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'''Jamsheed Kekobad{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Marker''' [[Hilal-e-Imtiaz]] Award recipient ({{Nastaliq|جمشید كيقباد اردشیر مارکر}}, November 24, 1922 – 21 June 2018)<ref>{{cite news |title='World's longest-serving' Pakistani ambassador Jamsheed Marker passes away |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/331946-worlds-longest-serving-pakistani-ambassador-jamsheed-marker-passes-away |accessdate=21 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>, was a veteran [[Pakistan]]i [[diplomat]]. He is listed in the ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' as having been "ambassador to more countries than any other person".<ref name="Martin_20021029_2A">{{citation|last=Martin|first=Susan Taylor|chapter=Militants on run, Pakistan says|title=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=29 October 2002|edition=South Pinellas}}, p. 2A.</ref> He spoke [[English language|English]], [[Urdu]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Russian language|Russian]], and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades and earned the distinction as the "world's longest-serving ambassador".<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A">{{citation|last=Martin|first=Susan Taylor|chapter=Call came to Tampa Bay for help in East Timor|title=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=22 September 1999|edition=South Pinellas}}, p. 1A.</ref> Coming from a lucrative shipping business background with its offices in Keamari, [[Karachi]], he kept up his interest in [[cricket]] even when he roamed the world as Pakistan’s ambassador and high commissioner in more countries than any other diplomat in the world has before or since.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jamsheed veeri Marker — eminent Parsi, the first amongst the equals|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1102573|website=www.dawn.com}}, Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref>
'''Jamsheed Kekobad{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Marker''' [[Hilal-e-Imtiaz]] Award recipient ({{Nastaliq|جمشید كيقباد اردشیر مارکر}}, November 24, 1922 – 21 June 2018)<ref>{{cite news |title='World's longest-serving' Pakistani ambassador Jamsheed Marker passes away |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/331946-worlds-longest-serving-pakistani-ambassador-jamsheed-marker-passes-away |accessdate=21 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>, was a veteran [[Pakistan]]i [[diplomat]]. He spoke [[English language|English]], [[Urdu]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Russian language|Russian]], and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades.

==Early life==
==Early life==
Marker was from a [[Parsi people|Parsi]] family of Pakistan. He obtained his early education from [[The Doon School]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/01/us/washington-talk-working-profile-jamsheed-k-marker-linchpin-us-pakistan-alliance.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Robert Pear, WASHINGTON TALK/Working Profile: Jamsheed K. A. Marker; Linchpin of U.S.-Pakistan Alliance, ''The New York Times'', September 1, 1988.], Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC&q=jamsheed+marker+doon&dq=jamsheed+marker+doon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M6z-T5SaIdHPrQfq7sTSBg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw ''The International Who's Who 1992–93'', Taylor & Francis, 1992, p. 1065.], Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.bluechipmag.com/bc/content_detail.php?content=681 Soraiya Qadir, "Quiet Diplomacy by Jamsheed Marker", ''Blue Chip: The Business People's Magazine''.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130118064926/http://www.bluechipmag.com/bc/content_detail.php?content=681 |date=18 January 2013 }}, Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2705/stories/20100312270508500.htm ''Frontline'', Volume 27 – Issue 05, February 27 – March 12, 2010.]</ref> and from the well-known university of Pakistan, [[Forman Christian College University]], [[Lahore]]. In early days at school level in [[Dehradun]] located in [[India]], Jamsheed Marker played cricket there and later at F.C. College Lahore. Marker knew his cricket well to become a top-notch radio cricket match commentator.
Marker was from a [[Parsi people|Parsi]] family of Pakistan. He obtained his early education from [[The Doon School]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/01/us/washington-talk-working-profile-jamsheed-k-marker-linchpin-us-pakistan-alliance.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Robert Pear, WASHINGTON TALK/Working Profile: Jamsheed K. A. Marker; Linchpin of U.S.-Pakistan Alliance, ''The New York Times'', September 1, 1988.], Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC&q=jamsheed+marker+doon&dq=jamsheed+marker+doon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M6z-T5SaIdHPrQfq7sTSBg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw ''The International Who's Who 1992–93'', Taylor & Francis, 1992, p. 1065.], Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.bluechipmag.com/bc/content_detail.php?content=681 Soraiya Qadir, "Quiet Diplomacy by Jamsheed Marker", ''Blue Chip: The Business People's Magazine''.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130118064926/http://www.bluechipmag.com/bc/content_detail.php?content=681 |date=18 January 2013 }}, Retrieved 14 March 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2705/stories/20100312270508500.htm ''Frontline'', Volume 27 – Issue 05, February 27 – March 12, 2010.]</ref> and from the well-known university of Pakistan, [[Forman Christian College University]], [[Lahore]]. In early days at school level in [[Dehradun]] located in [[India]], Jamsheed Marker played cricket there and later at F.C. College Lahore. Marker knew his cricket well to become a top-notch radio cricket match commentator.
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===Diplomat===
===Diplomat===
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He worked in his family's shipping business until April, 1965, when he was appointed [[Pakistan]]'s High Commissioner to [[Ghana]], with concurrent accreditation to [[Guinea]] and [[Mali]]. He afterward represented Pakistan in [[Romania]] (conc. accr. to [[Bulgaria]]), the former [[Soviet Union]] (conc. accr. to [[Finland]]) for three years, Canada (conc. accr. to [[Guyana]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]]), [[East Germany]] (conc. accr. to [[Iceland]]), [[Japan]], [[United Nations Office at Geneva]], [[West Germany]], [[France]], the United States and finally the United Nations in New York City. Marker served as Ambassador of Pakistan continually for thirty years, in ten different capitals, and nine further concurrent accreditations.<ref>Jamsheed Marker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4tWSU_F9WW8C&dq=Jamsheed+Marker&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=kS3_SZX4BMuHkQWPxPH3BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA4,M1 "East Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence"] McFarland, 2003, 220pp</ref>
According to the journalist Susan Taylor, he originally worked in his family's "shipping and pharmaceutical" businesses, and moved into diplomacy in 1965 when he was appointed [[Pakistan]]'s ambassador to [[Ghana]].<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A" />


