Saidulla Khan Dehlavi was a Pakistani career

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Career

He was a senior member of the

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when he retired in 2001 as Ambassador to the

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. He served as Pakistan's Ambassador to France and as Permanent Delegate to

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. He also served as Ambassador to Switzerland, the Vatican, Yugoslavia, Albania and Ireland. Other postings were to Ankara and New Delhi, and as Director of the Foreign Minister's Office and Director General for South Asia in the

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. Dehlavi received international decorations, including the

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

from France. He spoke French, Italian and Turkish. He was appointed member of

Aga Khan University Aga Khan University is a non-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It was Founded in 1983 as Pakistan's first private university. Starting in 2000, the university expanded to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Ki ...

Board of Trustees in 2000 and became its Chairman from July 2001 until his death in February 2014.

External links

Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi – Chairman Board of Trustees (Board of Trustees section, AKU website accessed on 5.3.14)

In Memoriam: Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi in the Ismailimail's blog of 6.2.14

A Leading Light authored by Zubeida Mustafa in Pakistan's daily "Dawn" of 12.2.14
* Obituary in ''

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'' of 10.2.14: "Les nombreux amis de Saidullah Khan Dehlavi, chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, ont la tristesse d'annoncer le deces a Karachi, le 4 fevrier 2014, de ce grand diplomate pakistanais qui fut notamment ambassadeur a Paris de 1991 a 1998. Il a contribue au resserrement des liens entre son pays et la France ainsi qu'au rayonnement des cultures pakistanaises et francaises."
France's "Le Monde" daily's archives from 1963 - 2014 on the subject of Samiullah Khan Dehlavi and Jamil Dehlavi
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