Shah Muhammad Qureshi is a Pakistani politician and former Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. In addition to being a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, he has also served as the Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf since 2011. He is also an agriculturist and served as president of the Pakistan Farmers Association.
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Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi Born on June 22, 1956 in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan, into a wealthy, politician and prominent Sufi Muslim family (age 2018: 62 years). He received his primary education at Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan. He attended Furman Christian College and received his bachelor’s degree. He received his bachelor’s degree from Punjab University. After graduation, he was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England, where he received a master’s degree in law and a master’s degree in history. Qureshi’s father, Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, served in the Senate of Pakistan. His father was a close friend of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who appointed him Governor-General of Punjab.
Old photos of Shah Muhammad Qureshi
family
He was born to Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, whose mother’s name is unknown. He is married to Mehriene Qureshi and has a son, Zain Hussain Qureshi, and two daughters. Gauhar Bano Qureshi and Meher Bano Qureshi.
Shah Muhammad Qureshi and his son
politics
In the 1985 Pakistani general election, Qureshi was elected as a member of 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 led by Nawaz Sharif, which later became PML(N). In the 1988 Pakistani general election, Qureshi was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly for the second time from the Multan constituency and served as the Minister of Planning and Development in the Punjab Provincial Cabinet.
Shah Muhammad Qureshi and Nawaz Sharif
In the 1990 Pakistani general election, he was elected as a member of Parliament for the third time and became the Finance Minister in the government of Chief Minister Manzoor Wattu. When Nawaz Sharif refused to give Qureshi a ticket to the National Assembly, he joined the Pakistan People’s Party and was elected to the National Assembly from the same constituency for the first time in the 1993 Pakistan general election. He became the Minister of State in Parliament under then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Shah Muhammad Qureshi and Benazir Bhutto
When he lost Pakistan’s election in 1997, he was offered a position on then-President Pervez Musharraf’s Council of Economic Advisers, but he turned it down. From 2000 to 2002, Qureshi served as the mayor of Multan. In the 2002 general election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Multan, defeating Makhdoom Javed Hashmi. In 2006, Benazir Bhutto appointed him chairman of the Pakistan Punjab People’s Party. In the 2008 general election, he won the seat again for the third time. He was a potential candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan, however, he was appointed as Foreign Minister in Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s cabinet.
Shah Muhammad Qureshi and Yusuf Raza Gilani
Hillary Clinton and Shah Mohammad Qureshi
In 2011, he resigned from the Pakistan People’s Party and joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) at a rally in Gutki. On December 4, 2011, he was appointed as the First Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party. In 2013, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly in Multan under the name of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. In the 2018 general elections, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as the PTI candidate from NA-156 constituency (Multan-III).
Shah Muhammad Qureshi and Imran Khan
On August 20, 2018, Qureshi became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Imran Khan government.
dispute
- He faced criticism in Pakistan in 2011 when it was revealed that his son, Zain H. Qureshi, was working as a legislative fellow in the office of Senator John Kerry, then Secretary of State .
- In 2018, Qureshi was heavily criticized for his controversial “Google” remarks, in which he hurt the sentiments of Sikhs. “Prime Minister Imran Khan has thrown a ‘high ball’ to ensure the presence of the Indian government at the ground-breaking ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor,” he said. However, he defended himself saying, “Reconciling my comments with Sikh Teaching emotions to connect is deliberately misleading and misinterpreting.”
net worth
Qureshi’s net worth is approximately PKR 283.6 million (USD 2.7 million).
fact
- During the cabinet reshuffle in February 2011, Qureshi was appointed Minister of Water and Power, but he declined, saying that he was “not interested in the Ministry of Water and Power replacing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
- After winning the general election in 2018, he was nominated by PTI for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly. However, despite Imran Khan’s efforts to persuade him, he showed reluctance to take up the post.
- Qureshi is one of three prominent politicians in the Multan region, along with Yusuf Raza Gilani (former Prime Minister of Pakistan) and Javed Hashmi.
- When the Indian Air Force conducted an airstrike on Balakot, Pakistan, on February 26, 2019, he condemned the attack, calling it an “act of aggression.”
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