	Abdul Waheed Bhombal was born Karachi, Sind and Bombay Residency in India, on 13 October 1931. He was of the Konkani descent and his father, E.S.B. Bhombal was an officer in the Pakistan Navy after being transferred from the Royal Indian Navy on 14/15 August 1947. E.S.B. Bhombal later enjoyed a distinguish career as a bureaucrat with the federal government and eventually becoming the chairman of the Karachi Port Trust and later the Pakistan Merchant Navy.