P. N. Haksar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

P. N. Haksar

Indian civil servant

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1998

Profession: lawyer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar (4 September 1913 – 25 November 1998) was an Indian bureaucrat and diplomat, best known for his two-year stint as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's principal secretary (1971–73).
In that role, Haksar was the chief strategist and policy adviser behind his inexperienced prime minister's rise to near-absolute power in the mid-1970s.
After this he was appointed deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and then the first-ever chancellor of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. An advocate of centralisation and socialism, he was a Kashmiri Pandit who became Gandhi's closest confidante in her inner coterie of bureaucrats, the so-called "Kashmiri mafia".
Prior to this, Haksar was a diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service, who served as India's ambassador to Austria and Nigeria.