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{{Infobox officeholder
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|name =Mohammad Khurshid <br/> {{nq|صاحبزادہ محمد خورشید}}
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|order =3rd [[Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Governor of North-West Frontier Province]]
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|term_start =16 July 1949
|term_end =14 January 1950
|monarch = [[George VI]]
|governor-general =[[Khawaja Nazimuddin]]
|predecessor =[[Ambrose Flux Dundas]]
|successor =[[Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar]]
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'''Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid''' ({{lang-ur|{{nq|صاحبزادہ محمد خورشید}}}}, July 1901 – after 1950) was the first Pakistani governor of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa]] of [[Pakistan]] and a former Chief Commissioner of [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)|Balochistan]].<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Pakistan_states.html Balochistan - Pakistan Provinces]</ref> 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.<ref>''London Gazette'' 1 September 1922</ref> He was attached to the 2nd battalion, the Cameronians, as of 12 October 1922,<ref>Indian Army List April 1923</ref> as all new Indian Army officers did a year attached to a British Regiment in India. He was admitted to the Indian Army and posted to the 1st battalion 14th Punjab Regiment as of 23 October 1923. He was promoted Lieutenant 30 November 1924.<ref>''London Gazette'' 16 January 1925 p 374</ref>

He transferred to the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India 30 June 1927, and by January 1931 he was the Assistant Political Agent, Zhob (Baluchistan).<ref>Indian Army List January 1931</ref>

He was promoted Captain 31 August 1931.<ref>''London Gazette'' 9 October 1931</ref>

By January 1939 he was the Assistant Political Officer, Chitral,<ref>Indian Army List January 1939</ref> and by October 1939 he was the Political Agent Dir, Swat & Chitral.<ref>Indian Army List October 1939</ref>

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.

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{{succession box |title=[[Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa]]|
years=16 July 1949- 14 January 1950|
before= [[Ambrose Flux Dundas|Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas]]|
after=[[Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (judge)|Mohammad Ibrahim Khan]]}}
{{succession box |title=[[List of Chief Commissioners of Balochistan|Chief Commissioner of Balochistan]]||
years=19 January 1949 – 16 July 1949|
before= [[Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge]]|
after=[[Mian Aminuddin]]}}
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==References==
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{{Governors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa}}

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