Abdul Sattar (Pakistani diplomat)
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Abdul Sattar is a Pakistani diplomat and lawyer who served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan
Foreign Minister of Pakistan
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan heads the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The current Foreign Minister is Hina Rabbani Khar who took office as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on 11 February 2011, and as full Minister of Foreign Affairs on 20 July, 2011...

 from 1999 to 2002 under the Military Government led by then-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf. In 1993, he held the position of foreign minister for three months in the caretaker Cabinet of Moin Qureshi.

He was a career diplomat and ambassador to Austria
Austria
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 (1975–78), India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 (1978–82 and 1990–92) and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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 (1988–90). From 1982 to 1986 he served as director, director general and additional secretary for Asia, and as foreign secretary
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
The Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan is the bureaucratic head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Secretary, as in all other ministries of Government of Pakistan, works under the Minister who is the member of National Assembly...

 between 1986 and 1988. He resigned from foreign ministry for health reasons in June 2002. Mr. Abdul Sattar, is currently closely associated with Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer
The Pakistan Observer is an English-language daily newspaper published in Islamabad, Pakistan.-Circulation and publication:Although not in the league of Dawn or The News International  – Pakistan's two other widely read English-language newspapers – it is popular among its...

 News. He is renowned for his direct involvement and personal role in setting the nuclear ambiguity policy of Pakistan's Nuclear detterence programme. He played a major role to kept Pakistan's policy to refuse to become the party of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to...

(NPT).
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