Agha Shahi

Agha Shahi, NI, was a Pakistani career Foreign Service Officer who was the leading civilian figure in the military government of former President General Zia-ul-Haq from 1977 to 1982. A diplomat and technocrat by profession, he joined the Foreign Services in 1951 and held important diplomatic assignments in the United States, China, and the United Nations. He served as the Foreign Secretary – the leading bureaucratic position in Pakistan Government – in 1973 until 1977, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government was dismissed.