24 Notable alumni of
University of Sindh
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The University of Sindh is 1678th in the world, 379th in Asia, and 6th in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from the University of Sindh sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is a Punjabi Pakistani politician, businessman and agriculturist who is the Speaker of the National Assembly since April 2022 and was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-58 (Rawalpindi-II). He also served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from 22 June 2012 until completing his designated term on 16 March 2013. He has also served as the Senior Vice President of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-establishment coalition of political parties in Pakistan.
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Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
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- judge
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Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013.
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Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
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- politicianjudge
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Mir Hazar Khan Khoso was a Pakistani jurist who was the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013. Khoso was a judge who previously served as the chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court and served as the caretaker prime minister ahead of the general elections scheduled in May 2013.
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Ameen Faheem
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- politician
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Makhdoom Muhammad Ameen Faheem was a Pakistani populist left-wing figure and a poet. He was the senior vice-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, chairman of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians and former chairman of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy.
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Anwar Zaheer Jamali
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- judge
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Anwar Zaheer Jamali is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan. He remained in the Supreme Court from 3 August 2009 to 30 December 2016. He has also served as the Acting Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan, and Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court. In 1995, he was elected as Chairman Executive Committee (CEC) of the Sindh Bar Council and held this position till his elevation to the Bench. He was highly praised for being one of the few judges who refused to take fresh oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order No.1 of 2007. He took several suo motos as a Chief Justice, notably on several human rights cases.
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Shafi Muhammad Shah
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- television actoractor
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Shafi Muhammad Shah PP (7 September 1949–17 November 2007), commonly known as Shafi Mohammad, was a Pakistani film and television actor.
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Allah Dino Khawaja
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Allah Dino Khawaja is a Pakistani police officer who serves in BPS-22 grade as the Federal Secretary for Ministry of Human Rights. A.D Khawaja is batchmates with prominent bureaucrats namely Fawad Hasan Fawad (PAS), Rizwan Ahmed (PAS), Sikandar Sultan Raja (PAS) and Hussain Asghar (PSP).
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Krishna Kumari Kolhi
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- politician
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Krishna Kumari Kohli, also known by the nickname Kishoo Bai, is a Pakistani politician who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018. She is the second Hindu woman to hold this position. She is known for her campaigns for women's rights and against bonded labour; and was named as one of the BBC's 100 most influential women in 2018.
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Ayaz Latif Palijo
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- writerlawyerhuman rights activistjournalistsocial worker
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Ayaz Latif Palijo is a politician, lawyer, activist, writer and teacher. Palijo is the current president of Qomi Awami Tahreek (Peoples National Movement), central convener and founder of the Sindh Progressive Nationalist Alliance (SPNA), one of the founders and central Secretary General of Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA). Since 2007, he has represented the left, objecting to the division of the southeastern Pakistan province of Sindh.
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Muzafar Bhutto
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- politician
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Muzafar Bhutto was a Sindhi nationalist politician, who served as the Secretary General of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM). His body was found at a roadside near Hatri bypass, in Hyderabad, Pakistan after he went missing on 25 February 2011. Following his death, JSMM members resorted to heavy aerial firing in different areas of Sindh. The heavy aerial firing created fear and panic among the people in Sindh and forced many business to close down.
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Ustad Bukhari
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- poetteacher
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Ustad Bukhari Urdu (استاد بخاری) born on 16 January 1930 and died on 9 October 1992 in Karachi was a prominent progressive Sindhi-language poet of Sindh, Pakistan. His creative contributions in the field of poetry changed the thoughts of millions of people and he got familiarity in whole Sindh and abroad. He was well known as poet of people and undoubtedly, he was, because he expressed his emotions in the language of common people. The Institute of Sindhology has opened a corner in its museum in his memory and honour.
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Jameel Jalibi
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- literary criticresearcherlinguistteacher
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Jameel Jalibi was a noted linguist, critic, writer, and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He also was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Karachi.
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Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi
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- economistpolitician
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Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Industries and Production, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. A former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Jatoi served as the Minister for Industries and Production in the third Sharif ministry. and previously held the cabinet portfolios of Minister for Communications during the first Sharif's ministry from 1990 to 1992, and as Minister for Overseas Pakistanis during the Second Bhutto ministry from 1993 to 1994.
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Saif Samejo
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- singer
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Saif Samejo is a musician and founder, lead vocalist and songwriter of the Pakistani Sufi folk band The Sketches. In May 2014 he opened the first music Aashram (School) in Hyderabad, Sindh named as "Lahooti Music Aashram". He composed music for Dastan-e Momal Rano on the show Coke Studio.
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Nazeer Abbasi
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- politician
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Nazeer Abbasi was the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was tortured to death on August 9, 1980 in government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq while in the custody of FIU Field Intelligence Unit of Pakistan Army. His family has accused former ISI operative Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed Billa of torturing and killing Abbasi while in his custody, and Billa has admitted this in a TV interview.
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Abdul-Majid Bhurgri
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- computer scientist
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Abdul-Majid Bhurgri is the founder of computing in the Sindhi language. He hails from Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan, and now lives in Seattle, USA. His work from 1987 to 1988 enabled the use of Sindhi on personal computers and revolutionized the Sindhi printing and publishing industry and largely with his work the later upcoming Sindhi generation helped further digitize it.
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Guillermo de Vega
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- 1931-1975 (aged 44)
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- politician
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Guillermo Vinluan de Vega, nicknamed Gimo, was a presidential assistant of Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos with the rank of cabinet secretary. He was assassinated on October 27, 1975, while working at his office at the Malacañan Palace, the site of the president's residence and office complex.
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Imdad Hussaini
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- translatorwriterpoet
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Imdad Hussaini was a Pakistani Sindhi poet and an Urdu language writer.
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Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
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- judge
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Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan a Pakistani jurist belongs to Garhi Yasin in Shikarpur District of Sindh, Pakistan. He is the son-in-law of Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi, who was a Judge of High Court of Sindh and Balochistan. Justice Agha is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He served as the 12th Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 2009 to 2014.
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Akbar Laghari
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- 1963-.. (age 61)
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- writer
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Akbar Laghari is Pakistani writer of Urdu and Sindhi Languages L. Currently posted as secretary to Govt. of Sindh for Education and literacy department belongs to Sindh Pakistan.
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Abdul Jabbar Junejo
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- professorbibliographerhistoriannovelistshort story writer
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Dr. Abdul Jabbar Junejo was a Sindhi writer, poet, novelist, story-writer, critic, linguist, historian and musicologist of Sindh, Pakistan.
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Haleem Brohi
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- 1935-2010 (aged 75)
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- journalist
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Haleem Brohi was a prominent Pakistani author and journalist, active in the Sindhi language. He is considered the second greatest satirist is Sindhi literature after Ali Mohammad Brohi.
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Sohail Sangi
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- journalist
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Sohail Sangi is a senior journalist and activist of the leftist movement in Pakistan, presently working with the daily newspaper Dawn. He is one of the visiting faculty of the Mass Communication Department at the University of Sindh.
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Ishaq Samejo
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- professorliterary criticpoet
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Ishaq Samejo is Pakistani poet, writer and literary critic of Sindhi Language.
