Mohammad Waliullah Khan Khaishgi is a retired

Pakistani Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as ...

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Early life

Khaishgi was born in

Khurja Khurja is a city (and a municipal board) in Bulandshahr district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 20 km from Bulandshahr and 85 km from Delhi. Khurja supplies a large portion of th ...

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, on 5 July 1957.

Foreign service

Khaishgi later moved to Pakistan and joined the

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, serving in many senior positions. He has been the Ambassador of Pakistan to

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

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and

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. He has also held the position of the Additional Foreign Secretary.

References

Living people 1957 births Ambassadors of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia Ambassadors of Pakistan to Egypt High commissioners of Pakistan to Sri Lanka Foreign secretaries of Pakistan Muhajir people {{Pakistan-diplomat-stub