A Terror Supporter Goes to Washington

Pakistan’s new ambassador is a longtime backer of jihadi groups

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Sardar Masood Khan, President of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, speaks during an interview with Agence France-Presse at Pakistan’s embassy in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

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A former president of the Pakistani state of Azad Kashmir, Masood Khan, has been named as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States.

Certainly, appointing a new ambassador makes sense. After all, Pakistan’s image is perhaps at its lowest point. Its role in aiding the Taliban has been acknowledged and discussed in parliaments and press outlets all across the world, particularly following the collapse of the Afghan government and the revival of a brutal theocracy.

Sam Westrop

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Sam Westrop

Sam Westrop is the director of Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.

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