Twitter alert: Limp script & multilateral rhetoric for Khar's UN moment
Khar addressed the 66th UN General Assembly seeking support for a beleaguered nation, but respect for sovereignty.
Gibran Ashraf |
September 27, 2011
Pakistan’s most celebrated Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar took to the roster at the 66th United Nation General Assembly to plead the case of Pakistan. As if her speech sandwiched between Venezuela and North Korea was not ominous enough, to have her country staring down America’s infamous barrel, the nation desperately sought some sort of steel from Pakistan's first female FM. With none forthcoming, people took the most democratic medium they know, twitter.
Most tweeted out the misgivings and immense rhetoric that laced her speech. Some attacked the Khar’s speechwriters lamenting the almost forced mentions of Bhutto, and quoting, for the umpteenth time, Iqbal. Others chose to highlight how it was more PPP speaking than Pakistan at the UN.
Btw, whoever wrote this speech has spelled Quaid as Qauid in the text.
I don't think she's a bad speaker per se, I just think she hasn't practiced this speech more than once.
is this the first time Iqbal has been quoted in the UN?