Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan

No	Governor		Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Zahid Hussain	June 10, 1948	July 19, 1953	5 years, 40 days
2		Abdul Qadir	July 20, 1953	July 19, 1960	7 years
3		Shujaat Ali Hasnie	July 20, 1960	July 19, 1967	7 years
4		Mahbubur Raschid	July 20, 1967	July 1, 1971	3 years, 347 days
5		Shahkurullah Durrani	July 1, 1971	December 22, 1971	174 days
6		Ghulam Ishaq Khan	December 22, 1971	November 30, 1975	3 years, 344 days
7		S. Osman Ali	December 1, 1975	July 1, 1978	2 years, 213 days
8		Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi	July 15, 1978	July 9, 1986	5 years, 359 days
9		Vasim Aon Jafarey	July 10, 1986	August 16, 1988	2 years, 38 days
10		Imtiaz Alam Hanfi	August 17, 1988	February 9, 1989	177 days (first term)
11		Kassim Parekh	September 5, 1989	August 30, 1990	359 days
-		Imtiaz Alam Hanfi	September 1, 1990	June 30, 1993	2 years, 303 days (second term)
12		Muhammad Yaqub	July 25, 1993	November 25, 1999	6 years, 124 days
13		Ishrat Husain	December 2, 1999	December 1, 2005	6 years
14		Shamshad Akhtar	December 2, 2006	January 1, 2009	2 years, 31 days
15		Salim Raza	February 1, 2009	February 8, 2010	1 year, 8 days
16		Shahid Hafeez Kardar	September 8, 2010	July 13, 2011	309 days