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He became Ambassador to the United States of America in 1986 and is said to have helped "negotiate" the Soviet military withdrawal from [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="Faculty_directory_entry">{{citation|title=Jamsheed K. A. Marker|author=Eckerd College Faculty Directory|publisher=Eckerd College|location=St. Petersburg, FL|url=http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/irga/faculty/marker.php|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203171337/http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/irga/faculty/marker.php|archivedate=3 December 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1999 he served as United Nations Secretary-General [[Kofi Annan]]'s Special Representative to East Timor <ref name="PNW_20041030">{{citation|title=Turning LoC into border not to solve Kashmir issue: Marker|author=Pakistan Newswire<!--Nationwide International News-->|publisher=PN|location=Karachi|date=30 October 2004}}.</ref>. Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, is reported to have hailed Marker's "empathy for both sides in the talks."<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/> Reportedly, the Portuguese foreign minister praised Marker's "sophisticated and calm approach" while the Indonesian foreign minister said Marker's "diplomatic skills smoothed the way whenever there was a 'snag in the negotiations.'"<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/>
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Marker was appointed as Pakistan High Commissioner to [[Ghana]], with concurrent accreditation to [[Guinea]] and [[Mali]] in April 1965. He has since represented Pakistan in [[Romania]] (conc. accr. to [[Bulgaria]]), the former [[Soviet Union]] (conc. accr. to [[Finland]]) for three years, Canada (conc. accr. to [[Guyana]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]]), [[East Germany]] (conc. accr. to [[Iceland]]), [[Japan]], [[United Nations Office at Geneva]], [[West Germany]], [[France]], the United States and finally the United Nations in New York City. Marker served as Ambassador of Pakistan continually for thirty years, in ten different capitals, and nine further concurrent accreditation.<ref>Jamsheed Marker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4tWSU_F9WW8C&dq=Jamsheed+Marker&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=kS3_SZX4BMuHkQWPxPH3BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA4,M1 "East Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence"] McFarland, 2003, 220pp</ref>

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He became Ambassador to the United States of America in 1986 and is said to have helped "negotiate" the Soviet military withdrawal from [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="Faculty_directory_entry">{{citation|title=Jamsheed K. A. Marker|author=Eckerd College Faculty Directory|publisher=Eckerd College|location=St. Petersburg, FL|url=http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/irga/faculty/marker.php|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203171337/http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/irga/faculty/marker.php|archivedate=3 December 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He has also served as United Nations Under-secretary General, as a special advisor to United Nations ex-Secretary-General [[Kofi Annan]],<ref name="PNW_20041030">{{citation|title=Turning LoC into border not to solve Kashmir issue: Marker|author=Pakistan Newswire<!--Nationwide International News-->|publisher=PN|location=Karachi|date=30 October 2004}}</ref> and the journalist Susan Taylor praised him for his role in bringing about the resolution of the [[East Timor]] conflict and the independence of that nation.<ref name="Martin_20040815_4P">{{citation|last=Martin|first=Susan Taylor|chapter=How the U.N. got one right|title=St. Petersburg Times| location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=15 August 2004|edition=South Pinellas}}, p. 4P.</ref> Marker was the U.N. special envoy to East Timor in 1999. Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, is reported to have hailed Marker's "empathy for both sides in the talks."<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/> Reportedly, the Portuguese foreign minister praised Marker's "sophisticated and calm approach" while the Indonesian foreign minister said Marker's "diplomatic skills smoothed the way whenever there was a 'snag in the negotiations.'"<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/>


