Patras Bokhari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Patras Bokhari

Pakistani diplomat

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1898

Place of Birth: Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1958

Profession: professor, diplomat, humorist, broadcaster

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Syed Ahmed Shah (Urdu: ??? ???? ???), commonly known as Patras Bokhari (1 October 1898 – 5 December 1958), was a Pakistani humourist, writer, broadcaster and diplomat who served as the first Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations. Born in Peshawar, British India to a Kashmiri family, Shah studied at Edwardes Mission School in Peshawar and moved to Lahore where he studied English literature at the Government College.
Shah moved to United Kingdom where he received his Tripos from the Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
He returned to Lahore where he taught English at Government College in 1927.
He became a prominent part of the Muslim intelligentsia in South Asia.
Shah moved to eventually become Director General of All India Radio in Delhi and then Principal of Government College.
He was appointed as the country's first envoy to the United Nation's in New York City from 1951 and 1954, followed by the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Information until 1958.