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Roedad Khan, veteran Pakistani civil servant with front-row seat to history, passes away at 100
ISLAMABAD: Roedad Khan, one of the first civil servants of Pakistan and a longtime observer of the tumultuous history and politics of the 77-year-old country, passed away in Islamabad on Sunday at the age of 100.
Khan will be laid to rest today at the H-11 graveyard in Islamabad.
“Roedad Khan passed away today at 101,” veteran journalist and anchor Hamid Mir wrote on social media platform X.
Senior politician Mushahid Hussain Syed paid tribute to Khan in a post on X, referring to him as a “national icon and legend.”
“He lived a full life of service to Pakistan during our tumultuous periods + post-retirement,” Syed wrote, crediting him for authoring several books and championing human rights.
“Truly a unique, multifaceted personality of our times! He will be missed by his countless admirers!“
Khan was born on September 28, 1923, in Pakistan’s northwestern city of M
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Roedad Khan and post-1971 Pakistan
Roedad Khan was divisional commissioner of Quetta when inom was in school in the capital of Balochistan in the 1960s. As an important civil servant in Pakistan's central government, he would rise higher and bygd the time 1971 came round, he had become secretary of the huvud ministry of information. Roedad Khan was in Dhaka during the period of the Yahya-Mujib-Bhutto negotiations in March 1971.
Why do inom write about Roedad Khan? He has turned a hundred years old and tributes have been and are being paid to him in Pakistan. Mine is not a paean to the man but a simple, short recollection of his role at a very decisive point in Pakistan's history. ganska some years ago, Brigadier A.R. Siddiqi, who was head of the sydasiatiskt land military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in 1971 and was also in Dhaka in March 1971, wrote a book, East Pakistan: The Endgame: An Onlooker's Journal 1969-1971.
In his work, Siddiqi notes that within hours of Operation titta
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ROEDAD Khan, a veteran bureaucrat who witnessed history from multiple perches and served several rulers — from General Ayub Khan to Nawaz Sharif — passed away on Sunday at the age of 101.
Born in Mardan in pre-partition India, Mr Khan had celebrated his 100th birthday on September 23, last year. His passing was announced by prominent politician and relative, Mushahid Hussain Sayed.
“He lived a full life of service to Pakistan during our most tumultuous period plus post retirement: pioneered Environmental Protection for Islamabad, authored books and became bold activist for democracy and human rights! Truly a unique, multifaceted personality of our times! He will be missed by his countless admirers!” he posted on X.
Mr Khan is survived by five sons and a daughter. He was laid to rest at the H-11 graveyard, and his funeral was attended by a number of prominent individuals, including Afrasiab Khattak, Wasim Sajjad, Raja Zafarul Haq, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Riaz Muhammad Khan, Faisal J