Pakistan

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 14 September 1949

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President of the Republic: H.E. Mr Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister: H.E. Mr Syed Makhdoom Yousaf Raza Gillani

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

Mr Rafiuzzaman Siddiqui
Minister, Alternate Permanent Delegate

Permanent Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M2.40/41 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.30.77
01.45.68.25.42
Fax: 01.45.66.62.15
E-mail: dl.pakistan@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairperson: Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani *
Secretary-General: Mr Saqib Aleem
Assistant Secretary-General: Mr. Hassan Mahmood

Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO
Ministry of Education 30 UNESCO House, Sector H-8/1 ISLAMABAD - 44000 PAKISTAN
Telephone: (92.51) 925 72 25 (Sec Gen); (92.51) 925 72 23; (92.51) 925 72 24
Fax: (92.51) 925 75 19
E-mail: pncuibd@dsl.net.pk; saqibaleem3@gmail.com (SG)

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr S.M. Sharif	1951-1956	27-45
Member	Mr Momtazuddin Ahmed	1956-1957	46-49
Member	Mr Itrat Husain Zuberi	1957-1958	49-52
Member	Mr S.M. Sharif	1958-1966	53-74
Member	Mr Qudrat Ullah Shahab	1968-1974	81-95
Member	Mr Mumtaz Ali Kazi	1978-1983	106-117
Member	Ms Attiya Inayatullah	1983-1987	118-127
Member	Mr Mumtaz Ali Kazi	1987-1990	128-134
Member	Mr Abdul Kadir Shaikyh	1990-1991	134-137
Member	Ms Attiya Inayatullah	1991-1993	138-142
Member/Representative	Ms Attiya Inayatullah	1991-1995	138-147
Chairperson	Ms Attiya Inayatullah	1993-1995	143-147
Representative		1995-2007	148-177

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2011)


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

Celebration of anniversaries

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (27 December 1997).