List of Indian High Commissioners to Pakistan

The following people have served as High Commissioners or Ambassadors from India to Pakistan. From 1999 until 2004, and during 2007-2008, Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations; during those periods, India and Pakistan exchanged Ambassadors instead of High Commissioners.

List of Indian Ambassadors to Pakistan

High Commissioner of India to the Dominion of Pakistan (1947-1956)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sri Prakash	1947	1949
Sita Ram	1949	1951
C.C.Desai	1955	1956

High Commissioner of India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1956-1999)

Name	Entered office	Left office
C.C.Desai	1956	1958
Rajeshwar Dayal	1958	1962
G Parthasarathi	1962	1965
Kewal Singh	1965	1966
S.SEN	1968	1969
B K Acharya	1969	1971

(Suspension of diplomatic relations following the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War)

Name	Entered office	Left office
K S Bajpai	1976	1980
K. D. Sharma	1982	1985
S K Singh	1985	1989
J N Dixit	1989	1991
Satinder Kumar Lambah	1992	1995
Satish Chandra	1995	1998
Gopalaswami Parthasarathy	February 1999	October 1999

Ambassador of India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1999-2004)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Gopalaswami Parthasarathy	October 1999	May 2000
Vijay K. Nambiar	August 2000	December 2001

(Suspension of diplomatic relations until 2003)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Shivshankar Menon	July 2003	May 2004

High Commissioner of India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (2004-2007)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Shivshankar Menon	May 2004	September 2006
Satyabrata Pal	September 2006	November 2007

Ambassador of India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (2007-2008)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Satyabrata Pal	November 2007	May 2008

High Commissioner of India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (2008-present)

Name	Entered office	Left office
Satyabrata Pal	May 2008	February 2009
Sharat Sabharwal	April 2009	June 2013
TCA Raghavan[1][2]	July 2013	December 2015
Gautam Bambawale[3][4][5]	December 2015	Incumbent

External links

Ambassadors to Pakistan

References

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