Visiting Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday 27th July said the resumption of peace process with India had led to the dawn of a 'new era' in bilateral cooperation between the two neighbors.
'We are committed in this process not only from the government of Pakistan but also from the people of Pakistan. I bring this commitment from President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani. This is indeed the new era of bilateral cooperation,' she said.
34-year-old Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday said she had come to India with a positive outlook and the relationship between the two countries should not be held hostage to the past.
A postgraduate in hospitality and tourism from the University of Massachusetts, Khar comes from a wealthy feudal family in southern Punjab and owns Lahore's posh Polo Lounge, a haunt of the rich and the powerful. Her father is a large landowner from Muzaffargarh. Her uncle Ghulam Mustafa Kar was the subject of 'My Feudal Lord', a biting account of patriarchal society in Pakistan penned by his fifth wife Tehmina Durrani.
Khar entered politics in 2002 and became a member of national assembly of the PML-Q party, affiliated with then Pakistan president Gen Pervez Musharraf.
She joined the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ahead of the February 2008 general election and was made minister of state for economic affairs by the Zardari government in 2008.
Her rise has been meteoric since, propelled by favourable circumstances. Barely four days after then foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's removal, she was named minister of state for foreign affairs.
Khar has become Pakistan's 26th foreign minister at a time when her country is suffering perhaps the worst image crisis and is being repeatedly singled out as a patron for terrorists and jihadists.
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