Senior career diplomat Obaid ur Rehman Nizamani has been appointed Pakistan’s new ambassador to Afghanistan. 

Nizamani has extensive experience in bilateral and multilat­eral diplomacy. He will replace am­bassador Mansoor Ahmed Khan who would be completing his foreign service career by August 30.

Currently serving as the director general of Europe at the foreign ministry, Nizamani has more than 25 years of experience in foreign service. This will be his first ambassadorial posting.

Joined the foreign service in 1995, Obaid ur Rehman Nizamani did his BA in Economics and Literature from the University of Sindh and a degree in Foreign Service Program from the University of Oxford.

He also served as the director general of South Asia in the ministry. Nizamani also served in the Pakistan embassy in Washington as deputy head of the mission from 2015 till 2019.