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WATCH: Hina Rabbani Khar’s ‘Not in the Room’ goes viral on Twitter

She was asked about former President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani supporting the US drone strikes in Pakistan in private. When asked about this from Khar, she said she does not know as 'she was not in the room'.

Statement of Former Foreign Minister and current Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, ‘not in the room’ goes viral on social media. She is trending on social media after a short clip of her interview with Al-Jazeera went viral on social media. She was asked about the PPP government failing to stop the US drone strikes.

She was asked about former President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani supporting the US drone strikes in Pakistan in private. When asked about this from Khar, she said she does not know as ‘she was not in the room’. Since then, her statement ‘not in the room’ has become one of the top trends on Twitter.

Some more clips from the interview has been going viral on social media in which the minister of state can be heard saying ‘I was not in the room’ in response to some tough questions asked by Al Jazeera host, Mehdi Hasan.

Netizens say she struggled to answer tough questions asked in the show from the audience and the host, and failed to defend Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on the matter of drone strikes in Pakistan. At one point in the interview, the host commented that if she was ever included in the matters concerning the foreign policy of Pakistan.