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Special The Austrian who held Pakistan’s first passport — and helped seal ties with Saudi Arabia

The Austrian who held Pakistan’s first passport — and helped seal ties with Saudi Arabia

  • Leopold Weiss, born to a Jewish family in the Polish city of Lwów, then under the Austrian Empire, spent most of his adult life in the Middle East and South Asia
  • He arrived in India in 1932 and was persuaded to join the freedom movement by Iqbal, Pakistan’s national poet and ideological father
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