Agha Shahi

Agha Shahi (; 25 August 1920 – 6 September 2006), NI, was a Pakistani career Foreign Service Officer who was the leading civilian figure in the military government of former President General Zia-ul-Haq from 1977 to 1982. A diplomat and technocrat by profession, he joined the Foreign Services in 1951 and held important diplomatic assignments in the United States, China, and the United Nations. He served as the Foreign Secretary – the leading bureaucratic position in Pakistan Government – in 1973 until 1977, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government was dismissed. In October 1944, he was posted to Sindh Province as an assistant collector,

Death and legacy On 6 September 2006, he died after suffering a heart attack, at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad, aged 86.

Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, reportedly commented on Agha Shahi's death, "Agha Shahi served in various key positions in the Foreign Ministry with great distinction rising to the position of foreign secretary and foreign minister. A generation of Pakistani diplomats had the fortune to learn from him."

Ninth Avenue, one of Islamabad's major and busiest roads, is named after him.