He served in various capacities such as professor, Principal, Vice Chancellor, Education Advisor and Member, Executive Board of UNESCO till his retirement.
In 1953, the Government of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) adopted the Rajshahi University Act 1953, which was published through a gazette notification on 16 June 1953.
The Governor of East Bengal was the Chancellor, and Zuberi, the Principal of Islamia college, was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The Executive Board adopted the agenda (Item 2) whereby the resignation of Momtazuddin Ahmed (Pakistan) was accepted under paragraph 4 of Article V of UNESCO's Constitution, and appointed Zuberi, Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education Karachi to replace him until the end of his term of office.
[8] Zuberi died in Canada, where he was Professor of English literature at the University of Windsor, on 14 December 1964; he was buried in Karachi seven days later.