44 Notable alumni of
Forman Christian College
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Forman Christian College is 1008th in the world, 212th in Asia, and 3rd in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from Forman Christian College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pervez Musharraf
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- military personnelfinancierpolitician
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Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and a military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999 coup d'état and proclaimed himself the chief executive of Pakistan, under martial law.
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Parkash Singh Badal
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- politician
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Parkash Singh Badal was an Indian politician and Sikh rights advocate who served as the 8th Chief Minister of Punjab from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017, the longest serving Chief Minister of Punjab till date. He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1972 to 1977, 1980 to 1983 and from 2002 to 2007 and the 11th Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare in the Morarji Desai ministry from 1977 to 1977. He was the patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a Sikh-centered regional political party, and the president of the party from 1995 to 2008, when he was replaced by his son Sukhbir Singh Badal. As the patron of SAD he exercised a strong influence on the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee.
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Inder Kumar Gujral
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- diplomatpolitician
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Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat, politician, and anti-colonial independence activist, who served as prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.
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Mohammad Yousuf
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- cricketer
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Mohammad Yousuf PP SI is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer and captain, who played all three formats. Prior to his conversion to Islam, Yousuf was one of the few Christians to play for the Pakistan national cricket team. Yousuf scored 1,788 runs in 2006 which is a world record for most runs scored in a year in tests at an average of almost 100. He was a part of the Pakistan squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
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Kulsoom Nawaz
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- politician
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Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif was a Pakistani politician and the wife of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. She served as First Lady of Pakistan during each of his three tenures and was President of Pakistan Muslim League (N) from 1999 to 2002.
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Muhammad Mian Soomro
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- politicianbanker
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Muhammad Mian Soomro is a Pakistani politician, banker and senator who has served as Chairman of the Senate, Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan and Acting President of Pakistan. He also served as the 26th Governor of Sindh and as Federal Minister for Privatization.
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Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi
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- politician
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Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who served as the minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022. He previously held the post from 2008 to 2011. He had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023. He is the vice chairman of the PTI political party since December 2011. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018.
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Farooq Leghari
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- diplomatpolitician
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Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 1993 until his resignation in 1997. He, prior to his presidency, also served as the minister of foreign affairs in 1993; the minister for water and power from 1988 to 1990; and a senator from 1975 to 1977. He was the first ethnic Baloch to be elected president.
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Balram Jakhar
- Enrolled in Forman Christian College
- In 1945 graduated with bachelor's degree in Sanskrit
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- public figurepoliticianagronomist
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Balram Jakhar was an Indian politician, who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the longest serving Speaker of the Lok Sabha, whose tenure lasted 9 years and 329 days. Jakhar was among the popular faces of Jat politics in Rajasthan during 1980s. He served as the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare from 1991 to 1996 in Government of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress.
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Shujaat Hussain
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- statespersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is a senior Pakistani politician who previously served as 14th prime minister of Pakistan. Hussain is the party president of the PML(Q) since 2003.
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Yusuf Raza Gilani
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- journalistpolitician
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Yusuf Raza Gilani is a Pakistani politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012. He is currently serving as chairman of the senate of Pakistan since 2024. A member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Gilani remains the country's first and only ethnic Saraiki prime minister.
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Bipan Chandra
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- historian
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Bipan Chandra was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi. He authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism.
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Kuldip Nayar
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- authorcolumnistwriterpoliticianjournalist
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Kuldip Nayar was an Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist, author and former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator. He was also nominated as a member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament in 1997.
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Krishan Chander
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- playwrightscreenwriterwriter
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Krishan Chander was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated into English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition in 1947, took to writing in Hindi as well. He also wrote screen-plays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meagre income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels (including the classic: Ek Gadhe Ki Sarguzasht, transl. 'Autobiography of a Donkey') have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.
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Swraj Paul, Baron Paul
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- businesspersonentrepreneurbiographerpolitician
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Swraj Paul, Baron Paul, PC was an Indian-born British business magnate and philanthropist. In 1996 he was appointed a Labour life peer under Conservative prime minister John Major, and sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer with the title Baron Paul, of Marylebone, in the City of Westminster. In December 2008 he was appointed deputy speaker of the Lords; in October 2009 he was appointed to the Privy Council.
