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The Unlikely Hero: How a Pakistani Passport Helped Secure Moroccan Independence

During the turbulent year of 1952, Morocco was colonized by France and subjected to harsh governance. Under the illustrious leadership of Sultan Muhammad V, the Moroccan people were fiercely battling for their much-anticipated independence. Amidst the mayhem of this conflict, an extraordinary and unanticipated development occurred involving somebody called Ahmed Bulferg, a passport from Pakistan, and a moment of triumph at the UN Security Council. In order to address the United Nations Security Council and rally worldwide support for their honorable cause—Moroccan independence—Sultan Muhammad V dispatched Ahmed Bulferg to the United States on a crucial mission. But the French colonial delegates, who kept Morocco under their thumb, wasted no time in implementing a sly strategy. Because of his Moroccan citizenship, Ahmed Bulferg could not speak at a UN forum, according to their argument, because Morocco was a French colony. The Moroccan people's cry for freedom was met with an obviou...