences), was the first Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital, Karachi and subsequently Director Health Services, Government of Sindh.
He married his cousin Ayesha daughter of renowned educationist Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE in 1946.
[2] Ahmed Hussain a Kazi was promoted as Secretary to the Government of Pakistan (the highest rung in the civil service) and held the office of Chairman Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation, the largest industrial conglomerate at that time, from 1974 to 1978.
[2] After his retirement in 1979, he practiced as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan until his appointment as Chairman adhoc Public Accounts Committee Sindh.