Former Azad Jammu Kashmir President Masood Khan’s appointment as Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to the United States (US) is being delayed.
Khan was nominated as ambassador to the US in November. He had previously served as Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva and New York and as ambassador to China.
Khan was to replace the outgoing ambassador of Pakistan in Washington Asad Majeed Khan.
A former foreign secretary, while speaking to Dawn, said that the State Department took four to six weeks to issue agrément for Pakistani ambassadors in the past.
Another diplomat told the news outlet, “This time they are taking unusually long.”
US President Joe Biden in October 2020 also nominated a new ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Armin Blome, who is said to be an expert on Middle East affairs.
