Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan

Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan (Urdu/Punjabi: چوہدری علی اکبر خان; 28 September 1910 – 8 October 1967) was a Pakistani politician and diplomat.

[1] Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan was born on 28 September 1910 in the village of Kolian, located in the Dasuya subdivision of Hoshiarpur district in Punjab, British India.

Following the partition of British India in 1947, he moved with his family to the newly-founded state of Pakistan, initially arriving in Lahore and then settling permanently in Lyallpur in 1949.

In 1944, he was nominated as a member of the Provincial Muslim League Working Committee and went on to serve as the president of the AIML's chapter in Hoshiarpur district, an appointment he held until the partition.

[1] As the envoy in Riyadh, he established the Pakistan Embassy School in Jeddah in 1959 to serve the children of Pakistani expatriates living in the kingdom.

[1] In 2011, his family members established a social welfare and charitable organisation in his name, the Ali Akbar Khan Foundation.