Stunning Beauty Hina Rabbani Khar - India Tour 2011 Coverage

Charm of Hina works, dwarfs dialogue - Her First India Visit 2011, 27th July 2011

It does not happen very often in India-Pakistan talks when the looks and personality of any leader dwarfs the whole dialogue process. The stunning beauty of Pakistan’s foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar got more attention among one and all than the outcome of talks, India media said on Wednesday. Talking to News-24 on Indo-Pak talks, Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam said," She is beautiful and one hopes that she would play key role in normalizing relations between the two countries. " She is articulate, brilliant, enterprising, and very far-sighted even at such a young age. Moreover, she is humble, approachable, professional, and knows her job very well. At the end of the day, if we have more people like her in our government, perhaps Pakistan’s positive image won’t need any marketing beyond simply introducing them to the world!

Noted Pakistan watcher and expert on International relations Pushpranjan said that the urbane charm of Khar stole the limelight." Khar`s personality is very refreshing and she represents the modern face of Pakistan. Let her tribe increase manifold," Pushpranjan concludes, who earlier worked for Radio German. Pushpranjan also feels that it is time that the likes of Khar take the center-stage in India.


NEW DELHI: It does not happen very often in India-Pakistan talks when the looks and personality of any leader dwarfs the whole dialogue process. The stunning beauty of Pakistan’s foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar got more attention among one and all than the outcome of talks, India media said on Wednesday. Talking to News-24 on Indo-Pak talks, Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam said," She is beautiful and one hopes that she would play key role in normalizing relations between the two countries. " She is articulate, brilliant, enterprising, and very far-sighted even at such a young age.

Moreover, she is humble, approachable, professional, and knows her job very well. At the end of the day, if we have more people like her in our government, perhaps Pakistan’s positive image won’t need any marketing beyond simply introducing them to the world! Noted Pakistan watcher and expert on International relations Pushpranjan said that the urbane charm of Khar stole the limelight." Khar`s personality is very refreshing and she represents the modern face of Pakistan. Let her tribe increase manifold," Pushpranjan concludes, who earlier worked for Radio German. Pushpranjan also feels that it is time that the likes of Khar take the center-stage in India.
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Mumbai blasts: 'All groups hostile to India on radar’

The Government today said all groups “hostile to India” are on the “radar” in the probe into the terror attack here and did not rule out the possibility of the blasts being an attempt to derail the forthcoming Indo-Pak talks.

After visiting the sites of the three serial blasts in crowded areas here last evening that killed 17 persons, the Union Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, made it clear that it was too early “to point a finger at any one group”. About 131 persons were also injured of whom 23 are seriously injured.


Mr Chidambaram, addressing a 70-minute joint news conference with the Chief Minister, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, also said “there was no intelligence failure” prior to the blasts.

There was no intelligence input either with the Central or the state agencies of an “imminent” attack, he said.

“Intelligence is collected every day, every hour. It (blasts) is not a failure of intelligence agencies...whoever has perpetrated the attacks has worked in a very clandestine manner,” Mr Chidambaram said, reiterating it was a “coordinated terror attack’’.

The Minister said intelligence gathering had successfully “neutralised” a number of planned attacks in the past two-and-a-half years, but declined to give any details.

At the same time, he asserted that Indians lived “in the most troubled neighbourhood in the world” and therefore all cities in India were “vulnerable” to attack.

“Pakistan-Afghanistan is the epicentre of terror...we are living in the most troubled neighbourhood,” he said.

Asked whether the explosions were timed to disrupt the forthcoming Indo-Pak talks, Mr Chidambaram said: “we are not ruling out anything. That angle will also be kept in mind.”

Giving details about the investigations carried out since last night, the Home Minister said ammonium nitrate, an explosive substance, was used in the IEDs triggered by timer devices.

He ruled out the use of remote control to trigger the blasts in Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Dadar areas.

“We are not pointing a finger at this stage,” Mr Chidambaram said, adding there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack.

“All groups hostile to India are on the radar. We are not ruling out anything, we are not ruling in anything. We are looking at everyone,” he said, adding “We have to look at every possible hostile group and find out whether they are behind the blast.”

Mr Chidambaram’s response came to repeated questions whether he suspected the hand of a foreign terror group or right wing groups or the underworld or the Maoists or Indian Mujahideen in the explosions.

The Union Home Ministry had officially stated in its first bulletin last night that the death toll was 21.

“We are not ruling out any angle. We will probe (the involvement of) every terror group...The investigations into the attack will not start on pre-determined assumptions,” he said at another point facing a volley of questions by newsmen after he chaired an emergency meeting to review the situation.

“Whoever perpetrated the attack has worked in a very very clandestine manner. Maybe it’s a very small group, maybe they didn’t communicate with each other,” he said.

“I am confident that ... we will be able to zero in on the group that caused these bomb blasts,” he added.

He also made it clear that India will not be cowed down by the attacks.

“I want to assure everyone both in India and outside, that India will continue to work and grow and prosper,” he said.

The Minister also assured that the blasts were not targeted against any foreigners or tourists visiting India.

