Akbar Agha was born in Dadu, Pakistan. He is the son of Ghulam Hussain Kadirdad Agha, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire a distinguished officer of the Civil Service of India and later Chairman of the Sindh Public Service Commission.
Agha studied at the University of Karachi, and as an officer of the Pakistan Foreign Service. He attended Saint Lawrence"s Boys School and Saint Patrick"s College (Karachi). He then attended Karachi University, where he competed in the all-Pakistan Central Superior Services examination and was selected to the Pakistan civil service.
He served on diplomatic assignments in Asia, Europe and Africa and currently divides his time between Karachi and Mexico City. He comes from a distinguished lineage of career government professionals from the Indian sub-continent. His sister-in-law is the celebrated artist Lubna Agha.
Akbar Agha started his career in the Pakistan Foreign Service as a career diplomat.
He was posted as Acting High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. His next assignment was Acting Ambassador to Romania, following which he served as Acting Ambassador to Tanzania.
After resigning from the foreign service, he taught at the University of San Luis Potosi in Mexico. His book, The Fatwa Girl, written in 2011, is a story about sectarian prejudices which dominate life in current day Pakistan and the fundamentalism that threatens to tear society apart.
His second novel, The Moon, is slated for release in 2012.
He is currently working on his third novel.
