100 Notable alumni of
University of the Punjab
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The University of the Punjab is 324th in the world, 61st in Asia, and 1st in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of the Punjab sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Har Gobind Khorana
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- biologistuniversity teachergeneticist
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Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
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Prem Chopra
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- actor
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Prem Chopra is an Indian actor in Hindi films. He has acted in 380 films over a span of over 60 years. He has 3 children (Rakita, Prerna, and Punita), and 7 grandchildren (Sanchi, Khyana, Veer, Risha, Vaaryan, & Vihaan).
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Maryam Nawaz
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- politician
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Maryam Nawaz Sharif, is a Pakistani politician who has served as the 20th chief minister of Punjab, since 26 February 2024. She is the first woman to hold the position of chief minister in Pakistan.
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Abdus Salam
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Graduated with Master of Arts
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first scientist from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
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Yahya Khan
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- politiciandiplomatmilitary personnel
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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was a Pakistani general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the fifth commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971.
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
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- lawyerpolitician
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the president of India from 1974 to 1977.
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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- poetsongwriterwriterjournalistlyricist
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz MBE NI was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time, and his works and ideas remain widely influential in Pakistan and beyond. Outside of literature, he has been described as "a man of wide experience", having worked as a teacher, military officer, journalist, trade unionist, and broadcaster.
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Tariq Ali
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- politicianjournalistnovelisthistorianwriter
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Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
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Yusril Ihza Mahendra
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- academicpolitician
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Yusril Ihza Mahendra is an Indonesian lawyer, politician and academic, who is currently serving as the leader of the Crescent Star Party (PBB) from 2015 to 2024. Previously, he served as the leader of the PBB from 1998 until 2005, Minister of Justice and Human Rights from 2004 until 2007 and 2024 until 2029, and member of the People's Representative Council from 1999 until 2009.
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani
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- politician
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani was a Kashmiri separatist leader and politician in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. Known for his pro-Pakistan stance, he was a key figure in the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of separatist groups. A former Indian intelligence officer referred to him as the 'father of the Kashmiri jihad.'
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Baldev Raj Chopra
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Baldev Raj Chopra was a prolific Indian director and producer noted for pioneering the Hindi film industry and television series. He's known for directing notable films, such as Afsana, Ek Hi Raasta, Naya Daur, Sadhna, Kanoon, Gumrah, Hamraaz, Dhund, Pati Patni Aur Woh, Insaf Ka Tarazu and Nikaah. He also produced hit films, including Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Ittefaq, Aadmi Aur Insaan, Chhoti Si Baat, The Burning Train, Aaj Ki Awaaz, Baghban and the TV series, Mahabharat. He was awarded Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema, for the year 1998, and Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2001.
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
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- ʿālimwritertranslatorpolitician
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Pakistan Awami Tehreek.
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Mian Muhammad Mansha
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- businessperson
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Mian Mohammad Mansha Yahya is a Pakistani business magnate who is the current chairman of MCB Bank. His family owns Nishat Group. Mansha and some of his immediate family members are among the highest tax-paying individuals in Pakistan.
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Chuhdary Rahmat Ali
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- politicianpolitical theoristjurist
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Choudhry Rahmat Ali was a Pakistani nationalist activist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in British India and is generally known as the originator of the Pakistan Movement.
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Hamid Mir
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- journalistcricketer
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Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers. He has hosted the political talk show Capital Talk on Geo News intermittently since 2002. He writes columns for Urdu as well as English newspapers, both national and international. He has been a contributor to the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post since June 2021. He is known for his stance against the dominance of the Establishment in Pakistan. Having survived two assassination attempts, Mir has been banned from television three times, and has lost his job twice due to his stand for press freedom and human rights.
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Kulsoom Nawaz
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- politician
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Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif was a Pakistani politician who was the Spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif. She was the President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) from 1999 to 2002.
