Patras Bokhari
| Patras Bokhari پطرس بخاری |
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| Born | Syed Ahmed Shah 1 October 1898 Peshawar, British North West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan) |
| Died | 5 December 1958 (aged 60) New York, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Subject | Literature |
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Syed Ahmed Shah (Urdu: سید احمد شاہ), commonly known as Patras Bokhari (1 October 1898 – 5 December 1958) was an 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 Mission School and moved to Lahore where he studied English literature at the Government College. Shah moved to United Kingdom where he recived his Tripos from the Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He returned to Lahore where he taught English at Government College in 1927. He became a prominet 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.
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