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{{Short description|Pakistani politician (born 1841)}}
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| term_start = 23 November 2002
| term_end = 15 November 2007
| president = [[Pervez Musharraf]]
| primeminister = [[Shaukat Aziz]]
| deputy = [[Khusro Bakhtiar]]
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'''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 (Pakistan)|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan]] between November 2002 until November 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.gov.pk/content.php?pageID=formerfm|title=Former Foreign Ministers|website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government of Pakistan|access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Sharma|first1=Saurabh|title=Interview: Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri|url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/interview-khurshid-mahmud-kasuri/|access-date=8 May 2015|date=10 Feb 2015}}</ref> He is the Senior Advisor on Political and International Affairs and Chairman of the [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]]'s Task Force on [[Kashmir conflict|Kashmir]] and a member of the Core Committee of the Party. He is also the author of '[[Neither a hawk nor a dove|Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove]]'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/khurshid-mahmud-kasuri-neither-hawk-nor-dove/|title=Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri: Neither hawk nor dove|date=2015-09-11|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>

He was born in [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Sohan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q09uAAAAMAAJ|title=Life & Exploits of Banda Singh Bahadur|date=2000|publisher=Publication Bureau, Punjabi University|isbn=978-81-7380-671-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ibbetson|first=Sir Denzil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_QTitwEACAAJ|title=Panjab Castes|date=2018-10-13|publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC|isbn=978-0-342-74738-2|language=en}}</ref> After getting educated at the [[Punjab University, Lahore|Punjab University]], Kasuri later studied law at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] and was subsequently admitted as a [[Barristers in England and Wales|barrister]] at the [[Gray's Inn]]. He also went on to study French at [[University of Nice|Nice]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/khurshid-mahmood-kasuri-709|title=Profile Khurshid Kasuri|newspaper=[[Pakistan Herald]]|access-date=28 August 2015|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309110627/http://www.pakistanherald.com/Profile/Khurshid-Mahmood-Kasuri-709|url-status=dead}}</ref> He started his political career with the [[Tehrik-e-Istiqlal|Tehreek-e-Istaqlal (TI)]] led by [[Asghar Khan|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 [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto|Bhutto]] and [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|General Zia ul Haq]] were in power for his opposition to both.<ref name="here!">{{Cite web|url=http://www.apnatvzone.com/2015/02/khursheed-mehmood-kasuri-biography.html|title=Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri - Biography, Profile|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Neither A Hawk Nor a Dove|last=Kasuri|first=Khurshid|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780199401932|location=Pakistan and India|pages=59}}</ref> 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 [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s]] pluralistic and progressive vision of Pakistan. He left the [[Foreign Service of Pakistan|foreign office]] to join the [[Movement for the Restoration of Democracy]] in 1981 and was subsequently arrested.<ref name=":0" />

He won a seat in [[Pakistan's National Assembly]] as member from [[NA-142 (Kasur-V)]] in [[1993 Pakistani general election|1993]] and later in [[1997 Pakistani general election|1997]] and served on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.<ref name="here!"/> He left [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|PML]] after the [[1999 Pakistani coup d'état|1999 coup d'état]] and joined the military-backed regime to become the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] in 2002 and remained until 2007.

He joined the [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf|Pakistan Movement of Justice (PTI)]] in 2012 and unsuccessfully ran for [[Pakistan's National Assembly|National Assembly]] in [[2013 Pakistani general election|2013]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/309640/kasuri-finally-crosses-the-pti-finish-line/|title=Kasuri finally crosses the PTI finish line|website=The Express Tribune|date=20 December 2011|access-date=8 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=REGIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE (RPI)|url=http://www.regionalpeaceinstitute.com/about.html|website=Regionalpeaceinstitute.com|access-date=8 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518090323/http://www.regionalpeaceinstitute.com/about.html|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mian Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri|url=http://www.pakistantimes.com/topics/mian-khurshid-mehmood-kasuri/|website=Pakistan Times|date=31 March 2012|access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/2011/12/18/ptis-kasur-plan-kasuri-in-assef-out/|title=PTI's Kasur plan: Kasuri in, Assef out|first=Zulqernain|last=Tahir|date=18 December 2011|website=Dawn.com|access-date=29 November 2021}}</ref>

