{"id":19934,"date":"2026-07-17T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=19934"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:30:30","slug":"moin-ul-haque-takes-over-as-issi-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=19934","title":{"rendered":"Moin ul Haque Takes Over as ISSI Director-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Moin ul Haque has assumed charge as Director-General of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), succeeding Ambassador Sohail Mahmood, who completed his term.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Haque brings extensive experience in diplomacy and senior-level decision-making. He served in the Foreign Service of Pakistan for nearly 35 years, holding key positions at the headquarters and in Pakistani missions abroad.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent posting was as Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to China from 2020 to 2023. Earlier, he served as Ambassador to France from 2016 to 2020 and as Consul General in Vancouver from 2007 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, Ambassador Haque also held important roles including Additional Secretary (Administration), Chief of Protocol, Director-General (Europe) and Director in the Foreign Secretary\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>In the earlier years of his diplomatic service, he was posted at Pakistan\u2019s embassies in Brussels, Colombo and Ankara. He also served as Counsellor at Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Moin ul Haque has assumed charge as Director-General of ISSI, succeeding Ambassador Sohail Mahmood after completion of his term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}