Minister for Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)
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The Minister for Foreign Affairs (or simply the Foreign Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Pakistan. The minister oversees the federal government's foreign policy and International relations. Their responsibility includes representing Pakistan and its government in the international community. This position is one of the senior-most offices in the Cabinet of Pakistan. The office of the foreign minister was initially held by Liaquat Ali Khan, who also served as the country's first prime minister. Subsequently, several other prime ministers have held the additional charge of the office of the foreign minister.
List of ministers
The following is a list of all the previous foreign ministers of Pakistan to date, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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- <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Caretaker minister
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>† Died in office
| Portrait | Name (BornTemplate:NdashDied)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Tenure | Party | Government | Head of Government | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Liaquat Ali Khan 1945.jpg | Liaquat Ali Khan (1947Template:Ndash1951) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
15 August 1947 |
27 December 1947 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League | Liaquat | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Liaquat Ali Khan | |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sir-Muhammad-Zafrulla-Khan.jpg | Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893Template:Ndash1985) MCA for West PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 December 1947 |
17 October 1951 |
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| 17 October 1951 |
17 April 1953 |
Nazimuddin | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin | ||||||
| 17 April 1953 |
24 October 1954 |
Bogra | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Mohammad Ali Bogra | ||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Mohammad Ali Bogra portrait (cropped).jpg | Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909–1963) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) |
24 October 1954 |
12 August 1955 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Hamidul Huq Choudhury.jpg | Hamidul Huq Choudhury (1901Template:Ndash1992) MCA for East BengalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
28 September 1955 |
12 September 1956 |
Template:Ayd | Krishak Sramik Party | Mohammad Ali | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Feroz Khan Noon.jpg | Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970) MCA for PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister from 16 Dec 1957) |
12 September 1956 |
7 October 1958 |
Template:Ayd | Republican Party | Suhrawardy | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | |
| Chundrigar | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | I. I. Chundrigar | ||||||||
| Noon | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self | ||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Manzur Qadir (1913Template:Ndash1973)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 October 1958 |
8 June 1962 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League | Ayub | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Ayub Khan (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Mohammad Ali Bogra portrait (cropped).jpg | Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909–1963)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 June 1962 |
23 January 1963<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[†] |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Z A Bhutto (President of Pakistan).jpg | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928Template:Ndash1979)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
24 January 1963 |
30 June 1966 |
Template:Ayd | Convention Muslim League | ||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:SyedPirzada (cropped).jpg | Sharifuddin Pirzada (1923Template:Ndash2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 August 1966 |
1 May 1968 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Mian Arshad Hussain (1910Template:Ndash1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 May 1968 |
25 March 1969 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Yahya Khan (cropped version).jpg | GeneralScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Yahya Khan (1917Template:Ndash1980)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Chief Martial Law Administrator) |
25 March 1969 |
20 December 1971 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Army (Non-partisan)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Yahya | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Z A Bhutto (President of Pakistan).jpg | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928Template:Ndash1979) MNA for 116 Larkana-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (President until 14 Aug 1973 Prime Minister from 14 Aug 1973) |
20 December 1971 |
28 March 1977 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Aziz Ahmed (cropped).jpg | Aziz Ahmed (1906Template:Ndash1982)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
30 March 1977 |
5 July 1977 |
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| <templatestyles src="Nobold/styles.css"/>Position vacant during this interval | ||||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Agha Shahi.jpg | Agha Shahi (1920Template:Ndash2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
14 January 1978 |
9 March 1982 |
Template:Ayd | Independent | Haq | rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sahabzada Yaqub Khan.jpg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920Template:Ndash2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 March 1982 |
1 November 1987 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Zain Noorani (1927Template:Ndash1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 November 1987 |
9 June 1988 |
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| rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sahabzada Yaqub Khan.jpg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920Template:Ndash2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 June 1988 |
17 August 1988 |
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| 17 August 1988 |
2 December 1988 |
Ishaq Khan | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Acting President)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | 4 December 1988 |
6 August 1990 |
Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Benazir Bhutto | ||||
| <templatestyles src="Nobold/styles.css"/>Caretaker ministry served during this interval | ||||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sahabzada Yaqub Khan.jpg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920Template:Ndash2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
6 November 1990 |
20 March 1991 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League (IJI)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Nawaz I | rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Akram Zaki (1931Template:Ndash2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Acting)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
April 1991 |
10 September 1991 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Muhammad Siddique Khan Kanju.jpg | Siddiq Khan Kanju (1951Template:Ndash2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (State Minister)Template:Efn |
10 September 1991 |
18 April 1993 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:SyedPirzada (cropped).jpg | Sharifuddin Pirzada (1923Template:Ndash2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 April 1993 |
26 May 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mazari | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Balakh Sher Mazari (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Muhammad Siddique Khan Kanju.jpg | Siddiq Khan Kanju (1951Template:Ndash2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (State Minister)Template:Efn |
26 May 1993 |
18 July 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Muslim League (IJI)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Nawaz I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Abdul Sattar.jpg | Abdul Sattar (1931Template:Ndash2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 July 1993 |
19 October 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Qureshi | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Farooq Leghari (cropped).jpg | Farooq Leghari (1940Template:Ndash2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
19 October 1993 |
14 November 1993 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto II | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Benazir Bhutto | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg | Aseff Ahmad Daula (1940Template:Ndash2022)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
16 November 1993 |
4 November 1996 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sahabzada Yaqub Khan.jpg | Lieutenant General (Retd)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920Template:Ndash2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 November 1996 |
17 February 1997 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Khalid | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Malik Meraj Khalid (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Gohar Ayub Khan (cropped).jpg | Gohar Ayub Khan (1937Template:Ndash2023) MNA for 13 Abbottabad-IIIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
25 February 1997 |
7 August 1998 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz II | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sartaj Aziz (cropped).jpg | Sartaj Aziz (1929Template:Ndash2024) Senator for Islamabad Capital TerritoryScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 August 1998 |
12 October 1999 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Abdul Sattar.jpg | Abdul Sattar (1931Template:Ndash2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
6 November 1999 |
14 June 2002 |
Template:Ayd | Independent | Musharraf | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Pervez Musharraf (Chief Executive)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Inam-ul-Haq (diplomat) (cropped).jpg | Inam-ul-Haq (born 1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (State Minister) |
21 June 2002 |
23 November 2002 |
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| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Mahmud Kasuri - 2003 (cropped).jpg | Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (born 1941) MNA for 106 Kasur-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 November 2002 |
15 November 2007 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | Jamali | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Zafarullah Khan Jamali | |
| Hussain | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shujaat Hussain | ||||||||
| Aziz | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shaukat Aziz | ||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Inam-ul-Haq (diplomat) (cropped).jpg | Inam-ul-Haq (born 1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 November 2007 |
24 March 2008 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Soomro | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Muhammad Mian Soomro (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Shah Mehmood Qureshi - 2011 (cropped).jpg | Shah Mahmood Qureshi (born 1956) MNA for 148 Multan-IScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
31 March 2008 |
9 February 2011 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Gillani | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Yousaf Raza Gillani | |
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Hina Rabbani Khar Jan 2023.jpg | Hina Rabbani Khar (born 1977) MNA for 177 Muzaffargarh-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 February 2011 |
19 June 2012 |
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| 22 June 2012 |
16 March 2013 |
Ashraf | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | ||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929Template:Ndash2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Prime Minister) (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 April 2013 |
4 June 2013 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Khoso | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Self (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||
| Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs | ||||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Sartaj Aziz (cropped).jpg | Sartaj Aziz (1929Template:Ndash2024)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7 June 2013 |
28 July 2017 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Nawaz III | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nawaz Sharif | |
| Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||||||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Khawaja Muhammad Asif - December 2015 (cropped).jpg | Khawaja Asif (born 1949) MNA for 71 SialkotScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 August 2017 |
26 April 2018 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Abbasi | rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Khurram Dastgir Khan Senate of Poland.JPG | Khurram Dastgir (born 1970) MNA for 96 Gujranwala-IIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 May 2018 |
31 May 2018 |
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| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Abdullah Hussain Haroon (cropped).jpg | Abdullah Hussain Haroon (born 1950) (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 June 2018 |
18 August 2018 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Mulk | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Nasirul Mulk (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Shah Mehmood Qureshi - 2011 (cropped).jpg | Shah Mahmood Qureshi (born 1956) MNA for 156 Multan-IIIScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 August 2018 |
10 April 2022 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Imran | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Imran Khan | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Secretary Blinken and Pakistani Foreign Minister Bhutto Zardari Deliver Remarks (52387487125) (cropped).jpg | Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born 1988) MNA for 200 LarkanaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
27 April 2022 |
10 August 2023 |
Template:Ayd | Pakistan People's Party | Shehbaz I | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Shehbaz Sharif | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Visit of Jalil Abbas Jilani to the European Commission - P062486-613017 (cropped).jpg | Jalil Abbas Jilani (born 1955) (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
17 August 2023 |
4 March 2024 |
Template:Ayd | Independent (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Kakar | bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Anwaar ul Haq Kakar (Caretaker)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | File:Ishaq Dar 1.jpg | Ishaq Dar (born 1950) Senator for PunjabScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Deputy Prime Minister) |
11 March 2024 |
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See also
- Constitution of Pakistan
- President of Pakistan
- Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Interior Minister of Pakistan
- Defense Minister of Pakistan