Patras Bokhari
Syed Ahmed Shah Patras Bokhari (
Urdu: سید احمد شاہ پطرس بخاری) was a
Pakistani educationist, essayist, broadcaster and diplomat. Patras Bokhari was born in
1898 and died in
1958. Before the formation of
Pakistan in
1947, he was the Director General,
All India Radio. Primarily, he was a Professor of English Literature and thus served as the Principal of
Government College Lahore. The famous
Urdu poet,
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and the leading free verse poet in
Urdu,
Noon Meem Rashid, were among his famous students. After the formation of Pakistan, he served as the permanent representative of Pakistan in the
United Nations from
1949"
52. He died during his diplomatic service and is buried in
New York,
USA.
A. S. Bokhari was born in
Peshawar,
NWFP, and educated in Government College, Lahore. His thin volume of essays, Patras Kay Mazameen (Essays of Patras), is considered as an asset of Urdu humor. Due to his global vision, he was known as ‘a citizen of the world.'
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