The British journalist [[Richard Lloyd Parry]], in his book ''In the Time of Madness'',<ref name="Lloyd Parry 2005, p.254">Lloyd Parry, Richard, ''In the Time of Madness'', Cape, 2005, p. 254.</ref> recalls Marker's warm words of praise for the Indonesian police and the "superb leadership" of their commander Timbul Silaien after the referendum and its bloody preamble. Within days, these same Indonesian security forces were engaged in the deportation and, in some cases, the killing of East Timorese.<ref name="Lloyd Parry 2005, p.254"/>
The British journalist [[Richard Lloyd Parry]], in his book ''In the Time of Madness'',<ref name="Lloyd Parry 2005, p.254">Lloyd Parry, Richard, ''In the Time of Madness'', Cape, 2005, p. 254.</ref> recalls Marker's warm words of praise for the Indonesian police and the "superb leadership" of their commander Timbul Silaien after the referendum and its bloody preamble. Within days, these same Indonesian security forces were engaged in the deportation and, in some cases, the killing of East Timorese.<ref name="Lloyd Parry 2005, p.254"/>


===Teaching===
===Teaching===
From 1995 through 2005, Marker taught a course in "Diplomacy in International Relations."<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/> at [[Eckerd College]] in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]].
Marker taught international relations for the Spring semester at [[Eckerd College]] in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] (where he has been teaching since 1995<ref name="Minai_20010829_3B">{{citation|last=Minai|first=Leanora|chapter=Eckerd instructor injured in car crash|title=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=29 August 2001|edition=South Pinellas}}, p. 3B.</ref>) and was Eckerd College's diplomat in residence.<ref name="Park_20070318_22">{{citation|last=Park|first=Mary Jane|chapter=Elegant in honor of Dali|title=St. Petersburg Times| location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=18 March 2007|edition=South Pinellas}}, p. 22.</ref> He usually taught a course on "Diplomacy in International Relations."<ref name="Martin_19990922_1A"/>

==Awards and recognition==
In September 2004, Pakistani Prime Minister [[Shaukat Aziz]] named Jamsheed Marker as ambassador-at-large for his years of service.<ref name="Park_20070318_22" />
In September 2004, Pakistani Prime Minister [[Shaukat Aziz]] named Jamsheed Marker as ambassador-at-large for his years of service.<ref name="Park_20070318_22" />
In June 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Forman Christian College University, Lahore, at Commencement of 2011–12. Jamsheed Marker has received the [[Hilal-i-Imtiaz]] Award (Crescent of Excellence) by the [[President of Pakistan]].
In June 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Forman Christian College University, Lahore, at Commencement of 2011–12. Jamsheed Marker has received the [[Hilal-i-Imtiaz]] Award (Crescent of Excellence) by the [[President of Pakistan]].

Revision as of 17:58, 21 June 2018

Jamsheed Kekobad[citation needed] Marker Hilal-e-Imtiaz Award recipient (جمشید كيقباد اردشیر مارکر, November 24, 1922 – 21 June 2018)[1], was a veteran Pakistani diplomat. He spoke English, Urdu, Gujarati, French, German and Russian, and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades.

Early life

Marker was from a Parsi family of Pakistan. He obtained his early education from The Doon School,[2][3][4][5] and from the well-known university of Pakistan, Forman Christian College University, Lahore. In early days at school level in Dehradun located in India, Jamsheed Marker played cricket there and later at F.C. College Lahore. Marker knew his cricket well to become a top-notch radio cricket match commentator.

