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Shah Mehmood Qureshi
1956Jun, 22

Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: مخدوم شاہ محمود حسین قریشی; born 22 June 1956) is a Pakistani politician who is the 29th and current minister of Foreign Affairs since 20 August 2018. He has been a member of the Parliament in the National Assembly since August 2018 and the vice chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party since December 2011. He was also a sajjada nashin of Bahauddin Zakariya and Shah Rukn-e-Alam shrines.

Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018 and served as the minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011.

Born in Multan, Punjab, Qureshi studied at Aitchison College and received Bachelor of Arts degree from Forman Christian College and Master of Arts degree from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He remained a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab for nine years from 1985 to 1993 and had served in the provincial cabinet in various positions between 1988 and 1993. He served as the minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the federal cabinet from 1993 to 1996 and later as the Mayor of Multan from 2000 to 2002.


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