ISLAMABAD, March 15: The government has posted 18 trade ministers, counsellor generals, commercial counsellors and commercial secretaries abroad. According to official notification issued by the commerce ministry here on Monday, Aftab Anwar Baloch, collector of customs (Exports), collectorate of customs (Exports), Karachi was posted as trade minister at Moscow; Fazal Abbas Maken, project director, machine readable passport/machine readable visa, automated border control project, ministry of interior as trade minister at New Delhi and Tariq Iqbal Puri, vice-chairman, export promotion bureau, Karachi as trade minister, Brussels.

Tariq Shafi Chak, managing director, Punjab Small Industries Corporation has been posted as counsellor general at Hong Kong and Saifullah Chatta, PS to the prime minister as counsellor general at Montreal.

The following were posted as commercial counsellors abroad: Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Thaheem, additional secretary to the chief minister, Sindh at Warsa; Ms. Azra Mujtaba, deputy secretary, prime minister secretariat at Mexico; Ms. Seema Najib, director (Finance), Lyari Development Project, Karachi at New York; Shahid Ashraf Tarar, director, President Secretariat, at Los Angeles; Hijab Gul, POF Wah Cantt at Jeddah; Imtiaz Ahmed Khan, additional collector, collectorate of customs, Rawalpindi at Kuala Lumpur; Ali Salman Abbasi, additional collector (Preventive), collectorate of customs, Karachi, at Seoul; Agha Jan Akhtar, additional secretary, office of chief commissioner for Afghan Refugees at Hamburg; Nazir Ahmed Awan, director, Export Promotion Bureau at Sao Paulo; Zafar Iqbal Qadir, joint secretary, Ministry of Commerce at Geneva.

The following were posted as commercial secretaries abroad: Ms. Shaista Sohail, deputy secretary (WTO), ministry of commerce at Geneva; Dr. Muhammad Saeed, deputy secretary, ministry of commerce at Geneva; Ms. Azra Jamali, section officer, economic affairs division, at Johannesburg; Ms. Rubina Taufiq, deputy director, Export Promotion Bureau at Dhaka and Shahzad Hussain Rana, deputy director, Export Promotion Bureau, Lahore at Almaty.