Farewell to composed and consummate diplomat


RETIRED senior civil servant and highly-respected career diplomat Tan Sri Zakaria Hj Mohd Ali passed away peacefully at the National Heart Institute on April 10 after almost four months of hospitalisation for various health complications. He was 88.

Kuala Lumpur-born Zakaria was educated at Pasar Road School and Victoria Institution in his hometown. In 1950, he entered University of Malaya in Singapore and graduated with an honours degree in arts in 1954.

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