Jamsheed K. A. Marker is a veteran Pakistani diplomat. Reportedly, he is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having been ambassador to more countries than any other person. He has served as United Nations Under-secretary General, as a special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and won praise for his role in bringing about the resolution of the East Timor conflict and the independence of that nation. He speaks English, Urdu, Gujrati, French, German, and Russian.

Ambassador Marker has represented Pakistan in the United Nations, the former Soviet Union, Canada, East Germany, Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and other countries. He became Ambassador to the United States in 1986 and helped negotiate the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In September 2004, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz named Jamsheed Marker as ambassador-at-large.

Family background

Ambassador Marker is the son of Kaikobad Ardeshir Marker and Meherbano Marker, the grandson of Ardeshir Marker, and the great-nephew of Peshotanji Dossabhai Marker. He is married to Arnaz Marker.

Works

• East Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence, by Jamsheed Marker [ISBN 0786415711]; Review and description at [1]
• The American Papers : Secret and Confidential India-Pakistan-Bangladash Documents, 1965-1973, by Roedad Khan and Jamsheed Marker [ISBN 0195791908]

External links

Interviews and Speeches

• PBS Newshour interview after India's nuclear tests; May 26, 1998
• Ambassador Marker addresses AKU students

East Timor

• United Nations peacekeeping in East Timor; Photographs
• Statement of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

Family

• [2]

Meherbano Kaikobad Marker

• http://www.dawn.com/2001/08/21/op.htm#2
• http://www.dawn.com/2001/08/16/fea.htm#2