2 Quotes & Sayings By Arif Ahmed
Arif Ahmed was born in Karachi and brought up in London. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Ahmed was a columnist for "The Daily Telegraph" from 1977 until he died in 1978. In the early 1970s, he wrote a series of articles under the pen name of Mr
X which were collected as Mr. X Goes to Washington, published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1973. The book was adapted as a feature film, Mr.
X, also entitled Washington, directed by Will Wright and starring Peter Sellers. Mr. X Goes to Washington is a satirical novel about a Pakistani clerk who joins the White House staff as a clerical assistant to the President of the United States.