Shamshad Ahmad

Shamshad Ahmad (}}) (born 10 December 1941) is a veteran Pakistani diplomat, international relations expert and an author who served in BPS-22 grade as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations between 2000 till 2002. Shamshad Ahmad also was the Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Iran.

He currently writes a weekly column for English daily ''The News International'' (newspaper). Before that, he was a regular contributor to The Nation (Pakistan) (newspaper). He also writes occasionally for the ''Dawn (newspaper)'' and ''The Express Tribune'' (newspaper) – all of them Pakistani newspapers. Provided by Wikipedia