Iqra Ashraf
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🇵🇰 Diplomat.📍🇸🇦 (Last posting 🇫🇷). Regional peace aspirant. Urdu poetry aficionado. Happy when reading; happiest when writing 🌱
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-2️⃣ days
8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Delegates
1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Resolutions
4️⃣8️⃣th Session of OIC-CFM
8️⃣2️⃣nd Pakistan Day
7️⃣5️⃣ Years of Pakistan’s Independence Celebrations
📍
#OICInPakistan
And..it’s a wrap❗️
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-have an abiding love for
#Ajrak
perhaps rooted in my mystical South Punjab romance..but gifted to us from the cradle of the Indus Valley Civilization: Sindh 🤍
🔖 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶 𝗔𝗷𝗿𝗮𝗸 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 🇵🇰
📍
#SindhCultureDay
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-officially the last day in office. It’s been an honor serving 🇵🇰 in 🇫🇷.
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-hello from
#Pakistan
’s First
#PlasticRoad
made from 10 tons of recycled PET plastic bottles.
#CleanGreenPakistan
☀️ 🛣 🍃
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-25th March has always been special for 🇵🇰 since WC 1992 🏆. However, it is personally special for me as well because (seemingly a lifetime ago) this day was my first official day at
@ForeignOfficePk
.
🇵🇰
#WomeninDiplomacy
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-as civil servants, here’s to normalizing walking-out of toxic situations with dignity & grace. We take pride in what we do and our sole focus remains on continuing to serve the people and the homeland to the best of our professional abilities.
🇵🇰
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-تیرے دریاؤں میں مانجھیوں کی صدا، رقص کرتی رہے پھول کھلتے رہیں
ساحلوں ساحلوں چاہتوں کی فضا ، رقص کرتی رہے پھول کھلتے رہیں
کوئی سچل ہو یا کوئی خوشحال ہو ، تیری مٹی پہ مستوں کا دھمّال ہو
آستانِ محبت پہ روحِ وفا، رقص کرتی رہے پھول کھلتے رہیں
آزادی مبارک 🇵🇰
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-rehearsal run with
@urban_innov
for tomorrow when at
@ForeignOfficePk
we
#PedalForAGreenPakistan
. 🚴♀️🌳
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-will forever be grateful to have been given this incredible opportunity to serve the homeland.
Huge shoutout to my colleagues, men&women, who have been role models &pillars of strength for me.
This
#IWD2022
I renew my resolve to keep flying the flag high🇵🇰.
#WomenInDiplomacy
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-happy to join my diplomatic assignment at
@PakinSaudiArab
❗️
Looking forward to positively contributing to the strong 🇵🇰🇸🇦 ties.
تحيا الصداقة الباكستانية السعودية
🇵🇰🤝🇸🇦
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-wishing love, light & laughter to all celebrating
#EidAlAdha
in
#Pakistan
& across the world 💌
#EidMubarak
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-wishing the 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 fraternity a v happy first annual
#FSPDay2022
❗️
یقینِ محکم،عمل پیہم 🇵🇰
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-3️⃣9️⃣th CTP completes 1️⃣0️⃣ years in Civil Service today ‼️. What an incredible journey it has been thus far.
📸: SAARC Inter-Summit Sessions 2014 in Maldives 🇲🇻.
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-میرے کمرے کو سجانے کی تمنا ہے تمہیں۔۔
میرے کمرے میں کتابوں کے سوا کچھ بھی نہیں۔۔”
#WorldBookDay2021
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-my Khamaj moment with Pakistan’s OG heart throb
@mshaanshahid
. He’s a class act and a thorough gentleman, through and through 💌. Such a fan girl moment 😍
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-9 years in service today for 39th Common Training Program. What a journey it has been. May we continue to serve 🇵🇰 with an abiding passion and an unflinching sense of duty. Pakistan Paaindabad.
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-blissful to spend
#Eid
at 🏡 after many yrs. Although it’s been a willing lifestyle choice after having joined FSP a decade back, it can still be a tough ask on some days. So today, it’s been a diff sort of happiness altogether. Wishing y’all a v blessed
#EidAlFitr
. Stay safe!