==Early life==
===Education and academics===
Kasuri is an ethnic [[Pashtun]], he completed his high school in [[Lahore]] and St Patrick's High School, Karachi, and got accepted at the [[Government College University, Lahore|Government College University]] but later took a transfer to the [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]] where he earned a BA with [[BA (Hons)|''Honors'']] in [[international relations]], in 1961.<ref name="Pakistan Herald">{{cite web|title=Details of Khurshid Mahmood Kasur|url=http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/Khurshid-Mahmood-Kasuri-709|newspaper=[[Pakistan Herald]]|access-date=29 August 2012|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309110627/http://www.pakistanherald.com/Profile/Khurshid-Mahmood-Kasuri-709|url-status=dead}}</ref> Throughout his academic career he had a uniformly excellent record, which culminated earning first position in the B.A E (Hons) examination of the [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]] in 1961.<ref name="Pakistan Herald"/>

==Statesmanship==
===Foreign diplomacy===
In 1990, he again joined the foreign ministry and guided [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]] on foreign policies issues.<ref name="Dawn News Archives, Monday, November 25, 2002"/> In 1996, he presided over the party delegation and visited the People's Republic of China (PRC).<ref name="Dawn News Archives, Monday, November 25, 2002"/> This delegation was invited by the [[Communist Party of China]] (CPC) and was received by the top leadership of the CPC.<ref name="Dawn News Archives, Monday, November 25, 2002"/> He has also attended the [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]] conferences held in Seoul and in Cairo in 1997 as a chairman of the Pakistan Parliamentary Delegations. In 1998, he publicly endorsed for Prime minister [[Nawaz Sharif]]'s decision for [[atomic test]]s (See: [[Chagai-I]] and [[Chagai-II]]) and was appointed as Prime Minister's Special Envoy (PMSE) to present his country's point of view, while backing the rationale of country's nuclear response.<ref name="Dawn News Archives, Monday, November 25, 2002"/> He subsequently visited many countries to gather the support for country's nuclear testing program, including Russia, the United States, Canada, China, France, the United Kingdom, and other important countries in the world.<ref name="Dawn News Archives, Monday, November 25, 2002">{{cite news|last=Alvi|first=Ahmed Hassan|title=Kasuri: from lawyer to foreign minister|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/11/25/nat3.htm|access-date=29 August 2012|newspaper=Dawn News Archives, Monday, 25 November 2002|date=25 November 2002|agency=Dawn News Bureau}}</ref>

On 23 January 2012, he openly admitted on his Twitter account, to handing over Dr. [[Aafia Siddiqui]] to the US when was a foreign minister of Pakistan under General Musharraf. General Musharraf admits in his book (In the Line of Fire, page 237) that his government captured and handed over 369 people to the US. He also writes that the Pakistani government received ‘millions of dollars’ as prize money from the CIA for capturing those people.

===Political activism===
[[File:Msc 2004-Sunday Morning-1100-1300-IMG 0108.jpg|thumb|Kasuri speaking at the [[Munich Security Conference|40th Munich Security Conference]].]]

He briefly left the [[Foreign Office of Pakistan|Foreign Office]] (FO) in 1981 and joined the [[Tehrik-e-Istiqlal|Independence Movement]] to step into national politics. He was quickly elevated as the [[Secretary General|Secretary-General]] of the ''Tehrik-e-Istiqlal'' (lit. Independence Movement). He was subsequently arrested on innumerable occasions during his long struggle for democracy. After the [[Zia regime|military government]] of [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] went back on its promise to hold general elections in the country, leading political parties got together under the banner of the [[Movement for Restoration of Democracy]] (MRD) for the purpose of holding general elections, restoration of fundamental rights of the citizens, removal of restrictions placed on the free functioning of the press and the establishment of an independent judiciary. He was arrested on numerous occasions for taking part in a movement launched by the political parties in February 1981 for the achievement of the above objectives.

In 1983, he departed from the country in opposition response to Zia's purge and started his academic career in France. He briefly return in 1988 after the [[Death of Zia-ul-Haq|mysterious death]] of [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] in a plane crash and joined the Foreign service office after being requested by his peers. He took first public participation in [[1993 Pakistani general election|1993 general elections]] on a [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]] (PML) platform, and was a provisional vice-president of PML, and successfully defended his constituency, [[List of Pakistan National Assembly Seats|NA-106: Kasur]] (now NA-142) in the [[1997 Pakistani general election|1997 general elections]].<ref>[http://www.na.gov.pk/N.A.%20Table-4.htm National Assembly of Pakistan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222114034/http://www.na.gov.pk/N.A.%20Table-4.htm|date=22 December 2008}} 24 February 2008</ref> He was subsequently appointed as Chairman of the [[Pakistan Parliament|Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Media Development]] (PSCIMD) and was also a senior member of the [[Pakistan Parliament|Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations]] (PSCFR).

