Career
Ambassador to Austria Pakistan Ministry Foreign Affairs, 1975-1978, ambassador to India, 1978-1982, 90-92, ambassador to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1988-1990. Director, then director general Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, secretary for southern asia, 1982-1986, secretary general, 1986-1988, minister foreign affairs, 1999—2002. Foreign affairs editor Pakistan Observer, since 2004.