Previous Ambassadors

Previous Ambassadors

Pakistan and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations in 1948. Pakistan’s first Ambassador, Mr. Shuaib Qureshi, arrived in Moscow in December 1949. Since then, twenty-two Ambassadors, including some well-known personalities such as Sahibzada Yaqoob Khan, Jamshed Marker, Abdul Sattar and Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, have served in Moscow.

The list of Ambassadors of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Russia (and former Soviet Union):

1. Mr. Shuaib Qureshi December 1949 – July 1952

2. Mr. Akhtar Hussain July 1956 – May 1959

3. Mr. Agha Hilaly June 1959 – September 1961

4. Mr. M. Arshad Hussain September 1961 – September 1963

5. Mr. Athar Iqbal October 1963 – August 1966

6. Mr. Salman A. Ali October 1966 – November 1969

7. Mr. Jamshed K. A. Marker December 1969 – March 1972

8. Mr. S.K. Dehlvi (senior) March 1972 – May 1975

9. Mr. Sajjad Hyder June 1975 – January 1979

10. Mr. Sahibzada Yaqoob Khan January 1979 – October 1980

11. Mr. Iftikhar Ali December 1980 – September 1984

12. Mr. Shahid M. Amin October 1984 – August 1988

13. Mr. Abdul Sattar August 1988 – November 1990

14. Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Mid-1991 – September 1994

15. Mr. Tanveer A. Khan October 1994 – January 1997

16. Mr. Mansoor Alam April 1997 – 20 July 2000

17. Mr. S. Iftikhar Murshed 28 August 2000 – 20 April 2005

18. Mr. Mustafa Kamal Kazi 21 April 2005 – 20 April 2008

19. Mr. M. Khalid Khattak 22 July 2008 – 21 January 2013

20. Mr. Alamgir Babar 19 February 2013 –04 January 2014

21. Mr. Zaheer A. Janjua 12 May 2014 – 30 January 2016

22. Mr. Qazi M. Khalilullah 12 March 2016 – 31 December 2019

23. Mr. Shafqat Ali Khan March 2020 – September 2023

24. Mr Muhammad Khalid Jamali December 2023 – to date 

The list of Ambassadors of the Russian Federation (and former Soviet Union) to Pakistan:

1. Mr. Ivan Bakulin November 1949 – February 1950

2. Mr. Alexander Stetsenko February 1950 – January 1956

3. Mr. Ivan Shpedko January 1956 – February 1960

4. Mr. Mikhail Kapitsa February 1960 – November 1961

5.       Mr. Alexey Nesterenko November 1961 – August 1965

6.       Mr. Mikhail Degtyar August 1965 – May 1971

7.       Mr. Alexey Rodionov May 1971 – December 1974

8.       Mr. Sarvar Azimov December 1974 – July 1980

9.       Mr. Vitaliy Smirnov July 1980 – May 1985

10.   Mr. Abdurakhman Vezirov May 1985 – July 1988

11.   Mr. Viktor Yakunin July 1988 – December 1991

12.   Mr. Viktor Yakunin December 1991 – April 1993

13.   Mr. Alexandr Alexeev April 1993 – September 1998

14.   Mr. Andrei Gulyaev September 1998 – December 1999

15.   Mr. Edward Shevchenko June 2000 – July 2004

16.   Mr. Sergey Peskov July 2004 – September 2008

17.   Mr. Andrey Budnik September 2008 – December 2013

18.   Mr. Alexey Dedov December 2013 – April 2019

19. Mr. Danila Ganich April 2019 – November 2023

20. Mr Albert Khorev November 2023 -  to date