It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of our distinguished alumnus and Honorary Fellow Shaharyar Muhammad Khan (m.1953). He died in Lahore after a long illness on Saturday 23 March 2024 aged 89, six days before his 90th birthday. 

A Pakistani diplomat, Shaharyar Khan was Foreign Secretary between 1990 and his retirement in 1994. He had previously been Pakistan's ambassador to Jordan, the United Kingdom (as High Commissioner, 1987–1990) and to France. Further, between 1994 and 1996 he served as United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Rwanda and his experiences there, both during and after the genocide and refugee crisis, prompted his book Shallow Graves of Rwanda. He was also chairman of the Pakistani Cricket Board from 2003 to 2006 and again from 2014 to 2017.

Shaharyar Muhammad Khan was born on 29 March 1934 in Bhopal State in British India, the only son and heir of the ruler of former princely state of Kurwai. He was descended from the royal family of the former princely state of Bhopal; his ancestors having emigrated there from Afghanistan during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. 

He came to Corpus in 1953 and read the Law Tripos. After leaving the College, he worked for a year with Burmah Oil before joining the Pakistani foreign service. In 1960, he was posted to London as a Third Secretary and from 1962 to 1966 was Second Secretary in the Tunis embassy. In 1976 Shaharyar Khan became an ambassador, first to Jordan and then, between 1987 and 1990, the United Kingdom. Finally, between 1999 and 2001, he was Ambassador to France and Chairman, Committee on Foreign Service Reforms, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

He was made an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2005. 

Shaharyar Khan married Minoo Khan in 1958, the couple having met when she was a student at the Queen's College in London the previous year.