On May 7, the Indian Air Force’s “most powerful” weapon was sailing towards Bahawalpur in Pakistan, which represented the life of Foreign Minister Vikram Misri, who had been posting in Islambad in 2003 when he had been posting from Islamic sects since 2000 with the posting of the Shariah Extraordinary Hospital from 2000 to 2003 to 2003.
He arrived in Islamabad as Pakistan’s hard-line group celebrated the setbacks caused by Indian security agencies after hijacking the IC814 flight and released Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief “Maulana” Maulana’Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Sheikh and Mushtaq Zargar.
Misri talked about the “decades” history of Pakistan’s national policy at a recent meeting and said that the base in Bahawalpur is indeed the strongest link between the deep state of Pakistan and terrorist organizations. As the goal of the Sindoor operation was chosen, Mr. Misri conducted a research that came in handy when the Office of the High Commissioner of India in Islamabad was released.
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Mr. Misri’s areas of interest cross over cross-border terrorism. Born in 1964, he grew up in the Kashmir Pandit family in Srinagar, graduated from the Hindu College on the northern campus of the University of Delhi, and then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989, a year when India witnessed changes in the government.
The period was characterized by cross-border terrorism, the US dominance as a superpower, and the emergence of China as an Indo-Pacific challenger. This means Mr. Misri is filled with plates. His first position abroad was in Brussels, where he was part of a team led by diplomat Jayant Prasad, who later served as Indian ambassador in Kabul in 2008.
Over the next three and a half decades, Mr. Misri served in Madrid, Tunisia, Islamabad and other locations, as well as the Prime Minister’s Office under the leadership of three different leaders throughout the political spectrum – IK Gujral, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.
Interesting turn
However, Mr Misri’s career made an interesting turn to his career in Myanmar in 2016, where he served until 2019. His next career peaked in 2020, when Indian and Chinese troops clashed in eastern Ladakh, killing at least 20 Indian soldiers and several Chinese soldiers. During this period, Mr Misri was the Indian ambassador to China and had several difficult negotiations with Chinese officials to help reduce the situation.
But the most challenging part of his career coincides with his lifelong study of terrorist organizations. The name of the TV channel’s news registration card (TRF) flashed on the TV channel after the group was responsible for the April 22 attack on tourists on Pahalgam, and Misri was undoubtedly the group he had tracked in Islamabad earlier. In the subsequent Sindoor operation, Mr. Misri was next to Colonel Sophia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, becoming the face of the fight back as he introduced the media to the record.
The toughest point of this episode is that when Misri declared a “understanding” reached between the two sides to stop all shooting and military operations on May 10, it was quickly challenged by what Pakistani forces claimed to be illegal. When Mr Misri’s handling of the nervous moment of Sindoor’s action left him admiring by colleagues and friends, it also exposed him to the online “trolls” who accused him of not being at full distance in the all-out war with Pakistan.
Mr Misri’s popularity was questioned when several current and former diplomats and bureaucrats received his support. His senior colleague Jayant Prasad summed up his career: “No doubt Vikram will go. He started his career with solid economic diplomacy and is now doing well in political diplomacy.”
publishing – May 18, 2025 at 01:50 am
