29 Notable alumni of
University of Peshawar
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The University of Peshawar is 1346th in the world, 294th in Asia, and 4th in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the University of Peshawar sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Fazal-ur-Rehman
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- politician
- Biography
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Fazal-ur-Rehman is a Pakistani politician who is the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He is also the president of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of political parties which ousted then prime minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion in 2022. He has been a member of the National Assembly since February 2024 and previously served in that position between 1988 and 2018. He was also the Leader of the Opposition from 2004 to 2007. He is a supporter of the Taliban government in Afghanistan and has demanded for its international recognition. In the 1980s, he was part of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD), which was formed to end the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq.
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Ghulam Ishaq Khan
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- politicianfinancierbotanist
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Ghulam Ishaq Khan, commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as Chairman of the Senate from 1985 to 1988 under president Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and was sworn in shortly after Zia's death.
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Maqbool Bhat
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Maqbool Bhat was a prominent Kashmiri nationalist, who went to Pakistan and founded the National Liberation Front (NLF), which was a precursor to the present day Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). He is called the "father of the Nation of Kashmir" Baba-e-Qaum by the locals. Bhat carried out multiple attacks in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. He was arrested and sentenced to a double death sentence. He was hanged on 11 February 1984 in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
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Ahmad Faraz
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- poetwriter
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Syed Ahmad Shah, better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, (Urdu: احمد فراز 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding director general (later chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz. He criticised military rule and coup d'état in the country and was displaced by the military dictators.
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Murad Saeed
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- politician
- Biography
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Murad Saeed is a Pakistani politician who served as Federal Minister for Communications and Federal Minister for Postal Services from December 2018 to April 2022.
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Pervez Khattak
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- politician
- Biography
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Pervez Khan Khattak is a Pakistani politician who served as the minister of Defence from August 2018 until April 2022. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023. Prior to that, he served as the 22nd chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2013 to 2018, elected to the Provincial Assembly from Nowshera District. He was a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf until July 2023, when he formed his breakaway faction, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P). On 12 February 2024, he left the chairmanship of the PTI-P and took a break from politics tenders resignation as PTI-P chairman due to ‘health issues’.
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Asad Qaiser
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- politician
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Asad Qaiser is a Pakistani politician from Swabi. He is the former Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, served from August 2018 to April 2022. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024, and previously served in this position from August 2018 till January 2023. Previously, he was the member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2013 to 2018 and served as the 14th Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, from May 2013 to August 2018.
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Sirajul Haq
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- politician
- Biography
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Siraj-ul-Haq is a Pakistani politician who was elected as the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party in Pakistan which seeks to establish an Islamic legal system. He also served as the Finance minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa twice; first in the cabinet of Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani, from 2002-2007, and again minister during Pervez Khattak's tenure as Chief Minister.
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Dale Kildee
- Enrolled in the University of Peshawar
- Studied in 1958-1959
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Dale Edward Kildee was an American politician who served as U.S. Representative of Michigan from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Ajmal Khattak
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- politicianwriterKhudai Khidmatgarpoet
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Ajmal Khan Khattak was a Pakistani politician, writer and Pashto language poet from North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), who served as the President of Awami National Party. He was a close friend of Khan Abdul Wali Khan.
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Mohammad Asghar
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- accountantpolitician
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Mohammad Asghar, known as Oscar, was a Welsh politician who was a Member of the Senedd for South Wales East. He was a member of the Welsh Conservatives, and previously of Welsh Labour, and Plaid Cymru.
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Shandana Gulzar Khan
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- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shandana Gulzar Khan شاندانہ گلزار خان is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024. She previously served as a member from August 2018 till July 2022.
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Rahmatullah Nabil
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- politiciancivil engineer
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician. He served as Head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) from 2010 to 2012. On September 1, 2013, he was reappointed as acting Director due to the health problems suffered by Asadullah Khalid following an attempted assassination. Nabil was officially reappointed as the full-time Director of the NDS on 28 January 2015.
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Syed Adnan Kakakhail
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- mufticolumnistwriter
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Syed Adnan Kakakhail is a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, columnist and author. He is the founder and CEO of Al-Burhan Institute. He is a recipient presidential award for the "Best Debator of Pakistan".
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Fouzia Saeed
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- human rights activist
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Fouzia Saeed is a Pakistani social activist, gender expert, trainer/facilitator, development manager, folk culture promoter, television commentator, and author.
