Diplomats and Diplomacy: Story of an Era: 1947-1987 (2nd Edition)

Description

The history of Pakistan Foreign Service is as old as Pakistan itself. The book is well studded with Dr Koreshi’s collection of memories and memorabilia, as also photographs with many of those who made history.

There is a lot of Dr Koreshi in these memories, a little too much, for some, but this is understandable. It is an account of his personal journey as a Pakistan diplomat, who climbed the ladder of the Foreign Service with hard work, dexterity, wit and great perseverance. He earned a place under the Foreign Office sun by dint and sheer labour and intelligence.

Mehmud Ali Federal Minister, Cabinet Division “Scion of a highly enlightened Muslim family of South Asia, Dr Samiullah Koreshi, has described in human terms the basic factors that ingrained into Muslim mind the two nation theory, which formed the basis of a Muslim majority state and a Hindu majority state. As a diplomat Dr Koreshi served his nation to the best of his ability, in accordance with the Quaid-e-Azam’s vision of Pakistan. The book deserves wider circulation.” General Mirza Aslam Beg Former Chief of Army Staff Chairman, Foundation for Research on International Environment, National Develompment & Security. “Dr Koreshi, an illustrious diplomat, an objective analyst of national and international scene, has narrated, in a very lucid manner, the problems that our diplomacy faced over the decades. It is a very incisive account of the ‘Roots’ that were the determinates of the emergence of Pakistan and the trauma that we faced.