Introduction

Chairperson: Prof.Dr.Shafiq-ur-Rehman

The Department of Economics is one of the largest department in the Faculty of Arts. It was established in 1950-51 with the enactment of the University of Karachi Act, at the old campus in the city which was later shifted to its present location in 1960.

Chairman

Professor Newman Joseph Adams , an American national, was appointed as the first chairman who served the department for a short period. Professor Qazi Fareed took over the responsibility to chair the department after Newman left for home. It was his pioneering personality that brought the department to the present shape. After his death. during service in 1966. Professor Ehsan Rashid, who also served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Karachi later, became the chairman of the deparment. Subsequently Prof.. Qamarul Hasan Siddiqui. Prof. Dr.Ashfaq H. Kadri. Prof. Dr. Syed Ali Sarwar Rizvi, Mr. Fakhruddin Ahmed Prof. S. M. Jaffar , Prof. Muhammad Sajidin and Prof.S.M.Ahsan Hussain have served the department as chairman in different periods. Presently Prof.Dr.Shafiq-ur-Rehman (PAPA) is the chairman of the department.