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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Hina Rabbani Khar حنا ربانی کھر

Hina Rabbani Khar حنا ربانی کھر Hina Rabbani Khar Pictures, Hina Rabani Khar Profile, Hina Rabbani Kher: Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر , born 19 January 1977 in Multan, Punjab) is a Pakistani politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 20 July 2011. She is Pakistan's youngest and first female Minister of Foreign Affairs.

She was elected as a member of the National Assembly from the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) in 2002 from the constituency of Muzaffargarh, Punjab. PML-Q denied Hina Khar a ticket for re-election in 2008 and she ran and won as a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).She was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on February 11, 2011, as part of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani's new cabinet.[2] She is the first female Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Pakistan's history. After Shah Mehmood Qureshi was dismissed as Foreign Minister, she became Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs on February 13, 2011. She was officially appointed as foreign minister on 19 July 2011 by President Asif Ali Zardari and was sworn in as permanent Minister for Foreign affairs on 20 July 2011. In a message of felicitation, President Zardari described Ms Khar’s appointment as a demonstration of the PPP government’s “commitment to bring women into the mainstream of national life”.

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