Tariq M. Mir

Who is Tariq M. Mir?

Tariq Mohammad Mir has served as a career diplomat in the Pakistan Foreign Service. He served as Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Iraq and Head of Mission in Iran in 1978, 1980, and 1981. He began his career in the Pakistan Army and was later transferred into the civil service.

He obtained his early education from the Prince of Wales Military Academy. He attended the Staff College at Camberley in the United Kingdom, and specialized training in Diplomacy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

He hails from a well known judicial family of Kasur in Punjab. His grandfather Khan Bahadur Moula Baksh retired as a District and sessions judge. The late Khan Bahadur had an impressive collection of law books that he donated to various institutions in Lahore that are in use even today. His father Mr. S.M. Mir BA Cantab Bar-at-Law also served as District and Sessions Judge and later was appointed as Prime Minister in the princely state of Tonk. The Late S.M. Mir introduced important reforms in the state and helped Muslim students to avail higher studies by providing state scholarships.