“The target is India’s unity, integrity and prosperity. There are elements that are hostile to India and they are behind the blasts that have occurred over the last 10 years. We had some respite in the last 31 months. But I want to assure you none of these blasts are aimed at foreigners or visiting tourists,” he said in reply to a question by a foreign journalist.

Mr Chidambaram said the bomb in the Dadar area was placed on a bus shelter; in the Opera House business area it was placed on the road and in the Jhaveri Bazaar jewellery market it was on a motorcycle.

“...The density of the population was quite mindboggling. I think they chose places where even a low intensity blast will have a great impact...There were inherent difficulties in policing densely populated areas,” he said.

The attacks were the worst terror strike in the country since the Mumbai carnage that killed 166 people in November 2008.

Expressing “deep regret” to the people of Mumbai over the incident, he said the probe will not start on any “pre-determined assumptions” and will cover every terror group that has the capacity to carry out such strikes in the country.
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US keen on India, Pak ties on multiple fronts - Hina's India Visit 2011

The External Affairs Minister, Mr S.M. Krishna, with his Pakistani counterpart, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar, prior to their meeting at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on Wednesday


Describing as “very constructive” the resumption of the Indo-Pak dialogue, the US has said it is important that the two countries continue cooperation on multiple fronts, including counter-terrorism.

“We said last week and continue to say that dialogue between India and Pakistan is a very constructive one,” State Department spokesman Mr Mark Toner told reporters.

He said it is important that the dialogue continues. “We want to see cooperation on many fronts, including counter-terrorism, between the two countries.”

The United States, Mr Toner said, has engaged with the Pakistani government at high levels, from the Secretary of State to the CIA Director, to address some of the difficult issues, but also to say that the US is committed to working with Islamabad in a constructive way on counter-terrorism.

“Pakistan, as we’ve said many, many times, is touched by — in a significant, profound way — the threat of terrorism.

They’ve lost a lot of people to terrorism in Pakistan.”

Responding to questions, the spokesman said no date has been set for the next round of the US-Pak Strategic Dialogue, but the two countries are carrying out talks at multiple levels.

“I don’t believe there’s any date for the next plenary session of the Strategic Dialogue. It has yet to be scheduled.

...we have high-level engagement with Pakistan, as well as the substantive working groups continue to meet as well,” he said.

“In fact, on July 5th, our Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, William Brownfield, will be in Islamabad to lead the Strategic Dialogue Working Group meeting on counter-terrorism and law enforcement with his Pakistani counterparts. So while there has been no date set yet for the plenary, the working groups do continue to meet on a regular basis,” he said.
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Hina Rabbani Khar visits Ajmer, Nizamuddin Dargahs - India Visit 2011 Coverage



Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar literally criss-crossed the city keeping an eye not only on the high-level official engagements but even found time for personal visits - whether her brief stopover with only her PSO at an acquaintance's residence at Jorbagh on Tuesday just after her arrival in New Delhi or at the Nizamuddin dargah on Thursday morning just before she flew to Ajmer on her way to Islamabad.

Cops said there were Z+ security for the minister, but the "requirements kept changing depending on the places she visited".

Among the places she visited were the Prime Minister's residence, UPA chairwoman Sonia Gandhi's residence and senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani's residence. The cops said Hina wanted to keep Thursday absolutely 'free' for her time at the dargah.

Khar arrived at the Nizamuddin dargah at 10am on Thursday. Accompanied by foreign secretary Salman Bashir and other Pakistan delegates, she spent approximately 30 minutes in the dargah complex and prayed for peace between India and Pakistan.

Khar first approached the dargarh of noted urdu poet Amir Khusrau and paid obeisance at the main gate of the rauza (shrine) and spent 5 to 7 minutes there. From there, the minister then went to the main dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin aulia where she spent up to 15 minutes praying quietly at the main entrance. Women are not allowed inside the chambers. Khar followed a common tradition of first visiting the shrine of the disciple (Khusrau) and then that of the teacher (Nizamuddin Auliya). She laid chaddars at both places and was presented with a ghilaf (chaddar) when she was done with her prayers.

"The minister was initially supposed to visit the dargah on Wednesday night but could not make it. We were then informed of her visit on Thursday morning. The chaddars she offered at the Nizamuddin Aulia dargah and darbar of Amir Khusrau were provided at the dargah itself," said Farid Ahmed Nizami, naib sajjadanashin at the dargah.

Khar did not interact much and kept mostly to herself. The popular Thursday qawwali was playing in the backdrop as she offered her prayers at the shrine. Though visitor movement was not stopped during the minister's visit, tight security led to a lesser crowd. Khar came to the dargah via Nizamuddin baoli, the route commonly used by VIPs during a dargah visit.

Pakistani delegates visiting the dargah of the famous sufi saint is not something new. The last high profile Pakistani delegate to visit the dargah was Pervez Musharraf in 2010. Peerzadas at the dargah pointed out a list of prominent VVIPs who had come to offer prayers at the dargah in the past, including late Benzair Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan and members of the Gandhi family, including late Indira and Rajiv Gandhi.
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Hina Rabbani Khar visits Ajmer Dargah and offered Chadar - Hina's India Visit 2011

Ajmer: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday paid obeisance at the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty here.

