{"id":40924,"date":"2024-06-28T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40924"},"modified":"2024-06-28T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:26:44","slug":"govt-to-appoint-rizwan-saeed-as-new-ambassador-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-to-appoint-rizwan-saeed-as-new-ambassador-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to appoint Rizwan Saeed as new ambassador to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/automobile\/sindh-government-to-end-60-days-limit-for-vehicle-registration\/\">Federal\u00a0<\/a>government decided to appoint senior diplomat Rizwan Saeed as\u00a0Pakistan&#8217;s new ambassador to\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n<p>During its weekly briefing, the Foreign Office confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the Foreign Office, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch also declared Asim Iftikhar&#8217;s appointment as Pakistan&#8217;s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. Asim Iftikhar, who served as France&#8217;s ambassador before, will take up his new role eventually.<\/p>\n<p>She explained, &#8220;These appointments have been under consideration for several weeks and are part of regular diplomatic rotations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The\u00a0Federal\u00a0government decided to appoint senior diplomat Rizwan Saeed as\u00a0Pakistan&#8217;s new ambassador to\u00a0Washington. During its weekly briefing, the Foreign Office confirmed the development. Speaking on behalf of the Foreign Office, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch also declared Asim Iftikhar&#8217;s appointment as Pakistan&#8217;s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. Asim Iftikhar, who served as France&#8217;s ambassador before, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8292,19188,19186,19187],"class_list":["post-40924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-mumtaz-zahra-baloch","tag-govt-to-appoint-rizwan-saeed-as-new-ambassador-to-us","tag-rizwan-saeed-ambassador-to-us","tag-senior-diplomat-rizwan-saeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40928,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40924\/revisions\/40928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}