Abdus Salim Khan

Having joined the British Indian Civil Service in 1933, Khan served as a magistrate and a Political Officer in the North-West Frontier Province.^{[citation needed][5]} During the Second World War he served as a director of the War Supply Department of the then Government of India.^{[6][citation needed]}

After the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, he was inducted into the country's fledgling Foreign Service of Pakistan and sent first as the country's first Trade Commissioner to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)^[7] and was thereafter appointed as Pakistan's formal representative (High Commissioner) there, a few months later. He was one of the members of Pakistani delegation at Commonwealth of Nations Conference at Colombo, 1950, which framed the Colombo Plan.^[8]

Between 1951 and 1953 he held diplomatic postings in Afghanistan and the United States;^{[9][citation needed]} and in 1953, he was appointed as Pakistan's Chargé d'Affaires in Japan.^[10] and then ambassador,^[11] playing an instrumental role in firmly establishing positive Japan-Pakistan relations.^[12][13] In 1955, he was posted away as Pakistan Consul-General at San Francisco, USA. In May 1957, he was then posted as Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner in London, Britain.^[14] He died there suddenly of heart failure between 12/13 July 1957 ^[15] and his body was flown back and buried in his native village.^[16]

• Foreign relations of Pakistan
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)
• Pakistan-United States relations
• Pakistan-Sri Lanka relations
• Bernard Gufler