Syed Mohammad Inaamullah

Ambassador Inaamullah was the President of Association of retired Ambassadors from 2002 to 2003.

Subsequently, he was posted as Ambassador of Pakistan to Switzerland, the Holy See and Liechtenstein(1996–1999)and retired from active and illustrious diplomatic stint in 1999.

Returning to the National Defence University, Islamabad as Senior Directing Staff for International Relations & Foreign Affairs (1993–1994), he was appointed as Additional Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Economic Coordination (1994–1996).

From there he went on as Ambassador of Pakistan to Tripoli – Libya (1986–1989) and subsequently posted as Ambassador of Pakistan to Poland & Czechoslovakia (1990–1993).

He was posted back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director General Soviet Union & Eastern Europe and was then appointed as Minister & Charge d' Affaires a.p. to Aden – South Yemen (1984–1986).

After returning to Islamabad as Director East Asia and Pacific he went on to graduate from the prestigious National Defence University, Islamabad (1983) and received his third master's degree in Defence & Strategic Studies from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

He was married to Shams Inaam, who died of a protracted illness in 1974.

Participating in the Foreign Service entrance exam in 1972, qualified from the Administrative Staff College to become a diplomat, where he served as Director External Publicity at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tripoli – Libya as First Secretary (1974–1976), Kabul – Afghanistan as Counsellor (1976–1978), Vienna – Austria as Alternate Permanent Representative to various United Nations Organizations in Vienna Pakistan's Mission to the United Nations(1978–1981).

During his studies, he worked as a part-time journalist with the Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) and returned to Pakistan as a Press Officer in the German Embassy in Karachi. He joined the Voice of Germany (Deutsche Welle) in 1966 and was Chief Editor of its Urdu Service till 1972.

He received his education at an elite school in Lahore – Central Model School (Bronze Medal – Punjab), and went on to Graduate in Political Science & Philosophy from Government College Lahore1957 and subsequently did his Masters in English Literature 1960 from the University of Punjab.

S. M. Inaamullah (Urdu: ﺳﻴﺪ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺍﻧﻌﺎﻡ ﺍ ﻟﻠﮫ), an Ambassador of Pakistan was born on 18 May 1937 in Lahore – Pakistan to an illustrious aristocratic family of Syed Mohammad Uzairullah son of Nawab Syed Mohammad Hamidullah (Civil Servant), whose heritage stems from the Naqabdar families of Gilan, started by the sub-continental lineage of Syed Mohammad Ahmad.