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Maleeha Lodhi was Pakistan’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in her last official assignment. She was the first woman to represent Pakistan at the UN
She twice served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US (1993 – 1996, 1999 – 2002) and as High Commissioner to the UK (2003 – 2008)
She also served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs from 2001 to 2005.
She was the first woman in all of Asia to become the editor of a national daily newspaper. In 1994 Time magazine named her as one of a hundred people in the world who will help shape the 21st century, the only one from Pakistan.
Dr. Lodhi was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington in 2010 and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School in 2008.
She is the recipient of the President’s Award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for Public Service in Pakistan.
She is the author of two books: Pakistan’s Encounter with Democracy and The External Challenge.
She also edited a volume titled Pakistan: Beyond the ‘Crisis State,’ published in 2011 by C Hurst, Columbia University Press, and Oxford University Press.
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We thank you for convening today’s debate affording Member States the opportunity to express their views on the Secretary General’s…