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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

By SAIMA SHABBIR - Natalia Laskowska · 14 August 2020