Fauzia Abbas

{{Short description|Pakistani diplomat}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Fauzia Abbas

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|6|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = New Delhi, India

| occupation = Diplomat

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Fauzia Abbas (born 20 June 1951 in New Delhi, India)[http://www.mofa.gov.pk/denmark/contents.aspx?type=contents&id=16 Ambassador to Denmark] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721103856/http://www.mofa.gov.pk/denmark/contents.aspx?type=contents&id=16 |date=2010-07-21 }} MOFA, Pakistan. Retrieved 27 March 2011. is a career diplomat from Pakistan.

She served as the country's Ambassador to Denmark and Lithuania from November 2006 until December 2013. She has previously served as Ambassador to Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Holy See (March 2003 to November 2006). As of December 2013, she was retired and now lives in Islamabad, Pakistan. Fauzia Abbas did create a number of diplomatic crises, including accusing the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten, of being responsible for the 8 killings done in connection with the attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan,{{cite web | url=http://jyllands-posten.dk/uknews/ECE3952593/Pakistan+ambassador%3A+%27Are+you+satisfied%3F%27/ | title=Pakistan ambassador: 'Are you satisfied?' | date=4 June 2008 }} as well as showing disrespect for the Danish court system by refusing to follow a ruling in favour of a local employee, despite the fact that the Embassy did not have diplomatic immunity in this case.{{cite web|url=http://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE5985662/Ambassade+ignorerer+b%C3%B8de+for+ulovlig+fyring/|title=Ambassade ignorerer bøde for ulovlig fyring - Indland|website=jyllands-posten.dk|date=20 September 2013 |access-date=3 January 2022}}