[1] Prior to the independence of Pakistan, the governor had been appointed by the government of British India (based in Calcutta and later Delhi).
For almost two years after independence, Pakistan continued to have British governors until the appointment of Sahibzada Khurshid.
Sahibzada Muhammad Khurshid was educated in India and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant onto the Unattached List for the Indian Army on the 31 August 1922.
He was admitted to the Indian Army and posted to the 1st battalion 14th Punjab Regiment as of 23 October 1923.
[8] He was a competent bureaucrat which brought him in the good graces of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and thus earned him the highest nomination in KPK.