Abol Hassan Ispahani

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

Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he was an active Pakistan Movement activist in Bengal, British India. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He completed his Bar-at-Law in 1924 from Inner Temple, London. In 1925, he joined the family business of M. M. Ispahani Limited and engaged in other business undertakings. He was Deputy Leader of Pakistan Delegation to the United Nations Organization on Trade and Development in 1947. He was Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Delegation to the U.N. Security Council on the Kashmir issue and was the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1952 to 1954. Ispahani was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Industries and Commerce from 1954 to 1955. He also was an Ambassador of Pakistan to Afghanistan in 1973–74.

Abul Hassan Ispahani Road in Karachi, Pakistan Karachi city mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal inaugurated Abul Hassan Ispahani Road in July 2006 to pay tribute to him.

Commemorative postage stamp Pakistan Post issued a commemorative postage stamp to honor his services to Pakistan in its 'Pioneers of Freedom' series in 1990.

Family 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 Pakistan Peoples Party 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.

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)