ISLAMABAD, April 27: Dr Maleeha Lodhi, former ambassador to the United States, is being appointed as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, informed sources told Dawn.

She will take charge of her new assignment in early June, shortly before President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s stop-over in London en route to the United States.

Dr Lodhi completed two terms as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US. She completed her first term during Benazir Bhutto’s government and then during the previous government.

She returned from the US before the general elections last year.

Dr Lodhi, who was awarded Nishan-i-Imtiaz this year, would replace incumbent Abdul Kadir Jaffar.