Dilshad Najmuddin (1933 – 18 May 2018) was a senior retired Inspector general of the

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. He was educated at the renowned Woodstock School near Mussorie,

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, during the 1940s and later at the

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, Lahore. During the late 1980s, he also served as the Director of the Pakistan Narcotics Control Board (PNCB). After his retirement from the

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i Police, Dr. Najmuddin also served for some time as Pakistan's Ambassador to the

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from 1991 onwards. He died in hospital, in Islamabad, Pakistan, after a brief illness on 18 May 2018. Najmuddin belonged to the well-known Pakistani Christian Najmuddin family of

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, Pakistan Mrs Najmuddin, who was a senior English teacher and later principal
at

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was his aunt who had run the renowned Joan McDonald schools system in Lahore and

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, since 1921 onwards.

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