He held many senior government positions including; Speaker of the Assembly, Minister for Communications, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and chairman of standing committee while he was Member of the Senate of Pakistan.
He held various positions in the party and eventually succeeded Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao to become the Provincial President of PPP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Kausar took keen interest in the extra-curricular activities at all the educational institutions he attended and was very popular among students and his colleagues.
He has a rare distinction to his credit for having been elected as President of the Khyber Union of Islamia College Peshawar.
During his stay in England, Masood Kausar was again elected as the General Secretary of the Pakistan Students' Federation Great Britain.