Pakistan has decided to appoint Syed Haider Shah as its new permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, replacing Asim Iftikhar Ahmad.
According to sources, Haider Shah, who is currently Pakistan’s ambassador to the Netherlands, is expected to take up the key diplomatic role following Asim Iftikhar Ahmad’s appointment as Pakistan’s 34th foreign secretary.
Haider Shah has extensive experience in diplomacy and international affairs. Before his current posting in the Netherlands, he served as Pakistan’s ambassador to Nepal from November 2020 to October 2022.
He also served as deputy head of mission in New Delhi from 2016 to 2020, including as acting high commissioner between April 2019 and October 2020.
He began his previous assignment in the Netherlands in March 2025 and also serves as Pakistan’s permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague.
Haider Shah previously worked at Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad as additional secretary for United Nations and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation affairs from November 2022 to February 2025.
His diplomatic career includes an earlier posting at Pakistan’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2006, where he dealt with the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly. He also took part in negotiations on several Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
From 2008 to 2013, Haider Shah served as a legal officer at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate in New York.
He has also held positions dealing with Afghanistan, the United Nations and regional affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His experience includes serving as director of the foreign minister’s office from July 2014 to August 2015 and director for Afghanistan from July 2013 to April 2014.
Syed Haider Shah holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, which he obtained in 1998, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Khyber Law College at the University of Peshawar, awarded in 1993.
He also completed a postgraduate diploma in international law at the Institute of Social Studies, now part of Erasmus University, in The Hague, in 2000.
He has represented Pakistan at several international conferences and attended sessions of the UN General Assembly between 2002 and 2008 and again in 2023 and 2024.
He has also contributed to academic work on international law, including a paper on the legislative powers of the United Nations Security Council published in 2005.
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