A batch 2005 IFS officer will now take cost because the lead in Indian mission in Pakistan, turning into the first woman to be in that place.
Geetika Srivastava is the first Indian woman to be the brand new cost d’affaires at its excessive fee in Islamabad. Srivastava will succeed Dr M Suresh Kumar, who will come again to New Delhi. She is presently serving because the Joint Secretary on the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
The put up of a cost d’affaires comes with a number of critical duties. The cost d’affaires is a diplomat who quickly heads a diplomatic mission in a overseas nation when the Ambassador or High Commissioner.
Srivastava is probably going to take up her project in Islamabad quickly. Geetika Srivastava is a batch 2005 Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer.
She has beforehand served in the Indian embassy in China between 2007 to 2009. She was additionally posted on the Regional Passport Office in Kolkata and in the exterior affairs ministry as director of the Indian Ocean Region Division.
Since August 2019, when Islamabad downgraded the diplomatic relations after the scrapping of Article 370 by the Indian authorities since then Indian and Pakistani missions in Islamabad and New Delhi are usually not been headed by excessive commissioners.
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