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Asma Jahangir
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- lawyerhuman rights activist
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Asma Jilani Jahangir was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and AGHS Legal Aid Cell. Jahangir was known for playing a prominent role in the Lawyers' Movement and served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and as a trustee at the International Crisis Group.
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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth president of Pakistan from January 1998 until his resignation in June 2001, and prior to that as a senator from Punjab in 1997. Before entering politics, Tarar served as senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1992 to 1994 and as the 28th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar
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- politicianfinanciereconomist
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar is a Pakistani accountant and politician who currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan since 11 March 2024.
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad
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- writerKhalifa
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad was the fourth caliph (Arabic: خليفة المسيح الرابع, khalīfatul masīh al-rābi) and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the fourth successor of the founder of the community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He was elected on 10 June 1982, the day after the death of his predecessor, Mirza Nasir Ahmad.
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Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed
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- politician
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Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad is a Pakistani politician who served as the 38th Interior Minister of Pakistan in Imran Khan government from 2020 to 2022. He is the founder and leader of Awami Muslim League, and also maintains close relations with the political party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
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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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Zia Mohyeddin
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- television produceractorfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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Zia Mohyeddin HI SI was a British-Pakistani film actor, producer, director, and television broadcaster who appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television, as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career.
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani
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- muftiIslamic juristpoetqadi
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani SI, OI, is a Pakistani Islamic jurist and leading scholar in the fields of Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic economics, and comparative religion. He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 1977 to 1981, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982, and a judge in the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. In 2020, he was selected as the most influential Muslim personality in the world. He is considered a leading intellectual of the contemporary Deobandi movement, and his opinions and fatwas are widely accepted by Deobandi scholars and institutions worldwide, including the Darul Uloom Deoband in India. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Chairman of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia. His father, Shafi Usmani, was the Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and Taqi Usmani migrated to Pakistan with his family after the partition of India in 1948.
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Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
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- tennis player
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Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is a Pakistani professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is the only Pakistani player ever to reach a Grand Slam final, having done so in both men's and mixed doubles at the 2010 US Open, alongside Rohan Bopanna and Květa Peschke respectively. Qureshi has also reached seven further major semifinals across the two disciplines. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8 in June 2011, and has won 18 titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2011 Paris Masters and 2013 Miami Open, with Bopanna and Jean-Julien Rojer respectively. Qureshi has also qualified for the ATP Finals in doubles on three occasions.
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Wasim Sajjad
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- lawyerpolitician
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Wasim Sajjad Jan is a Pakistani conservative politician and lawyer who served as the acting president of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms and as the Chairman of the Senate between 1988 and 1999.
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
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- politicianministerlawyer
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Fazal Elahi Chaudhry was a Pakistani politician who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 to 1978 prior to the imposition of martial law led by Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq. He also served as the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1965 to 1969 and the eighth speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1973.
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Sartaj Aziz
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- politicianeconomistpeace activistdiplomat
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Sartaj Aziz was a Pakistani economist and strategist, who had previously served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, member of the federal cabinet as the de facto Minister for Foreign Affairs, a Federal Senator as well as the National Security Advisor.
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Fazlur Rahman Malik
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- university teachertheologianwriterphilosopherarabist
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Fazlur Rahman Malik, commonly known as Fazlur Rahman, was a modernist scholar and Islamic philosopher from present-day Pakistan. Recognized as a leading liberal reformer within Islam, he focused on educational reform and promoting independent reasoning (ijtihad). His work has attracted both significant interest and criticism in Muslim-majority countries. His reformist ideas led to protests by over a thousand clerics, faqihs, muftis, and teachers in Pakistan, ultimately resulting in his exile.
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Dalip Singh Saund
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
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- judgepoliticianbusinesspersonfarmer
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Dalip Singh Saund was an Indian-born American farmer, lobbyist, judicial officer, academic, and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1957 to 1963. He was the first Sikh, first Indian American, and first Asian American elected to the United States Congress. As a resident of Westmoreland, California, Saund represented California's 29th congressional district, which at the time consisted of Imperial and Riverside counties.
