Envoy to US Sherry Rehman given ministerial status

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday conferred the status of Federal Minister on Excellency Ms. Sherry Rehman, Ambassador of Pakistan to USA.

The Cabinet Division has issued the notification in this regard Wednesday.

Ms. Sherry Rehman, former Information Minister was appointed Pakistan's ambassador to the United States of America on 23rd November last year.

She was member of the National Assembly before appointment as ambassador to USA was serving as Chairperson Pakistan Red Crescent Society.

Ms. Sherry Rehman was also 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 has served as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting from March 2008 to March 2009.

As Minister Informatoin she prepared and presented Pakistan's first in-camera National Security briefing to a joint session of the Parliament in 2008. She was also associated with journalism for twenty years.

In March 2011 issue of Newsweek Pakistan she was ranked as "Pakistan's Most Important Woman".

Foreign Policy magazine has identified Rehman as one of 2011's
Top Global Thinkers." (APP)