Omar Hayat Malik
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Omar Hayat Malik was a Pakistani politician, educationist and diplomat.[1]
In British India, Malik served as the principal of the Islamia College, Peshawar and Islamia College, Lahore.[2] A participant in the Pakistan Movement,[1] he was elected[lower-alpha 1] to the Constituent Assembly of India as a candidate of Muslim League and abdicated attendance until the Mountbatten Plan sanctioned the creation of Pakistan and its own constituent assembly.[3][4] A gifted orator, Malik wished for the new state to be a theocratic democracy.[5]
In independent Pakistan, Malik was appointed as the first vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab.[6][7][8] However, he resigned in 1950 and joined the diplomatic corps; Malik would serve as Pakistan's ambassador to Japan, Germany, Indonesia and as High Commissioner to India.[1]