Sharat Sabharwal

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Sharat Sabharwal
Indian ambassador to Pakistan
In office
2009–2013
Preceded by Satyabrata Pal
Succeeded by TCA Raghavan
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Nationality Indian
Occupation Civil servant IFS

Sharat Sabharwal is an Indian civil servant and career diplomat. He served for some years as the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan. [1] [2] [3]

India Country in South Asia

India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Pakistan federal parliamentary constitutional republic in South Asia

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212,742,631 people. In area, it is the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres. Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China in the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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Career

Sabharwal is a covenanted Civil servant and a career diplomat, and a member of the 1975 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. As a civil servant and career diplomat, he held several positions of responsibility, including as:

Indian Foreign Service The organisation of Foreign Affair and Services of India

The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the administrative diplomatic civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India. It is a Central Civil service as Foreign policy is the subject matter and prerogative of Union Government. The Ambassador, High Commissioner, Consul General, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and Foreign Secretary are some of the offices held by the members of this service.

Uzbekistan Landlocked Republic in Central Asia

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. The sovereign state is a secular, unitary constitutional republic, comprising 12 provinces, one autonomous republic, and a capital city. Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Along with Liechtenstein, it is one of the world's only two doubly landlocked countries.

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References

  1. ↑ "Sharat Sabharwal next High Commissioner to Pakistan". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "India names Sharat Sabharwal as new envoy to Pakistan". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sharat Sabharwal is new High Commissioner to Pakistan". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sharat Sabharwal, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Appointment as High Commissioner to Pakistan
  6. ↑ Central Information Commission
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