Abul Hassan Isphani
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1946–1947
Preceded byAbdur Rahman Siddiqui
ConstituencyMuslim Chamber of Commerce
In office
1937–1945
Succeeded byKhwaja Nooruddin[1]
ConstituencySouth Calcutta
Personal details
Born1902
Bengal Presidency
Died1981 (aged 7879)
Karachi, Pakistan
Political partyAll-India Muslim League
RelativesFarahnaz Ispahani (granddaughter)

Mirza Abul Hassan Ispahani (Persian: میرزا ابو الحسن اصفهانی; 1902–1981) was a Pakistani politician and diplomat who served as an ambassador of Pakistan to the United States.

Early life and family

Ispahani was born in 1902 to the Perso-Bengali Ispahani family of Kolkata. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[2] He completed his Bar-at-Law in 1924 of the All India Muslim League held in Madras in April 1941.

During the 1990s, Mirza Zia Ispahani, the youngest son of Mirza Abul Hassan Ispahani, served as Pakistan Ambassador in Switzerland and Italy and is currently Ambassador-at-large with Minister of State status and visited Bangladesh on the instructions of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. His granddaughter, Farahnaz Ispahani, served as a member of Pakistan's parliament and is the wife of Pakistan's former ambassador to United States, Hussain Haqqani and lived for some time in the same house in Washington as did her grandfather.

Career

He became a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1946 and represented the Muslim League at the New York Herald Tribune Forum the same year.

After independence, he became Member Pakistan Constituent Assembly in 1947. Mr. Isphani toured the United States as personal representative of Jinnah and was ambassador to the United States from September 1947 to February 1952. He was Deputy Leader of Pakistan Delegation to UNO on Trade And Development in 1947. He was Vice Chairman Pakistan Delegation to U.N. Security Council on Kashmir issue and was High Commissioner to the UK from 1952 to 1954. He was Federal Minister for Industries and Commerce from 1954 to 1955. He was an Ambassador to Afghanistan in 1973–74.

Grave of Abul Hassan Isphani

Ispahani died in Karachi in 1981.

Books

He authored a number of books which include:

  • The Case of Muslim India (1946)
  • 27 Days in China (1960)
  • Leningrad to Samarkand (1962)
  • Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah, as I Knew Him (1967)

References

  1. Reed, Sir Stanley, ed. (1947). The Indian Year Book.
  2. Hussain Qizilbash, Basharat. "The Quaid's lieutenants". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
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