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Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah was a British author and diplomat of Indian-Afghan origin; he traveled throughout the world on assignment for the Foreign Office. Although he spent most of his life as a resident of the U.K., he spent his last decade living in Morrocco, where he died as a result of a traffic accident in late 1969 at the age of 75.