Mohammad Yunus (diplomat)
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Mohammad Yunus was a close associate of Indira Gandhi. A life-long diplomat, he served as Indian ambassador to many countries including Turkey, Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq and Spain.
Born in 1916 in Abbottabad (former North-West Frontier Province.) to Pashtun parents, he studied at Muslim University School, Aligarh and Islamia College, Peshawar. He worked with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan from 1936 to August, 1947 . He was imprisoned during the Quit India Movement and again in Kashmir in 1946. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947, during which time he served as adviser to the Joint Secretariat set up to organise the Bandung Conference in April 1955. He represented India at the Non-Aligned Summits at Lusaka, Algiers, Colombo, New Delhi and Harare. He retired as Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce in 1974 and was appointed as Special Envoy of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in 1975.
He authored a few books .The first book was `Frontier Speakers' (with a Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru and a Preface by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan). It was banned by the government in 1942. The other books are "Kaidi ke Khat", in Urdu, translated into English and Hindi, and his memoirs, "Persons, Passions and Politics" published in November, 1979.
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