Ashraf Qazi

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi (; 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.

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. and an Irish mother, Jennifer Musa. 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;

His mother was Catholic and a native of County Kerry, Ireland. 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. In 1956, when Ashraf was aged 14, his father died in a road accident. He was thus raised by his mother. Ashraf has five half-siblings from his father's first marriage.