Police in the federal capital on Wednesday detained PTI Senior Vice President Shah Mahmood Qureshi as protests against Imran Khan’s detention continue to spiral up.
Reports said Qureshi has been taken into custody under MPO 3 for 15 days, the second major arrest in a day after Asad Umar was arrested from the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who served as the 29th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022. He previously held the post from 2008 to 2011.
He had been a member of the National Assembly from August 2018 till January 2023. He is the vice chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party since December 2011. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018.
Born in Multan, Punjab, Qureshi studied at Aitchison College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Forman Christian College and a Master of Arts degree from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He remained a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab for nine years from 1985 to 1993 and served in the provincial cabinet in various positions between 1988 and 1993. He served as the minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the federal cabinet from 1993 to 1996 and later as the Mayor of Multan from 2000 to 2002.
