100 Notable alumni of
University of the Punjab
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The University of the Punjab is 319th in the world, 59th 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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- university teacherbiologistgeneticist
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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 a soft-spoken diction despite playing a villain in most films. His 19 films, with him as antagonist and Rajesh Khanna in the lead role remain popular with audiences and critics. He has 3 children (Rakita, Prerna, and Punita), and 7 grandchildren (Risha Nanda, Vir, Veryen, Vehon, Saanchi, Khaana).
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Maryam Nawaz
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- politician
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Maryam Nawaz Safdar is a Pakistani politician and the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif. In 2012, she entered politics and was put in charge of the PLM-N's election campaign, during the 2013 general elections. After the elections, she was appointed the Chairperson of the Prime Minister's Youth Programme. She resigned in 2014 after her appointment was criticised by Imran Khan on the basis of nepotism and her degree was challenged in the Lahore High Court.
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Abdus Salam
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- university teacherphysicisttheoretical 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 Muslim from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science 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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- military personneldiplomatpolitician
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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was a Pakistani military officer who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. Along with Tikka Khan, he is considered the chief architect of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
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- politicianlawyer
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of India from 1974 to 1977.
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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- writersongwriterpoetlyricistjournalist
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz 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 today 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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- writerhistoriannovelistjournalistpolitician
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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 studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani
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- politician
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani was an Islamist, Pro-Pakistan Kashmiri-separatist leader in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, regarded as the father of the Kashmiri jihad.
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Baldev Raj Chopra
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- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
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Baldev Raj Chopra was a famous Indian director and producer of Bollywood industry and television series. He's known for directing notable films like 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 such as 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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- translatorwriter'ālimpolitician
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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. He served as a professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab, and is the founding chairman of several sub-organizations of Minhaj-ul-Quran International. Additionally, he has been featured in every edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims since its first edition in 2009.
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Yusril Ihza Mahendra
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- politicianacademic
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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) since 2015. Previously, he served as the leader of the PBB from 1998 until 2005, Minister of Justice and Human Rights from 2004 until 2007, and member of the People's Representative Council from 1999 until 2009.
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Hamid Mir
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- cricketerjournalist
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Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, 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 well known for his stance against the dominance of the Establishment in Pakistan. Hamid Mir has survived two assassination attempts, 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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Chuhdary Rahmat Ali
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- politicianjurist
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Choudhry Rahmat Ali was a Pakistani nationalist 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 South Asia and is generally known as the originator of the Pakistan Movement.
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Asma Jahangir
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- human rights activistlawyer
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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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Kulsoom Nawaz
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- politician
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Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif was a Pakistani politician who was the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms; from 1990 to 1993, 1997 to 1999 and then from 2013 to 2017. She was the President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) from 1999 to 2002.
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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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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 1991 to 1994 and as the 28th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.
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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 from 2020 to 2022. He is the founder and leader of Awami Muslim League, and also maintains close relations with the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
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Ishaq Dar
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- financierpoliticianeconomist
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar is a senior Pakistani politician. He was finance minister four times. He is currently a senator of Pakistan.
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad
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- Khalifawriter
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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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Muhammad Mian Soomro
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- bankerpolitician
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Muhammad Mian Soomro is a Pakistani politician, banker and senator who currently serves as the federal minister for Privatization. Born to a Native Sindhi family originally linked to the Soomra dynasty, he previously served as the chairman of the Senate from 2003 to 2009, the Caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 2007 to 2008, and the acting president of Pakistan from 18 August 2008 to 9 September 2008.
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Zia Mohyeddin
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractortelevision producer
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Zia Mohyeddin 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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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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Khawaja Muhammad Asif
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- bankerpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Khawaja Muhammad Asif is a Pakistani politician who served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan from April 2022 till August 2023. 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. In May, 2019 he took the charge and became the Parliamentary Leader of PML-N in the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani
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- authormuftijudge
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani SI, OI, is a Pakistani jurist and a 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 has been conferred the title of Shaykh al-Islām for his knowledge in Islamic studies. 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 migrated to Pakistan with his family after the partition of India in 1948.
