Shaharyar m khan biography of abraham

It seems fitting that, if he had to leave us at all, Ambassador Shahryar Khan left on Pakistan Day, having represented us at every diplomatic level for decades in every corner of the globe.

Enough will be written and recorded about him, as entirely due.

This is a more personal memoir from someone knowing him, with affection and admiration, since childhood.

After his spectacular showing in the competitive civil and foreign services exam on graduating from Cambridge, Shahryar Khan was assigned to London in as a junior officer under High Commissioner Lieutenant General M Yousuf, and there also formed a lifelong association with my parents, my father being Deputy High Commissioner.

His marriage to Najma - she, the beautiful and talented daughter of Ambassador and Begum Akhtar Hussain, studying at St Mary’s; and he the dashing Oxbridge-educated prince - was legendary, their having apparently met and fallen in love at first sight at Lord’s cricket ground.

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