Ms. Maleeha Lodhi Pakistan new envoy to UN (2015)

The extended tenure of Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to United Nations (UN) Masood Khan will be ending in February 2015 as Dr Maleeha Lodhi has been appointed Islamabad’s next permanent envoy to the world body.

The decision, made public by the Foreign Office on Monday, implies that Masood Khan has not been granted extension for the fifth time in service after his retirement on February 15, 2011.

Khan’s tenure at the UN would meet its extended term on February 15, 2015 and Maleeha Lodhi would assume charge in New York on February 16, 2015.

Masood Khan has held the UN Permanent Representative slot twice, first from February 1, 2005-August 31, 2008 and again on January 1, 2014 till date (to continue till February 15, 2015).

According to credible diplomatic sources, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was considering two options: either to make the non-career appointment to elevate Lodhi as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States to replace Jalil Abbas Jillani and appoint him as Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN or to assign the coveted UN permanent representative slot to Lodhi. In both the cases, the respective appointments were to take place on Masood Khan’s extended retirement.

Reportedly, Prime Minister Sharif, after extensive consultations with his close aide Sartaj Aziz, the adviser to prime minister on national security and foreign affairs, finally decided to appoint Lodhi in the UN. Another bigwig in the Foreign Office was in favour of Dr Maleeha Lodhi’s appointment in the US on ambassadorial slot but the prime minister is said to have paid final heed to Sartaj’s advice.

Unlike in the past, the diplomatic sources said, the Foreign Office did not move a summary to the PM Secretariat (via Establishment Division and Cabinet Division) for the grant of fifth extension to Masood Khan. “It seems that the prime minister was not inclined to grant extension, which is why a related summary was not sought,” an official commented. Khan was on consecutive annual extensions since February 2011.

Dr Maleeha Lodhi has twice served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US (1993-1996 and 1999-2002) and as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2003-2008). She has also served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs (2001-2005).

Lodhi, who does not belong to the Foreign Service of Pakistan, has taught at the reputed educational institutions including London School of Economics and Political Science, and she had been a Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Harvard University. She is the recipient of the Presidential award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for public service.

Masood Khan assumed charge as Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN in January 2013. Prior to that, he remained Pakistan’s Ambassador to China for four years (September 1, 2008-December 31, 2012). Before that, he was Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN.
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