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Syed Amjad Ali
OBE
Syed Amjad Ali OBE
3rd Minister of Finance
	In office; 12 September 1956 – 7 October 1958
Prime Minister	Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy; I. I. Chundrigar; Feroz Khan Noon
Preceded by	Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
Succeeded by	Muhammad Shoaib
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
	In office; 1964 – 25 March 1967
Appointed by	Ayub Khan
Preceded by	Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
Succeeded by	Agha Shahi
Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
	In office; 26 September 1953 – 17 September 1955
Prime Minister	Muhammad Ali Bogra; Chaudhry Mohammad Ali
Preceded by	Muhammad Ali Bogra
Succeeded by	Muhammad Ali Bogra
Personal details
Born	5 July 1907; Lahore, British India
Died	5 March 1997 (aged 89); Lahore, Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Relations	Syed Babar Ali (brother) ; Syed Wajid Ali (brother)
Occupation	Politician

Syed Amjad Ali CIE OBE (Urdu: سید امجد علی; 5 July 1907 – 5 March 1997) was a Pakistani politician and a civil servant during the British Raj era, who served as the 3rd Minister of Finance (Pakistan) from 1956 to 1958 and as Pakistan Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1955.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3] He had 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.^[2]

Ali was educated at the St. Agnes Loreto Convent in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, followed by the Muslim High School and Government College in Lahore. After receiving his B. A. in 1927, he went to London for legal studies at the Middle Temple. While in London, he served as honorary secretary of the Muslim delegations at the First Round Table Conference in 1930–31 and for the Indian delegation at the Second Round Table Conference at the end of 1931.^[2] He returned home and worked for his father's company, A. & M. Wazir Ali. He was appointed an OBE in the 1936 Birthday Honours.^[4] and a CIE in 1944 Birthday Honours.^[5]

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).^[2]

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).^[2]

Books

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Saxon, Wolfgang (17 March 1997). "Syed Amjad Ali, 89, of Pakistan, Envoy to Washington and U.N." The New York Times. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Syed Amjad Ali - Introduction". Archived from the original on 8 May 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
^ Markovits, C. (2008). Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. Springer. p. 84. ISBN 9780230594869. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
^ "No. 34296". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 June 1936. p. 4007.
^ "No. 36544". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1944. p. 2571.

External links

A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sayed Amjad Ali" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Muhammad Ali Bogra	Pakistan Ambassador to the United States 1953 – 1955	Succeeded by Muhammad Ali Bogra
Preceded by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan	Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations 1964 – 1967	Succeeded by Agha Shahi
Political offices
Preceded by Chaudhry Muhammad Ali	Finance Minister of Pakistan 1955 – 1958	Succeeded by Muhammad Shoaib