{"id":33726,"date":"2024-04-21T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=33726"},"modified":"2024-04-21T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:58:48","slug":"former-civil-servant-roedad-khan-dies-at-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/former-civil-servant-roedad-khan-dies-at-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Former civil servant Roedad Khan dies at 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: Former Pakistani bureaucrat Roedad Khan passed away on Sunday after witnessing the country\u2019s various political ups and downs since it gained independence in 1947.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former civil servant and\u00a0politician\u00a0Roedad Khan passed away at the age of 101 in Islamabad on Sunday. <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Former bureaucrat Khan was laid to rest after the Zuhr prayers at the H-11 graveyard in the federal capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Taking on X, Senator Mushahid Hussain mourned the passing of Roedad Khan and paid rich tribute, referring to him as a national icon and legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said, &#8220;Legend, Roedad Khan, 101, lived a full life of service to Pakistan during our tumultuous periods + post-retirement: pioneered Environmental Protection for Islamabad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Mushahid Hussain Syed credited him for authoring several books and championing human rights. &#8220;Authored books &amp; became a Bold Activist for Democracy &amp; Human Rights! Truly a unique, multifaceted personality of our times! He will be missed by his countless admirers,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/86th-death-anniversary-of-allama-iqbal-being-observed-today\/\">86th death anniversary of Allama Iqbal being observed today<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cRoedad Khan passed away today at 101,\u201d senior journalist Hamid Mir wrote on social media platform X.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0journalist Moeed Pirzada wrote, \u201cRoedad Khan was a living walking history of Pakistan, with his departure country has lost its connection with the past &#8211; and is hurtling like a spaceship into an uncertain unknown future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Roedad Khan was born on September 28, 1923, in the city of Mardan before the country gained its independence in 1947. After entering the Pakistan Civil Service in 1949, he joined the District Management Group and held many prestigious roles during his distinguished civil service career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Khan served with five presidents and three former prime ministers. He served as the secretary-general of the interior ministry and as a former adviser to the prime minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He also remained as the chief secretary of Sindh and KP and was also appointed as the managing director of Pakistan Television. He also served as the secretary of the ministries of information, labor, tourism, and interior throughout various governments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani bureaucrat Roedad Khan passed away on Sunday after witnessing the country\u2019s various political ups and downs since it gained independence in 1947.\u00a0 Former civil servant and\u00a0politician\u00a0Roedad Khan passed away at the age of 101 in Islamabad on Sunday. Former bureaucrat Khan was laid to rest after the Zuhr prayers at the H-11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14809,2],"tags":[15483,15484,15482,15485],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-pakistan","tag-roedad-khan","tag-roedad-khan-died","tag-roedad-khan-dies-at-101","tag-who-is-roedad-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}