Mr. Tariq Karim is a senior career diplomat with extensive experience in various capacities, including assignments at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Pakistan’s missions abroad.

Educational/Academic Qualification

He holds an M.Phil. in Environmental Sciences and an M.Sc. in Bio Sciences from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He also holds an M.A. in History from the University of the Punjab and completed a one-year Postgraduate Foreign Service Program in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford, UK (2010), with distinctions.

Present Assignment:

Ambassador of Pakistan to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Foreign Assignments:

He has been serving as the Consul General of Pakistan in Chicago, United States from May 2021 to October 2025, with overall responsibility for Pakistan-U.S. relations and community affairs across 12 Midwestern states.  

Earlier, Mr. Tariq Karim served as Political Counsellor at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, India (2014–2019), where he dealt with a wide range of issues.

His other overseas assignments include his posting at the Embassy of Pakistan in The Hague,

Netherlands (2011–2014) as DHM/Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to the OPCW. He also served as Facilitator/Chair on Article 11 of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), related to international cooperation.

He served as Third/Second Secretary at the Embassy of Pakistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (2004- 2008). Prior to that, he was posted as Third Secretary at the Embassy of Pakistan in Moscow, Russia (2003-2004), where he also studied the Russian language at Moscow State University.

Postings at Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

Mr. Tariq served as Director General for Economic Diplomacy and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC & ED) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad (2019–2021). In this role, he was the focal point for matters related to economic diplomacy and handled a wide range of multilateral issues. He also served as Pakistan’s D-8 Commissioner.

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, he also held other key positions, including

Director (China, Japan & Korea), Director (Middle East & Africa), Assistant Director (United Nations), and Assistant Director (ECO/Central Asian Republics).

He was born on 4 April, 1974. He is married.