{"id":106636,"date":"2022-11-11T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=106636"},"modified":"2022-11-11T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:49:29","slug":"mumtaz-zahra-baloch-replaces-asim-iftikhar-as-new-foreign-office-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=106636","title":{"rendered":"Mumtaz Zahra Baloch replaces Asim Iftikhar as new Foreign Office spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Zahra Baloch currently serving as additional secretary Asia, Pacific.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Saima Syed appointed deputy spokesperson of Foreign Office.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Asim Iftikhar set to become Pakistan&#8217;s ambassador to France.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n<hr class=\"editorHr\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Additional Secretary Asia and Pacific Mumtaz Zahra Baloch was Friday appointed as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; new spokesperson, replacing Asim Iftikhar, who has been posted on a new assignment.<\/p>\n<p>In a notification, the Foreign Office announced the appointment of Baloch as the spokesperson and Saima Syed, who is currently serving as the director-general (strategic communication division), as the deputy spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani career diplomat, Baloch has previously served as the ambassador of Pakistan to Korea (2020-2021), minister\/deputy head of mission at the Beijing Embassy (2015-2020), counselor for political affairs at the Washington DC Embassy (2006-2011), and as the second secretary at the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, Geneva (1999- 2002).<\/p>\n<p>At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has served as director (America), director (security council and human rights) and director (strategic planning) in the Office of the Foreign Secretary. During 2014-2015, she served as Director (academic programme) and later as director-general of the Foreign Service Academy Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Baloch holds a Master&#8217;s degree in Physics from the Punjab University, a Master&#8217;s in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law, and Diplomacy, USA, and a degree from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d&#8217; Administration, France.<\/p>\n<p>Iftikhar, who will now become Pakistan&#8217;s envoy to France, earlier this week presented his credentials to France&#8217;s Director of State Protocol Philippe Franc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Baloch currently serving as additional secretary Asia, Pacific. Saima Syed appointed deputy spokesperson of Foreign Office. Asim Iftikhar set to become Pakistan&#8217;s ambassador to France. &nbsp; &nbsp; ISLAMABAD: Additional Secretary Asia and Pacific Mumtaz Zahra Baloch was Friday appointed as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; new spokesperson, replacing Asim Iftikhar, who has been posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106638,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106636\/revisions\/106638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}