Career landmark: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (2022–2023).
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Hina Rabbani Khar is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. She previously served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan from July 2011 to March 2013, the first and only woman to hold the position, and was a member of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2023.
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Born 19 November 1977 · Q254122
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Career landmark: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (2022–2023).
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Career landmark: Member of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan (2018).
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Was elected on a reserved seat for women in the National Assembly in the 2018 General Election by the Pakistan People's Party
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Delivered a lecture there on "Foreign Policy and Young Democracy", and secured funding for the Abdus Salam Institute of Physics
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“higher principles should take precedence over politically popular considerations”
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Career landmark: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (2011–2011).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (2011–2013).
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After switching parties and winning re-election with the Pakistan Peoples Party, she became the Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs and the same year became the first woman to present the national budget
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Said the appointment was "a demonstration of the government's commitment to bring women into the mainstream of national life"
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Made an unsuccessful attempt to renew her alliance with the PML-Q, but the party denied her a ticket platform to campaign for re-election in 2008
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Published “Cyclodextrins in drug delivery: An updated review” in AAPS PharmSciTech — cited 979 times.
And being named Minister of State for Economic Affairs the following year, a post she retained until 2007
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Representing the PML-Q and becoming a junior minister responsible for economic policy under the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
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Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (2002–2013).
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Had been lifted since the most recent general election
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Born 1977-11-19.
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