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Former foreign minister Natwar Singh no more

Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93. He breathed his last at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, where he had been admitted for the past couple of weeks, they said.Singh was born in 1931 in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.A former Congress MP, K Natwar Singh was External Affairs Minister for the period 2004-05 during the UPA-I government led by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He also served as ambassador to Pakistan and was attached to the office of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from 1966 to 1971. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1984. K Natwar Singh also authored several books.Singh was selected in the Indian Foreign Services in 1953 and served in many foreign countries including China, New York, Poland, England, Pakistan, Jamaica and Zambia. In 1984, he resigned from his job to join Congress. He contested the 8th Lok Sabha elections in 1984 and was appointed as Minister of State.


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