abstract:Hamid Saeed Kazmi (}}; born October 3, 1957 in Multan, Pakistan) was the Pakistani federal Minister for Religious Affairs, belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party under the cabinet of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Kazmi was born in a well-to-do religious family; his father, Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, was a prominent Sufi and Islamic scholar.