Khar may refer to:

• Khar, Punjab is a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan
• Khar, Bajaur is a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
• Khar, Mumbai a suburb of Mumbai, just north of Bandra and south of Santa Cruz (Mumbai)
• Khar, Nepal is a village in Nepal
• KHAR, a radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Others

• Khar (tribe), a tribe in Pakistan
• Khara (Mythology), Rakshasa and brother of Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana
• Khar, an Ancient Egyptian unit of measurement used for volume

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Hina Rabbani Khar <>حنا ربانی کھر
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 July 2011 Acting: 13 February 2011 – 19 July 2011
Prime Minister	Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 11 February 2011 – 19 July 2011
Prime Minister	Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan
Succeeded by	Salman Bashir
Personal details
Born	(1977-11-19) 19 November 1977 (age 34) Multan, Pakistan
Political party	Pakistan Peoples Party
Spouse(s)	Feroze Gulzar
Alma mater	Lahore University of Management Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst
Religion	Islam
Website	Official website

Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر; born 19 November 1977^[1]) is a Pakistani politician and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Appointed in July 2011, she is the first female and the youngest person to ever head Pakistani's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She was elected to the National Assembly in both 2002 and 2008 and was Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs between 2008 and 2011.

Early life and education[link]

Hina Rabbani Khar was born on 19 November 1977 in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. She is the daughter of politician and landowner Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and the niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a former governor of Punjab.^[2] The Khar family has roots in the village of Khar Gharbi located in Kot Adu, a tehsil in Muzaffargarh District in Punjab; and has many land holdings: an estate that includes fisheries, mango orchards, and sugarcane fields. She graduated with a B.Sc. in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1999 and received her M Sc (Hon) in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2001.^[1][3]

Personal life[link]

She is married to Firoze Gulzar, with whom she has two daughters, Annaya and Dina.^[4] She is the co-owner of the Polo Lounge restaurant on the Lahore Polo Grounds.^[5]

Political career[link]

In the 2002 general elections, as a candidate with the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q)—the party of President Pervez Musharraf—Khar was elected to the National Assembly, representing the NA-177 Muzaffargarh-II constituency in Punjab, a position her father had held previously, but a new law requiring all candidates to hold a university degree meant he could not run that year.^[6][7][8] The Guardian wrote, "In deference to local sensibilities about the place of women, her landlord father Noor addressed rallies and glad-handed voters; Hina stayed largely at home, with not even her photo appearing on the posters."^[9] After the PML-Q denied her a ticket for re-election in 2008, she joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was elected for a second time.^[6][10] The PPP won the majority of the votes and formed an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League (N). They nominated and elected Yousaf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister.

Between 2004 and 2007 Khar was Minister of State for Economic Affairs (Pakistan)|Minister of State for Economic Affairs.^[11] She served as Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs in the cabinet of Gillani between 2008 and 2011.^[4] On 13 June 2009, she became the first woman to present the Pakistani budget in the National Assembly.^[12]

Foreign Minister[link]

Hina Rabbani Khar - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012

Khar was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs—the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—on 11 February 2011, as part of Gillani's cabinet reshuffle.^[13] After Shah Mehmood Qureshi's resignation as Foreign Minister, she became acting Minister of Foreign Affairs on 13 February 2011.^[14] She was approved as Foreign Minister on 18 July^[15] and was sworn-in on 19 July, becoming the youngest and first female Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[16] President Asif Ali Zardari, who succeeded Musharraf in 2008, said the appointment was "a demonstration of the government's commitment to bring women into the mainstream of national life".^[17]

Shortly after her appointment, she visited India and held peace talks with her Indian counterpart, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna. Relations between the two countries had been suspended following the 2008 Mumbai attacks, resuming in February 2011.^[18] The Indian media reported extensively on her fashion and appearance—the Birkin bag, the sunglasses, the Jimmy Choo stilettos and the pearl necklaces, for example.^[19] She held talks with leaders of Kashmiri independance movement before meeting Indian government representatives, a decision which was criticised by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main opposition party of India,^[20][21] who said it was a breach of protocol and demanded an inquiry into the matter.^[22] In August 2011 she visited China and held talks with Yang Jiechi, the Chinese foreign minister.^[23] Hindustan Times reported that, in contrast to her reception in India, she was largely ignored by Chinese media.^[24]