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Keki N. Daruwalla
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- poetwriter
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Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla was an Indian poet and short story writer in English. He was also an Indian Police Service officer.
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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 the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan since 9 April 2024. Gilani was re-elected on 14 March 2024 after receiving 204 votes and currently is a Senator of the Senate of Pakistan.
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Zarifa Ghafari
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- 2009-2015 graduated with master's degree in economics
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- politicianactivist
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Zarifa Ghafari is a former female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of the Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Ghafari was one of the few Afghan female mayors, next to the first Afghanistan's mayor, Azra Jafari and Khadija Zahra Ahmadi, and was also the youngest to be appointed, at the age of 24. She is known for her efforts to advance women's rights in Afghanistan. Ghafari was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020 by the US Secretary of State. She has survived three assassination attempts.
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Shaukat Tarin
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- bankereconomist
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Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin is a former Pakistani Senator and banker who served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2010 in the Gillani cabinet also and worked with the help of the Pakistan People’s Party's cabinet members.
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Muhammad Hussain Najafi
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- ʿālim
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Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi was a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. Muhammad Hussain Najafi was running a Hawza in Sargodha. Najafi was included in all the editions of "The Muslim 500: The World's Most Influential Muslims" since 2010. He is one of the nine marja's mentioned in the most recent edition.
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Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar
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- politicianbarrister
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Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar is a Pakistani politician who recently served as Pakistan's Federal Minister for Industries & Production. Previously, he has served as Federal Minister of Economic Affairs, Federal Minister of National Food Security and Research and Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in the PTI Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2008, 2013 to 2018 and 2018 till 2023.
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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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Bakht Singh
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- preacher
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Bakht Singh Chabra also known as Brother Bakht Singh was a Christian evangelist in India and other parts of South Asia. He is often regarded as one of the most well-known Bible teachers and preachers and pioneers of the Indian Church movement and Gospel contextualization. According to Indian traditions, he is also known as 'Elijah of 21st Century' in Christendom. According to his autobiography, Bakht Singh became a Christian when he was an engineering student in Canada in 1929, even though previously he had torn up the Bible and was strongly opposed to Christianity. He was India's foremost evangelist, preacher and indigenous church planter who founded churches and established Hebron Ministries. He began a worldwide indigenous church-planting movement in India that grew to more than 10,000 local churches. Bakht Singh died on 17 September 2000, in Hyderabad, India.
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Mian Amer Mahmood
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Mian Amer Mahmood, HI is a Pakistani businessman and politician who is the founder of the Punjab Group of Colleges. He was the mayor of Lahore between 2001 and 2009.
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Shamshad Akhtar
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- bankereconomist
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Shamshad Akhtar is 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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Khawaja Saad Rafique
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- politician
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Khawaja Saad Rafique is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2018 till August 2023 and the federal minister for Railways.
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Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
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- administratorchemistacademic
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Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP 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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Javed Hashmi
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- geopolitical analystpoliticianlawyer
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Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi, is a Pakistani politician, political realist, and a senior conservative thinker on the platform of Pakistan Muslim League (N).
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Ayaz Sadiq
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Sardar Ayaz Sadiq is a Pakistani politician serving as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the federal parliament, since March 2024. He is one of the senior members of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) on the federal level.
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Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, is a Pakistani politician and writer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan between November 2002 until November 2007. He is the Senior Advisor on Political and International Affairs and Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Task Force on Kashmir and a member of the Core Committee of the Party. He is also the author of 'Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove'.
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Zubayr Ali Za'i
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- ʿālimBiographical evaluation scholarwritermuhaddith
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Zubair Ali Zai was a preacher, theologian, Islamic scholar of ahadith and former merchant marine from Pakistan.
