The retired diplomat and former Foreign Secretary, Syed Muazzem Ali, has been appointed the new Bangladesh High Commissioner to India.
Mr. Ali will replace Tariq A. Karim, who has been in office for the past five years.
A Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday said Mr. Ali, who declared his allegiance to the Bangladesh government-in-exile while working at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington in 1971, had joined the erstwhile Pakistan Foreign Service in 1968.
He played a major role in setting up the embassy of independent Bangladesh in the U.S. Mr. Ali served as the Bangladesh Ambassador to Bhutan, Iran and France, and also worked at Bangladesh missions in Washington, Warsaw, New Delhi and Jeddah in different capacities. He had retired as the Foreign Secretary in 2001.
