(1941-06-18) 18 June 1941 (age 82) Lahore, Punjab, British India (Now In Pakistan)
Nationality
Indian (1941-1947), Pakistani -1947 Present
Political party
Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Other political affiliations
Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Parent
Mahmud Ali Kasuri (father)
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (Urdu: خورشيد محمود قصورى; born 18 June 1941), is a Pakistani politician and writer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan between November 2002 until November 2007.[1][2] He is the Senior Advisor on Political and International Affairs and Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Task Force on Kashmir and a member of the Core Committee of the Party. He is also the author of 'Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove'.[3]
He was born in Lahore, Punjab.[4][5] After getting educated at the Punjab University, Kasuri later studied law at Cambridge and was subsequently admitted as a barrister at the Gray's Inn. He also went on to study French at Nice.[6] He started his political career with the Tehreek-e-Istaqlal (TI) led by Air-Marshal Muhammad Asghar Khan. The TI was then the main opposition party. He rose to be its Secretary-General. He was also elected as the Secretary-General of the main opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Alliance in 1993. He went to prison on several occasions when Bhutto and General Zia ul Haq were in power for his opposition to both.[7] He was elected to the National Assembly in 1997 and 2002. He was elected as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Information and Media Development. He staunchly opposed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution (‘Shariat Bill’) during the Prime Ministership of Nawaz Sharif.[8] He resigned from membership of the National Assembly as a mark of protest against the 15th Amendment, saying that if passed in its original form, it would negate Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s pluralistic and progressive vision of Pakistan. He left the foreign office to join the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1981 and was subsequently arrested.[8]
He won a seat in Pakistan's National Assembly as member from NA-142 (Kasur-V) in 1993 and later in 1997 and served on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.[7] He left PML after the 1999 coup d'état and joined the military-backed regime to become the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2002 and remained until 2007.
He joined the Pakistan Movement of Justice (PTI) in 2012 and unsuccessfully ran for National Assembly in 2013.[9][10][11][12]
^"Former Foreign Ministers". Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government of Pakistan. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
^Sharma, Saurabh (10 February 2015). "Interview: Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri". Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^"Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri: Neither hawk nor dove". 11 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
^Singh, Sohan (2000). Life & Exploits of Banda Singh Bahadur. Publication Bureau, Punjabi University. ISBN 978-81-7380-671-1.
^Ibbetson, Sir Denzil (13 October 2018). Panjab Castes. Creative Media Partners, LLC. ISBN 978-0-342-74738-2.
^"Profile Khurshid Kasuri". Pakistan Herald. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
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