Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Manpreet Vohra appointed India’s new envoy to Afghanistan

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Senior diplomat Manpreet Vohra has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to strategically important Afghanistan, succeeding Amar Sinha.
  • India and Afghanistan are strategic partners and relations between the two countries are on an upswing. India has invested $2 billion in aid and reconstruction and trained scores of Afghan officers.
About Manpreet Vohra :
  • Vohra, a 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs.
  • He had served in the Indian High Commission in Pakistan as the Deputy High Commissioner besides having worked in Disarmament and International Security Affairs Division of the External Affairs Ministry.
  • He had also served as India’s Ambassador to Peru.

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