My Mother — Page 95
Fulfilment of Dream (B) 95 Nevertheless, I did not for a single moment doubt the truth of ’s dream. I left its correct interpretation and due fulfilment to Allah, the All-Knowing, the Beneficent. In the summer of 1961, Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, stopped in London on his way to the United States for an official visit. He had known me for several years and we were good friends. He sent for me to London and told me he wanted me to go to the United Nations as Pakistan’s Permanent Representative. I told him that he need not have a feel- ing that as I was now without a job he must provide me with one. He assured me that he was anxious to improve Pakistan’s repre- sentation at the United Nations and was keen on my going there. During his return journey he sent for me again and told me that he had mentioned my proposed appointment to Dag Hammerskold, Secretary General of the United Nations, who was delighted with it, and that I should consider the matter as settled and should arrange with Manzoor Qadir, the Foreign Minister, about visiting Pakistan for the purpose of being briefed. I arrived in New York on the 12th of August. The Sixteenth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations was to convene a month later. Mr. Agha Shahi, my Deputy, told me that Mr. Mongi Sleem of Tunisia and Mr. Ali Sastroamidjoyo of Indonesia had been candidates for the Presidency of the Session and that through the good offices of U. Thaunt, then Permanent Representative of Burma, it had been agreed that Mongi Sleem should be elected President of the Sixteenth Session and Ali Sas troamidjoyo should be elected President of the Seventeenth Session.