WASHINGTON (The Thursday Times) — Sadr Donald Trump ne taqreeban do saal se Islamabad mein Amriki sifarat khane ki sarbarahi karne wali career sifarat kaar Natalie A. Baker ko Pakistan mein Amrika ki safeer namzad kar diya hai.
Un ka naam un 22 namzadgiyon mein shamil tha jo White House ne peer ke roz Senate ko bheji. Fehrist mein Texas se taalluq rakhne wali Baker ko Senior Foreign Service ki career rukn aur minister-counselor ke darje ki afsar bataya gaya hai, jinhen ‘Islami Jamhuriya Pakistan ke liye Riyasat-haye Muttahida Amrika ki safeer-e-ghair maamooli o mukhtar-e-kul’ namzad kiya gaya hai.
Baker 10 January 2025 se, jab safeer Donald Blome Islamabad se rukhsat hue, nazim-ul-umoor ke taur par sifarat khane ki qayadat kar rahi hain. Tab se Pakistan mein Senate se tauseeq shuda koi Amriki safeer nahin hai. Ohda sambhalne se pehle Baker ko Senate ki Foreign Relations Committee ke samne pesh hona hoga aur poori Senate ke vote se un ki tauseeq zaroori hogi.
Baker August 2024 mein sifarat khane ke doosre sab se bare ohde, deputy chief of mission, ke taur par Pakistan aayin. Yeh is shehar mein un ki wapsi thi: apne career ke ibtidai dinon mein woh Islamabad mein consular afsar reh chuki theen. Pakistan se foran pehle woh Qatar ke darul hukumat Doha mein Amriki sifarat khane mein deputy chief of mission theen.
Un ke career ka bara hissa Mashriq-e-Wusta aur Shimali Africa par kaam karte guzra hai. Woh Amriki State Department ke Office of North African Affairs ki director reh chuki hain, Libya mein Amriki mission ki naib sarbarah aur nazim-ul-umoor rahin, aur Dubai mein Amriki consulate mein Iran Regional Presence Office ki deputy director bhi rahin. 2009 se 2011 tak woh Libya mein political aur economic counselor theen aur February 2011 mein inqilab ke baais sifarat khana khali kiye jane tak wahin rahin.
Woh Kuwait mein economic counselor bhi rahin, jahan unhon ne Iraq se Amriki afwaj ke inkhila mein Amriki mehkama-e-difa ke sath kaam kiya, aur Turkmenistan ke darul hukumat Ashgabat mein cultural afsar bhi rahin. Unhon ne Princeton University se bachelors aur Harvard se public policy mein masters ki degree hasil ki, aur 2017 mein National War College se imtiyazi haisiyat mein farigh-ut-tehseel huin.
Nazim-ul-umoor ki haisiyat se Baker dono mulkon ke liye aik masroof daur mein Pakistan mein Washington ki sab se senior numainda rahi hain. January mein unhon ne Pabbi mein National Counter Terrorism Centre mein Inspired Gambit insidad-e-dehshatgardi mashq ki ikhtitami taqreeb mein shirkat ki. April mein, jab Pakistan Amrika aur Iran ke darmiyan muzakraat par zor de raha tha, naib wazir-e-azam o wazir-e-kharja Ishaq Dar ne un se kaha ke mukalma aur sifarat kaari hi aage barhne ka wahid rasta hain.
Guzishta maah unhon ne wazir-e-petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik ke sath taveel muddati tawanai ki farahmi par baat cheet ki, jab Amriki companiyan Pakistan ko maae qudrati gas (LNG) farokht karne par ghaur kar rahi theen, aur Mashriq-e-Wusta ke tanaze ke dauran eendhan ki qillat se bachne par Islamabad ki tareef ki.
Isi fehrist mein Kansas se taalluq rakhne wale Jeffrey Colyer ko Muttahida Arab Emarat ke liye safeer, aur career sifarat kaaron Cynthia Kierscht aur Ian McCary ko bil-tarteeb Senegal aur Mali ke liye safeer namzad kiya gaya hai. Michael LoSapio ko Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ka sarbarah namzad kiya gaya hai.