As a result of the 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan which killed 24 Pakistani troops, Foreign Minister Khar stated that Pakistan's Cabinet and defense committee had approved a measure- similar to a parliamentary resolution put forward after bin Laden's May 2011 death- that formally bars NATO and ISAF forces from using Pakistani supply routes.^[25]

Electricity Bill Scandal[link]

Hina Rabbani Khar came under severe criticism in Pakistan when several news sources alleged that there were massive irregularities in Electricity bill payments by Galaxy Textile Mills, a company owned by Khar's husband and father-in-law. The allegations suggest that there is an outstanding bill of Rs. 70 million against the company, which they have managed to settle in terms of installments of Rs. 3000 rupees per month, presumably through political pressure. This is seen as a major political scandal in a country marred by electricity shortage, with citizens having to face up to 12 hours of outages every day.^[26][27]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

External links[link]

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Arnab Goswami
Arnab Goswami at WikiConference India 2011
Born	Guwahati, Assam
Education	University of Delhi St. Antony’s College, Oxford Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Occupation	News Anchor and Editor in Chief of Times Now
Years active	1998 – present
Notable credit(s)	The Newshour, Frankly Speaking with Arnab

Arnab Goswami (Assamese: অৰ্ণব গোস্বামী) is an Indian journalist who is the Editor in Chief and News anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now. He is an important contributor to the rise of the Times Now news channel since its launch in January 2006. His show The Newshour is aired at 9 pm (IST)on weekdays with live news coverage. Arnab Goswami also hosts a special television program Frankly Speaking with Arnab, which has featured eminent personalities. Arnab is a recipient of a number of awards for his journalistic abilities and has also written a book named Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge.

Biography[link]

Arnab Goswami was born in Guwahati, Assam.^[1][2] He comes from a family of eminent jurists. His paternal grandfather, Rajani Kanta Goswami, was a well known lawyer, a Congress leader and a freedom fighter.^[3] His maternal grandfather, Gauri Sankar Bhattacharya, was a leader of the opposition in Assam for many years.^[3] He was a freedom fighter, an intellectual writer and a recipient of the Asom Sahitya Sabha Award. As an army officer's son,^[3] he attended schools in various cities.^[2] He passed his 10th Standard board examinations from Mount St. Mary's School in Delhi Cantonment, his 12th Standard board exams from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonment. Arnab graduated in Sociology from Hindu College. He completed his Master's degree in Social Anthropology from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College, 1994) where he was a Felix Scholar. In 2000, he was a visiting fellow at the International Studies Department at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) where he was a D C Pavate fellow.^[2][4]

Career[link]

Arnab Goswami speaking on the topic of Neutrality and the modern era at Wiki Conference Mumbai, India 2011.

Arnab started his career with The Telegraph in Kolkata.^[2] Goswami began his career in TV news broadcast with NDTV 24x7 in 1995, where he anchored daily newscasts and set new standards in political reporting, where he did reporting for News Tonight a programme telecast on DD Metro.^[5] In his time with NDTV, he did the first ever TV interview with Sonia Gandhi.^[4] Later as the news editor, he was part of NDTV’s core team during the transition from programme producer to the 24-hour mode in 1998.^[2] He hosted the popular Newshour show every weeknight. Newshour was seen as the agenda setting show on the channel and was the longest running news analysis shown on any channel (1998-2003).^[4] As a Senior Editor with NDTV 24x7, he was responsible for the overall editorial content of the channel. He hosted one of the channel’s top rated news analysis show Newsnight,^[6] which won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards.

