New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna has felicitated Hina Rabbani Khar on her appointment as Pakistan's new foreign minister.
Krishna sent a letter of felicitations to Khar soon after learning of her appointment yesterday, a Ministry of External Affairs release said.
Krishna said that he looked forward to meeting her in New Delhi soon and to working closely with her in achieving the common goal of establishing friendly and cooperative bilateral relations, which was in the interest of the peoples of both countries.
Khar became Pakistan's first woman foreign minister on Tuesday.
She was elevated to the post of full minister when both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani were out of the country.
As Pakistan's 26th and youngest foreign minister, Khar, who has taken up the post five months after her predecessor Shah Mahmood Qureshi lost the job amid a diplomatic row with the United States, will lead Pakistani delegation at the Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) forum on July 22-23 in Bali, Indonesia. (ANI)
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