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Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: شاه محمود قریشی) (born June 22, 1956 in Murree) is the current Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the coalition government of PPP, ANP and JUI-F formed after the 2008 general elections.. He is a senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party, where he was the president of PPP Punjab.
Qureshi belongs to a well respected and wealthy feudal family based in the Saraiki-speaking belt of Multan. He is the Sajjada nashin of the shrine of Bahauddin Zakaria in Multan. He is the son of Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, the former Governor of Punjab during PM Junejo's federal government from 1985-1988.
Qureshi got his early education from Aitchison College, Lahore and did his bachelors from FC college, Lahore. He continued to receive a Master's degree in law from the University of Cambridge.