Arnab Goswami is currently Editor in Chief and News anchor of the Times Now news channel.^[7][8] He is an important contributor in the rise of the Times Now news channel since its launch in January 2006. His show The Newshour is aired at 9 pm with live news coverage, which has featured notable personalities like Parvez Musharraf^[9] and Rahul Bajaj. His notable accomplishments include stepping up with the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, interviewing over 200 politicians and analysts during the Trust Vote in October 2008 within a span of 26 hours of live anchoring and hosting the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks for over 65 hours,^[7] in which the channel set new standards in live and direct field reporting. Since then, the channel has been widely acknowledged in India as well as globally for incisive and direct reporting. He also hosts a special programme Frankly Speaking with Arnab,^[10] which has featured eminent personalities such as the late Benazir Bhutto, UK Prime Minister – Gordon Brown,^[11] Afghanistan President – Hamid Karzai,^[12] Buddhist Spiritual leader – Dalai Lama,^[13] US Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton,^[14] Sonia Gandhi^[10] and a host of prominent Indian personalities from politics, sports, films, and the corporate world. He has also written a book named Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge.^[2][4]

He was severely censured by the News Broadcasting Standards Authority for the debate show titled "Will kanimozhi turn approver?" aired on 20th May, 2011 during "News Hour" on "Times Now" channel. The Authority found "the entire debate, particularly the stress by the anchor, on a particular point of view (was) unwarranted and did not amount to neutral and balanced reporting of any court proceedings". The Authority further observed that "the debate on the issue and, especially the manner in which it was conducted by the anchor violated both the letter and spirit of Guidelines 3 & 4 of the Specific Guidelines for Reporting Court Proceedings". ^[15]

Awards[link]

1. Asian Television awards for Best Presenter or Anchor (Runner up)^[5]
2. Society Young Achievers award for excellence in the field of Media^[10]
3. Indian News Broadcasting Awards 2008 for Innovative Editor-in-Chief^[4]
4. Assamese of the Year Award by News Live^[1]
5. Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism(tv) for the year 2010 by the Indian Express Group.^[16]

See also[link]

Journalism portal

• Times Now
• The Times of India
• ET Now

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Arnab Goswami

• Full interview of Hillary Clinton hosted by Arnab Goswami of Frankly Speaking on Times Now at St. Xavier College

Song In (in hangul 송인, in hanja 宋仁) was a civil official in the mid-Goryeo era who became the intermediary founder of the Jincheon Song clan. His highest post was munha pyeongjangsa (문하 평장사). This was the highest government position in the period. Song In was responsible for administration, judicial affairs and economy in the district.^[1]

As he performed meritorious deeds during the King, he was conferred with Chanhwagongsin and Jincheonbaek. Baek was a position of politicians who were responsible for administration, judicial affairs and economy in the district. As the government created him Jincheonbaek, his family started regarding Jincheon as their origin. Hence, the family origin became Jincheon Song.

When he was in the position of Sangsanbaek, he tried to be just and fair in all the administrative affairs and strived to enhance the welfare of his people. He also focused on education for the youth and courtesy for people, which made his district famous for most excellent behaviors in the nation. After that, the people have long paid tribute to his feats.

During the insurrection of Yi Jagyeom in the 4th year of King Injong of Goryeo's reign in 1126, he was killed by a rebellious band led by Cheok Jun-gyeong while escorting the king. After the rebels were put down, Song In was posthumously named 'meritous subject' and titled Lord Sangsanbaek (상산백).

Song In was born in Durujinmaeul (village), Duchon-ri, Deoksan-myeon in 1125 during the reign of King Injong of the Goryeo Dynasty. He was promoted to Pyeonjangsa, which was the highest government position in the period.

Tomb of Song In[link]

Chungcheongbuk-do Monument No. 91 Location: Duchon-ri, Deoksan-myeon, Jincheon-gun

This is the tomb of Song In (?-1126). It has a rectangular-shaped protective wall surrounding the tomb, typical of the Goryeo style. There are two tombstones erected in the late Joseon Dynasty period.

In the grave area, there are many tombs that belong to the clan. In front of his tomb stands the jaesil (chamber for memorial rites) with the tablet reading 'Sangsanjae'.

His grave is in Duchon-ri, Deoksan-myeon, which had been called Duruji, Sanjeong-myeon. The beautiful peak behind his grave is called Mountain Bibong which was named after Bongsae (bird) that is said to live in heaven and to fly down to sit on the summit. However, after the statue was inscribed of In Gong, the founder of Jincheon Song, the peak was compared to a slowly dropped ume flower. Thus, Mountain Bibong was called Maesanbibong, in which 'Mae' was named after an ume flower instead of a bird.