Career

Cricket commentator

He was a radio cricket match commentator. His first broadcast was from the Bagh-e-Jinnah, also known as Lawrence Garden, in Lahore when India visited Pakistan on their first cricket tour in 1954. He then teamed up with cricket commentator Omar Kureishi for the first time as a Radio Pakistan cricket commentator.[6]

Diplomat

He worked in his family's shipping business until April, 1965, when he was appointed Pakistan's High Commissioner to Ghana, with concurrent accreditation to Guinea and Mali. He afterward represented Pakistan in Romania (conc. accr. to Bulgaria), the former Soviet Union (conc. accr. to Finland) for three years, Canada (conc. accr. to Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago), East Germany (conc. accr. to Iceland), Japan, United Nations Office at Geneva, West Germany, France, the United States and finally the United Nations in New York City. Marker served as Ambassador of Pakistan continually for thirty years, in ten different capitals, and nine further concurrent accreditations.[7]

He became Ambassador to the United States of America in 1986 and is said to have helped "negotiate" the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan.[8] In 1999 he served as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative to East Timor [9]. Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, is reported to have hailed Marker's "empathy for both sides in the talks."[10] Reportedly, the Portuguese foreign minister praised Marker's "sophisticated and calm approach" while the Indonesian foreign minister said Marker's "diplomatic skills smoothed the way whenever there was a 'snag in the negotiations.'"[10]

The British journalist Richard Lloyd Parry, in his book In the Time of Madness,[11] recalls Marker's warm words of praise for the Indonesian police and the "superb leadership" of their commander Timbul Silaien after the referendum and its bloody preamble. Within days, these same Indonesian security forces were engaged in the deportation and, in some cases, the killing of East Timorese.[11]

Teaching

From 1995 through 2005, Marker taught a course in "Diplomacy in International Relations."[10] at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. In September 2004, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz named Jamsheed Marker as ambassador-at-large for his years of service.[12] In June 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Forman Christian College University, Lahore, at Commencement of 2011–12. Jamsheed Marker has received the Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award (Crescent of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan.

Family background

Ambassador Marker was the son of Kekobad Ardeshir Marker and Meherbano Pestonji, the grandson of Ardeshir Marker, and the great-nephew of Peshotanji Dossabhai Marker. He was married to Arnaz Minwalla.[12][13] He was earlier married to Diana Faridoon Dinshaw (d. 1979) with whom he had two daughters, Niloufer and Feroza.[14] His niece is the Pakistani environmentalist, Aban Kabraji. His background is from the Parsi community of Pakistan.

Published works

  • Marker, Jamsheed (2003), East Timor. A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence, Jefferson: McFarland, ISBN 0-7864-1571-1
  • Khan, Roedad; Marker, Jamsheed (1999), The American Papers. Secret and Confidential India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Documents, 1965–1973, London: OUP, ISBN 0-19-579190-8
  • Marker, Jamsheed (2010), Quiet Diplomacy: Memoirs of an Ambassador of Pakistan, Karachi: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-547779-0

References

  1. ^ "'World's longest-serving' Pakistani ambassador Jamsheed Marker passes away". Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. ^ Robert Pear, WASHINGTON TALK/Working Profile: Jamsheed K. A. Marker; Linchpin of U.S.-Pakistan Alliance, The New York Times, September 1, 1988., Retrieved 14 March 2016
  3. ^ The International Who's Who 1992–93, Taylor & Francis, 1992, p. 1065., Retrieved 14 March 2016
  4. ^ Soraiya Qadir, "Quiet Diplomacy by Jamsheed Marker", Blue Chip: The Business People's Magazine. Archived 18 January 2013 at archive.today, Retrieved 14 March 2016
  5. ^ Frontline, Volume 27 – Issue 05, February 27 – March 12, 2010.
  6. ^ http://www.dawn.com/news/1102573, Profile of Jamsheed Marker on Dawn, Karachi newspaper, published 27 April 2014, Retrieved 14 March 2016
  7. ^ Jamsheed Marker. "East Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence" McFarland, 2003, 220pp
  8. ^ Eckerd College Faculty Directory, Jamsheed K. A. Marker, St. Petersburg, FL: Eckerd College, archived from the original on 3 December 2008 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Pakistan Newswire (30 October 2004), Turning LoC into border not to solve Kashmir issue: Marker, Karachi: PN.
  10. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Martin_19990922_1A was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b Lloyd Parry, Richard, In the Time of Madness, Cape, 2005, p. 254.
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Park_20070318_22 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Inspirational Women: Arnaz Marker, The Asha Centre. Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 14 March 2016
  14. ^ Marker, Kekobad Ardeshir, A Petal from the Rose Karachi, 1985, vol. II, p. 240.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Ejaz Azim
 Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
1986–1989 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sardar Shah Nawaz
 Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations
1990–1995 		Succeeded by
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