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Abdul Sattar Author & Editor

Abdul Sattar (1931-2019) During a thirty-nine year career in the foreign service and as a renowned diplomat, the late Abdul Sattar served as Foreign Secretary and a two-term Ambassador in New Delhi. He was inducted as Foreign Minister in the interim cabinet in 1993, and again from 1999-2002. He published an article on the Shimla Agreement in Pakistani and Indian academic magazines; a research paper on reducing nuclear dangers in South Asia in The Nonproliferation Review; and a number of articles on international affairs in Pakistani and foreign journals. From 2005 to 2009, he was the foreign affairs editor and a regular columnist for the Pakistan Observer.