Wajid Shamsul Hasan assumes charge as Pakistan’s envoy

 

LONDON : The newly appointed High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan formally assumed the charge of his office on 23 June 2008.

 

Earlier, he visited Foreign and Commonwealth Office and during the course of his meeting with Sarah Gillet, Director, Protocol, handed over a copy of his credentials. 

 

The FCO will convey the date for the formal presentation of his credentials to Her Majesty the Queen in due course.

 

The new High Commissioner also held a meeting with the senior officials of the High Commission and received a briefing from them on various aspects of Pakistan-UK relations.

 

This is Hasan’s second stint as Pakistan’s top diplomat in London having earlier served in the same capacity from 1994 to 1996.

 

During his first tenure, he was responsible for Labour Party’s Brighton Declaration on the Kashmir issue in 1995 which committed Labour Party to the resolution of the dispute on the basis of the UN resolutions on the right of self-determination for the Kashmiri people.

 

Meanwhile, various organisations including Pakistan Coordination Committee, Tehreek-e-Kashmir, Pakistan Welfare Association and the PPP, Greater London Chapter, have welcomed his appointment as the new High Commissioner and expressed hope that Wajid Shamsul Hasan would continue to serve the interest of the Pakistani Diaspora and further strength the ties between the two countries

 

 

Courtesy: APP

June 23, 2008