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Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
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- politicianeconomistfinancierbanker
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Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi was a Pakistani American economist and civil servant who served as caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from July to October 1993. Qureshi also served as the senior vice president of World Bank.
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Saira Afzal Tarar
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- politician
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Saira Afzal Tarar is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. She served as the Minister of State for National Health Services Regulation and Coordination from 2013 to 2017. A leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), she had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to May 2018, and is currently serving as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, as a reserve seat candidate.
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Abdur Rab Nishtar
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- politician
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Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar was a Pakistani independence activist and politician from the North-West Frontier Province (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). He served as the first Minister of Communications of Pakistan from August 1947 to August 1949 and then as the second Governor of West Punjab from August 1949 to November 1951.
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Amjad Islam Amjad
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- writerjournalistpoet
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Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, Sitara-e-Imtiaz was a Pakistani Urdu poet, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist.
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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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Kanwal Ameen
- Born in
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Pakistan - Biography
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Kanwal Ameen is attached as Professor Emeritus at Institute of information management,of University of the Punjab, Pakistan where previously she had served in different capacities such as Chairperson (2009-2018) of the Department of Information Management, Chairperson of Doctoral Programme Coordination Committee (2013-2017), University of the Punjab, and as Director of External Linkages. Dr Ameen was the founding Vice-chancellor at the University of Home Economics (2019-2023). She is also serving as Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Punjab Library Foundation (2023-2026). With a career spanning nearly four decades, she has made substantial contributions in teaching, research and academic leadership in Pakistan. Ameen has authored many publications and in internationally known scholar who has been honoured with several national and international awards, including the prestigious Tamgha-e-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan for her contributions in Education. Dr. Ameen continues to contribute to the academic community through her research, mentorship of post-graduate students, and serving on editorial boards of international journals.
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
- Years
- 1888-1963 (aged 75)
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- revolutionarypoliticianmathematicianphilosopher
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi (علامہ مشرقی), was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.
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Muzaffar Iqbal
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- historian of sciencechemist
- Biography
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Muzaffar Iqbāl is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author.
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Riazuddin
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- philosopheracademictheoretical physicistphysicist
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Riazuddin, also spelled as Riaz-Ud-Din, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist, specialising in high-energy physics and nuclear physics. Starting his scientific research in physics in 1958, Riazuddin was considered one of the early pioneers of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development and atomic deterrence development. He was the director of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG) of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1974 until 1984. Riazuddin was a pupil of the winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Abdus Salam.
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
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- writeruniversity teacherpolitical scientist
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Ishtiaq Ahmed is a Pakistani-Swedish political scientist and author.
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Zaib Rehman
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- actor
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Zaib Rehman is a Pakistani lawyer and actress. She was one of the most popular actresses of 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. She started in television in her early teens and made her movie debut in the 2011 blockbuster Bol.
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Sikandar Hayat Khan
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- politician
- Biography
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Khan Bahadur Major Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, KBE, also written Sikandar Hyat-Khan or Sikandar Hyat Khan, was an Indian politician and statesman from the Punjab who served as the Premier of the Punjab, among other positions.
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai
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- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai is a Pakistani politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Balochistan.
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Mohinder Singh Randhawa
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- historianbotanistwriterart historianscientist
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Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa was an Indian historian, civil servant, botanist, and author. He played major roles in the establishment of agricultural research in India, the Green Revolution in India, resettling Punjabis uprooted by the partition of India as the Director-General of Rehabilitation, establishing the city of Chandigarh, and documenting the arts of Punjab and the history of agriculture in India. A biographer, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, gave him the sobriquet Punjab da Chhewan Dariya, the sixth river of Punjab.
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Syed Mansoor Ali Shah
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- judge
- Biography
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Syed Mansoor Ali Shah is a Pakistani jurist who is serving as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He formerly served as the 45th Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court.
