Hina Rabbani Khar

Khar during the WEF 2012

Hina Rabbani Khar (born January 19, 1977 in Multan ) was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from February 2011 to May 2013. She was the first woman in this position and the youngest member of the cabinet during her tenure.

Life

Hina Rabbani Khar

Hina Rabbani Khar comes from the Kharral tribe. Her father Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar owns large estates in the Punjab province. Her grandfather Mohammed Yar Khar and her great-grandfather Malik Gulam were wealthy landowners. She is the niece of the politician Mustafa Khar , of whom his ex-wife Tehmina Durrani painted an unflattering picture as a feudal lord in her book Mein Herr und Gebieter , published internationally in 1994 .

She studied at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) until 1998. She received her master's degree in management from the University of Massachusetts in 2001 . She is married to Feroze Gulzar, the son of an industrialist whom she met as a college friend at LUMS. The couple has two daughters.

Career

Khar started her political career under Pervez Musharraf . When her father was no longer allowed to run for the National Assembly in 2002 because he lacked the required school leaving certificate after a change in the law, she successfully ran for his old seat. She became a member of the National Assembly and State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics and Statistics for the PML-Q .

In 2008, Khar was elected to parliament for the opposition PPP . The PPP won the elections and it retained its position as State Secretary under the new President Asif Ali Zardari . After the resignation of Shah Mahmud Qureshi , she was appointed Acting Foreign Minister with the rank of State Secretary in February 2011. She was officially appointed Foreign Minister on July 19, 2011 and sworn in on July 20.

With the appointment of Khar, Zardari wanted to send "a positive signal for Pakistan's soft image". He succeeded, although German press reports assumed that important foreign policy decisions in Pakistan would continue to be made by the military.

Web links

Commons : Hina Rabbani Khar - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Jochen Buchsteiner: head saleswoman for soft Pakistan. Portrait: Hina Rabbani Khar. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 27, 2011, accessed July 27, 2011 .
Christoph Ehrhardt: "A difficult year with America". Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khar. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 6, 2012, accessed on September 6, 2012 (interview with Khar).
Hina Rabbani Khar: 'Give Pakistan some time' - Interview in Al Jazeera English (video, English, 25 min.)
Who rules Pakistan? . Al Jazeera English, December 2015 - Interview with Hina Rabbani Khar (video, English, 47 min.)

Individual evidence

↑ Pakistan has a foreign minister for the first time. In: ORF . July 20, 2011, accessed July 20, 2011 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c All in white to India taz July 28, 2011
↑ ^a ^b Tehmina Durrani : My Lord and Lord . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, 1994.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Beauty and the Generals Spiegel Online July 27, 2011
↑ Curriculum Vitae. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, archived from original on January 15, 2013 ; accessed on February 3, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d chief saleswoman of the soft Pakistan FAZ July 27, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Khar, Hina Rabbani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pakistani politician (PPP)
DATE OF BIRTH	19th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Multan

[ORFFrau-1] Pakistan has a foreign minister for the first time. In: ORF . July 20, 2011, accessed July 20, 2011 .

[taz-2] All in white to India taz July 28, 2011

[MeinHerr-3] Tehmina Durrani : My Lord and Lord . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, 1994.

[SpiSG-4] Beauty and the Generals Spiegel Online July 27, 2011

[5] Curriculum Vitae. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, archived from original on January 15, 2013 ; accessed on February 3, 2016 .

[faz-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d chief saleswoman of the soft Pakistan FAZ July 27, 2011