The Ambasador

H.E. Mr. Suljuk Mustansar Tarar joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1998.

Mr. Suljuk Mustansar Tarar has worked in the United Nations, South Asia, and Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Divisions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, he was working as Joint Secretary, Foreign & Social Affairs, at the Prime Minister's Office. 

Mr. Tarar served at the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, New York from 2008-2012. At various points he represented Pakistan in the First (Disarmament and International Security), Second (Economic & Financial), Third (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) and Fifth (Administrative and Budgetary) Committees of the UNGA, ECOSOC, and Executive Boards of New York based funds and programs.

He was elected as Rapporteur of 2009 NGOs Committee and Chair of its January 2013 session; he was also elected Vice Chair of 2011 Commission on Population and Development; and Vice Chair/Rapporteur of 67th Session of UNGA Third Committee.

He also remained posted at Pakistan’s diplomatic mission in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Tarar worked for the United Nations from 2013-2018. He worked at the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York and as Senior Advisor in the Cabinet of the President of 71st Session of United Nations General Assembly. At the UN he mainly focused on Sustainable Development Goals and follow-up to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

Mr. Tarar writes about art and architecture. His book “All that Art” was published in 2021.

He is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and had earlier done his bachelors in Architecture with honors from National College of Arts, Lahore.

Mr. Tarar is married and has two children.

He is Ambassador of Pakistan to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to OPCW since July 2021.