journalists on duty from being arrested under the 1999 Press Ordinance.
In January 2009, she was hailed “Democracy’s Hero” in a report of the International Republican Institute as a result of her close association with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s campaign for democracy in Pakistan.
In the same year, Rehman was also named among the “100 Most Influential Asians” by UAE magazine, Ahlan.
Rehman resigned as the federal information minister in 2009, due to differences of opinion with then president Asif Ali Zardari on imposing restrictions on the media.
On November 23, 2011, Rehman was appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States. This appointment came 12 hours after Husain Haqqani was asked to resign by then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the wake of the Memogate scandal.
Rehman remains the only legislator in Pakistan who has ever moved the parliament for amending the Pakistan blasphemy law provisions that are misused.
As a minister, she moved the first government bill in the National assembly in 2008 for a repeal of martial-law led anti-media clauses in the Media Regulatory Ordinance. In August 2008, Rehman moved similar amendments in the Print and Publication Ordinance that paved the way for constitutional protection for the print media.
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