{"id":6641,"date":"2025-10-12T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:14:51","slug":"tahir-hussain-andrabi-to-succeed-shafqat-as-fo-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=6641","title":{"rendered":"Tahir Hussain And\u00adra\u00ad\u00adbi to succeed Shafqat as FO spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Ambas\u00adsa\u00addor Tahir Hussain And\u00adra\u00ad\u00adbi is poised to succeed Amb\u00adas\u00adsador Shafqat Ali Khan as the Foreign Office (FO) spo\u00adkes\u00adperson, according to a sou\u00ad\u00adrce familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Khan, the current spokesperson, will replace Ambassador Faisal Niaz Tirmizi as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Tirmizi, in turn, will move to Moscow, succeeding Ambassador Khalid Jamali, who will return to Islamabad as additional secretary for Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Andrabi, a seasoned diplomat, has served over two decades in foreign service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His career includes postings as ambassador to Tunisia and Malta, permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, and counselor at Pakist\u00adan\u2019s missions in New York and Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Ambas\u00adsa\u00addor Tahir Hussain And\u00adra\u00ad\u00adbi is poised to succeed Amb\u00adas\u00adsador Shafqat Ali Khan as the Foreign Office (FO) spo\u00adkes\u00adperson, according to a sou\u00ad\u00adrce familiar with the matter. Mr Khan, the current spokesperson, will replace Ambassador Faisal Niaz Tirmizi as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this month. Ambassador Tirmizi, in turn, will move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","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=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}