Rice appoints Pak-born woman her adviser Sunday 02 Saffar 1426
By Faiz Rehman
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed Pakistani-American Dr Shirin Tahir-Kheli her senior adviser on the United Nations Reform. The appointment was announced by State Department spokesman Richard Boucher in a statement on Saturday.
Dr Tahir-Kheli would serve as the secretary of the state’s senior adviser and chief interlocutor on the UN Reform. In collaboration with the assistant secretary for international organisations, Dr Tahir-Kheli will report directly to Rice. She will engage the UN secretary general and secretariat on UN reform efforts. She will coordinate within the State Department and interagency community about the US government’s position on UN reform.
Dr Tahir-Kheli served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Democracy of the Human Rights and International Operations at the National Security Council from 2003 to 2005. Previously, she was a research professor and founding director of the South Asia Programme at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr Tahir-Kheli served as the head of the US delegation to the UNCHR in 2001 and Alternate US Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs (1990-1993). She earned a PhD in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Tahir-Kheli’s father, the late Dr Raziuddin Siddiqui, served as the vice chancellor of the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-3-2005_pg1_8
So, will she be pulling a few strings for Hindustan’s membership of UN security Council… lol