Riaz Khokhar
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Riaz Hussain Khokhar
Khokhar
The Khokhar or Khokar are a people of Punjab region of Pakistan and north-western India. According to H. A. Rose they are the gotra of Rajput, Jat, Arain, Nai, and Churah. According to Denzil Ibbetson, they are also a gotra of the Tarkhan and Khatri tribes. The Khokhars were designated as an...

is the former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
The Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan is the bureaucratic head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Secretary, as in all other ministries of Government of Pakistan, works under the Minister who is the member of National Assembly...

 serving from June 2002 to February 2005, when he was replaced by Riaz Mohammad Khan. Khokhar also served as Pakistan's ambassador to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 (1992-1997), the United States
United States
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 (1997-1999) and China
China
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 (1999-2002) before leading the top post of foreign ministry.

Riaz Khokar and the Indian ambassador to the United States were both interviewed by Michael Moore to highlight the fact that both countries have levels of extreme poverty yet spend 60% or more of their budget's on defence related assets and programmes which in turn will become obsolete anyway.

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