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Ruqaiya Hasan
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Ruqaiya Hasan was a professor of linguistics who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University in Sydney, from which she retired as emeritus professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture, lexicogrammar and semantic variation. The latter involved the devising of extensive semantic system networks for the analysis of meaning in naturally occurring dialogues.
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Fauzia Ilyas
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- women's rights activisthuman rights activist
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Fauzia Ilyas is a Dutch Pakistani speaker, political activist, and the president and co-founder of Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan. Ilyas, an open atheist and apostate of Islam, fled from Pakistan after receiving threats to her life and faced potential legal charges for blasphemy in Pakistan. Ilyas received asylum in the Netherlands, where she is now a critic of Islam and campaigner for feminism, secularism, and atheist rights in Pakistan.
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Baba Kharak Singh
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- political activist
- Biography
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Baba Kharak Singh was an Indian playwright born at Sialkot in British India. He was involved in the Indian independence movement and was president of the Central Sikh League. He was also one of the founders of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
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Asif Saeed Khosa
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- judgeadvocate
- Biography
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Asif Saeed Khan Khosa is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 January 2019 to 20 December 2019. He joined the Supreme Court as a judge on 18 February 2010 and prior to that served as judge of the Lahore High Court.
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Tariq Fatemi
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Syed Tariq Fatemi, is a Pakistani diplomat who most recently served as Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif till the government completed its term. He previously served as Pakistan Ambassador to the United States and to the European Union.
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Jagan Nath Azad
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Jagan Nath Azad, was an Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician. He wrote over 70 books, including poetry collections, poems, biographies, and travelogues.
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Nayyar Hussain Bukhari
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nayyar Hussain Bukhari is the senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who served as the 6th Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, in office from 12 March 2012 to 12 March 2015.
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Naimatullah Khan
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- politician
- Biography
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Naimatullah Khan was a Pakistani politician who served as the City Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005.
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Lokesh Chandra
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- politicianlinguistuniversity teacherwritercompiler
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Lokesh Chandra is a prominent scholar of the Vedic period, Buddhism and the Indian arts. Between 1942 and 2004, he published 576 books and 286 articles.
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Om Prakash Mehra
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- In 1940 graduated with Master of Arts in history
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM was a former air officer in the Indian Air Force. He served as the Chief of the Air Staff from 1973 to 1976. He received Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), the highest military award for peace-time service, in 1968. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, in 1977. He later became Governor of Maharashtra from 1980 to 1982, and Governor of Rajasthan from 1985 to 1987. He married Satya Mehra and has four children with her Sunil, Parveen, Rahul, and Amitava and numerous grand children.
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Liaqat Baloch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liaqat Baloch is a political leader in Pakistan.
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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry is a Pakistani diplomat and Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. He served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States and was succeeded by Ali Jehangir Siddiqui. Previously, he served as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, as the Pakistan's Ambassador to the Netherlands and the spokesperson of the Foreign Office.
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Khawaja Muhammad Asif
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- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Khawaja Muhammad Asif is a Pakistani politician who serves as the Defence Minister of Pakistan from since 19 April 2022, he also has the Responsibility of Federal Minister for Aviation since 11 March 2024. Previously having Defence Ministry post from April 2022 to August 2023 in Shehbaz Sharif's Government. Previously, he had also been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2018 and till date. Since May 2019 he is nominated by PMLN to act as the Parliamentary Leader in National Assembly, he acted in this role till the dissolution of the assembly in 2023 and again took the charge after elections on 2 March 2024.
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Tehmina Daultana
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tehmina Daultana is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024, and previously served in position five times between 1993 and 2018.
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Farzana Raja
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Farzana Raja is a Pakistani politician who served as chair of the Benazir Income Support Programme and has been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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Muhammad Sibtain Khan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Sibtain Khan is a Pakistani politician who is the former Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, he remained in office from 29 July 2022 till 24 February 2024. He had been the Provincial Minister of Punjab for Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, in office from 29 August 2018. In January 2019, he was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau Lahore due to corruption charges and due to this, he was removed from his post of Provincial Minister of Punjab for Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries. He remained in prison for one year and released on bail in December 2019.
