Suhrab made envoy to Pakistan

The government has appointed retired diplomat Suhrab Hossain as the new high commissioner to Pakistan, according to a foreign ministry announcement.
He succeeds Yasmin Murshed, who returned to Bangladesh in November last year on completion of her tenure as the high commissioner.
Suhrab Hossain, a freedom fighter, who joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1973, was appointed on contractual basis.
During his long diplomatic career, he served as Bangladesh ambassador to Uzbekistan and Thailand, and as high commissioner to Canada; and in various capacities in Bangladesh missions in Bangkok, Birmingham, Dakar, Ottawa and Paris.