Shahidul now foreign secretary in-charge
The government yesterday appointed Md Shahidul Haque as secretary in charge of the foreign affairs ministry, said official sources. He replaces Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, who is now Bangladesh high commissioner in London. Shahidul, an officer of the 1986 batch of BCS cadre, became the 25th foreign secretary and is expected to continue in this position for the next three years, the sources said. Previously, he had served as the additional foreign secretary and as a director general in the foreign ministry for four months. Shahidul remained absent from the foreign ministry for over a decade while working for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from 2001 till last year.
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