ISLAMABAD: The French government has consented to appointment of Additional Foreign Secretary Asim Iftikhar Ahmad as Pakistan’s new ambassador to France.
Ahmad’s posting has taken place after two-year long saga, started with blasphemous caricatures in a French journal. Pakistan’s Ambassador to France Moeen ul Haq was first posted as high commissioner in New Delhi in 2019 but later he moved to China. Since then, the Paris Embassy is without an ambassador.
Well-placed diplomatic sources told The News that Asim Iftikhar is currently the spokesman of the Foreign Office and also looks after UN and ED. He will be leaving for the French capital on his new assignment next month. He had served as Pakistan’s ambassador to Thailand.
The Syrian government, meanwhile, accepted retired Air Marshal Shahid Akhtar as ambassador in Damascus while the Maldives has conveyed its consent for the appointment of Admiral Syed Fayyaz Gilani as envoy to Male. Both the envoys are likely to assume their responsibilities in their respective capitals in a couple of weeks, the sources added.
TEHRAN: A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was...
ISLAMABAD: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Islamabad on a two-day official visit on Sunday, the...
IT is a lonely feeling to know that your country’s leaders do not want you. To be vilified because you are a Muslim...
LAHORE: The federal government would not change the existing solar net metering policy for old users though a review...
MULTAN: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Syed Ali Musa Gilani won the by-polls held in NA-148 Multan-I by...
NEW DELHI: Suspected fighters shot dead an activist from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi´s party in Indian...
BATKHELA/TAKHT BHAI: Striking a reconciliatory tone, Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Sunday ruled out the imposition of...
WASHINGTON: Two top Biden administration officials held indirect talks with Iranian counterparts this week in an...