Mian Arshad Hussain | |
Office: | 10th Minister of Foreign Affairs |
President: | Ayub Khan |
Term Start: | 1 May 1968 |
Term End: | 4 April 1969 |
Predecessor: | Sharifuddin Pirzada |
Successor: | Yahya Khan |
Birth Date: | 9 January 1910[1] |
Death Date: | [2] |
Party: | All-India Muslim League (Before 1947) Muslim League (1947–1958) |
Mian Arshad Hussain (9 January 1910 - 4 October 1987), was a Pakistani politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan (1968 - 1969).
In 1959, Mian Arshad Husain was appointed Pakistan's Ambassador to Sweden, in 1961 to Moscow, and in 1963, he was appointed High Commissioner to India.[3] [4] In 1968, he gave the Chinese leader Mao Zedong a basket of Pakistani mangoes, which caused the rise of a "Mango Cult" in China.[5]