{"id":15155,"date":"2026-09-10T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15155"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:01:14","slug":"asim-iftikhar-ahmed-named-new-foreign-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15155","title":{"rendered":"Asim Iftikhar Ahmed Named New Foreign Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved the appointment of Pakistan\u2019s UN Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar Ahmed as the new Foreign Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said Asim Iftikhar will lead the Foreign Office in advancing Pakistan\u2019s interests professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch will retire on September 17, 2026, and will subsequently serve as Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved the appointment of Pakistan\u2019s UN Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar Ahmed as the new Foreign Secretary. Foreign Minister Ishaq..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870.png",800,927,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870-259x300.png",259,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870-768x890.png",768,890,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870.png",800,927,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870.png",800,927,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T150043.870.png",800,927,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}