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Wasim Sajjad
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- politicianlawyer
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Wasim Sajjad 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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- ministerpoliticianlawyer
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry was a Pakistani politician who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 to 1978 prior to the 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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- peace activisteconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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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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Dalip Singh Saund
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
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- politicianjudgefarmerbusinessperson
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Dalip Singh Saund was an Indian-American politician who served three terms (1957 to 1963) in the United States House of Representatives from California's 29th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party.
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Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- Studied in 1925
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- financiereconomistacademicpolitician
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Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, best known as Muhammad Ali, was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fourth prime minister of Pakistan from August 1955 till his resignation in September 1956. His government transitioned Pakistan from a British Dominion to an Islamic Republic.
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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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- activistpolitician
- Biography
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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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- economistbanker
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Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin is a Pakistani politician 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. On 27 December 2021, he was appointed the Finance Minister of Pakistan again, replacing the recently appointed Hammad Azhar after a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan. He is the Member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018.
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Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar
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- barristerpolitician
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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 to former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif from 18 April 2022 to 10 August 2023.
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Muhammad Hussain Najafi
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- 'ālim
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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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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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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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Yusuf Raza Gilani
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- politicianjournalist
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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 a veteran of Pakistan People's Party, and is currently serving as the vice-chairman of the party's Central Executive Committee, and in 2021 was elected as a Senator.
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Shamshad Akhtar
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- economistbanker
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Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who also is the outgoing caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan. She also previously served as the caretaker Finance Minister from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.
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Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema
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- 1958-.. (age 66)
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- politician
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Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema is a Pakistani politician who is serving as the Secretary General of the PML-Q since 2003. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023 and from June 2013 till May 2018. He served as the Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research.
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Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq
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- bankerpolitician
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Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq is a Pakistani politician who is the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Z). He served as Minister for Religious Affairs and Minorities in the government of General Pervez Musharraf from 2004 to 2007, after having served as Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis in the government of Nawaz Sharif from 1990 to 1993.
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Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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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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Javed Hashmi
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- politiciangeopolitical analystlawyer
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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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Mian Amer Mahmood
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Mian Amer Mahmood, 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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Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
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- financiereconomistpoliticianbanker
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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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- international forum participantpolitician
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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.
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Zubair Ali Zai
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- muhaddithwriterBiographical evaluation scholar'ālim
- Biography
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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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Abdur Rab Nishtar
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- politician
- Biography
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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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- journalistwriterpoet
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Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, Sitara-e-Imtiaz was a Pakistani Urdu poet, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist.
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Kanwal Ameen
- Born in
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Pakistan - Biography
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Kanwal Ameen is a Pakistani professor in information management. She has served as chairperson (2009-2018) of the Department of Information Management (University of the Punjab), formerly the Department of Library and Information Science, and as director, directorate of external linkages. On 31 May 2019, Ameen was appointed to a four-year term as vice-chancellor of the University of Home Economics.
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
- Years
- 1888-1963 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- mathematicianpoliticianrevolutionaryphilosopher
- Biography
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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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- chemisthistorian of science
- Biography
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Muzaffar Iqbāl is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author.
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Sardar Ayaz Sadiq
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- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sardar Ayaz Sadiq is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018. He served as the 19th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to August 2015 and again from November 2015 to August 2018. Sadiq chaired the Parliament Session in April 2022 on the day of the No confidence motion against Imran Khan, and conducted in-house voting for the New Prime Minister, later Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the new Prime Minister on April 11th, 2022.
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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 senior minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Chief Ministership of Pervez Khattak.
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Riazuddin
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- physicisttheoretical physicistacademicphilosopher
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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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Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
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- chemistadministratoracademic
- Biography
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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), he 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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Ishtiaq Ahmed
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Ishtiaq Ahmed is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University.
