Amjad Ali (civil servant)
Syed Amjad Ali CIE OBE (Urdu: سید امجد علی; 5 July 1907 – 5 March 1997) was a Pakistani politician during the British Raj and a civil servant who served at many portfolios in the Government of Pakistan after the Partition of India.[1][2]
Ali was born in Lahore, the eldest son of Sir Syed Maratib Ali, a prominent Muslim businessman in the Punjab. Syed Wajid Ali was his younger brother.[3] He had connections for diplomacy in the final days of the British colony, as he knew many prominent people in the Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and British communities.[2]
Ali was educated at the St. Agnes Loreto Convent in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, followed by the Muslim High School and Government College in Lahore. After receiving his B. A. in 1927, he went to London for legal studies at the Middle Temple. While in London, he served as honorary secretary of the Muslim delegations at the First Round Table Conference in 1930–31 and for the Indian delegation at the Second Round Table Conference at the end of 1931.[2] He returned home and worked for his father's company, A. & M. Wazir Ali. He was appointed an OBE in the 1936 Birthday Honours.[4] and a CIE in 1944 Birthday Honours.[5]
During the last few years of British rule, Ali worked closely with "two giants of pre-partition Punjab politics"— Fazl-i-Hussain and Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan —while sitting in the Punjab Legislative Assembly (1937–45) and the Constituent Assembly of India (1946).[2]
After independence from India and British rule, Ali served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States (1953–55), Finance Minister of Pakistan (1955–58), and Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1964–67).[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (17 March 1997). "Syed Amjad Ali, 89, of Pakistan, Envoy to Washington and U.N.". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Syed Amjad Ali - Introduction". Archived from the original on 8 May 2006.
- ^ Markovits, C. (2008). Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. Springer. p. 84. ISBN 9780230594869. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ "No. 34296". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 June 1936. p. 4007.
- ^ "No. 36544". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1944. p. 2571.
External links[edit]
- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sayed Amjad Ali" is available at the Internet Archive
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Muhammad Ali Bogra |
Pakistan Ambassador to the United States 1953 – 1955 |
Succeeded by Muhammad Ali Bogra |
| Preceded by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan |
Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations 1964 – 1967 |
Succeeded by Agha Shahi |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Chaudhry Muhammad Ali |
Finance Minister of Pakistan 1955 – 1958 |
Succeeded by Muhammad Shoaib |
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