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Jehangir Khan Tareen
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- politician
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Jahangir Khan Tareen is a Pakistani industrialist and politician who is the founder of JDW Sugar Mills, also known as JDW Group, a conglomerate specializing in the manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, ethanol(bio-fuels) production, power generation, transmission and sales, sugar cane farms, and aircraft operations and maintenance services. Jahangir Tareen is also the chairman and owner of JK Group, a conglomerate specializing in manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, milk production, processing and sales, power generation, transmission and sales, production and sales of fruits and agricultural produce, granite mining and sales, PepsiCo Multan franchise and PSL Multan Sultans' franchise. Khan has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan thrice between 2002 and 2017.
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Qamar Zaman Kaira
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- philosopher
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Qamar Zaman Kaira is a former Minister of Information and Mass-Media Broadcasting in the Government of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013. He also remained an advisor on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif from 18 April 2022 to 10 August 2023.
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Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
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- chemistacademicadministrator
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Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhatnagar is revered as the Father of Research Laboratories in India. He was also the first Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
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Yashwant Singh Parmar
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- politician
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Yashwant Singh Parmar was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress and the first Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh state. Upon the formation of the constituent assembly of India in 1946, he represented Himachal Pradesh in the constituent assembly. For his key role in the formation of the Himachal Pradesh state, from the 1940s until 1977, Parmar is hailed as the architect, the founder, or the creator of the Himachal Pradesh state. In Hindi, he is widely referred to as 'Himachal Nirmata' (the creator of Himachal').
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Eqbal Ahmad
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- journalistpeace activist
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Eqbal Ahmad was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of the Near East. Born in Bihar and Orissa Province, British India, Ahmad migrated to Pakistan during the Partition of India and went on to study economics at the Forman Christian College. After graduating, he worked briefly as an army officer and was wounded in the First Kashmir War in 1948. He participated in the Algerian Revolution, then studied the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, becoming an early opponent of the war upon his return to the U.S. in the mid-1960s.
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
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- 1888-1963 (aged 75)
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- mathematicianphilosopherrevolutionarypolitician
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi (علامہ مشرقی 'Allāmah Maśriqī), was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.
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Balwant Gargi
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- theatrical directorplaywrightwriter
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Balwant Gargi was an Indian Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, short story writer, and academic.
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Mushahid Hussain Sayed
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- historianpolitical reporterjournalistpolitician
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Mushahid Hussain Syed is a Pakistani politician, and journalist who is currently the Pakistan Senator from the Islamabad Capital Territory on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), since 3 March 2018. He left PML-N in 2024.
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
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- university teacherpolitical scientistwriter
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Ishtiaq Ahmed is a Pakistani-Swedish political scientist, academic, and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden. Ahmed is known for his research on the political history of South Asia, particularly the partition of India in 1947. His scholarly work examines the ideological foundations and consequences of the partition, with a focus on the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Two-Nation Theory.
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Roedad Khan
- Enrolled in Forman Christian College
- Studied in 1939-1947
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- diplomat
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Roedad Khan was a Pakistani politician and civil servant. He was a leading figure in Pakistan from the start to the end of the Cold War. During his long career, Khan was one of the most senior civil servants of Pakistan.
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Ahmad Mukhtar
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar was a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan in the PM Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet. He also owned Servis Group and founded Shalamar Hospital.
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Parvez Elahi
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Warraich is a Pakistani politician who was the Chief Minister of Punjab from late 2002 to late 2007 and again from late 2022 to early 2023. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023, when he, as chief minister, dissolved the assembly. In 2023, he left the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)) and joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) along with his son, Moonis Elahi, and 10 other former PML(Q) MPAs over political rifts with the party president and cousin, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. He was appointed as, and is currently serving as the president of the PTI. He also served as the president of the Punjab Division of the PML(Q).
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Zulfikar Ali Magsi
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- politician
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Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi was the 19th Governor of Balochistan since 28 February 2008 to 9 June 2013 as well as the Chief Executive of Balochistan since 14 January 2013. Magsi also served as Chief Minister of Balochistan in the Benazir Bhutto government of 1993–1996. He is the current Nawab and Tumandar of the Magsi Tribe.
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Noel Israel Khokhar
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Pakistan - Occupations
- diplomat
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Noel Israel Khokhar is a retired major general of the Pakistani Army who was later appointed as Ambassador for Pakistan to Ukraine.
