Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed has been appointed as the Ambassador to Saudia Arabia. A 1980-batch IPS officer, Javed is scheduled to retire on January 31, 2016. According to official sources, the officer will serve his term before embarking on his new assignment. He will be the fourth IPS officer to be appointed as India’s envoy to Saudi Arabia in an assignment which is traditionally a domain of the Indian Foreign Service. Another former Mumbai Police Commissioner, Julio Ribeiro, had earlier served as India’s Ambassador to Romania.
Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and home to the religion’s holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina.
- The Saudi king’s official title is “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.”
- Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.
- In Saudi Arabia, a large number of these executions are carried out by beheading.
- Ibn Saud, who is considered the Father of the Saudi nation and its first king, was granted a knighthood in the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth of England in 1935.
