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Mirza Osman Ali Baig, MBE (1904-1992) was an Pakistani diplomat. Mirza Osman Ali Baig was born in Bombay on 9 January 1904, the son of Sir Abbas Ali Baig, KCIE, CSI (1859-1932) and was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.〔Clifton College Register 1862-1925〕 He was commissioned onto the Unattached List for the Indian Army as a second lieutenant in January 1924, spent a year attached to a British Army regiment in India and then joined the Indian Army in March 1925, serving with the 7th Cavalry until December 1930, when he was appointed to the Indian Political Service (IPS).〔January 1931 Indian Army List〕 With the IPS he served in Sibi, Zhob, Mekran and Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).〔 History of services of officers holding gazetted appointments under the foreign and political department. Corrected up to 1st July 1935.〕 In January 1941, as City Magistrate, Peshawar, North West Frontier Province he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.〔London Gazette 1 January 1941〕 In May 1943 he was appointed as consul for the Portuguese Possessions in India at NovaGoa, and then as consul for the French Establishments in India at Pondicherry. Subsequently he served in the following roles:〔Boardman Family Tree website. http://www.boardman.in/family-history-record/baig-mirza-osman-ali〕 *First Secretary to the Agent-General in India for the USA 1946, *Counsellor Pakistan Embassy at Washington DC 1947-1949 (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim 1947), *Acting High Commissioner for Pakistan in Canada 1949, *Minister in the Pakistan Embassy to the USA, Washington DC 1950-1951, *Foreign Secretary, Karachi 1951-1952, *High Commissioner to Canada 1953-1958,〔Also cited in Kumaraswamy, "Beyond the Veil: Israel-Pakistan Relations". ISBN 965-459-041-7 Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. (2000). PR. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadimages/Import/(FILE)1190278291.pdf〕 *Secretary-General CENTO 1 Jan 1959 - 31 Dec 1961.〔http://www.worldstatesmen.org/International_Organizations.html〕 He married Juliette Jamil (1911-2003). He had a younger brother, Mirza Rashid Ali Baig (1905-1979) who was a diplomat for India post partition. Baig died February 1992 in London. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Osman Ali Baig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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