A Beautiful, Young Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister of Pakistan

Who is Hina Rabbani Khar? – Pakistan Foreign Minister

         Amid tense bilateral relations, her charm has hit the headlines with her stepping on Indian land. Meet Pakistan’s youngest and first woman foreign minister, the 34-year-old Hina Rabbani Khar who is in India for peace talks.

         

          Hina, who has inherited politics from her family, is a daughter of former Pak foreign minister Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar.

Rather her father drove Hina’s entry into politics, setting her on a different path from the hotel management career she had been pursuing with great zeal.

          It’s because of her political roots that she has often been referred as the next Benazir of the Pakistan. After Benazir Bhutto, Hina is the next female face of Pakistan known world wide.

Born in 1977 at ‘Khar Gharbi’ village in Multan, Hina is the first woman to present the budget speech in national assembly on 13 June, 2009. A businesswoman by profession, Hina graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Hina also holds a Masters degree from the University of Massachusetts, USA- she has all that it takes to be a leader.

In 2008, she was named to the World Economic Forum’s list of young global leaders.

On a lighter side, Hina is a proud Pakistani and regards this very feeling as her most treasured asset. She is married to Feroze Gulzar, a businessman and enjoys riding, reading and travelling. She is also a member of the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) Pakistan.

She is also one of the owners of the Polo Lounge, an upscale, popular restaurant located on the Lahore Polo Grounds.

          It was in 2008, when Hina was elected as a Member of National Assembly (MNA) with a ticket from PPP from the constituency of Muzaffargarh, Punjab.

          

         She served as a State Minister for Economic Affairs and Statistics as National Assembly member of PML-Q in 2003-07.

Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar meets Kashmiri separatist leaders.

India and Pakistan on Wednesday proclaimed new Confidence Building Measures, despite the unhappiness in New Delhi concerning Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar’s meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders.

After their meeting, foreign minister SM Krishna said that ties were back on the right track, whereas his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar spoke of a new era of cooperation.

Khar said in a statement that there had been a mindset change that had turned the resumed peace dialogue into an uninterrupted and uninterruptable process.

She also added that “A new generation of Indians and Pakistanis will see a relationship that will hopefully be much different from the one that has been experienced in the last two decades.”

Pakistan’s first female foreign minister, Khar was appointed preceding week and at just 34 years of age, some had queried whether she was experienced enough to knob one of the world’s most fraught cross-border relationships.

Both foreign ministers strained the significance of the India-Pakistan relationship to makes sure peace in the wider South Asia region.

 

Progress In Peace Talks Between India And Pakistan

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (R) shakes hands with Indian counterpart Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna before their meeting in New Delhi July 27, 2011. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan, India Signal ‘New Era’ Of Cooperation — Voice Of America

The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have hailed a “new era of cooperation,” after meeting for the first time since peace talks between the rival nations resumed earlier this year. The officials promised to initiate new trade and travel contacts across their disputed border.

Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna accentuated the positive Wednesday, following talks with newly appointed Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in the Indian capital.

“We have some distance to travel, but with an open mind, and a constructive approach … I am sure we can reach our desired destination,” Krishna said.

 

19 killed, 18 missing in two mine accidents in Ukraine

From Vinay Shukla Moscow, Jul 29 (PTI) At least 19 miners were killed and 18 others went missing in two separate accidents at coal mines in Ukraine today, officials said.Sixteen miners were killed instantly after an explosion in a coal mine in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine early today.The blast took place in the Sukhodolsk-Vostochnaya coal mine at Krasnodon in the Lugansk region. A total of 28 people were working at the pit when the explosion occurred, Interfax reported quoting disaster management authorities of Ukraine.Another three workers received burns and other injuries and were hospitalised. One of the injured died later of his wounds. The two injured were in a grave condition.The authorities said that the fate of 9 miners remains unknown.Officials did not provide details on the cause of the blast. Most of the country's mine disasters have been caused by build-ups of methane gas.In a separate accident, two miners were killed when an elevator collapse at the state-controlled Bazhanova mine in the town of Makiyivka in the neighbouring Donetsk region.Nine workers were missing and officials said it appeared they were still alive but trapped under the rubble.Today's twin disasters were the country's worst mining accidents since more than 100 miners were killed in a mine explosion in 2007.Deadly accidents are frequent in Ukrainian mines, with many of them are poorly equipped.

Reactive v/s Proactive person

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Look at the word responsibility -- "response-ability" -- the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

Reactive people are also affected by their social environment, by the "social weather." When people treat them well, they feel well; when people don't, they become defensive or protective. Reactive people build their emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them.

Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values -- carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent. They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."

It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

India, Pakistan foreign ministers say ties on 'right track'

Both the foreign ministers have called for a new spirit of co-operation [AFP]

India and Pakistan's foreign ministers have held formal peace talks in New Delhi.

Before the talks on Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the two countries called for a new spirit of co-operation.

SM Krishna, the Indian foreign minister, said that his country wanted to see a "a stable, smooth and prosperous Pakistan".

His Pakistani counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar, said their relationship "should not be held hostage to the past".

The bilateral meeting between the South Asian neighbours is expected to focus on confidence-building measures, trade and people-to-people exchanges.

After arriving in the Indian capital on Tuesday, Khar stressed the need for both countries to learn from, but not be burdened by, "the lessons of history".

They should move forward as "friendly neighbours, who have a stake in each other's future and who understand the responsibility that both the countries have to the region", she said.

Meeting with separatists

Khar reportedly met several separatist leaders from Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday evening.

The bilateral talks do not include Kashmiri representatives, though the divided territory's status is a major source of tension between the two rivals.

India and Pakistan both claim all of Kashmir and have fought two wars over the issue since 1947.

Wednesday's minister-level meeting comes a day after senior Indian and Pakistani officials held discussions in New Delhi that laid the groundwork for the talks.

Salman Bashir, Pakistan's foreign secretary, said on Tuesday that he hoped the dialogue will boost ties between the two countries.

"We have every reason to be satisfied with our joint endeavours for the cause of peace and stability and for good relations between our two countries," he said.

Nirupama Rao, India's foreign secretary, also said she was looking forward to the talks.

"We had a very good meeting in Islamabad last month and this has, in a sense, set the trend for our discussions here today," she said.

On agenda

Chintamani Mahapatra, a professor of international politics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said Kashmir would be a central issue in the dialogue.

"There is a proposal to boost the amount of trade between the Pakistani and Indian side of Kashmir," he told Al Jazeera.

Peace talks between the two countries broke down over a series of attacks across Mumbai in 2008 by 10 Pakistani men in which 166 people were killed.

"They are considering increasing the number of days residents from the two sides can engage in trade per week from two to four. They will also discuss smoothening the process of getting permits for trade," Mahapatra said.

"There is also a proposal to expand the number of facilities in the region, including telephone lines."

The two countries decided to restart the peace process in February and have since discussed a wide range of issues concerning the two sides, including Kashmir and the continuing threat of terrorism.

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