19 Facts About Patras Bokhari

Patras Bokhari returned to Lahore where he taught English at Government College in 1927.

Patras Bokhari became a prominent part of the Muslim intelligentsia in India.

Patras Bokhari was appointed as the country's envoy to the UN in New York City from 1951 and 1954, followed by the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Information until 1958.

Patras Bokhari's Syed ancestors had migrated to Kashmir from Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Patras Bokhari was tall and blue-eyed, had a razor-sharp mind, an equally sharp tongue, and a keenness to go forward in life.

Patras Bokhari' brother Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari was a noted broadcaster in Pakistan.

Patras Bokhari left his position at Government College, Lahore, before moving to England from India in 1925 to complete a Tripos in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Patras Bokhari was a member of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan's delegation during his visit to the United States in 1950.

Patras Bokhari drafted the prime minister's speeches and public pronouncements.

In New York, Patras Bokhari lived in a small house on a small street along the East River.

Patras Bokhari used four languages at home: the local dialect, Persian, Urdu and Pashto.

Ahmed Shah Patras Bokhari first started using a pen name Peter, in respect of his teacher Peter Watkins, when he wrote in English.

Patras Bokhari lived in times of personalities like Allama Iqbal and had interacted with him on several occasions and engaged him in philosophical debates.

Patras Bokhari wrote an article Ancient Greek Rulers and Their Thinking which was published in March 1919 in the Kehkashan Lahore.

Patras Bokhari argued successfully that UNICEF's need in developing countries is much greater than its role in European countries after second world war.

Patras Bokhari's arguments persuaded even Eleanor Roosevelt to change the stance of her country, United States.

Patras Bokhari was acutely conscious of the aspirations of people throughout the world for peace, for better standards of life, for freedom and dignity, but no one was more soundly aware than he of the difficulties and obstacles to be overcome in bringing about a broad advance of humankind along these avenues.

Patras Bokhari said that apart from being as great an internationalist as Dag Hammarskjold, he was the first advocate of liberation movements in colonized countries across Africa and the Middle East.

Patras Bokhari died on December 5,1958, still serving as a diplomat and is buried in Valhalla Cemetery, New York.