Bashir Ahmad (camel driver)

Bashir Ahmad visits the Foreign Service Institute on October 23, 1961. Edrie C. Way, Stephanie Blondi, and Mary Ann Severson, FSI employees, greet him.

For other people named Bashir Ahmad, see Bashir Ahmad (disambiguation).

Bashir Ahmad Sarban (Urdu: بشیر احمد) (c. 1913 – 15 August 1992)[1] was an impoverished Pakistani camel cart driver, who, on 20 May 1961, met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, and accepted an invitation to come to America.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ HB, Jalal. "The day LB Johnson invited Bashir Sarban (the camel cart driver) to the USA". Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Nation: Rubaiyat of Bashir Ahmad". Time. 23 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 December 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Five US presidents visited Pakistan during military regimes". The News International. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  4. ^ "When a US vice president invited a Pakistani camel cart driver to America". The Express Tribune. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  5. ^ "US Consulate celebrates Thanksgiving with Pakistani camel cart driver's family". The Express Tribune. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2022.