July 29, 2013

Press Release: Former Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman to speak at Jamia

The Pakistan Studies Programme at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with the Jinnah Institute, Islamabad and the Australia-India Institute, Melbourne have instituted a Distinguished Speaker Series in which eminent persons from India and Pakistan can visit each other’s countries and deliver lectures at their premier educational institutions.

As part of this series, Ms. Sherry Rehman, Former Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States and former Federal Minister of Information & Broadcasting will be delivering a Public Lecture in Jamia Millia Islamia on “Transition and Opportunity: Regional Peace and the Strategic Imagination”.

The Lecture is scheduled to be held on July 31, 2013 at 11 AM in Tagore Hall, Dayar-I-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia. The Lecture will be chaired by Prof S M Sajid, officiating Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia.

Under this Lecture Series, eminent persons deliver lectures at premier educational institutions in the two countries. The purpose of this exchange is to create greater interaction between scholars and experts between the two countries which will be beneficial to the academic community of both countries. The idea is also to facilitate the visit of highly respected and distinguished personalities from India and Pakistan to each other’s country to engage a wider audience in New Delhi and Islamabad.

The first lecture in the series was delivered by Mr. Syed Salim Raza, former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan in December 2011 and the second by Mr. Javed Jabbar, former Senator and Minister of Information and Broadcasting in January 2012. The third one by Prof. Akmal Hussain, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Forman Christian College University and Honorary Distinguished Professor, Beaconhouse National University on 29th March 2012.

The current speaker, Ambassador Sherry Rehman was till recently Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States and a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from the Pakistan People’s Party. She has served as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pakistan (2008-09) and as a ranking member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. She has also held three additional portfolios of Health, Women’s Development and Culture as Federal Minister. For her services to Pakistan, she has been awarded the state’s highest civil award, the Nishan-i-Imtiaz in March 2013.

As Federal Minister, Sherry Rehman made history by presenting a comprehensive briefing on National Security to an in camera joint sitting of Pakistan’s Parliament in October 2008. She is also the architect of the first parliamentary charter and bill for women’s empowerment, mover of the Hudood Ordinances Repeal Bill, mover of the Anti-Honour Killings Bill, as well as the Freedom of Information Act 2004. Her bills include the removal of colonial press laws in Pakistan, as well as legislation on Domestic Violence and Affirmative Action for Women.

Sherry Rehman is also an award-winning journalist from Pakistan with 20 years of experience in both the broadcast and the print media. She is the former editor of the Herald news magazine, and was recognized by the UK House of Lords for independent journalism at the Annual British Muslim Ceremony in 2002. She serves as the Chair of the Lady Dufferin Foundation Trust, the largest non-profit provider of women and children’s subsidised healthcare in the province of Sindh. She has also served on the board of the Sindh University and the International School in Karachi as well as the Mohatta Palace Gallery Trust. Rehman is also one of the founding members of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

All are cordially invited.

Media Coordinator Jamia Millia Islamia

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