HC to return from Colombo

Published August 17, 2006

ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Bashir Wali Mohmand, who escaped a Claymore mine attack in Colombo on Monday, will return to his country by next week.

According to a foreign ministry official, Mr Bashir Wali Mohmand, whose service contract as high commissioner has ended, was already scheduled to travel back to Pakistan by the beginning of next week. Diplomatic sources told Dawn that Shehzad Chaudhry, a retired air vice-martial, would replace him as the Pakistan’s high commissioner in Sri Lanka.—Q.A.

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