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Farewell for Dundas

2024-07-08
NATHIAGALI: Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, Premier of the Frontier Province, gave a farewell dinner to H.E. Sir Ambrose Dundas and Lady Dundas here last night [July 6]. Sir Ambrose Dundas will hand over the charge to the New Governor, Col Sahibzada Khurshid Ahmed, next week. ... Sir Ambrose Dundas accompanied by his wife will leave Peshawar tomorrow and ... proceed to Karachi... . They will leave for the United Kingdom ... on midnight of July 15-16.

... Asked when he would go to his home town in Britain, he said: `In fact I am leaving my home town, North-Western Frontier Province, where I have spent half mylife.`...Sir A mbrose Dundas said: `I have been in NWFP for 25 years and during the last 13 years I have only enjoyed four months` leave. ...

Sir Ambrose Dundas came to NWFP in 1924 as Under-Secretary to the Chief Commissionerandafter25years`servicetookcharge from Sir George Cunningham, the retiring Governor of NWFP, in April 1948. During the last 24 years, Sir Ambrose Dundas acted as Assistant Commissioner, Political Agent, North Waziristan, Chief Secretary to Government and Revenue and Divisional Commissioner in the NWFP. News agencies