Sharat Sabharwal is an Indian civil servant and career diplomat. He served for some years as the
Indian High Commissioner to
Pakistan.
Career
Sabharwal is a covenanted
Civil servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
and a career diplomat, and a member of the 1975 batch of the
Indian Foreign Service. As a civil servant and career diplomat, he held several positions of responsibility, including as:
*Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN in Geneva (1999-2002)
*Ambassador to
Uzbekistan.
*High Commissioner to
Pakistan, appointed in March 2009.
*Member of the Central Information Commission. This position has little or no connection with foreign affairs or diplomacy. He was nevertheless appointed in November 2013 and held office for nearly four years, until September 2017.
Central Information Commission
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See also
*Indian Ambassadors to Pakistan
The following people have served as High Commissioners or Ambassadors from India to Pakistan. Pakistan vacated its membership in the Commonwealth of Nations from January 1972 until August 1989. From 1999 until 2004, and during 2007-2008, Pakistan ...
External links
Sharat Sabharwal Information Commissioner
References
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Ambassadors of India to Uzbekistan
Indian Foreign Service officers
High Commissioners of India to Pakistan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)