MOHAMMAD SADIQ
Ambassador of Pakistan to Afghanistan (since December 2008)

• Belongs to Foreign Service of Pakistan.

• Assignments in Foreign Office:
  Oct 2007 - Feb 2009:  Spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad
  Jan - Jul 2006, & 
  June - Dec 2007:         Director General (Personnel) 
  2001 – 2002:              Director ( Kashmir Affairs) 
  1993 – 1994:              Director (Commonwealth of Independent States) 
  

• Held various diplomatic assignments in Pakistan Missions abroad: 2002 – 2005: Minister/Deputy Chief of Mission , Washington DC 1998 – 2000: Counsellor, Beijing 1994 – 1998: First Secretary/Counsellor, Brussels

• Represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral conferences/meetings.

• Member of the UN Election Observer Team that oversaw the elections in South Africa which ended the Apartheid regime (1994).

• Lectured on foreign affairs-related topics, ranging from human rights issues to peace and security issues in South Asia, Pakistan 's Foreign Policy at:
  Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels);
  National Institute of Public Administration/ National Institute of Management (Peshawar);
  Foreign Service Academy (Islamabad);
  Petroleum University , Beijing;
  National Defense University (Washington , D.C.);
National Defense University (Islamabad);
Georgetown University (Washington , D.C.);
Foreign Service Institute of US State Department (Washington , D.C.);
American University (School of International Service) (Washington , D.C.); and
John Hopkins University (School of Advance International Studies) (Washington , D.C.).

• Holds three Postgraduate degrees:
  MA (Political Science), Peshawar University;
  Master in International Affairs (MIA), Columbia University, New York; and
  MS in Defence and Security Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad

Distinctions:

• Initiated the first ever internship programme of the Government of Pakistan while Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington , D.C.

• Compiled the first ever email database of overseas Pakistanis.

• Organized Pakistani-American community to establish Pakistan Caucus in the US Congress.

• Conducted demographic study of Pakistan - Americans. This study is widely qouted and remains the only demographic study of its nature of the overseas Pakistanis.

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