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Zaib Rehman
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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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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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
- Occupations
- art historianwriterbotanisthistoriancivil servant
- Biography
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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 Partition as the Director-General of Rehabilitation, establishing the city of Chandigarh and documenting the arts of Punjab, 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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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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- human rights activistwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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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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Sikandar Hayat Khan
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- politician
- Biography
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Khan Bahadur Captain Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan,, 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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Tariq Fatemi
- Occupations
- 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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Asif Saeed Khan Khosa
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- advocatejudge
- 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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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.
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Jagan Nath Azad
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- writerpoet
- 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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- politicianlawyer
- 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
- Occupations
- 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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- indologisthistoriancompilerwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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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Om Prakash Mehra
- Enrolled in the University of the Punjab
- In 1940 graduated with Master of Arts in history
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- 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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Tehmina Daultana
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tehmina Daultana is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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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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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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Iftikhar Ahmad
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Iftikhar Ahmad is a Pakistani research journalist and a political activist.
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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 magnum opus, Tafsir Zia ul Quran fi Tafsir ul Quran, meaning “The light of the Quran in the Exegesis of the Quran." It is commonly referred to as Diya ul Quran or Zia ul Quran. He also authored Zia un Nabi, or “Diya al-Nabi," Life of Prophet Muhammad, a detailed biography of Muhammad in seven volumes.
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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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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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Datin Paduka Dr. 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 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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Zulfikar Ali Magsi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, (born 14 February 1954 in Jhal Magsi, Balochistan, Dominion of Pakistan) was the 20th governor of Balochistan Province since 28 February 2008 to 9 June 2013 as well as the chief executive of Balochistan since 14 January 2013. He is the Nawab and Tumandar of the Magsi Tribe, a former governor and a former chief executive of Balochistan, a senior politician and the former chief minister of Balochistan province in the Benazir Bhutto government of 1993–1996. Nawab was appointed as the chief executive of Balochistan on 13 January 2013 after the sacking of Aslam Raisani's unpopular government and imposition of Governor's Rule. It was the main after effect of the January 2013 Pakistan bombings. Nawab Magsi did his schooling from Aitchison College, Lahore. He first came to politics in 1977, when he won as an independent candidate seat from his native constituency in the provincial assembly. However, his family was involved in Balochistan politics before Pakistani independence. He served in many provincial ministries and also worked in the Home Ministry in the 1990s. In 1993, his coalition won majority of seats and he became Chief Minister of Balochistan.
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Ramesh Singh Arora
- Occupations
- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora is a Pakistani politician and social worker.
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Nighat Dad
- Occupations
- social workerlawyer
- 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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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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RK Anand
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Ishfaq Ahmad
- Occupations
- physicistengineertheoretical physicistnuclear physicist
- 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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Muhammad Barjees Tahir
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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 writerliterary criticprofessor
- 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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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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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 Defence 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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Muhammad Talha Mahmood
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood is a Pakistani general category member of the Senate of Pakistan from Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who is the current Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony, in office since 15 April 2023.
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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 the Supreme Court of Pakistan from January 2000 to January 2002.
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Syed Mansoor Ali Shah
- Occupations
- 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. He is expected to take oath as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 October 2024.
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Idris Azad
- Occupations
- literary criticlyricistlinguistphilosophersongwriter
- Biography
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Idris Azad born on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction, journalism, critic, poetry, philosophy, mysticism and art. He is teacher of logic and philosophy at International Islamic University, Islamabad. Idrees Azad is also associated with Pakistan Film Industry. He is Head of the Department of VFX & CGI at Paragon Academy of Performing Arts, Shabab Noor Studio, Lahore and assists the director Syed Noor in film making as well.
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Azad Marshall
- Occupations
- 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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Shaukat Hameed Khan
- Occupations
- physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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Shaukat Hameed Khan PP, PhD, FPAS, is a Pakistani optical physicist and a visiting professor of physics at the Comsats University in Islamabad. Khan is known for his understanding in spark gap and plasma-induced Lasers in ionized environment.
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Siddiq Khan Kanju
- Years
- Died in 2001
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Mohammad Siddiq Khan Kanju, Lodhran district in Punjab province, Pakistan, died in Kahror Pakka in July 2001) was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
