# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arshad-sami-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-20T21:49:49.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arshad-sami-khan"
name: "Arshad Sami Khan"
slug: "arshad-sami-khan"
description: "Arshad Sami Khan was a Pakistani diplomat, civil servant and fighter pilot who at peak of his career attained the highest rank of Federal Secretary. He started his career as a Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot and later served three presidents of Pakistan as their aide-de-camp (ADC) and later went on to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served three presidents and four prime ministers as chief of protocol. He was later appointed a diplomatic ambassador of Pakistan to 14 countries. This was followed by his appointment as the first commissioner general of Pakistan. He was also Federal Secretary of Culture and retired as a top BPS-22 grade bureaucratic officer. He was also the father of singer and music composer Adnan Sami."
tagline: "Pakistani diplomat and Air Force officer (1942-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arshad_Sami_Khan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1942-01-08"
deathDate: "2009-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           20.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.20018
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sami_Khan"
    title: "Arshad Sami Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sami_Khan"
    title: "Arshad Sami Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arshad_Sami_Khan"
    title: "Arshad Sami Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B9_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ارشد سمیع خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B9_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ارشد سمیع خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4796513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations