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Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Ambassador of Pakistan to China; Pakistan Ambassador to the United States; UN Special Envoy to Iraq
Personal details
Born	1942 (age 81–82)
Nationality	Pakistani
Residence(s)	Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi (Urdu: اشرف جہانگیر قاضی; born 1942) is a Pakistani diplomat and politician who has held several national and international appointments, including serving with the United Nations.

Diplomatic career

In 2004, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had named him as the head of the UN mission in Iraq where he helped co-ordinate humanitarian and reconstruction efforts. Before that appointment, he was serving as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C.^[1]^[2]

In 2007, Qazi was appointed as a special representative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Sudan. He completed his tenure in Sudan in 2010. Between 2004 and 2007, he was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in charge of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq.^[1]

Between 2002 and 2004, Qazi was Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. Before that, he was Pakistan's High Commissioner to India since 1997 and ambassador to Syria (1986–88), East Germany (1990–91), Russia (1991–94), and later to China (1994–97).^[1] While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, he served as director of East Asia (1975–1978), director-general for Policy Planning, Afghanistan (1982–1986) and Additional Foreign Secretary for Policy Planning, Afghanistan, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1988–1990). He also has had diplomatic assignments in Copenhagen, Tokyo, Cairo, Tripoli and London.

Personal life

Ashraf Qazi was the only son of an ethnic Hazara father, Qazi Mohammad Musa,^[3]^[4] and an Irish mother, Jennifer Musa.^[5] His father belonged to the prominent Qazi family of Balochistan, whose notable members included Ashraf's paternal uncle, Qazi Muhammad Essa, a leading figure of the Pakistan Movement;^[3] and Essa's son Qazi Faez Isa, a jurist who is the current Chief Justice of Pakistan and who formerly served as the Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court.^[4] Ashraf's paternal grandfather served as the prime minister of the princely Kalat State.^[3]

His mother was Catholic and a native of County Kerry, Ireland.^[6] Ashraf's parents met in England in 1939 while his father was studying philosophy at Oxford; they married in 1940, and settled in his paternal family's hometown of Pishin in Balochistan in 1947, from where his mother eventually came into Pakistani politics.^[6]^[3] In 1956, when Ashraf was aged 14, his father died in a road accident. He was thus raised by his mother.^[3] Ashraf has five half-siblings from his father's first marriage.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Annan names new UN envoy to Iraq BBC News, Updated 12 July 2004, Retrieved 13 July 2018
^ "Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Of Pakistan Appointed Special Representative For Iraq". United Nations website. 14 July 2004. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Owen O’Shea; Gordon Revington (8 October 2018). Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium. Merrion Press. pp. 103, 104–. ISBN 978-1-78537-203-2.
^ ^a ^b Javed, Saleem (29 June 2012). "Hope fades away for Hazaras of Pakistan". Dawn. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2020. Hazaras also played an important role in the formation of Pakistan. A Hazara politician, Qazi Mohammad Essa (his son, Faiz Essa, is the present Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court), was the founder of Balochistan Muslim League who represented Balochistan in Lahore Resolution in 1940.
^ "Telegraph Obituary of Jennifer Musa (Ashraf Qazi's mother)". The Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper). London. 19 January 2008. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b Danny Kemp (14 December 2006). "Irish-born woman is 'Queen of Balochistan'". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 13 July 2018.

External links

H.E. Ashraf Qazi Speaks at the U.S. Institute of Peace Archived from the original on 4 February 2012
IRAQ: Interview with the UN Special Representative for Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, IRIN, 24 March 2005
Qazi interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on the situation in Afghanistan, aired 21 March 2004

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Khalid Mahmood	Pakistan Ambassador to China 1994–1997	Succeeded by Inam-ul-Haq
Preceded by Riaz Khokhar	Pakistan High Commissioner to India 1997–2002	Succeeded by Aziz Ahmed Khan
Preceded by Maliha Lodhi	Pakistan Ambassador to the United States 2002–2004	Succeeded by Jehangir Karamat
Preceded by Sérgio Vieira de Mello	UN Special Envoy to Iraq 2004–2007	Succeeded by Staffan de Mistura
Preceded by Manuel de Aranda e Silva	UN SRSG in the Sudan 2007–present	Succeeded by Incumbent