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[[File:Nehru Gandhi Roerich.jpg|thumb|right|270px|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Indira Gandhi]], [[Nicholas Roerich]], and Mohammad Yunus Khan]]

'''Mohammad Yunus Khan''' (26 June 1916 – 17 June 2001) was a member of [[Indian Foreign Service]].<ref name=tribuneobit>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010618/main4.htm |title=Mohammad Yunus dead |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |date=2001-06-18 |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> He served as ambassador to [[Turkey]], [[Indonesia]], [[Iraq]], and [[Spain]]. He promoted trade between India and the rest of the world through regular trade fairs and the establishment of exhibition complex at [[Pragati Maidan]] in Delhi. He also headed erstwhile Trade Fair Authority of India (TFAI) which is now rebranded as [[India Trade Promotion Organization]]. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]].

==Personal details==
Yunus was born on 26 June 1916 in the city of [[Abbottabad]], [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]],<ref name=tribuneobit/> to Haji Ghulam Samdani and Murvari Jan. He studied at Muslim University School, [[Aligarh]] and Islamia College, [[Peshawar]].

He died at the age of 84 on 17 June 2001 at the [[AIIMS, New Delhi]] after a protracted illness,<ref name=TH-obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2001/06/18/stories/02180005.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025002520/http://hindu.com/2001/06/18/stories/02180005.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-25 |work=[[The Hindu]] |title=Mohammad Yunus dead |date=2001-06-18 |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> surrounded by family and friends.

==Independence movement==
Yunus was a follower of [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]], with whom he worked from 1936 to August, 1947 as a ''[[Khudai Khidmatgar]]''.<ref name=tribuneobit/><ref name=TH-obit/> He was imprisoned during the [[Quit India Movement]] by Iskandar Mirza in 1941.<ref name=tribuneobit/> In Abbottabad Prison he contracted tuberculosis and was subsequently released in 1944, as the government did not think he would survive. After recuperating, he was again jailed in Kashmir in 1946.

==Career==
He joined the [[Indian Foreign Service]] in 1947 after he was appointed by the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, de hors the processes of public examination commenced in 1948. . During his time with the IFS, he represented India at the [[Non-Aligned Summit]]s at [[Lusaka]], [[Algiers]], [[Colombo]], [[New Delhi]], and [[Harare]].

Yunus retired as Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce in 1974.

In 1975 he was appointed as special envoy of the then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]]. In this capacity he established the [[Pragati Maidan]] in Delhi and went on regular trade exhibitions around the globe to promote Indian products and companies.<ref name=remembered/>

He was nominated to the [[Rajya Sabha]] in June 1989.<ref name=remembered>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/17/stories/2004061706850400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041018081558/http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/17/stories/2004061706850400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-10-18 |title=Mohammad Yunus remembered |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2004-06-17 |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref>

==Emergency period==
During the [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] of 1975–77, Yunus was in the inner circle of [[Indira Gandhi]] and served as one of her most trusted advisers.

==Adil Shahryar==
Yunus's son Adil Shahryar was a childhood friend of Rajiv Gandhi and his brother Sanjay Gandhi. It is alleged that Rajiv Gandhi secured his release from a US prison in the aftermath of the [[Bhopal Disaster]].

Adil Shahryar died in 1990.<ref name =toi485>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sushmas-counterattack-Who-is-Adil-Shahryar-and-what-was-his-connection-with-Rajiv-Gandhi/articleshow/48455131.cms | title=Sushma's counterattack: Who is Adil Shahryar and what was his connection with Rajiv Gandhi? | date=12 August 2015 | newspaper=The Times of India | first=Aarti Tikoo | last=Singh | access-date=8 September 2018 }}</ref>

==Literary works==
The first book written by Yunus was titled ''Frontier Speakers'' , with a foreword by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and a preface by [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]]. It was banned by the British government in 1942. He then wrote "''Kaidi ke Khat''", in [[Urdu]], later translated into English and Hindi, and finally his memoirs, ''Persons, Passions and Politics'' published in November 1979.

==See also==
* [[Aligarh Muslim University]]
* [[Syed Akbaruddin]]

==References==
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==External links==
*http://twocircles.net/2011jun19/mohammed_yunus_19162001_migrant_pakistan.html
*http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211281
*http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rajiv-gandhi-charmed-yasser-arafat-ayatollah-ali-khamenei/1/160805.html
*http://www.krnarayanan.in/html/speeches/others/award_20aug1995.htm

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