Shamshad Ahmad (Urdu: شمشاد احمد) is a senior Pakistani diplomat with over 37-years of practitioner's experience in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, regional cooperation, preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution. He was the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan at an important period in India-Pakistan relations, from 1997 to 2000. He retired as Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations in 2002.
He currently writes a weekly column for English daily The News. Before that he was a regular contributor to The Nation. He also writes occasionally for Dawn.
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