Dr. Jassim Taqui
Tehmina Janjua makes history. The career diplomat who serves as the 29th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan is the first woman in Pakistan to assume this exalted diplomatic position. Previously, she served as Pakistan's Representative to the United Nation's Geneva and as its ambassador to Italy.
Janjua joined Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984 after studying French literature at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Janjua later received a Masters in International Affairs from the SIPA, Columbia University in 1989. She served in Pakistan's missions to New York City and United Nations before serving as the Director of Foreign Secretary's Office between 2004 and 2005. She served as the Director General of Strategic Planning in the Foreign Secretary's Office and in 2011 became Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. She served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to Italy between December 2011 and October 2015.
On 6th October 2015, Janjua became Pakistan's envoy to the UN Office in Geneva, and in December 2016, Janjua, became the first woman, and the first developing country representative, to preside over the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
In February 2017, Janjua was appointed as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary, succeeding Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry. Making Janjua the first women to hold the highest diplomatic position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Janjua deserves such an honor on merit basis. Her elevation is also seen to be in consonance with the phenomenal rise of the stature of Pakistani women in all fields.
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