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Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan
Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan

Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (born 1920) was the International Face of Pakistan for many years. He served as foreign minister of Pakistan from 1982 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1991 during the closing years of the Cold War, and was again foreign minister from 1996 to 1997. He was a central player in the UN negotiations to end the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. File links The following pages link to this file: Sahabzada Yaqub Khan Categories: Executive Office of the President images ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the governmental foreign policy of a sovereign nation. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Der Warschauer Pakt Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hatte die Sowjetunion begonnen, mit den Staaten in ihrer Interessensphäre zweiseitige Beistandsverträge1 abzuschliessen. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Communist rule in Afghanistan (1978-1992). ...


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.


Sahabzada Yaqub Khan is a member of the erstwhile royal family of Rampur.Sahabzada Yaqub Khan enjoyed a distinguished career in the Pakistani Army that began before Pakistani independence. Rising to the rank Lieutenant General, Yaqub Khan served as Chief of General Staff, Commander of the Eastern Zone and Governor of East Pakistan. Rampur is a former princely state of India ruled by a Muslim Nawab. ... A Lieutenant is a military, paramilitary or police officer. ... General is a high military rank, used by nearly every country in the world. ... It has been suggested that East Bengal (province) be merged into this article or section. ...


On retiring from the Army he embarked on a career as a diplomat, serving as Ambassador to France, the USA and Soviet Union from 1972-82. Since 1982 he served as Foreign Minister under seven different governments. From 1992 until 1997 Yaqub Khan was the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for the Western Sahara. He served as Chairman of the Aga Khan University Hospital and retired later.Currently he is a Commissioner of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Aga Khan University Hospital is a hospital in Pakistan. ...


See also

  • Pakistan
  • Cold War
  • Afghanistan timeline 1981-1985
  • SYK: The Man With Qualities Short biographical article about Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, including personal reminescences, by S. Abbas Raza of 3 Quarks Daily

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Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan (born 1920) was the International Face of Pakistan for many years.He served as foreign minister of Pakistan from 1982 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1991 during the closing years of the Cold War, and was again foreign minister from 1996 to 1997.
Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan is a member of the erstwhile royal family of Rampur.Sahabzada Yaqub Khan enjoyed a distinguished career in the Pakistani Army that began before Pakistani independence.
From 1992 until 1997 Yaqub Khan was the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for the Western Sahara.
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (3542 words)
General Yaqub’s apparent disregard for the sensitivities of normal run of mill officers has to be understood in relation to the professional and cultural excellence that he desired to see around him.
Many of Yaqub’s colleagues in the General Staff who preferred to remain limited to Military Training Pamphlet No 8 were visibly disturbed at this onslaught of military intellectualism and did everything to put the teacher down.
Yaqub Khan, therefore, insisted in the name of military necessity that his task should not made be impossible by deliberately alienating the people of East Pakistan.
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