As he was a meritorious subject and served as a Pyeongjangsa (higher government official), the government ordered his grave mound to be surrounded by stones and a monument. The grave is one of the oldest ones in Jincheon and is recorded in Seokchong (stone tomb) in Hwanyeoseungram.

Thousands of descendents of Jincheon Song are living across the nation. Song Guk-cheom and Song Eon-gi who were devoted to fight against the Mongolian invasion into Goryeo are also the offspring of Jincheonbaek.

See also[link]

• Song (Korean name)
• Bon-gwan

References[link]

External links[link]

• Photo of the tomb
• Song In
• Monument 91, Tomb of Song In
• Jincheon Song bon-gwan information (Korean)
• Jincheon Song bon-gwan website (Korean)
• http://www.jincheon.go.kr/english/sub04/sub0404_01.jsp

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Ghulam Mustafa গুলাম মুস্তাফা
Ghulam Mustafa presenting bouquette to Prof. Muhammed Yunus on March 04, 2003.
Born	(1953-12-31) 31 December 1953 (age 58) Feni, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh)
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	Chittagong University
Occupation	Businessperson Economist Social work Philanthropy
Known for	BAIRA Migration management for Economic Development Rotary
Religion	Islam

Rtn. Ghulam Mustafa PHF MD (Bengali: গুলাম মুস্তাফা) (born 31 December 1953) is a notable Bangladeshi person. He is widely recognized for his pragmatic and progressive views on migration and is currently the renowned individual to query on the multi-billion dollar industry of Manpower Export from Bangladesh.^[1] He served as the most dynamic President of BAIRA from 2008-10.^[2]

Early life[link]

Mustafa or popular known locally as 'Shada chul Mustafa' (White haired Mustafa) was born in Munshirhat, District of Feni to Abdul Wadud; who was the Principal of a Primary School. Hailing from a highly educated family, he lost his father at the age of 5 and was brought up by his mother. Severe struggles lead to him successfully graduating with a Masters in Economics from Chittagong University in 1976.

Liberation War[link]

Mustafa was a Freedom Fighter during the Bangladesh Liberation War of '71. He served as a Staff Officer to the CO in the 10th East Bengal Regiment, Sector-2 under Col. Zafar Imam and fought in the Battle of Belonia Bulge.^[3]

Career[link]

Since the early 1980 he retired from the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation and established his very fist enterprise with the concept of 'Export or Perish'. Till today Mustafa had diversified and engaged in several sectors consisting: Manpower Export, Travel and Tourism, Global Logistics, Seafood Export, Education Institute, Development of Skilled Workforce, Insurance and Real Estate. He's currently the CEO and Managing Director of Prantik Group.

Bagging 3 decades of experience, Mustafa is noted as a bank for Migration knowledge and views regarding its future. He has invited to provide lecture on Migration by ILO,^[4] IOM,^[5][6] National Defence College of Bangladesh and many other local and international organization.^[7] He was the only BAIRA leader interviewed by international medias such as BBC, Al Jazeera, NHK Japan and so on. He served as Chairman, HRD & Migration Management to FBCCI and EC Member of Bangladesh Better Business forum, under the committee of Skill Development Working Group.

Grameen[link]

He was the student of Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus in Chittagong University and has been nominated and currently serving in the Board of Directors for Grameen Fund and Grameen Knitwear.

Recognition[link]

G. Mustafa is a Fellow of the EDI of the World Bank. Mustafa was awarded with hundreds of recognition and mentionable are the gold medals by the Journalist Forum and BAIRA members for his ethical and progressive contribution to the sector. He was also honored by the then Mayor of Manila with the City's gold key. He was also honoured as Commercially Important Person (CIP) of Bangladesh consecutively for 5 years.

Publications[link]

Mustafa is a Rotarian and has written the only book regarding Rotary Experience in Bangladesh, 'I am eager to say all about Rotary' was published on 25 May 2000. He also brought out the only life experience and scenario witnessing of Feni-Belonia War (Battle of the Belonia bulge), 'Feni-Belonia: A heated war field.'^[8]

References[link]