In 1999, after the [[1999 Pakistani coup d'état|1999 military coup d'état]], Kasuri had a severe confrontation with [[Javed Hashmi]] who was presiding the PML in absence of Sharif, and defected to the [[Pakistan Muslim League (Q)|dissident group]] headed by [[Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain|Shuja'at Hussain]] in 2001. He successfully contested in [[1997 Pakistani general election|2002 general elections]] from a [[List of Pakistan National Assembly Seats|NA-142: Kasur]].<ref>[http://www.dawn.com/weekly/herald/herald50.htm Dawn Herald Election 2008], Dawn.com, 24 February 2008</ref>

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri was one of the few members of the Pakistan Muslim League who always expressed his views on all the national issues frankly and fearlessly regardless of whether the government of the day liked his views or not. In 1997, he publicly called for the issue of the impeachment of the former President [[Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari|Farook Ahmad Leghari]], and raised objections on the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan|Fourteenth Amendment]] and [[Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan|Fifteenth Amendment]]; he expressed very strongly and issued statements on the constitutional changes. He lobbied against the Fifteen Amendment, particularly as originally presented, was strongly objected to by him. It was primarily due to his efforts and his colleagues' lobbying that Sharif's government had to make an amendment in the Fifteenth Amendment, which contained provisions, which were highly detrimental to the federal and democratic structure of the [[Constitution of Pakistan|Constitution]]. Kasuri put immense effort to stop the bill from becoming into the law in its original shape that he threatened Prime Minister Sharif to resign from the party and his constituency unless the bill was amended, and notably resigned from the party, though resignation was torn up by Sharif in a stormy meeting of the Parliamentary party.

==Foreign minister==
[[File:The Foreign Minister of Pakistan Mr. Khurshid M. Kasuri meets the National Security Advisor Shri J.N. Dixit in New Delhi on September 6, 2004.jpg|thumb|Kasuri with [[Jyotindra Nath Dixit]] in [[New Delhi]] in 2004.]]

On 23 November 2004, Prime Minister [[Zafarullah Khan Jamali]] nominated Kasuri to be country's [[Foreign Minister of Pakistan|Minister of Foreign Affairs]].<ref name="Dawn News Archives, 11/2002">{{cite news|last=Hassan|first=Ahmed|title=Jamali discusses cabinet with Musharraf He handed over Dr afia siddiqui to the US government: Some ministers may be retained|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/11/23/top1.htm|access-date=29 August 2012|newspaper=Dawn News Archives, 11/2002|date=23 November 2002|author2=Faraz Hashmi|agency=Dawn Newspapers Bureau|page=1}}</ref> His nomination was not objected by the opposition parties, and secured the unanimous votes for his nomination in the parliament. On 9:30 am [[Pakistan Standard Time|PST]], 23 November 2004, he took charge of the foreign ministry and announced that the new government's first priority is to normalize relations with India.<ref name="Dawn News Archives, 11/2002"/> He directed Pakistan's foreign policy more on neutral ground base and quoted: "We want to improve relations with India and wish peace and prosperity for the people of India."<ref name="Dawn News Archives, 2002/11/25/">{{cite news|title=Better ties with India on top of agenda: FM spells out priorities|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/11/25/top1.htm|access-date=29 August 2012|newspaper=Dawn News Archives|date=25 November 2002|author=Qudssia Akhlaque}}</ref>

==2008 election==
In the [[2008 Pakistani parliamentary election|February 2008 parliamentary election]], Kasuri ran for a National Assembly seat from [[NA-140 (Kasur-III)]], where he was defeated by the PPP candidate, Sardar Asif Ahmed Ali.<ref>[http://www.geo.tv/election2008/result/na140.html Geo Tv] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508223957/http://www.geo.tv/election2008/result/na140.html |date= 8 May 2014 }} 24 February 2008</ref>

==Academia and professorship==
In 2012, he lectured on the topics involving in the [[Peace and conflict studies]] at the "Centre of Peace and Progress" where he lectured with [[Jaswant Singh]] and met with [[Governor of Bengal|Governor]] of [[West Bengal]] N.K. Narayan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Our correspondent|title=Kasuri holds parleys with NK Narayanan|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-14314-Kasuri-holds-parleys-with-NK-Narayanan|access-date=8 September 2012|newspaper=The Daily News|date=2 May 2012}}</ref>

Khurshid Kasuri is the executive member of the board of directors of the [[Beaconhouse National University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About Beaconhouse National University|url=http://dnn.descene.biz/bnu/About/BNUsLeadership.aspx|website=BNU|access-date=28 August 2015}} {{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

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