The Beautiful Hina Rabbani Khar and Arthashastra

I am not normally interested in the India - Pakistan affairs, whatever it may be regarding it never progresses beyond few rounds of talks and then ends in a stalemate. Both sides stick to their stands and end the meetings with the promise of meeting again. I am not going into the complex India-Pakistan relationship, all I am interested is about this young beautiful women from Pakistan who is in India these last few days and is getting quite a bit of publicity for her beauty, than brains. Apparently she is the foreign minister of Pakistan.

Right, foreign minister of Pakistan, does not sound right at all, Pakistan is a country at the brink of collapse and installing a young women who is just 34yrs old, is the right thing to do? probably Pakistanis know it better. But I was pleasantly surprised, if she was foreign minister of some small, insignificant, stable country like in Europe I would have taken her in my stride. But Pakistan is a complex country which till date does not know where it is heading in terms of its future.

Anyway Hina, herself looks a confident women having fought her way to the top in the Pakistani society where generally women are suppressed. She must be good at few things if not everything to have got the post of Foreign Minister. And to top it all she is a mother of three young children. So work/family balance is going to be difficult for her, given the need for Pakistan's Foreign minister to be more active in these days of predicted doom of Pakistan.

Looking at the picture of young, beautiful Hina shaking hands with the old, rusty looking S M Krishna(foreign minister of India), and the stories of olden days came to my mind. Where the enemy Kings would employ young, beautiful women as spies, mercenaries and assassins. These young women would carry small weapons and poisons and they would then infiltrate the enemy camp/kingdom, seduce the top ranking officials and either kill them or use them as their source of information to be passed on to their masters across the border. This type of warfare is mentioned in the "Arthashastra" the ancient text of Indian Warfare. Mr Krishna, known to have had several affairs himself,  looks a potential prey for the beautiful, sexy looking Hina. Only if she were a Poison Women and we lived 1000yrs ago, probably she would have done an excellent job.