page_title: Abdul Sattar (diplomat)
section_title: Foreign minister
hierarchical_section_title: Abdul Sattar (diplomat) / Biography / Foreign minister
caption_attribution_description: English: Abdul Sattar (right), Pakistan's minister of foreign affairs, arrives at the Pentagon, June 19, 2001, where he is escorted to the meeting room by his host, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left). Minister Sattar met with both Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to discuss a range of regional issues of interest to both nations.
context_page_description: Abdul Sattar, was a Pakistani political scientist, career foreign service officer, diplomat, author of foreign policy, and nuclear strategist.
  Prior to being appointed as Foreign minister of Pakistan in two non–consecutive terms, Sattar briefly served in the Foreign ministry, first serving as ambassador to the Soviet Union and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to International Atomic Energy Agency.
  He authored several books on Foreign policy, and won critical praise of his diplomatic skills and work. In a review of Sattar's book Pakistan's Foreign Policy, Amitabh Mattoo of India Today considered Sattar to be "one of the shrewdest foreign policy practitioners that Islamabad has ever produced".
context_section_description: On 6 November 1999, Abdul Sattar was named one of leading ministers in Musharraf's newly sworn in military government, and appointed as Foreign Minister. He was one of the earliest member in (now defunct establishment) National Security Council (NSC), a personal directive issued by Pervez Musharraf in 1999. Not surprisingly, President Pervez Musharraf had selected Sattar along with Shaukat Aziz as earliest members of his military government. In India, especially within sections of the foreign policy orthodoxy, some believed Sattar to be an anti-Indian thinker. While serving in government he was a known advocate of peaceful negotiations.
  In 2001, Sattar coordinated an emergency meeting with US National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, which many of his attendees describing as a "rough meeting." Sattar worked on normalizing relations with the United States even as before 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001. After the US demands to Pakistan to provide uttermost co-operation on War on terror, Sattar later described the co-operation policy as: "We agreed that we would unequivocally accept all US demands, but then we would express out private reservations to the US and we would not necessarily agree with all the details."
  Abdul Sattar assisted Musharraf after negotiating Agra summit to be held in India in 2001. He drafted the work on the Agra summit, but ultimately the talks failed and no conclusion on Agra summit was reached.
caption: Sattar arriving to meet US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 2001.
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