List of Governors of the State Bank of Pakistan
List of governors

List of Governors of the State Bank of Pakistan

Section Title: List of governors
Table Section Text: None

No	Governor	Took office	Left office	Time in office

1	Zahid Hussain	10 June 1948	19 July 1953	5 years, 40 days

2	Abdul Qadir	20 July 1953	19 July 1960	7 years

3	Shujaat Ali Hasnie	20 July 1960	19 July 1967	7 years

4	Mahbubur Raschid	20 July 1967	1 July 1971	3 years, 347 days

5	Shahkurullah Durrani	1 July 1971	22 December 1971	174 days

6	Ghulam Ishaq Khan	22 December 1971	30 November 1975	3 years, 344 days

7	S. Osman Ali	1 December 1975	1 July 1978	2 years, 213 days

8	Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi	15 July 1978	9 July 1986	7 years, 359 days

9	Vasim Aon Jafarey	10 July 1986	16 August 1988	2 years, 38 days

10	Imtiaz Alam Hanfi	17 August 1988	2 September 1989	381 days (first term)

11	Kassim Parekh	5 September 1989	30 August 1990	359 days

Imtiaz Alam Hanfi	1 September 1990	30 June 1993	2 years, 303 days (second term)

12	Muhammad Yaqub	25 July 1993	25 November 1999	6 years, 124 days

13	Ishrat Husain	2 December 1999	1 December 2005	6 years

14	Shamshad Akhtar	2 December 2006	1 January 2009	2 years, 31 days

15	Salim Raza	1 February 2009	8 February 2010	1 year, 8 days

16	Shahid Hafeez Kardar	8 September 2010	13 July 2011	309 days

17	Yaseen Anwar	19 October 2011	31 January 2014	2 years, 104 days

18	Ashraf Mahmood Wathra	29 April 2014	28 April 2017	3 years

19	Tariq Bajwa	7 July 2017	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Shamshad Akhtar served as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first woman to assume this position.

final_sentence: Shamshad Akhtar served as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first woman to assume this position.