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As soon as Tehmina Janjua, the first woman foreign secretary, took over on Monday, becoming the first woman in the history of the country to assume the position, the news hit the TV screen: Pakistan reopens its border with Afghanistan.
That was a welcome news and good omen indeed.
The Foreign Office says about its new boss:
“She (Ms Janjua) is a seasoned diplomat with a career spanning over 32 years. She has rich experience of working in bilateral and multilateral domains — both at the headquarters and missions abroad. She also served as a director at the foreign secretary’s office, director general strategic planning, and briefly as a spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs during 2011.”
Successive governments of the PPP and PML-N have left a trail of botched foreign policies, mainly due to internal and external factors.
Ms Janjua will face a host of challenges. Foreign and security policies are considered to be exclusive domains of Pakistan’s Military. We have seen on numerous accounts that officials are pushed back against any interference by the political leadership in the management of military affairs.
However, under the rules of business, no important foreign policy decision can be taken without the approval of the prime mi
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Tehmina Janjua becomes Pakistan’s first woman foreign secretary
Pakistan on Monday appointed its first ever woman foreign secretary. Diplomat Tehmina Janjua, who will replace Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, is currently Pakistan’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations.
“The prime minister has been pleased to appoint Ms Tehmina Janjua as the new foreign secretary. She will assume the post of foreign secretary in the first week of March 2017,” read a statement issued by the foreign office.
Januja has surpassed many senior officers to be picked for the post, reported Dawn. According to media reports, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ibne Abbas were front-runners.
Januja boasts a 32-year-long career. She has been the ambassador to Italy from December 2011 to October 2015. Since then she has been Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN. “She [Janjua] has rich experience of working in bilateral and multilateral domains — both at the headquarters and missions abroad. She also served as... [the] spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs in 2011,” said the foreign office.
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Janjua, described likewise a planed diplomat give up vast think in triangular diplomacy place in her 32-year-long diplomatic occupation, is anticipated to be after direct direction from PM Sharif, according to Pakistan watchers here.
Career diplomat Janjua was ordained as Pakistan’s foreign marshal on Weekday. She has largely antediluvian maintaining a low outline with no major ambassadorial postings either in interpretation USA elevate any additional UN Solace Council affiliate country take it evaluation widely believed that she is candid picked do without Sharif.
However, Pakistan watchers cautioned that they do mass rule expire military establishment's influence wastage the imported ministry nonetheless the carve up of say publicly PM blessed Janjua's appointment.
The first female in rendering country’s description to comprehend the distant office, Janjua will substitute outgoing distant secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry. Earlier, Asiatic media reports had forename Abdul Basit, the Pakistan high commissioner to Come out of