Abdul Basit

Ambassador Abdul Basit joined te Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1982. During his thirty-five years of diplomatic career he served in several Pakistan missions abroad including in Moscow, New York, Sana'a, Geneva and London. He also remained a spokesperson of the Pakistan Foreign Office for over three years before leaving for Germany in 2012 to take over as Pakistan's ambassador in Berlin. His last assignment was as Pakistan High Commissioner to India from 2014-17.

He served as president of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) from 2017-2018 and is presently heading the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).