ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf on Thursday refuted reports of him being considered for the office of high commissioner to India.
Citing sources, a report by The News had claimed a “non-career” diplomat was expected to be posted and added Dr Yusuf is likely to be posted in New Delhi.
In a tweet, the NSA said the news was “totally made up and baseless”. “I know it’s too much to ask for a news story to be fact checked before publication these days, but at least the story shouldn’t defy all logic.”
I know its too much to ask for a news story to be fact checked before publication these days. But at least the story shouldn’t defy all logic. It is totally made up and baseless. https://t.co/veuaU8VcXE
— Moeed W. Yusuf (@YusufMoeed) March 25, 2021
The story was deleted soon after the NSA sent his tweet.
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported Pakistan and India, as part of a peace deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to be in process of reinstating envoys in Islamabad and New Delhi, who were pulled in 2019 after India revoked semi-autonomous status for occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Dr Yusuf was appointed as the special assistant to the prime minister on national security and strategic planning in December 2019. A notification issued by the Cabinet Division said the appointment was made by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The author of “Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia”, Dr Yusuf has taught at Boston University, George Washington University, and Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
Dr Yusuf holds a Masters in International Relations and a Ph.D. in political science from Boston University.
According to his LinkedIn profile, before joining the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), an American institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide, he was a fellow at the Frederick S Pardee Centre at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and concurrently a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre at Harvard Kennedy School.
He has also worked at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.