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Khalid Masud
- Years
- 1935-2003 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Allama Khalid Masud, was a Muslim scholar of Pakistan. He spent the major part of his life with Moulana Amin Ahsan Islahi. He conveyed ideas and thoughts of his teacher and Imam Farhi to general public. He wrote a number of books and articles and delivered lectures on Islam, science and other subjects.
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Khem Singh Gill
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Khem Singh Gill was an Indian academic, geneticist, plant breeder and Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University. He was known for his contributions to the Green Revolution in India. Instrumental for breeding new strains of wheat, linseed, and sesame, he was the author of the book Research on wheat and triticale in the Punjab along with several additional articles on the subject. He was also the vice-president of The Kalgidhar Trust and The Kalgidhar Society, Baru Sahib, which is one of the largest Sikh charities. A Sant Teja Singh Chair Professor in Sikhism of the Eternal Global University and a founding fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, he was a recipient of Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Memorial Prize, Team Research Award of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), FICCI Award, ICAR Golden Jubilee Award and Silver Jubilee Award of the Indian Society of Oilseeds Research. In 1992, the Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to science.
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Ramesh Singh Arora
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- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Ramesh Singh Arora is a Pakistani politician and social worker. He is an advocate for Sikh rights in Pakistan. He was appointed as the Ambassador at large for the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor. He is first Sikh to hold office of provincial minister of the Punjab, Pakistan. He is currently the president of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee.
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Ram Nath Chopra
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Studied in 1902
- Occupations
- pharmacologist
- Biography
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Sir Ram Nath Chopra CIE, IMS was an Indian Medical Service officer and a doyen of science and medicine of India. He is considered the "Father of Indian Pharmacology" for his work on pharmaceuticals and his quest for self-sufficiency of India in drugs through the experimental evaluation of indigenous and traditional drugs. After service in the army, he established a research laboratory where he worked as a professor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine which was established in 1921. He also served as the director of this institute from the year 1935 to 1941.
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Zulfikar Ali Magsi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Tan Yee Kew
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tan Yee Kew is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wangsa Maju from May 2018 to November 2022, for Klang from April 1995 to March 2008 and Parliamentary Secretary of International Trade and Industry from March 2004 to March 2008. She is a member and Chairperson of the Disciplinary Board of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. She was also the Treasurer of PKR before 2018, Deputy Women Chief of MCA from 1996 to 2005, State Women Chief of MCA of Selangor and Member of the Central Committee of MCA.
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Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- politicianacademiceconomistfinancier
- Biography
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Chaudhri Muhammad Ali was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fourth prime minister of Pakistan from 1955 until his resignation in 1956. His government transitioned Pakistan from a British Dominion to an Islamic Republic.
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RK Anand
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ram Kumar Anand is a lawyer and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, serving during the NDA government. He is Senior Vice-President of Indian Olympic Association from 14 December 2017. He also served as the chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi for two terms and was a member of the Bar Council of Delhi for 25 years. He held the position of Vice-President of the Indian Law Institute for over 25 years.
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Nighat Dad
- Occupations
- lawyersocial worker
- Biography
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Nighat Dad is a Pakistani lawyer and Internet activist who runs the not-for-profit organisation Digital Rights Foundation. Her work in the field of IT security has earned her many international awards.
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Ishfaq Ahmad
- Occupations
- nuclear physicisttheoretical physicistengineerphysicist
- Biography
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Ishfaq Ahmad Khan SI, HI, NI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan.
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Syeda Ghulam Fatima
- Born in
- Pakistan
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Syeda Ghulam Fatima is a Pakistani human and labour rights activist, known for her work in ending bonded labour in brick kilns, and is General Secretary of Lahore-based Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan.
