Humayun Khan (diplomat)

For other people named Humayun Khan, see Humayun Khan (disambiguation).

Humayun Khan (born 1932) [1] is a former Ambassador,[2] Foreign Secretary,[3] High Commissioner from Pakistan to India and United Kingdom.[4] Presently he is serving as the Chairman of Institute of Rural Management (IRM).

Family and education

He hails from Mardan District, North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He is the son of the late K.B. Mohd. Safdar Khan of Amazo Garhi, former Distt & Sessions Judge, Peshawar and Begum Mumtaz Safdar, former Member of the West Pakistan Assembly. He is married to the grand daughter of the late Qazi Ataullah (Munawar Humayun), former Minister in the Cabinets of Dr. Khan Sahib before the independence of Pakistan in 1947. One of her aunts was married to Abdul Ali Khan, youngest son of Bāchā Khān.[5]

Khan was educated at the prestigious Bishop Cotton School in Simla, India and later at Edwardes College Peshawar and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds an honours degree and an MA from Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn, London in 1954. Later, he earned another MA and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.[6]

Career

He joined the then Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in 1955 and served as Assistant Commissioner, Tank; Assistant Commissioner, Nowshera; Deputy Commissioner, Bannu; Political Agent, North Waziristan and Political Agent, Malakand.[7][8][9]

He was Home Secretary, NWFP in the NAP-JUI Government in 1972–73, after which he moved to the Pakistan Foreign Service. He served in the country's missions in Moscow [10] and the UNO at Geneva [11] before he was appointed Ambassador to Bangladesh in 1979.[12] In 1984 he became Ambassador to India and served there for four and a half years.[13][14] He returned as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1988 and held the post till 1989, when Benazir Bhutto made him an OSD.[15][16] On the dismissal of her first Government in 1990, he was appointed High Commissioner in London.[17] He retired from government service in 1992 but was immediately selected as Head of the Commonwealth Foundation, an inter-governmental international organisation with its headquarters in London.[18] He held this position from 1993 to 2000, when he returned to Peshawar. He has since served on the National Finance Commission and on the Board of the National Rural Support Programme. He also works with the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy and on a number of committees dealing with relations between the countries of South Asia. He has written extensively on India–Pakistan relations and is co-author of Diplomatic Divide published in India.[19][20][21]

References

  1. ↑ "Humayun Khan". companieshouse.gov.uk/.
  2. ↑ Institute, Islamabad Policy Research (2005-01-01). Tribal areas of Pakistan: challenges and responses. Islamabad Policy Research Institute. p. 176. ISBN 9789698721138.
  3. ↑ "Pakistan's Stability Paradox: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions". Amazon.
  4. ↑ Trustees Noon Educational Foundation. Retrieved 2 October 2011
  5. ↑ Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; John, McBrewster (2010-08-12). Humayun Khan. VDM Publishing. ISBN 9786132548740.
  6. ↑ Commonwealth Currents. Commonwealth Secretariat. 1994-01-01. pp. 27–47.
  7. ↑ Journal of Rural Development and Administration. Pakistan Academy for Rural Development. 1972-01-01. p. 133.
  8. ↑ Rashid, Harun ur (1999-01-01). The diary of a diplomat. Ekushey Publications. p. 45. ISBN 9789847590011.
  9. ↑ Birthright. Family Planning Association of Pakistan. 1972-01-01. p. 42.
  10. ↑ The Diplomat. 1974-01-01. p. 65.
  11. ↑ Disarmament, United Nations Conference of the Committee on (1977-01-01). Final Record of the Meeting. p. 133.
  12. ↑ Annual report. Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development. 1982-01-01. p. 147.
  13. ↑ Foreign Affairs Pakistan. Pakistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2006-01-01. p. 6.
  14. ↑ Pakistan Horizon. Pakistan Institute of International Affairs. 1988-01-01. p. 174.
  15. ↑ Karim, Afsir (1996-01-01). Indo-Pak Relations: Viewpoints, 1989-1996. Lancer Publishers. p. 81. ISBN 9781897829233.
  16. ↑ Gaur, Mahendra (2005-01-01). Foreign Policy Annual, 2001 : Events And Documents. Gyan Publishing House. p. 199. ISBN 9788178353432.
  17. ↑ The London Diplomatic List. H.M. Stationery Office. 1992-01-01. p. 53.
  18. ↑ Commonwealth Currents. Commonwealth Secretariat. 2000-01-01.
  19. ↑ Khan, Dr Humayun; Parthasarathy, Gopalaswami (2004-01-01). Diplomatic divide. Lotus Collection. ISBN 9788174363091.
  20. ↑ Ahsan, Aitzaz (2005-08-01). The Indus Saga. Roli Books Private Limited. ISBN 9789351940739.
  21. ↑ India Today International. Living Media International Limited. 2004-01-01. p. 68.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Abdul Sattar		 Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
1988 – 1989 		Succeeded by
Tanvir Ahmad Khan
Preceded by
Shahryar Khan		 Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
1990 – 1992 		Succeeded by
Wajid Shamsul Hasan
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