Ambassador Syed Haider Shah, Pakistan’s newly appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations, formally presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
During the meeting, Ambassador Shah passed on the greetings and good wishes of Prime Minister and of the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
He restated Islamabad’s commitment to multilateralism and to the principles and purposes of the UN Charter. He also reaffirmed Pakistan’s support for the organization’s work on peace and security, sustainable development and human rights.
Guterres responded warmly and thanked Pakistan for as its positive, active and constructive role in the UN’s work. Ambassador Shah is a senior member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan and comes to the New York post with deep experience of the UN system.
Ambassador Syed Haider Shah, the newly appointed Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
On the occasion, Ambassador Haider Shah conveyed the greetings and best wishes of the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister of Pakistan. He reaffirmed Pakistan’s steadfast commitment to multilateralism, the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and the work of the United Nations across its three pillars of peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights.
The Secretary-General reciprocated the warm sentiments and expressed his deep appreciation for Pakistan’s positive, active and constructive contributions to the work of the United Nations.
— Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN (@PakistanUN_NY) November 3, 2026
Most recently he was Ambassador to the Netherlands, a position he had held since March 2025. Before that, he was Additional Secretary for the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad from November 2022 to February 2025.
His earlier postings include Ambassador to Nepal (November 2020 to October 2022) and Deputy Head of Mission at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi from 2016 to 2020.
He served as Acting High Commissioner there from April 2019 to October 2020. At the Foreign Ministry he has also been Director for the Foreign Minister’s Office, for Afghanistan and for the United Nations.
Shah previously worked at the UN itself, as a legal officer at the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate in New York from 2008 to 2013.
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He also served at Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN from 2002 to 2006, covering the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee and taking part in negotiations on Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
He represented Pakistan at General Assembly sessions from 2002 to 2008 and again in 2023 and 2024. His expertise is in multilateral diplomacy, international law, counter-terrorism, and Afghanistan and South Asian affairs.
Ambassador Shah holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1998) and an LL.B. from Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar (1993). He also earned a postgraduate diploma in international law from the Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University in The Hague in 2000.
He co-authored a paper on the legislative powers of the UN Security Council, published in the 2005 volume Towards World Constitutionalism.
Established in December 2008, The Diplomatic Insight is Pakistan’s premier diplomacy and foreign affairs platform.
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