Mahdi Masud

Mahdi Masud is a Pakistani diplomat.

Life

Masud joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1952. In 1958 he was among the participants in the Conference on the Colombo Plan . A year later he was deployed to Ottawa as 3rd class diplomatic secretary until 1965 and from 1968 as chargé d'affaires in Tehran . On April 26, 1971, he replaced Hosen Ali as Deputy High Commissioner in Calcutta . and in 1972 headed the Pakistani mission to UN headquarters . From 1973 to 1975 he was ambassador to Amman , Jordan. From 1977 he headed the Middle East Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was deployed in 1979 as ambassador to Kuwait and a year later to Tehran.

From January 1982 to November 26, 1984 he served as ambassador in Bonn , then to March 1988 in Brussels to the European Commission , before he was finally transferred back to Bonn from October 17, 1988 to December 1989.

Masud was chairman of Shura Hamdard's Karachi Chapter think tank and is a columnist for Dawn newspaper .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mahdi Masud in Dodi's database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland ; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , April 27, 1971, Pakistan and India Ends Ties
2. ↑ Foreign relations: Accreditations (Iceland, Pakistan, Turkey, Thailand) In: Official Journal of the European Union . C 327, p. 1
3. ↑ Die Zeit , 1989/12, Bonn backdrop ; Der Spiegel , January 2, 1989, nuclear industry

predecessor	Office	successor
Nawabzada Agha Mohammad Raza	Pakistani Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran 1968	Syed Maqbul Murshed
	Pakistani ambassador to Amman from 1973 to 1975	Shahryar Khan
	Pakistani Ambassador to Kuwait City 1979	Syed Murad Ahmad
Ghayas-u-Din Ahmed	Pakistani ambassador to Tehran in 1980	Ghayas-u-Din Ahmed
Iftikhar Ali Khan	Pakistani ambassador in Bonn from January 1982 to November 26, 1984	Abdul Waheed
Vasim Aon Jafarey	Pakistani Ambassador in Brussels November 26, 1984 to March 1988	Munir Akram
Abdul Waheed	Pakistani ambassador in Bonn October 17, 1988 to December 1989	Mujahid Husain