{"id":8639,"date":"2024-09-11T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2024-09-11T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:01:13","slug":"amna-baloch-assumes-charge-as-pakistans-33rd-foreign-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/amna-baloch-assumes-charge-as-pakistans-33rd-foreign-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Amna Baloch assumes charge as Pakistan\u2019s 33rd Foreign Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (APP): Ambassador Amna Baloch on Wednesday assumed the charge as the 33rd Foreign Secretary of Pakistan after her predecessor Ambassador Syrus Sajjad Qazi relinquished the office on attaining superannuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A veteran diplomat, Ambassador Baloch has held several important assignments both in Islamabad and Pakistan\u2019s diplomatic missions abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She served as Pakistan\u2019s Consul General to Chengdu, China (2014-2017); High Commissioner to Malaysia (2019-2023); and Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg (2023-2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holding a degree of Masters in History, Amna Baloch joined the Foreign Services of Pakistan in 1991.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 11 (APP): Ambassador Amna Baloch on Wednesday assumed the charge as the 33rd Foreign Secretary of Pakistan after her predecessor Ambassador Syrus Sajjad Qazi relinquished the office on attaining superannuation. A veteran diplomat, Ambassador Baloch has held several important assignments both in Islamabad and Pakistan\u2019s diplomatic missions abroad. She served as Pakistan\u2019s Consul [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-paksitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}