List of Australian High Commissioners in Pakistan

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List of heads of the Australian diplomatic mission in Pakistan .

The Australian High Commission is located at Diplomatic Enclave No.1, Sector G-5/4, Islamabad .

history

The Australian High Commission was in Karachi until August 20, 1968 . From August 20, 1968 to September 8, 1969, the Australian High Commission was located at 34, Haider Road, Rawalpindi . Since September 8, 1969, the Australian diplomatic mission has been in Islamabad . During the period when Pakistan withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations , from January 31, 1972 to October 1, 1989, the heads of the Australian diplomatic mission in Pakistan were accredited as ambassadors. Until 1980, the head of the diplomatic mission in Pakistan was regularly accredited as ambassador to the government in Kabul

Appointed Surname Remarks appointed during the reign of accredited during the government of Leave post
March 8, 1948 John Mill McMillan Chargé d'affaires Ben Chifley Khawaja Nazimuddin
May 18, 1949 John Egerton Oldham (Born December 7, 1902 in St. Kilda) son of Arthur E. Oldham, Robert Menzies
March 13, 1952 Leslie Beavis (* January 25, 1895) Ghulam Muhammad
July 24, 1954 Walter Joseph Cawthorn
Jan. 28, 1959 Roden Cutler Mohammed Ayub Khan
26 Sep 1961 John Charles George Kevin
Oct 16, 1962 David Williamson McNicol (* June 20, 1913 in Adelaide)
Feb 11, 1966 Trevett Wakeham Cutts (* May 8, 1914 in Mildura); Son of HW Cutts. visited the Melb. High & Univ .; became Barrister & Solr. Supreme Ct. Vic .; Solicitor Supreme Court of Qld .: World War II, 1972–1975 High Commissioner in La Valeta. Harold Holt
Aug 20, 1968 Lewis Harold Border Rawalpindi, MVO, 1951-1954 Del. to UN Geneva & Aust. High Commission New Delhi 1971: Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs. John Gorton
Aug 20, 1970 Francis Hamilton Stuart Islamabad John Gorton Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan
Jan. 31, 1972 Gough Whitlam Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
June 21, 1973 Arthur Malcolm Morris Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
Dec 18, 1975 John D. Petherbridge 1973 Mr John Petherbridge, Australian Ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Finland, was called on May 6, 1979 to open an embassy in Seoul as Chargé d'affaires. was employed in New Delhi and Stockholm. After retiring, he became a poet. Malcolm Fraser
Aug 17, 1980 Walter Philip John Handmer Mohammed Zia ul-Haq
May 3, 1984 Ivor Gordon Bowden joined the foreign service in 1951; was employed in Saigon, Paris, Noumea, Belgrade and Hong Kong 1974–1977: Ambassador in Tehran, 1983: Ambassador in The Hague. Bob Hawke
8 Sep 1987 Geoffrey John Price 1975–1981: High Commissioner in Singapore replaced by Kenneth Tim Mcdonald Bob Hawke
Aug 3, 1992 Philip Moulton Knight Son of SL Knight; 1988 High Commissioner Darussalam Brunei Paul Keating Ghulam Ishaq Khan
May 2, 1996 Geoffrey Charles Allen Born February 4, 1941 in Canberra, son of Maisie Nea and Charles Arthur Allen, joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1961 and worked in Lagos, Rawalpindi, Seoul, Athens, Jakarta and Brussels. 1983–1985 High Commissioner to Accra ( Ghana ) also ambassador to Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ), Freetown ( Sierra Leone ) and Banjul ( Gambia ). From 1985 he was master of ceremonies in the Australian Foreign Ministry, then head of the America department. From October 5, 1989 Ambassador to Naypyidaw ( Myanmar ) John Howard Faruk Ahmad Khan Leghari
May 31, 2000 Howard C. Brown Mohammed Rafiq Tarar
July 16, 2004 Zorica McCarthy Pervez Musharraf
June 2009 Timothy George Kevin Rudd Asif Ali Zardari
Apr 7, 2012 Peter Heyward Julia Gillard

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Charles George Kevin
  2. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au
  3. ↑ Geoffrey Charles Allen
  4. ^ Howard C. Brown
  5. ^ Zorica McCarthy
  6. ^ Raja Pervez Ashraf welcomes Tim George foreignminister.gov.au
  7. ↑ Peter Heyward
  8. ^ David Goldsworthy: Facing North: 1901 to the 1970s . Australia. Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001, p. 398