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-being in Foreign Service is accepting to live a life constantly divided by displacement yet multiplied by enrichment of meeting new people, amalgamating in new places, understanding new cultures..while remaining forever rooted in the never ending romance of the homeland.
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-
@ForeignOfficePk
on the eve of
#14August
.
‘yehi kia kam hay k nisbat mjy iss khaak say hay..’ 🇵🇰
#PakistanZindabad
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-congrats to all allocated under
#css2019
. May the dreams of youth never abandon u & may u always continue to strive for excellence. ‘Dekhna ganwaana mat, daulat e yaqee’n logo..ye watan amanat hay, aur tum amee’n logo’ 🇵🇰 (ps. This is just the beginning. 3 more exams to go :p)
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-‘dunya ki haqeeqat kia kahiye, kuch yaad rahi kuch bhool gaye..’
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-آؤ سرنامہء رُودادِ سفر لکھ ڈالیں
اشک پیوندِ کفِ خاکِ جگر ہونے تک
ہم نے کیا کیا نہ خلاؤں پہ کمندیں ڈالیں
شوق تسخیرِمہو مہرِ ہُنر ہونے تک
#Pakistan
Zindabaad 🇵🇰
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-world of a difference between what is written as policy on paper and how it is operationalized in the field.
Former is idealistic and academic. Latter is practical and realist.
Best compromise is to narrow this gap to the extent possible.
🔹(Research musings 💭)
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-driving at night with high beams on must be criminalized (!) and/or penalized in some form. Defies all logic to put fellow citizens through unnecessary danger and discomfiture for ones own temporary comfort. Really find it v discourteous.
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-pleasure to be back at Foreign Service Academy after nearly a decade. Glad to see so much that has changed & so much that remains familiar. Looking forward to more future interactions. As Ministry’s training arm, FSA is of critical importance..& it remains v close to my heart.
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-
@ForeignOfficePk
on the eve of
#PakistanDay
🌧🇵🇰 Tajdeed e Ehd e Wafa ka Din 🤍💚
#OneNationOneDestiny
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-absolutely loving
#Pakistan
twitter’s response to
#PAKvAUS
semi-final loss. This is what happens when
@TheRealPCB
boys give their all to the game, and show up with humility, skill & class. Our love remains unconditional for the dream that is Pakistan Cricket.
🇵🇰
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-‘A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day..’ 💫
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-a v happy anniversary to batch mates from 39th CTP.
It has been a most rewarding journey in public service; and truly a privilege to represent 🇵🇰across🌏.
📸 One of countless Eid’s spent away from home. This was first one though, during language training.
📍Vichy,
#France
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-Did you know ⁉️
This
#UNGA
, for the first time
#Pakistan
Counselor
@SSaima11
read a speech in
#braille
at the
@UN
GA debate.
🇵🇰🇺🇳❗️
This was the first time a speech was read by 🇵🇰 by Counselor Ms. Saima Saleem in braille at the GA debate.
Pride of Pakistan 🇵🇰 🇺🇳
#Kashmir
#RoR
@ForeignOfficePk
@ImranKhanPTI
@GovtofPakistan
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-used to take me 7 hours to ✈️ home from Paris. And takes me 7 hours 🛣 to get home from Islamabad. Thus far, wherever I’ve been, home has always been 7 hours away 💫
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-after 2 years, I finally got the feel of the ‘can you hear me?’ Zoom :p
💬💻⏳
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-Did you know ⁉️
🇵🇰 is at the forefront of evacuation efforts in
#Afghanistan
. Due to Pakistan's ongoing evacuation efforts, at least 10, 000 people from 2️⃣3️⃣ countries have been safely evacuated from Afghanistan.
📸:
@IPRI_Pak
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-دیکھنا گنوانا مت
دولتِ یقیں لوگو
یہ وطن امانت ہے
اور تم امیں لوگو۔۔
Celebrating
#PakistanAt75
🇵🇰
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-currently underway!