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Shoaib Sultan Khan
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- social worker
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Shoaib Sultan Khan NI is one of the pioneers of rural development programmes in Pakistan. As a CSP Officer, he worked with the Government of Pakistan for 25 years, later on he served Geneva based Aga Khan Foundation for 12 years, then UNICEF and UNDP for 14 years. Since his retirement, he has been involved with the Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) of Pakistan full-time, on voluntary basis. Today, the Rural Support Programmes have helped form 297,000 community organisations in 110 districts including two Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
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Haroon Bacha
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- social workermusician
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Haroon Bacha is a Pashtun singer and composer who, since beginning his musical career in 1992, has released upwards of 50 albums and numerous singles. Bacha is renowned for songs such as "Awal Ba Kala Kala Gham Wo", "Stergey Ghazal", and "Yaar Zhaghaida".
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Fasi Zaka
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- journalistmusic critic
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Fasi Zaka is a Pakistani political commentator, columnist, radio talk show host, and television anchor.
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Jamila Afghani
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- activist
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Jamila Afghani is a feminist and an activist for women's rights and education in Afghanistan. She is the founder and executive director of the Noor Educational and Capacity Development Organization (NECDO). She is also an executive member of the umbrella organization Afghan Women's Network (AWN). In 2022, Jamila Afghani was awarded the seventh annual Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.
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Sardar Hussain
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- politician
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Sardar Hussain Babak is a Pakistani politician from the village Totalai, Buner District who had been a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly belonging to the Awami National Party (ANP) from August 2018 till January 2023. He also served as a member of the different committees.
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Shujaat Azeem
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- businessperson
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Shujaat Azeem was Special Assistant/Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Aviation (2013–2016).
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Sheharyar Afridi
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
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Shehryar Khan Afridi is a Pakistani politician who served as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir, in office from 13 May 2020 to April 2022. He served as the Minister of State for Interior from 31 August 2018 to 18 April 2019. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024 and previously served as a member from August 2018 till January 2023 and June 2013 to May 2018. He also served as the Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) from 18 April 2019 until 25 September 2020. He was also given an additional charge of the Ministry of Narcotics Control after the death of Ali Mohammad Mahar.
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Mary Akrami
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- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Peshawar
- Graduated with Bachelor in Business Administration
- Occupations
- women's rights activist
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Mary Akrami is the director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center. She represented Afghan civil society at the 2001 Bonn Conference. In 2003 the Afghan Women Skills Development Center opened the first women's shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan. The shelter provides legal advice, literacy classes, psychological counseling, and basic skills training to women who need them. Akrami is on call 24 hours a day at the shelter, and under her leadership some of the women there have denounced their abusers publicly and filed court cases against them, something that had been almost unheard of in Afghanistan previously. She has faced threats for her work.
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Junaid Akbar
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- politician
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Junaid Akbar is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024 from NA-9 Malakand, and previously served in this position from August 2018 till January 2023 and from June 2013 to May 2018. He has also been serving as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee since January 2025.
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Mohammed Sadiq
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Pakistan - Occupations
- diplomat
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Mohammed Sadiq is a retired Pakistani diplomat.
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Ihsan Ali
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- archaeologist
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Ihasan Ali is a Pakistani archaeologist. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Hazara University from 2006 to 2009 and Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan from 2009 to 2017. He has also served as Additional Vice-Chancellor of Islamia College University Peshawar. Dr. Ihsan Ali is a researcher, academic and administrator who has served in various fields.
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M. Qasim Jan
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- mineralogist
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M. Qasim Jan is a geologist and research scientist from Pakistan. He has been the vice-chancellor of three Pakistani universities. His research has been in geology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and tectonics. He has authored or edited a dozen books, and has published numerous papers on geology and tectonics of the North-West Himalayas. Presently, he is Professor Emeritus at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar. Jan is also currently the Secretary General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and of the Association of the Academies of Sciences in Asia. He is also a fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).
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Mohammad Tahir Shah
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- geologist
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Mohammad Tahir Shah is a professor at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology at the University of Peshawar. He has served at the NCEG since 2013. He was previously selected as the vice-chancellor of the Fata University by the Governor Khyber Pakhusgktunkhwa Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan.
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Mohammad Sarwar Ahmadzai
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- politician
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Sarwar Ahmedzai is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a presidential candidate in 2009 and 2014. He served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Ashraf Ghani until the overthrow of his government by Taliban.
