CONTEXT :

• Pakistan has appointed career diplomat Mueenul Haq as the High Commissioner to India.
• Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday approved appointments of over two dozen ambassadors in various countries including India, China and Japan.
• Haq, the current ambassador to France, has previously served as chief of protocol at the Foreign Office.
• The post of High Commissioner to India fell vacant after Sohail Mehmood was appointed Pakistan’s new foreign secretary.