Our speaker Ms
@iqraa_87
, Director, Strategic Communications,
@ForeignOfficePk
, and former Acting Deputy Permanent Delegate, Permanent Delegation of Pakistan to
@UNESCO
, will be speaking on “Public Diplomacy: The Opportunities for Pakistan”
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-دیکھنا گنوانا مت ، دولتِ یقیں لوگو۔۔
یہ وطن امانت ہے، اور تم امیں لوگو۔۔
🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
#PakistanDay
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-𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿
➖ 🇵🇰 undertook a series of highly coordinated & specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts in Siestan-o-Baluchistan 🇮🇷
➖ A number of terrorists were killed during Intelligence Based Op
⬇️
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-
@ForeignOfficePk
response to media queries on remarks by 🇮🇳Spox on incident involving 🇦🇫 amb daughter:
📌🇮🇳has no locus standi;
📌🇮🇳s malicious campaign against 🇵🇰 is well known
📌orgs such as EU Disinfo Lab have established its credentials as purveyor of 🌏anti-🇵🇰 propaganda..
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-how funny to decorate a captured pilot only for a (fantastical) propaganda campaign. You realllly have to stretch your imagination to believe this one, folks!
Delhi: Wing Commander (now Group Captain) Abhinandan Varthaman being accorded the Vir Chakra by President Ram Nath Kovind, for shooting down a Pakistani F-16 fighter aircraft during aerial combat on February 27, 2019.
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📸 Snapshots from the
#MangoDiplomacy
Event in partnership with
@serena_hotels
& PFVA to celebrate
#PakistanAt75
❗️
🇵🇰🥭🤝🌎
🟢
#75thPayKuchKhaas
🟡
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-Share a picture of you in the mountains 🏔. Me and Margallas
#Islamabad
. Foothills of the
#Himalayas
👇🏽
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-Notre Dame will always remain the quintessential Paris..pristine in memory..
#NotreDameCathedral
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-PM
@ImranKhanPTI
warmly received by 🇸🇦 Crown Prince HRH Mohammad bin Salman.
#PMIKinKSA
#رئيس_وزراء_باكستان_في_السعودية
#AkhuwahPakSaudi
🇵🇰🤝🇸🇦
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-spoke at length about
#DigitalDiplomacy
at a virtual session. Happy to see MOFA’s digital footprint increasing and ecstatic to have been given the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the effort.
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-it’s a see-you-later 👋🏽
Happy holidays, folks! Wishing all a blessed Zil Haj and a spiritually rewarding
#EidAlAdha
❗️
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-forever my favorite Ministry spot to capture serenity of the beautiful
#Islamabad
night lit up by a full moon 🌕👇🏽
‘چاند کے ہمراہ ہم ہر شب سفر کرتے رہے۔۔’
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-happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣, folks! Here’s to not taking the next moment for granted 🎆
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-Forgot what I was working on for a second as I glanced out the window.
#Islamabad
you beauty 😍
دفتر سے مل نہیں رہی چھٹی وگرنہ میں
بارش کی ایک بوند نہ بیکار جانے دوں ☔️
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-Post an image of yourself as the leader of an underground organization without downloading new pic.👇🏽
Nobody ask why 👀
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-for past many years, I have spent
#PakistanIndependenceDay
mornings at flag hoisting ceremonies
@PakinFrance
and
#NationalDay
evenings at diplomatic receptions. Time in between was always made festive by scrolling through
@ForeignOfficePk
& Pak Missions Abroad official pages.
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-🇵🇰
@ForeignOfficePk
beautifully decked up on the eve of cycling event
#PedalForAGreenFuture
organized in collaboration with
@UNDP_Pakistan
,
@urban_innov
and diplomatic corp based in
#Islamabad
. Future is
#Green
.
📸: 🍃
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-morning ☀️ was made seeing DC Islamabad (
@hamzashafqaat
) personally leading the have-you-worn-your-mask campaign across F6 and F7 in
#Islamabad
. Especially heartening was to note peoples predominant compliance with
#Covid_19
SOPs.
#WearAMask
#SaveLives
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-The Oval-a cricket ground for the soul❗️
🏏➕ ☕️= Perfection!
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