Amjad Ali

Early life and education Syed Amjad Ali was born in Lahore, the eldest son of Sir Syed Maratib Ali, a prominent Muslim businessman in the Punjab. Syed Babar Ali and Syed Wajid Ali were his younger brothers. He had social and political connections for diplomacy in the final days of the British colony, as he knew many prominent people in the Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and British communities. and a CIE in 1944 Birthday Honours.

During the last few years of British rule, Ali worked closely with "two giants of pre-partition Punjab politics"— Fazl-i-Hussain and Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan — while sitting in the Punjab Legislative Assembly (1937–45) and the Constituent Assembly of India (1946).

After independence from India and British rule, Ali served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States (1953–55), Finance Minister of Pakistan (1955–58), and Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1964–67).

According to the New York Times newspaper: "He was among those who worked to gain Pakistan a place of recognition in world affairs".

Books The United Nations and I : 1950-1993 Glimpses (1992) (autobiography) Prints & imprints Ustad Bashir ud Din : the last master from Lahore School of Painters