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NSA J N Dixit passes away !! :-(

Rediff.com reports -

National Security Adviser J N Dixit passed away on Monday morning. He had suffered a massive heart attack and was brought dead to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi around 6.30 am.

Jyotindra Nath Dixit (68) was a career diplomat who had served as foreign secretary. He had the unique distinction of having served as high commissioner or ambassador in the capitals of all South Asian neighbours, except the Maldives, during a diplomatic career spanning nearly four decades. He was an acknowledged expert on Indo-Pak ties.

He was India's first envoy to Bangladesh after its creation in 1971.

He was the high commissioner in Colombo in 1987 when India signed an accord with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force to the northern areas of the island nation at the height of the ethnic crisis.

He was the first Indian high commissioner to Afghanistan and had also served as high commissioner in Islamabad, considered an important posting and a stepping stone to becoming the foreign secretary.

He was a prolific author and columnist on international and regional affairs.

Since 2003, he had been closely associated with the Congress party's foreign affairs cell and played an active role in the drafting of the party's pre-poll paper on foreign policy, defence and national security.

When the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government came to power, he was appointed the NSA.

He was really a great multi-faceted Personality indeed. He was a simple, down-to-earth person and he even came to our college once for a seminar. He spoked on Indo-Pak relations. I admire this person very much and he 'll always remain one of my Role-Models.

Hats - Off !!

~ S a c h

posted by Sach @ 3:15 PM