Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

Overview

Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan (née Sheila Irene Pant) born Almora, Uttarakhand, India February 13, 1905 (d. 1990). “Mother of Pakistan.” Diplomat and stateswoman; professor of economics. First First Lady of Pakistan, 1947-51; first Muslim woman delegate to the UN, 1952. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1954-61, Italy, 1966. First chancellor of Karachi University, 1977. Openly opposed military rule. Awarded UN Human Rights Prize, 1978.

Quotations

“God gives and God takes, but God’s work of service to humanity must go on. In the interest of that service, which must rise above all personal considerations and even grief, however great.” (Adventist Review, Nov. 1951, p. 24; photo Pakistan360degrees)