Background
HILALY, Agha was born on May 20, 1911 in Bangalore. Son of late Agha Abdulla.
HILALY, Agha was born on May 20, 1911 in Bangalore. Son of late Agha Abdulla.
Madras and Cambridge Universities.
He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1936 at the age of 25, and opted for Pakistan during the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Pakistan along with his family in 1947. As the Government of Pakistan was in the process of establishing its foreign service cadre, all officers of the Civil Service of Pakistan that succeeded the Indian Civil Service were encouraged to join the new cadre. Hilaly was one of the first to do so and played an important role in shaping the strategic dimensions of Pakistan"s foreign policy.
He was Pakistani Ambassador to the Scandinavian countries with residence in Stockholm from 1956 to 1959.
In 1959 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow and concurrently to Prague, till 1961, when he was assigned to India. While representing Pakistan at the United Nations and serving as Ambassador to the United States.
In the latter position, he facilitated the secret visit of United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to China, a fact acknowledged by President Richard Nixon. Agha Hilaly died in Karachi on February 6, 2001, at the age of 90.
Board of directors State Bank of Pakistan since 1973. Federation Bank of Company-operatives (Islamabad) since 1973.
Married Malek Taj Kazim in 1938.