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Wajihuddin Ahmed
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Wajihuddin Ahmed is a retired senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, human rights activist, and former professor of law at the Sindh Muslim Law College.
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Makhdoom Shahabuddin
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- politician
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Makhdoom Shahabuddin is a Pakistani politician and was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (February 2008 to May 2013) who has held federal ministerial portfolios for finance, health and textiles. He has been elected as MNA from constituency NA-194 three times in the 1990, 1993 and 2008 Pakistani general elections.
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Subhadra Joshi
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- freedom fighterpolitician
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Subhadra Joshi was an Indian freedom activist, politician and parliamentarian from Indian National Congress. She took part in the 1942 Quit India movement, and later remained the president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC). She was from Sialkot (now in Pakistan).
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Michael John O'Brian
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- aircraft pilot
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Michael John O'Brian known as M.J. O'Brian and Micky O'Brian was among the pioneering officers of the Pakistan Air Force and two-star rank air officer who holds the distinction of being the only Air Force officer to serve as Commandant of the National Defence College, Islamabad from 1975 to 1976. Prior to that, he served as the seventh Deputy Chief of Air Staff from 1974 to 1975 and was one of the distinguished Christian pilots who participated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and 1965.
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Junaid Khan
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- actortelevision actorcomposermodelmusician
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Junaid Khan is a Pakistani actor, producer and singer-songwriter.
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Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana has served as the 39th Governor of Punjab, in office from 10 May 2015 to 18 August 2018. He is affiliated with PML-N.
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Mian Ghulam Jilani
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- diplomatmilitary personnelpolitician
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Mian Ghulam Jilani SQA, IS, LoM also known as Kaka, Speen Dada, and Jilly, was a politician, businessman, and former two-star general in the Pakistan Army. As a British Indian Army officer during World War II, he survived a Japanese POW camp in Singapore. He played a key role in establishing the ceasefire during the First Kashmir War. During his stint as the Military attaché of Pakistan to Washington (1952-1955), he helped negotiate Pakistan's membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
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- lawyerpolitician
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Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan is a Pakistani politician and lawyer who is Chairman of Prime Minister on Youth Program, since March 31, 2024.
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Thakurdas Bhargava
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- politicianadvocate
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Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Hisar, Haryana in the Lok Sabha the lower house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a student of Forman Christian College, Lahore and Presidency College, Calcutta.
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Najm Hosain Syed
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- 1935-.. (age 91)
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- writerplaywrightpoetliterary critic
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Najm Hosain Syed is a Pakistani writer of Punjabi language. He has written poetry and plays in the Punjabi language as well as literary criticism on Punjabi literature in his Recurrent Patterns in Punjabi Poetry. A well known poem of his is Roz Mildiyan Di Ek Dujay Nu Kuno Kun Sunaye Achanba Gal, which is written fully in Punjabi.
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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
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- poetwriter
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Mehr Lal Soni, better known as Zia Fatehabadi, was an Indian Urdu ghazal and nazm writer. He was a disciple (shaagird) of Seemab Akbarabadi (1882–1951), who was a disciple of Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlvi (1831–1905). He used the takhallus (nom de plume) of Zia meaning "Light" on the suggestion of his teacher, Ghulaam Qadir Farkh Amritsari.
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Mowahid Shah
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- lawyer
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Mowahid Hussain Shah is an attorney-at-law, author, and policy analyst. His articles are published regularly in English in Nawa-i-Waqt. For over a decade, he has been the lead columnist for Pakistan Link, the most subscribed weekly throughout North America for the U.S. Pakistani community.
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Mohini Maya Das
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India - Biography
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Dora Mohini Maya Das was an Indian educator and speaker. She was the YWCA's associate general secretary for India, Burma, and Ceylon.
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Makhdoom Altaf Ahmed
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- 1944-1995 (aged 51)
- Occupations
- politician
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Makhdoom Altaf Ahmad was a Pakistani politician. Ahmed was born in Mianwali Qureshian, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. He attended the Sadiq Public School and Forman Christian College. He obtained his law degree from Punjab Law College.
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Ashtar Ausaf Ali
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- lawyer
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Ashtar Ausaf Ali, SI is a Pakistani lawyer who twice served as the Attorney General for Pakistan from 2016 to 2018, and from 2022 to 2023. In his first term, he co-drafted the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which merged the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
