Shah Mehmood Qureshi is a Pakistani politician and has been the Federal Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Apart from being a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, he has also been the vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf since 2011. He is also a farmer and was the president of the Pakistan Farmers Association.
Wiki/Biography
Makhdoom Shah Mahmud Hussain Qureshi He was born into a wealthy, political and prominent Sufi Muslim family on June 22, 1956 (age: 62 years old, as on 2018) in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. He received his primary education from Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan. She enrolled at Forman Christian College and received her bachelor’s degree. She got bachelor’s degree from her at Punjab University. For her postgraduate studies, she entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England and received her MA (Law) and MA (History) degrees. Qureshi’s father, Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, had served in the Pakistani Senate. His father was a close friend of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who appointed him Governor of Punjab.
Old photo of Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Family
He was born to Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi and his mother’s name is unknown. He married Mehriene Qureshi and has a son, Zain Hussain Qureshi, and two daughters; Gauhar Bano Qureshi and Meher Bano Qureshi.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi with his son
Policy
In the 1985 Pakistani general election, Qureshi was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly from Multan for the first time. In 1986, he joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML). He later joined the PML faction headed by Nawaz Sharif, which would later become PML(N). In the 1988 Pakistani general election, Qureshi was re-elected for the second time to the Punjab Provincial Assembly from the Multan constituency and was appointed Minister of Planning and Development in the Punjab Provincial Cabinet.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi with Nawaz Sharif
For the third time, he was elected to the assembly in the 1990 Pakistani General Election and became Finance Minister in the government of Chief Minister Manzoor Wattoo. When Nawaz Sharif refused to give Qureshi a ticket for the National Assembly, he joined the Pakistan People’s Party and was elected to the Pakistan National Assembly from the same constituency for the first time in the 1993 Pakistani General Election. He became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs under then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Benazir Bhutto
When he lost the 1997 Pakistani general election, he was offered a seat on then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s Council of Economic Advisers, which he declined. From 2000 to 2002, Qureshi served as the mayor of Multan. In the 2002 general election, he defeated Makhdoom Javed Hashmi and was re-elected to the Pakistani National Assembly for Multan. In 2006, Benazir Bhutto appointed him as the Chairman of the Pakistan Punjab People’s Party. In the 2008 general election, he won his seat for the third time. He was the potential candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan, however, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi with Yousaf Raza Gilani
Hillary Clinton and Shah Mehmood Qureshi
In 2011, he resigned from the Pakistan People’s Party and joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in a rally in Ghotki. On December 4, 2011, he was appointed as the first Vice President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. In 2013, on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidacy, he was re-elected to the Multan National Assembly. In the 2018 General Elections, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as a PTI candidate from Circumscription NA-156 (Multan-III).
Shah Mehmood Qureshi with Imran Khan
On August 20, 2018, Qureshi became Foreign Minister in the Imran Khan government.
disputes
- In 2011, facing criticism in Pakistan, it was revealed that his son, Zain H. Qureshi, worked as a legislative member in the office of US Senator and later Secretary of State John Kerry.
- In 2018, Qureshi was heavily denounced for his controversial “googly” comments in which he hurt the feelings of Sikhs. He said: “Prime Minister Imran Khan launched a “googly” to ensure the presence of the Indian government at the inauguration ceremony of the iconic Kartarpur Corridor.” However, he defended himself by saying: “Linking my comments to Sikh sentiments is a deliberate attempt to mislead and misinterpret.”
Net worth
Qureshi’s net worth is around 283.6 million Pakistani rupees or $2.7 million.
Facts
- During the cabinet reshuffle in February 2011, Qureshi was offered the post of Minister of Water and Power, but turned it down, saying he was “not interested in the ministry of water and power rather than foreign affairs.”
- When he won the elections in 2018, he was nominated by the PTI for the position of President of the National Assembly. However, he showed reluctance to the office despite Imran Khan’s persuasion.
- Qureshi is among the three leading politicians from the Multan district, the other two being Yousaf Raza Gillani (former Prime Minister of Pakistan) and Javed Hashmi.
- On February 26, 2019, when the Indian Air Force carried out the airstrike on Balakot, Pakistan, it condemned the attack, calling it an “act of aggression.”
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