Hina Rabbani Khar

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Hina Rabbani Khar (born 19 November 1977) 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. Khar is a member of an influential Punjab feudal family in Muzaffargarh. She studied business at LUMS and University of Massachusetts Amherst before entering politics as a member of the national assembly in 2002, representing the PML-Q and becoming a junior minister responsible for economic policy under the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. In 2009, 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.[5] She was appointed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in July...

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