Hina Rabbani Khar
Hina Rabbani Khar ( born January 19, 1977 in Multan ) was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from February 2011 to May 2013. You was the first woman in this role and in her tenure youngest member of the Cabinet.
Life
Hina Rabbani Khar comes from the root of the Kharral. Her father, Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar owns large tracts of land in the Punjab province. Even her grandfather Mohammed Yar Khar and her great-grandfather Malik Gulam were rich landowners. She is the niece of the politician Mustafa Khar, from which his ex- wife Tehmina Durrani drew an unflattering image as a feudal lord in her 1994 internationally published book My lord and master.
She studied until 1998 at the Lahore University of Management Sciences ( LUMS ). Your master's degree in management acquired it in 2001 from the University of Massachusetts. She is married to Feroze Gulzar, son of an industrialist, whom she had met as a fellow student at LUMS. The couple has two daughters.
Career
Khar began her political career under Pervez Musharraf. When her father in 2002 was no longer allowed to run for the National Assembly because he was lacking after a change in the law of the required degree, she successfully ran for his old seat it was for the PML - Q Member of the National Assembly and State Secretary of the Economic and Statistics Department.
In 2008, Khar for the opposition PPP was elected to Parliament. The PPP won the elections, and she kept her position as Secretary of State under the new President Asif Ali Zardari. Following the resignation of Shah Mahmood Qureshi was appointed in February 2011 to the Acting Secretary of the rank of a Secretary of State. On July 19, 2011, she was officially appointed as the Foreign Minister and sworn in on July 20.
With the appointment of Khar Zardari wanted to send " a positive signal for the soft image of Pakistan ". This is succeeded, but it is assumed in the German press reports, the fact that foreign policy important decisions in Pakistan will continue to be taken by the military.