A daughter of frontier province Shirin R Tahir-Kheli could be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
<There was among the Pakhtuns something that called to the Englishmen or the Scotsmen, “partly the people looked you straight in the eye. There was no equivocation and you couldn’t browbeat them even if you wanted to. And we crossed the bridge at Attock and we felt we came home.”-Sir Olaf Caroe>
According to Al Kamen who writes an “insider” column for the newspaper containing informed Beltway gossip, one of the persons whose name is under consideration to replace John D Negraponte, who has been named ambassador to Iraq, is that of the Pakistani-American academic, currently senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations a the National Security Council. During the senior Bush administration, Mrs Tahir-Kheli served as UN representative of the United States with the rank of ambassador. She “knows the Bush family quite well. That she’s Pakistani-American and a Muslim would give some flair to her selection,” the Post reports.
Mrs Tahir-Kheli, author of several books, is married to a Pakistani academic. She is the daughter of eminent educationist Dr Raziuddin Siddiqi, who was vice chancellor of the University of Peshawar in the 1950s. Mrs Tahir-Kheli’s name was considered as assistant secretary of state for South Asia by the present the administration |
