Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
The National Security Council is a federal institutional and consultative body chaired by the prime minister of Pakistan as its chairman. The NSC is a principal forum that is mandated for considering national security and foreign policy matters with the senior national security advisers and Cabinet ministers. The idea and inception of National Security Council was first conceived in 1969 under the President Yahya Khan,its functions were to advise and assist the president and prime minister on national security and foreign policies.
Robert Dean Blackwill is a retired American diplomat,author,senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations,and lobbyist. Blackwill served as the United States Ambassador to India under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and as United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq from 2003 to 2004,where he was a liaison between Paul Bremer and Condoleezza Rice.
Maleeha Lodhi is a Pakistani diplomat,political scientist,and a former Pakistan's Representative to the United Nations. She was the first woman to hold the position. Previously,she served as Pakistan's envoy to the Court of St James' and twice as its ambassador to the United States.
Shyam Saran is an Indian career diplomat. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1970 and rose to become the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary he served as India's ambassador to Myanmar,Indonesia and Nepal and as its High Commissioner to Mauritius. Upon finishing his tenure as the Foreign Secretary,he was appointed the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Indo-US Civil Nuclear Issues and later as Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change.
Robin Lynn Raphel is an American former diplomat,ambassador,CIA analyst,lobbyist,and an expert on Pakistan affairs.
Robert Bigger Oakley was an American diplomat whose 34-year career (1957–1991) as a Foreign Service Officer included appointments as United States Ambassador to Zaire,Somalia,and Pakistan and,in the early 1990s,as a special envoy during the American involvement in Somalia.
Mushahid Hussain Syed is a Pakistani politician,and journalist who is currently the Pakistan Senator from the Islamabad Capital Territory on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N),since 3 March 2018.
Pakistan and the United States established relations on 15 August 1947,a day after the independence of Pakistan,when the United States became one of the first nations to recognise the country.
Erlan Abilfayizuly Idrissov is a Kazakh politician who served as Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan from 1999 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2016.
Mahmud Ali Durrani is a retired Pakistani two-star rank general officer,author of security studies,and a former National Security Advisor to the Pakistani government,serving from 2008 until his termination in 2009.
Abdul Sattar,was a Pakistani political scientist,career foreign service officer,diplomat,author of foreign policy,and nuclear strategist.
Bruce O. Riedel is an American expert on U.S. security,the Middle East,South Asia,and counter-terrorism. He is currently a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and an instructor at Washington College in Chestertown,Maryland.
Johnnie Carson is an American diplomat who has served as United States Ambassador to several African nations. In 2009 he was nominated to become U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs by President Barack Obama. He resigned in 2013 after four years in the role and following the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is currently a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group and the United States Institute of Peace.
Mohammad Anwar Anwarzai is the Head of United Nations Department at the Afghan Foreign Ministry and a former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan.
Content from the United States diplomatic cables leak has depicted Pakistan and related subjects extensively. The leak,which began on 28 November 2010,occurred when the website of WikiLeaks –an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and news leaks –started to publish classified documents of detailed correspondence –diplomatic cables –between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. Since the initial release date,WikiLeaks is releasing further documents every day.
Derek James Mitchell is an American diplomat with extensive experience in Asia policy. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first special representative and policy coordinator for Burma with rank of ambassador,and was sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 2,2011. On June 29,2012,the U.S. Senate confirmed him as the new United States Ambassador to Burma. On September 4,2018,Mitchell succeeded Kenneth Wollack as president of the National Democratic Institute,a position he served until September 2023.
The Indian consulate in Herat,Afghanistan was attacked on 23 May 2014 by four heavily armed militants,three days before the inaugural ceremony of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India.
Atul Keshap is a retired American diplomat and career United States Foreign Service Officer from Virginia who serves at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as the President of the U.S.- India Business Council since January 2022. He also serves as Senior Vice President for South Asia and as President of the U.S.-Bangladesh Business Council. Previously,he served as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to India in 2021. He formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the United States Department of State. In 2022,Ambassador Keshap was elected into membership of the American Academy of Diplomacy. In May 2023,Keshap was named one of Washington's most influential foreign policy influencers for his work to shape U.S. relations with India.
