Sultan Mohammed Khan (19 February 1919 – 8 November 2010) was a Pakistani civil servant and British India Army officer who served as a

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. He was also

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to the

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in the

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and

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presidency.

Early life

Sultan Mohammed Khan was born in

Jaora State Jaora State was a 13 gun-salute princely state of the British Raj. It was part of the Malwa Agency. The total area of the princely state, with the dependencies of Piploda and Panth-Piploda, was . Jaora state was divided into four tehsils, J ...

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, on 19 February 1919. He received his bachelors degree from

Ewing Christian College Ewing Christian College (ECC), formerly Allahabad Christian College, is an autonomous constituent college of University of Allahabad, located in Allahabad, India. The college was established in 1902 by Arthur Henry Ewing, a prominent Presbyter ...

Career

Sultan Mohammed Khan joined the

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as an officer cadet and was commissioned as a

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in the 4th Indian

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, during World War II he served in India and the Malays-Indonesia front. He took an early release from the

as a

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and after independence of Pakistan from the

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, Khan joined the Pakistan's

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. During his career as a diplomat, he served as a Pakistan ambassador to the

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, and

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Personal life

He married daughter of

ruler, Nawabzadi Abeda Sultan, in 1943. The couple had four children. He emigrated to the

and lived a retired life in

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, United States.

Book

*''Memories & Reflections of a Pakistani Diplomat'' (1999)

References

External links

Former Foreign Secretaries Government of Pakistan
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