16 Notable alumni of
Quaid-i-Azam University
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Quaid-i-Azam University is 2224th in the world, 540th in Asia, and 7th in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from Quaid-i-Azam University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hamza Ali Abbasi
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- actorfilm director
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Hamza Ali Abbasi is a Pakistani actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Afzal in the drama serial Pyarey Afzal (2013) and as Salahuddin in the drama serial Mann Mayal (2016).
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Abrar-ul-Haq
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- singerpolitician
- Biography
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Abrar-ul-Haq is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and former politician.
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Maleeha Lodhi
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- diplomatcolumnistjournalist
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Maleeha Lodhi is a Pakistani diplomat, political scientist, and a former Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations She was the first woman to hold the position. Previously, she served as Pakistan's envoy to the Court of St James' and twice as its ambassador to the United States.
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Abdul Rashid Ghazi
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- attachédiplomatactivistimamreligious leader
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Abdul Rashid Ghazi was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and diplomat-turned Islamist dissident who served as Khatib of Lal Masjid, the Chief Executive of Jamia Faridia University, the Chairman of Defense of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR), a member of UNICEF Committee on Preventive healthcare and a leader of Difa-e-Pakistan Council. Prior to this he had worked for the Ministry of Education and was a diplomat affiliated with UNESCO, a specialized agency of the United Nations.
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Shamshad Akhtar
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- bankereconomist
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Shamshad Akhtar was a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who served as the caretaker finance minister of Pakistan from 2023 to 2024 as well as from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.
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Gulalai Ismail
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- politicianhuman rights defender
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Gulalai Ismail is a Pakistani human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is the chairperson of Aware Girls, a global ambassador for Humanists International, and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). She speaks on the subject of promoting peace and women's empowerment at conferences internationally, and is the recipient of the International Humanist of the Year Award, the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.
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Khalid Shameem Wynne
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- military officer
- Biography
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Khalid Shameem Wynne NI, HI(M)(Urdu: خالد شمیم وائیں; 28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017), was a Pakistani four-star general who served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee appointed in 2010 until retiring on 8 October 2013.
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Salma Zahid
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- community organizerhigh civil servantpolitician
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Salma Zahid MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding of Scarborough Centre during the 2015 Canadian federal election. She succeeded the Conservative Roxanne James.
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Tehmina Janjua
- Enrolled in Quaid-i-Azam University
- In 1984 graduated with master's degree in French literature
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- career diplomat
- Biography
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Tehmina Janjua is a retired Pakistani career diplomat who served in BPS-22 grade (highest attainable rank for a serving officer) as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. She is a member of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute's Board of Governors. Among her other notable appointments, was her position as Pakistan's Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and as ambassador to Italy, with concurrent accreditation to Albania, San Marino and Slovenia.
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Abdul Basit
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- diplomat
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Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India. He was appointed to his position in 2014 and was based at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. Previously, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Germany from May 2012 to March 2014. During his career, he has been posted at Moscow, New York, Sana'a, Geneva and London.
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Lal Khan
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- writerpolitician
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Lal Khan was a Pakistani political activist and Marxist political theorist.
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Naela Chohan
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- diplomatpainterhuman rights defender
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Naela Chohan is a Pakistani artist and diplomat. As a seasoned and veteran diplomat, ambassador Chohan has assumed a leadership position in eight different Pakistani diplomatic missions on five different continents. Naela Chohan is a hyperpolyglot with demonstrable fluency in seven Indo-European languages including Persian, French, and Spanish.
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Ansar Pervaiz
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- nuclear physicistengineerphysicist
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Ansar Pervaiz, also spelled as Ansar Parvez, HI, is a Pakistani scientist and a nuclear engineer who was the former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and former chairman of the Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pervaiz is widely given credit for establishing the nuclear engineering, nuclear physics and nuclear technology institutes within Pakistan.
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Muhammad Sharif
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- mathematician
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Muhammad Sharif, TI, FPAS, is a Pakistani professor, specialised in mathematical physics and cosmology. He worked as the chairman of the department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore for six years, i.e., from 2013 to 2019. Sharif served as a Dean, Faculty of Science at University of the Punjab from 2019 to 2021. Now, Sharif is an HOD, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Lahore. He is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor. He has been awarded with the Izaz-Fazeelat and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan.
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Irshad Hussain
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Pakistan - Occupations
- chemist
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Irshad Hussain is a Pakistani scientist in the field of chemistry and among the few pioneers to initiate nanomaterials research in Pakistan.
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Samina Yasmeen
- Enrolled in Quaid-i-Azam University
- 1975-1977 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Samina Yasmeen AM is an Australian–Pakistani author and intellectual who is known for her work in political and strategic development in South Asia and the role of Islam in world politics. She has published articles on the position of Pakistani and Middle Eastern women, the role of Muslims in Australia, and India–Pakistan relations.
