ISLAMABAD: Tehmina Janjua on Monday assumed charge as the new foreign secretary of Pakistan, becoming the first woman in the history of the country to lead the important ministry.
Janjua replaced Aizaz Chaudhry, a career diplomat who has taken up charge as the new ambassador to the United States.
Janjua, the first woman appointed to the Foreign Office’s top post, was long considered a favourite for the position.
Having joined the Foreign Service in 1984, Janjua’s experience has mainly been in multilateral diplomacy. Her remarkable posting had been as ambassador to Rome from December 2011 to October 2015 and at the UN in New York and Geneva.
At the headquarters, she worked as a director at the foreign secretary’s office, director general strategic planning, and briefly as spokesperson in 2011.
