Amjad Hussain B. Sial

13th SAARC Secretary General
امجد حسین بی۔ سیال
Sial in 2018
13th SAARC Secretary GeneralIn office
1 March 2017 – 29 February 2020Preceded byArjun Bahadur ThapaSucceeded byEsala Ruwan Weerakoon Personal detailsNationalityPakistani

Amjad Hussain B. Sial (Urdu: امجد حسین بی۔ سیال) is a Pakistani diplomat who served SAARC Secretary General from March 2017 to February 2020.[1][2][3]

Education

Sial received a master's degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from National Defence University, Pakistan.[4]

Career

On 1 March 2017, he replaced Arjun Bahadur Thapa and assumed the office of SAARC Secretary General.[2] Before becoming SAARC Secretary General, he was special secretary at Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4]

He had served as the ambassador to Tajikistan from 2011 to 2014 and permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b APP (2 March 2017). "Pakistani becomes Saarc secretary general". Dawn.
  2. ^ a b "Pakistan's Amjad Hussain B Sial is new SAARC Secretary-General". The Himalayan Times. 1 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Exclusive: SAARC Secretary General says hopeful of holding Summit this year". indiatoday.in. India Today. 2 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b "SAARC Secretariat". saarc-sec.org. SAARC Secretary General. Archived from the original on 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
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