Mohammed Ikramullah

Mohammad Ikramullah (; 15 January 1903 – 12 September 1963) was a figure in the administration of Pakistan at the time of independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. As a member of the provisional government of Pakistan, before the independence, he was Secretary and Advisor at the Ministries of Commerce, Information and Broadcasting, Commonwealth Relations and Foreign Affairs. He was also a member of Muslim League partition committee and a close companion of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

After independence, he was appointed the first Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1947 by Jinnah himself. He also remained the Ambassador of Pakistan to Canada, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. He was married to Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, and father of Princess Sarvath of Jordan.

Biography Ikramullah was born 15 January 1903 in Bhopal, British India, to Urdu-speaking Quraishi family. His father, Khan Bahadur Hafiz Mohammed Wilayatullah belonged to the aristocracy of the Muslim royal state of Bhopal, a large princely state in India. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1927. Later, Ikramullah served as Advisor to the preparatory commissions of the United Nations in London and San Francisco, and at its first general assembly, between 1945 and 1946.

In July 1947, when the States Departments were established, Ikramullah was appointed from the old Indian Civil Service as Joint Secretary, States Department, Provisional government of British India prior to independence. Subsequent to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he immigrated from Bhopal to Karachi, the then federal capital of Pakistan and started the foreign office, Government of Pakistan after being appointed the foreign Secretary of Pakistan by the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah in October 1947. He died in 1963.