Youth and Early Life
Munir Ahmad Khan was born in Kasur, Punjab British Province of British Indian Empire on 20 May 1926. After completing his early education in a local high school in Lahore, Khan passed the university entrance exams, and enrolled in the Department of Science of the Government College University in 1942. In 1946, Munir Ahmad Khan received his double B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Government College University as a contemporary of the Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam. During his Bachelor's education, he also won an Academic Roll of Honor, and subsequently in 1949, he earned a B.Sc. in Electrical engineering from Punjab University. From 1949–51, Khan served as an assistant professor of undergraduate mathematics at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET). In 1951, Khan travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and Rotary International Fellowship where he earned an M.S. in Electrical engineering in 1952 from North Carolina State University.
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