Biden inducts another Pakistani American into his team

[Ahmet Pasha]

Biden inducts another Pakistani American into his team
Anwar IqbalPublished January 17, 2021Updated about 14 hours ago
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Pakistani American Salman Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning. — Photo courtesy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has inducted a second Pakistani American, Salman Ahmed, into his foreign policy team, said a statement issued on Friday.
Mr Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning.
Last month, Mr Biden announced that another Pakistani American, Ali Zaidi, will join his team as Deputy National Climate Adviser.
Mr Ahmed was chief of staff of the US Mission to the United Nations and senior policy adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Before joining the Department of State in 2009, Mr Ahmed served as a visiting professor and research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and worked for almost fifteen years at the United Nations, including posts as chief of staff for the Head of UN Peacekeeping Operations.
Mr Ahmed holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Mr Zaidi will work directly under former Secretary of State John Kerry who has been appointed Mr Biden’s special envoy for climate.
Mr Zaidi played a key role in drafting and implementing the Obama administration’s climate action plan and helped negotiate the Paris Climate Agreement.
Mr Biden has also inducted two women from the Indian-occupied Kashmir into his team. Sameera Fazili, an American of Kashmiri origin, has been appointed the deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC). In December 2020, another Kashmir-born woman, Aisha Shah, was inducted into Biden’s team as partnership manager of the White House Digital Strategy team.
Uzra Zeya, another Indian Muslim, has been appointed Undersecretary of State for arms control, democracy and human rights.
The US media pointed out that Mr Biden has “filled out his State Department team with former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unpredictability under President Donald Trump.”
“This diverse and accomplished team … embodies my core belief that America is strongest when it works with our allies,” Mr Biden said in a statement. “Collectively, they have secured some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory — and I am confident that they will use their diplomatic experience and skill to restore America’s global and moral leadership.”
Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2021

İs he a good Pakistani or Hussain Haqqani type??

 

[Oldman1]

İs he a good Pakistani or Hussain Haqqani type??

Whats a good Pakistani? You mean he serves Pakistan's interests or the U.S.'s?

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Whats a good Pakistani? You mean he serves Pakistan's interests or the U.S.'s?

No I mean at least not a poison spewing snake is what I mean.

 

[pakpride00090]

Indians in Biden administration will be more Anti-india than most of "talent" on the this forum combined. Make no mistakes these "Indian" origin individuals in Biden's cabinet are more loyal than the king. Very much coconuts that will serve US interests, if it comes at the cost of India then thats cherry on top, Kamala Harris included.

Yup . You are correct. Indians that got in are far more anti-india than normal Pakistanis or westerners. I wonder why is that ...

 

[masterchief_mirza]

The fact that fanboys from both sides seem to think that the nationality of the nominees will somehow converge towards their own national interests is wishful thinking at its best and ignorance at its worst.

They're politicians, rising up politically in a country they call home, if their racial background helps them get some brownies they'd use it but expecting more than that or the resulting hullabaloo our respective media houses are giving this angle is preying on the fanbois wet dreams.

P.S. That last line made me laugh so hard, I've spilled me coffee.

I think in theory you're right....but practically speaking, it would be naive to think members of the sanghee leaning diaspora specifically would struggle to dump such emotional baggage before they assume office.

Let's see what transpires.

 

[SMC]

Guys, the people in US administration, whether of Indian or Pakistani descent, couldn't give 2 sh*ts India or Pakistan. I am not sure why people care if Kamala or Nikkey Haley became part of the administration. Same with the people of Pakistani descent. They literally almost never mention India or Pakistan. One exception is Tulsi Gabbard. She is a Modi supporter and has bought in all the Modi propaganda. But otherwise, stop wasting time discussing things that are as irrelevant as they can be.

 

[SQ8]

Damn you....for that firecracker.
The "qashmaqash" between realities of loyalty, the romanticism of the thought of who you are, and my own personal hypocrisy makes the answer quite difficult and surely not one to be answered here. Maybe one day over a drink.

I quite liked the scene and dialogue put in(however fake) in that Hollywood romanticism of “Kingdom of Heaven” ...
When in that fictional exchange between Balian of ibelin and Salahuddin he asks him “What is Jerusalem worth?” .. to which Salahuddin answers “Nothing..” then as walking away looks back and points to his army of volunteers “Everything “ .. in a way that represents Pakistan & Pakistanis in this occasional battle between the pragmatic self and the remnants of a 13 year old weeping at his national anthem.

 

[bahadur]