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Sarwanand (Sarvanand) Koul Premi
- Years
- 1924-1990 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sarwanand Koul Premi, also spelled Sarvanand Kaul Premi, was a Kashmiri poet, journalist, research scholar, Gandhian, social reformer and independence activist living in Jammu & Kashmir, India. Along with his young married son, Verinder (27), he was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Islamic terrorists in 1990.
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Muhammad Barjees Tahir
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly between 1990 and May 2018.
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Gobind Behari Lal
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gobind Behari Lal was an Indian-American journalist and independence activist. A relative and close associate of Lala Har Dayal, he joined the Ghadar Party and participated in the Indian independence movement. He arrived the United States on a scholarship to study at the University of California, Berkeley. Later, he worked as a science editor for the Hearst Newspapers. In 1937, he became the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Nasir Abbas Nayyar
- Occupations
- short story writerprofessorliterary critic
- Biography
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Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a Pakistani Urdu language writer, critic, columnist, and essayist. He has written books on poetry, literary theory and post colonial study of Urdu literature. He has produced some important books on structuralism and postmodernism and their influence on Urdu literature. A book on life and poetics of Majid Amjid is another his significant contribution. His most famous work is on Postcolonial Study of Urdu Literature published by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan titled Mabad Nau Abadiat (Urdu Kay Tanazur Mein ) and Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid. His books on post colonialism proved ground breaking works in Urdu.
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Chaudhry Amir Hussain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chaudhry Amir Hussain is a Pakistani politician. He was the 17th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan, serving from 2002 to 2008.
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Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari was an Islamic scholar of Hanafi jurisprudence, Sufi, and Muslim leader. He is known for his work Tafsir Zia ul Quran fi Tafsir ul Quran, (Transl. The light of the Quran in the Exegesis of the Quran). It is commonly referred to as Zia ul Quran. He also wrote Zia un Nabi, a biography of Muhammad in seven volumes.
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Ghulam Murtaza
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Ghulam Murtaza, SI, FPAS, is a Pakistani theoretical physicist with a specialization in the physics of ionized plasmas, and is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the Government College University in Lahore. Murtaza's work is recognizable in plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion processes to provide a better understanding of energy propagated by the main-sequence star, the Sun.
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Amina Masood Janjua
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Amina Masood Janjua,: born 28 April 1964, is a Pakistani human rights activist and artist. She is known for highlighting enforced disappearances in Pakistan and for campaigning for the release of her husband, Masood Ahmed Janjua, who disappeared on 30 July 2005. She is the chairperson of the rights group Defense of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR). She provides legal support to prisoners in foreign countries, arranging financial support for the families of victims of enforced disappearance and eradication of torture from jails and detention centers. She appears regularly on local and foreign media as the spokesperson of missing persons and occasionally contributes articles in Urdu and English dailies of the country.
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Irshad Hasan Khan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Justice Irshad Hasan Khan is a Pakistani jurist who served as Chief Justice of Pakistan from January 2000 to January 2002.
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Syed Hassan Raza
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Syed Hassan Raza is a Pakistani diplomat and a former senior career foreign service officer. He served as the Special Secretary at Pakistan's Foreign Office, overseeing the Middle East, OIC & Legal divisions. Prior to this appointment, he was the High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Malaysia, and previously the Ambassador to the State of Qatar. On November 19, 2018, Ambassador Raza was promoted to Grade 22, the highest attainable rank in the Civil Service of Pakistan.
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Azad Marshall
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- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Azad Marshall is a Pakistani bishop, currently serving, since May 2021, as the Moderator Bishop of the Church of Pakistan, a United Protestant denomination that is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the Anglican Communion, and the World Methodist Council. In the past, he was the sixth Bishop of the Anglican Church in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a diocese of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East in the Anglican Communion, since 2007.
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Amjad Parvez
- Occupations
- writerengineer
- Biography
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Amjad Parvez was a Pakistani engineer, writer, and singer.
