Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Shah Mehmood Qureshi is the 28th Foreign Minister of Pakistan taken charge on 20 August 2018 under the premiership of Imran Khan in this PTI Led government.

Shah Mehmood Quershi is one of the senior leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and currently the vice chairman of the party.

Born in 1956, FM Qureshi hails from a wealthy and influential feudal family based in Multan. He received his educationat Lahore’s Aitchison College, followed by an undergraduate degree from the Forman Christian College after which he went to the United Kingdom to study for a law degree from the University of Cambridge.

FM Qureshi started off in politics in 1985 and associated himself with the
Pakistan Muslim League (allying with Nawaz Sharif), before he joined
Pakistan Peoples Party — only to leave it for PTI. He has held powerful
positions in the parties he has been associated with.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was elected to the Punjab Assembly in 1985, 1988, and 1990 and
also served as Punjab’s Finance Minister at one point.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi switched over to PPP and was elected to the National Assembly in the 1993 election, serving as Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs during Benazir Bhutto’s government. He lost the election in 1997 (to former PML-N-current-PTI Javed Hashmi) but bounced back in 2002 as an MNA.