ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday
appointed Ms. Sherry Rehman as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United
States, the PM office said.
Sherry Rehman, former Information
Minister, is the central leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and
is currently Member of the National Assembly.
She was appointed
after the resignation of Hussain Haqqani as Pakistan ambassador to the
U.S. after a controversy over a memo allegedly sent by him to the former
U.S. Chief of Staff Admiral (retd) Mike Mullen on behalf of President
Asif Zardari to seek the U.S. help assert control over the army.
Earlier
Ms. Sherry Rehman called on the Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani
at PM’s House on Wednesday and discussed matters relating to her
diplomatic assignments, the statement said.
Ms. Sherry Reham is a
member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and presently serving as
Chairperson Pakistan Red Crescent Society.
Her personality profile is as under:
“Sherry
Rehman is a ranking member of the National Security Committee of
Pakistan’s Parliament and founding President of the Jinnah Institute in
Islamabad, an independent public policy institute committed to regional
peace and inclusive democracy in Pakistan. She co-chairs several
track-two strategic dialogues with India, and is convener of a similar
institutionalized dialogue process between Pakistan and Afghanistan
later this year. She lectures widely on strategic security challenges
facing Pakistan, and is a key member of the Legislative Councils that
govern both Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Ms. Sherry Rehman
has served as Federal Minister for Information and roadcasting of
Pakistan from March 2008 to March 2009. As Minister she prepared and
presented Pakistan’s first in-camera National Security briefing to a
joint session of Parliament in 2008. This briefing led to the first
formal political consensus- resolution against terrorism in Parliament.
Ms. Sherry Rehman’s background as a senior professional
journalist for twenty years has given her wide media outreach as an
incumbent second-term law-maker with a frontline public position against
religious extremism.
Her most recent awards include formal
recognition as “Democracy’s Hero” by the International Republican
Institute, US, and the Jeanne Kirkpatric Award for Women in 2011. The
March 2011 issue of Newsweek Pakistan ranked her on its cover as
"Pakistan’s Most Important Woman". Foreign Policy magazine has
identified Rehman as one of 2011’s Top Global Thinkers.” Online
