May 21, 2013
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Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi is an agriculturist, notable statesman, and the current vice-chairman of the Pakistan Movement of Justice. Prior to that, he was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan and high-ranking member of the central executive committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party until being deposed by the central committee and the foreign ministry, on an issue involving the Raymond Davis affair, 9 February 2011.
After earning a degree in law from the Cambridge University, his career in the national politics started in 1993 under Prime minister Benazir Bhutto and successfully defended his constituency with high margins that led him to the slot of foreign ministry in 2008. He was appointed foreign minister by the PPP led collective leadership alliance containing the MQM, ANP and JUI-F formed after the 2008 general elections. However in February 2011, Qureshi fell out with the central committee that led to his ouster by Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, and by November 2011, Qureshi joined Imran Khan's populist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Shah Mehmood Qureshi is also the current Sajjada Nashin and custodian of the Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam and of the Shrine of Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya. An agriculturalist by trade, Qureshi is also the president of the Farmers Association of Pakistan.
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