New Delhi, May 8
Pakistan is yet to finalise the name of its prospective High Commissioner to India, though Pakistani diplomats here assert that this would be done "very soon".
Pakistan’s Acting High Commissioner here, Mr Munnawar Saeed, told The Tribune today that the Government of Pakistan was yet to decide on the name of the new incumbent.
He, said media reports which tossed the name of Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar as the new High
Commissioner to India were “wrong”. Mr Khokhar had been Foreign Secretary only for
about six months or so and had a couple of years to go.
Sources in Pakistan High Commission here said Islamabad was likely to seek from India the “Agre’ment” — which in diplomatic parlance means seeking prior approval about a prospective envoy — of its new High Commissioner to India by May 12, if not by tomorrow.
It is understood that the Pakistani Foreign Office has been too preoccupied with the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, which concludes today.
Mr Saeed handed over a copy of Mr Jamali’s speech to Mr Arun Singh, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) in the MEA. The Pakistani diplomat described the meeting as “cordial”.
