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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر; born 19 November 1977) is a Pakistani stateswoman who served as the 26th Foreign Minister of Pakistan between February 2011 till March 2013 – the youngest person and the first woman to hold the position.Hailing from an influential feudal family, she studied business at LUMS and Amherst before entering politics as a member of national assembly in 2002 and becoming a junior minister responsible for economic policy under the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. She joined the Pakistan Peoples Party and was re-elected to the national assembly in 2008. In 2009, she became the Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs and the same year became the first woman to present the national budget.She was appointed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in July 2011 following the resignation of Mehmood Qureshi, and served until the 2013 election. During her time at the foreign ministry she resumed talks with India, which had derailed since the Mumbai attacks. She also led an unsuccessful move to grant India most favoured nation status. While on a visit to Bangladesh, she issued an unconditional apology from Pakistan for atrocities carried out during the Liberation War of 1971.During her two year long appointment as the country's foreign minister she attracted significant global attention on her appearance and status as Pakistan's first women foreign minister. She was interviewed by Charlie Rose, CBS News and Washington Post among others. She served as a high-ranking member of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party from 2008 until 2013, when she retired from politics. However, she continues to remain a member of Pakistan People's Party and a public speaker on foreign policy. She has written op-ed's for Newsweek Pakistan and was interviewed by Mehdi Hasan at the Oxford Union in December 2015."@en }

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