Pakistan’s minister assign to the United States Masood Khan is being made to stand by longer than expected for an agrement, a discretionary term that implies the host government’s acknowledgment of his arrangement. He was designated by the Pakistan government to the lofty post in November 2021, yet is as yet watching for news from the Biden Administration to take up his new job.
Inside the Pakistan foundation, worries over the deferral might have just expanded after Republican Congressman Scott Perry’s accounted for letter to President Joe Biden, considering Masood Khan a “jihadist” and “a true blue psychological militant supporter” and requesting the selection ought to be dismissed, as Khan was attempting to subvert US interests also the “security of our Indian partners”.
Who is Masood Khan exactly?
His first high profile task came only two years after 9/11. Masood Khan found himself in the hottest chair at the Pakistani foreign office at the time – the spokesman. But Khan brought a full challenge, and won praise from the media for his easy approach. It cannot be applied, there is no question he will refuse to answer, including two Indian journalists who are present in the room during the weekly MOFA briefing. “He is not only good, he is very good,” said a journalist who attended a briefing regularly, described it as “friendly and accessible at all times”.
But a bigger task was waiting for him, showing that he was considered a safe pair of hands. The Pakistani military considers the country’s foreign policy as part of its remit, and senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are a rooted establishment. He is also a rare “Kashmir” in Pakistani foreign services. He has extensive political acceptance in Pakistan. After his job as a spokesman, he was sent by the Musharraf Government as Pakistani permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva. In 2008, the Pakistani People’s Party Government was led by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani sent him as an ambassador to China. Four years later, he was named permanent representative for the United Nations in New York.
Upon returning to Pakistan, he ran for the President of Pakistan to occupy Kashmir towards the end of the term of office of Nawaz Sharif which crossed the prime minister. PML (N) has won elections in the region – officially Pakistan does not include Pok as part of its area – and Masood, as a party nomination, playing a house with a comfortable margin.