Charms Of Hina Rabbani Khar

Pakistan’s opening gambit has paid off well. Pakistan’s new foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has taken India by storm,so to speak.

She is being showered with epithets as the elegant fashionista, a graceful and attractive lady and much more. But less is being heard spoken of her office and agenda.

It’s showtime for Pak’s diplomacy, and what could achieve this more than a beautiful face as it comes from a feudal, repressive society.

In the ensuing brouhaha the diplomatic agenda of Pak has taken well-intended backseat, and what is dominating the headlines are the Robert Cavalli sunglasses , the Rs. 15 lakh Hermes Birkin bag and classic pearl jewellery of the foreign minister.

It seems that the Indian diplomatic team had been so smitten by the feminine charms of the lady that they were waylaid into adopting a soft and misleading joint statement at the end of joint parleys.

More seriously, quite like earlier times, now too we find India bending backwards to engage Pakistan. And once again Pakistan has done a diplomatic encore by by its well executed oneupemanship.

Sample this :

1. The joint statement says that both sides were ‘ satisfied on the holding of meetings on the 26/11 trials’

Nothing can be far from the truth.

Pakistan is going slow on trials. Since 2009 four judges have been changed.
Small-fry are being tried. Main culprits JuD’s Hafiz Saeed, LeT’s Sajid Mir and ISI officers Major Iqbal and Major Sameer Ali have neither been arrested or questioned.

Despite P. Chidambaram’s 2010 Pakistan visit, the country has refused to hand over voices samples of arrested men to India. Chidambaram had expressed his disappointment over Pakistan’s attitude on the 26/11 trial.

True to her job, we found foreign secretary Nirupma Rao defending the joint statement.

2. After landing in New Delhi the first thing Ms. Khar did was to meet up with the leaders of the Kashmir separatist group, Hurriyat Conference.

This was equivalent of cocking a snook at India. India made a token objection in the meetings and then it was business as usual.

There was an agenda of a business détente and freerer interborder trade at Kashmir that got sanctions from India. The joint statement ignored the Pakistani intransigence on the matter.

Apparently the glamarous Hina Khar has executed her brief to the T.
A beleaguered Pakistan needed an injection of oomph in its foreign ministry to soften its image as a terrorist-state.
Sometime in the near future Ms. Hina’s destination will be Washington DC. It is here that she will earn her grades.