Shamshad Ahmad

Shamshad Ahmad
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
In office
February 2000 – May 2002
Preceded byInam-ul-Haq
Succeeded byMunir Akram
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
In office
25 February 1997[1] – 17 February 2000[1][2]
Preceded byNajmuddin Shaikh
Succeeded byInam-ul-Haq
Personal details
Born (1941-12-10) 10 December 1941 (age 82)
Alma materGovernment College Lahore

Shamshad Ahmad (Urdu: شمشاد احمد) (born 10 December 1941)[3] is a veteran Pakistani diplomat, international relations expert and an author who served in BPS-22 grade as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan from 1997 to 2000.[1] He also served as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations between 2000 till 2002. Shamshad Ahmad also was the Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Iran.[4][2]

He currently writes a weekly column for English daily The News International (newspaper). Before that, he was a regular contributor to The Nation (Pakistan) (newspaper). He also writes occasionally for the Dawn (newspaper) and The Express Tribune (newspaper) – all of them Pakistani newspapers.

  1. ^ a b c Former Foreign Secretaries' list on Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan website Retrieved 31 October 2022
  2. ^ a b politics: An insider's account (profile and book review of Shamshad Ahmad) Dawn (newspaper), Published 6 September 2009, Retrieved 15 March 2018
  3. ^ Profile of Shamshad Ahmad Google Books website
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference WT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).