Biden inducts another Pakistani American into his team
Anwar IqbalPublished January 17, 2021Updated about 14 hours ago
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Pakistani American Salman Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning. — Photo courtesy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has inducted a second Pakistani American, Salman Ahmed, into his foreign policy team, said a statement issued on Friday.
Mr Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning.
Last month, Mr Biden announced that another Pakistani American, Ali Zaidi, will join his team as Deputy National Climate Adviser.
Mr Ahmed was chief of staff of the US Mission to the United Nations and senior policy adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Before joining the Department of State in 2009, Mr Ahmed served as a visiting professor and research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and worked for almost fifteen years at the United Nations, including posts as chief of staff for the Head of UN Peacekeeping Operations.
Mr Ahmed holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Mr Zaidi will work directly under former Secretary of State John Kerry who has been appointed Mr Biden’s special envoy for climate.
Mr Zaidi played a key role in drafting and implementing the Obama administration’s climate action plan and helped negotiate the Paris Climate Agreement.
Mr Biden has also inducted two women from the Indian-occupied Kashmir into his team. Sameera Fazili, an American of Kashmiri origin, has been appointed the deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC). In December 2020, another Kashmir-born woman, Aisha Shah, was inducted into Biden’s team as partnership manager of the White House Digital Strategy team.
Uzra Zeya, another Indian Muslim, has been appointed Undersecretary of State for arms control, democracy and human rights.
The US media pointed out that Mr Biden has “filled out his State Department team with former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unpredictability under President Donald Trump.”
“This diverse and accomplished team … embodies my core belief that America is strongest when it works with our allies,” Mr Biden said in a statement. “Collectively, they have secured some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory — and I am confident that they will use their diplomatic experience and skill to restore America’s global and moral leadership.”
Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2021

Very good an American

 

[waz]

Biden inducts another Pakistani American into his team
Anwar IqbalPublished January 17, 2021Updated about 14 hours ago
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Pakistani American Salman Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning. — Photo courtesy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has inducted a second Pakistani American, Salman Ahmed, into his foreign policy team, said a statement issued on Friday.
Mr Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning.
Last month, Mr Biden announced that another Pakistani American, Ali Zaidi, will join his team as Deputy National Climate Adviser.
Mr Ahmed was chief of staff of the US Mission to the United Nations and senior policy adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Before joining the Department of State in 2009, Mr Ahmed served as a visiting professor and research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and worked for almost fifteen years at the United Nations, including posts as chief of staff for the Head of UN Peacekeeping Operations.
Mr Ahmed holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Mr Zaidi will work directly under former Secretary of State John Kerry who has been appointed Mr Biden’s special envoy for climate.
Mr Zaidi played a key role in drafting and implementing the Obama administration’s climate action plan and helped negotiate the Paris Climate Agreement.
Mr Biden has also inducted two women from the Indian-occupied Kashmir into his team. Sameera Fazili, an American of Kashmiri origin, has been appointed the deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC). In December 2020, another Kashmir-born woman, Aisha Shah, was inducted into Biden’s team as partnership manager of the White House Digital Strategy team.
Uzra Zeya, another Indian Muslim, has been appointed Undersecretary of State for arms control, democracy and human rights.
The US media pointed out that Mr Biden has “filled out his State Department team with former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unpredictability under President Donald Trump.”
“This diverse and accomplished team … embodies my core belief that America is strongest when it works with our allies,” Mr Biden said in a statement. “Collectively, they have secured some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory — and I am confident that they will use their diplomatic experience and skill to restore America’s global and moral leadership.”
Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2021

Oh yes what fantastic news! Pakistan/US ties will now reach a new zenith, I expect F-35 production lines to open up in Gujranwala, along with securing sanctions on India at the UNSC for what they're doing in Kashmir. Look they have Kashmiri folks in there as well.

Mr Biden has also inducted two women from the Indian-occupied Kashmir into his team. Sameera Fazili, an American of Kashmiri origin, has been appointed the deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC). In December 2020, another Kashmir-born woman, Aisha Shah, was inducted into Biden’s team as partnership manager of the White House Digital Strategy team.

Please do not take my words with a pinch of salt, did you see how a fair few of the Indian posters celebrating the news of the second American Indian in the administration and how imminent doom will now befall Pakistan and China?

Look;

Joe Biden names Indian-American Sumona Guha as Senior Director for South Asia in National Security Council

Bad News for Pakistan and China.

defence.pk

Maybe now these American Pakistanis and the American Indians in Bidden's administration will duke it out for their respective ancestral lands?

Or maybe, just maybe they're Americans first and will work for its interests, do you think?

 

[CatSultan]

doesn't matter because his muslim outreach cooridinator is part of the BJP

 

[American Pakistani]

Indians in Biden administration will be more Anti-india than most of "talent" on the this forum combined. Make no mistakes these "Indian" origin individuals in Biden's cabinet are more loyal than the king. Very much coconuts that will serve US interests, if it comes at the cost of India then thats cherry on top, Kamala Harris included.

Not true at all.

But Kamla buddy is Pakistani ... lolz .... anyway, being a VP she has to protect US interest not Indian or any other nation interest. Plus, VP is not active post.

Who is her buddy?

 

[Itachi]

İs he a good Pakistani or Hussain Haqqani type??

Asking the right questions.

in a way that represents Pakistan & Pakistanis in this occasional battle between the pragmatic self and the remnants of a 13 year old weeping at his national anthem.

Sometimes, very rarely, that 13 year old grows into a man who loves his country and Islam. Men like Mullah Omar and other such Ghazis.

 

[SQ8]

Asking the right questions.



Sometimes, very rarely, that 13 year old grows into a man who loves his country and Islam. Men like Mullah Omar and other such Ghazis.

Not that 13 year old - there are other 13 year olds who go through a very difficult, different and convoluted teaching mindset to become Mullah Omar.

 

[Itachi]

Not that 13 year old - there are other 13 year olds who go through a very difficult, different and convoluted teaching mindset to become Mullah Omar.

You think Ghazis are "taught"?? I thought they were born.

 

[SQ8]

You think Ghazis are "taught"?? I thought they were born.

A subramanian swamy can come from anywhere