Rabbani, who was accompanied by her delegation members, landed at Ghughra helipad near here and was received by District Collector Manju Rajpal and other officials.

After a brief halt at Ajmer circuit house, Khar went to the dargah where she offered a 'Chadar' and paid obeisance at Aastana Sharif.


In the visiting register, she expressed her wish to visit the Dargah again.

She stayed at the Dargarh for about 20 minutes.

This morning the Minister also gave a visit to the dargah of famous Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi, where she prayed for peace between the two countries. - PTI
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Indian PM ready to ‘walk extra mile’ says Pak FM Hina Rabbani Khar

Lahore: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has claimed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is ready to ‘walk the extra mile’ on all outstanding issues between the two countries.

Khar said the Indian Prime Minister had also accepted an invitation to visit Pakistan.

“Their message is that India wants a stable Pakistan. The effort is to converge on mutually agreed points despite divergently stated positions,” Khar was quoted, as saying by The Nation.

The foreign minister said that there was an emerging need for reducing tensions between the two countries after the Mumbai attacks.

“We can safely say that a new era of engagement, understanding, confronting the challenges and relations to continue has begun,” Khar said.


“Both countries are moving ahead though they can have different outlooks. We are willing to face all challenges,” she added.

Khar also mentioned that she had held meetings with the Kashmiri separatist leaders much to the disliking of the Indians and their media.

She also said that both sides had agreed to continue the dialogue process and were looking forward to resolve all outstanding issues.

“Relations between Pakistan and India will be taking a new direction since the Indian government has shown its determination to continue towards resolving issues,” Khar said.

About Mumbai attacks and belligerence of the Indian media, Khar said that it was important to reduce tensions between the two countries, despite existence of harshness on both sides of the border. - ANI
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Every One Talks about Hina Rabbani Khar’s Birkin Bag Now! - Does Hina has Facebook & Twitter Accounts?

This year 2011 Hina Rabbani Khar might create a history on the web 'The Most Searchable Celebrity / Politician / Women / Glamorous Online' like Google, Yahoo, Bing Search Engines. We have to wait until these search engines provide the reports by this year end. I'm pretty sure about this.


If Hina Rabbani has an Twitter ID, definitely she can create a history in the more followers section. Hina can cross Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh, Shahrukh, Salman and Aamir Khan's followers list on Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter is buzzing about the Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbain Khar’s first visit to India this week. But it’s not the India-Pakistan peace talks that have hogged their attention: It’s her black Hermès Birkin bag.


As soon as Ms. Khar touched down on Tuesday evening, her ensemble and accessories became the talk of fashion and media circles on both sides of the border. The Birkin black bag that Ms. Khar was seen carrying as she touched down at the Air Force station in New Delhi, remained one of the top trending items on Twitter on Thursday, a day after Ms. Khar met with her Indian counterpart, S.M. Krishna.

Bollywood actress Gul Panag tweeted, “I like the way Hina Rabbani looks. With her movie star sunglasses, head covered, Birkin in tow. May be she is brilliant too. Wish her luck.”

Her domestic audience seemed impressed too. The Sunday supplement of the Lahore-based Daily Times tweeted, “Khar is all about tasteful accessories-Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, over sized Hermes Birkin bag & classic pearl jewelry. Gorgeous.”

The bag, named after 1960s icon Jane Birkin, an English actress and singer, is sought after because it is available only on a limited basis, apparently through a legendary waiting list, apart from being very expensive (some say the waiting list no longer exists; others claim it never did). The Daily Mail puts the starting price for a basic version at nearly $7,000.

Some on Twitter made broader comments about Ms. Khar’s looks. Seema Goswami, a columnist for Brunch, the Hindustan Times Sunday magazine, observed, “I think the new foreign minister of Pak, Hina Rabbani Khar, is their weapon of mass distraction”

The tabloid Mumbai Mirror’s headline, “Pak Bomb Lands in India” also grabbed the attention of many amused and admiring Indian Twitter users.

Fashion blogger Amara Javed tweeted, “Khar is more glamorous than Catherine Middleton. Take THAT world.”

But some weren’t so happy to see the bag. Sagarika Ghose, the deputy editor of CNN-IBN, said she thought the choice of accessories proved Ms. Khar was out of touch. She tweeted, “Hina Rabbani Khar is beautiful but obviously part of disconnected Pak elite.10 thou $ Hermes bag when country devastated? not the right note.”

It wasn’t just Ms. Khar’s bag that drew attention, though. From her blue tunic pants ensemble to her Roberto Cavalli shades, everything grabbed Indian eyeballs, with media coverage of her accessories practically overshadowing the India-Pakistan dialogue, and prompting some to note they found the reporting of Ms. Khar’s visit sexist.

“Hina Rabbani Khar story confirms belief women are great foreign ministers & reporting on female politicians is terrible,” tweeted Stephani Carvin, a London-based lecturer in international relations.
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