UK/High Commissioner/Pakistan

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Employment.png UK/High Commissioner/Pakistan 
(ambassador)

Start1947
British ambassador to Pakistan. The Commissioners tend to have a military or intelligence background.

Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations typically exchange High Commissioners rather than Ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences, they are in practice the same office. The following persons have been British High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Commissioners tend to have a military or intelligence background.

The state of Pakistan was established on 14 August 1947 in the eastern and northwestern regions of British India. In 1972, Pakistan temporarily withdrew from the Commonwealth, and until it rejoined in 1989, the mission in Islamabad became an Embassy, headed by an Ambassador. The High Commissioner is based at the British High Commission in Islamabad.


List of heads of mission

High Commissioners to Pakistan

Ambassadors to Pakistan

High Commissioners to Pakistan


 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

NameFromTo
Adam Thomson20102014
Robert Brinkley20062009
Mark Lyall Grant20032006
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