Hina Rabbani Khar will be the new foreign minister of Pakistan, a media report said Monday. Her elevation comes a week ahead of India-Pakistan talks to be held in New Delhi.Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has sent a document regarding this to President Asif Ali Zardari, Geo News reported.

Khar was serving as the minister of state for foreign affairs.Khar is scheduled to travel to New Delhi next week for foreign minister level talks.The foreign minister’s position became vacant after Shah Mehmood Qureshi was left out of a cabinet reshuffle.



Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر ) (born 1977, Multan) is a Pakistani member of parliament, affiliated with the PPP. She served as the State Minister for Economic Affairs and Statistics as National Assembly member of PML-Q in 2003-2007. Hina Rabbani Khar is daughter of politician Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar.

Khar received a B.Sc. in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1999 and went on to earn a M.Sc. in Management from the University of Massachusetts in 2001. In 2008, she was named to the World Economic Forum’s list of young global leaders.[4] In 2008, Hina was elected as a member of National Assembly with a ticket from PPP from the constituency of Muzaffargarh, Punjab.