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Doctor Kamran A Khan: Cancer - Oncology Surgery - Dr. Kamran A Khan... wockhardthospitals.net | Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa - About us: Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa agakhanhospitals.org |
Lieutenant General (retd) Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan (born 23 December 1920) was the international face of Pakistan for three decades. He served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1982 to 1991 during the dying days of Cold War and then caretaker Foreign Minister from 1996 to 1997. Before that, he was Pakistan Ambassador to United States, then Soviet Union and France from 1972 to 1982. He was a central player in the UN negotiations to end the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. He was later Pakistan's UN Representative. He also served as the UN's point man in negotiating an end to the Civil War in Nicaragua. An ethnic Rohilla Pashtun, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan is a member of the royal family of the erstwhile Indian princely state of Najibabad.[1] His father, Sahibzada Sir Abdus Samad Khan Bahadur, was a statesman and diplomat who at various points in his career served as chief minister of the state of Rampur, and as British India's representative to the League of Nations. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan studied at the famous Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun. After graduating, he served in North Africa during World War II as a lieutenant in the British Indian Army, taking part in the Siege of Tobruk. He was taken prisoner in 1942, and spent the next three years in an Axis prisoner-of-war camp before being released at the end of the war. After independence, he opted for Pakistan, where he went on to enjoy a distinguished career in the Pakistani Army. Rising to the rank Lieutenant General, Yaqub Khan served as Chief of General Staff, Commander Eastern Command, and briefly after the resignation of Vice Admiral S.M. Ahsan, Governor of East Pakistan. On retiring from the Army he embarked on a career as a diplomat, serving as Ambassador to France, the United States and Soviet Union from 1972 to 1982. Since 1982 he served as Foreign Minister under seven different governments. Then from 1992 until 1997 Yaqub Khan was the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for the Western Sahara. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan is the founding chairman of the Aga Khan University Board of Trustees, which he chaired for almost two decades until his retirement in 2001.[2] He was a commissioner in the now retired Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. [3] Sahabzada Yaqub Khan is married to Begum Tuba Khaleeli, of the prominent Iranian Khaleeli family of Calcutta, and has two sons, Samad and Najib. [edit] References
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