Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri ( b. 1941 in Lahore ) was from 2002 to 2007 Pakistani Foreign Minister.

Origin

Kasuri comes from a well-known in the Punjab and politically traditional family.

• His grandfather, Maulana Abdul Qadir Kasuri, the lawyer, was a leader of the Indian National Congress and a brave freedom fighter against the British colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, which earned him many years of incarceration. Maulana Kasuri was married to Roshanara Begum, a member of the royal family of Loharu.
• Maulana Mian Mahmud Ali Kasuri first-born, the father of Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, was also a leading advocate ( studied in Cambridge, King's College) in the country, was sentenced to 1940, Member of Congress, and already in 1930 to four months in prison. Ali Kasuri is widely regarded as the father of the civil rights movement in Pakistan. He was a founding member of the Pakistan People's Party and 1973 short -time member of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Cabinet.

Life

Khurshid Kasuri in 1977 was elected to the National Assembly. In 1990 he was appointed General Secretary of the People's Democratic Alliance, which became later the Social Democratic Pakistan People's Party (PPP). In 1993 he left the Tehrik -e- Istiqlal ( "Solidarity Movement" ) and joined the Pakistan Muslim League ( PML - N) at. He was (about 290 730 inhabitants) elected in 1997 in the constituency of the city Kasur in the Indian- Pakistani border region to the National Assembly and there Chairman of the Committee for Information and Media Development. He was also a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. As Deligationsmitglied Pakistan he brought in various international conferences and events a profound knowledge of international relations in the Department of State and is therefore well versed in the nuances of Pakistan's foreign policy.