Author: Vikramaditya Devadhikar

Suhel Ajaz Khan, presently India’s ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, has been appointed as the next envoy to Saudi Arabia. A member of the 1997 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, Khan has spent much of his diplomatic career in the Middle East and can speak Arabic. This will be Khan’s third stint in Saudi Arabia. He served a stint in Jeddah as Consul at the Consulate-General of India in that city. He was also deputy chief of mission in Riyadh between 2017 and 2019 and held the personal rank of ambassador. He was subsequently appointed India’s ambassador in…