| 1. Geetika Srivastava is an Indian Foreign Service officer from the 2005 batch. |
| 2. In August 2023, she made history by becoming the first woman officer to lead the Indian mission in Pakistan as the Chargé d’affaires of the Indian High Commission. |
| 3. After passing the UPSC civil services exam, Geetika joined the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. |
| 4. She gave a speech on “Confronting Khalistanis In Ontario” at the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service in 2016. |
| 5. In August 2023, she was appointed as the Chargé d’affaires at the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, succeeding M. Suresh Kumar during heightened India-Pakistan tensions post the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir. |
| 6. Geetika Srivastava is skilled in spoken and written Mandarin, English, and Hindi. |
| 7. In an interview, she shared that she decided to learn Mandarin as part of her foreign language studies. |
| 8. She learned Mandarin as part of her foreign language studies during her diplomatic service in China. |
| 9. She is the first woman to head India's mission in Pakistan since the country's independence in 1947, following 22 male predecessors. |
