Riaz Mohammad Khan

Riaz Mohammad Khan was the Wilson Center’s Pakistan Scholar in 2009

Riaz Mohammad Khan was the Wilson Center’s Pakistan Scholar in 2009. Previously, he spent nearly four decades in Pakistan’s diplomatic service, where his last positions were foreign secretary (2005-08) and ambassador to China (2002-05). He also held posts dealing with Europe, Central Asia, Afghanistan, arms control, and disarmament. He is the author of Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal, written while he was a diplomat-in-residence at Georgetown University.

Contributions
Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict and Resistance to Modernity
Storm Clouds Ahead for the “All-Weather Allies”? Today’s Pakistan-China Relationship
Pakistan: Beyond the Swat Valley
Pakistan and America: Can the Twain Meet?