Rashid Minhas

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  Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, (Urdu: راشد منہاس‎) (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He is also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer […]

Bhulley Shah

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Year 1758 AD. Syed Abdullah Shah, a member of the distinguished Muslim Syed family dies in Kasur, and his body is denied a burial in Kasur’s graveyard and is left without funeral proceedings out-side the town for some days until a non-native stranger arrives their to perform Syed Abdullah Shah’s funeral. Commonly known as Bulleh […]

Namira Salim

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  Namira Salim (Urdu: نمیرا سلیم; born 1975 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani explorer already been to both poles, skydived over Mount Everest and set up country’s first consulate in Monaco. She may also become the first Pakistani to travel into space after she was short-listed among 100 space tourists by the world’s first commercial space liner Virgin Galactic in 2007 out of 44,000 candidates.  Salim has said […]

Moin Khan

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Mohammad Moin Khan (Urdu: محمد معین خان; born September 23, 1971), popularly known as Moin Khan (Urdu: معین خان), is a former Pakistani cricketer, primarily a wicketkeeper-batsman, who remained a member of the Pakistani national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He has also captained the Pakistani side. He made his international debut against the West Indies at Multan. He took over 100 catches in […]

Sehba Akhtar

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Sehba Akhtar (September 23, 1930 – February 19, 1996) was a poet and songwriter in Pakistan. He was born to Sir Rehmat Ali Rehmat, a poet and a contemporary of Agha Hashr Kashmiri, in Srinagar, India. Sehba originally belonged to Amritsar. He started writing verses in his school days. He passed his high school from Breli and later attended the […]

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

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Ghulam Mustafa Khan, PhD, D.Litt, SI, (September 23, 1912 – September 25, 2005) was a researcher, critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious and spiritual leader belonging to Naqshbandi order of Sufism. He was one of most notable people of Hyderabad, Sindh Pakistan. In 1928 he passed ninth grade from Anjuman Islamia High School, Jabalpur and went to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for the rest of his education. He received his higher education at […]

Amanat Ali Khan

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Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: استاد امانت علی خان; born 1932–1974) was a Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award by the government of Pakistan. He stands with great singing icons likeMehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi. Amanat Ali Khan was born Hoshiarpur, Punjab to Akhtar Husain Khan and the grandson of Ali Baksh Jarnail, the founder of […]

Hajra Masroor

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Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; born January 17, 1930)  is a Pakistani feminist writer. She has written several books of short stories in which she has raised the social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. She has also received several awards including Pride of Performance Award for best writer in 1995 and Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Award. Hajra began writing […]

Lehri

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Safirullah Siddiqui ‘Lehri’ (January 2, 1929 – September 13, 2012) was one of Pakistan’s greatest comedians who made his name in Urdu films. His film career started in the 1950s and lasted until the 1980s. He passed away on Sept. 13, 2012 in Karachi after a prolonged illness. He was 83. Lehri won the Nigar Award  for around a dozen films. […]

Rais Amrohvi

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Syed Muhammad Mehdi, known as Rais Amrohvi (or Raees Amrohvi) (رئیس امروہوی) (1988-1914) was a noted scholar, Urdu poet andpsychoanalyst from Pakistan. He was born on September 12, 1914 in Amroha, India, in a notable family of scholars. Almost all the members of his family were poets. He migrated to Pakistan on October 19, 1947 and settled in Karachi. He was known for his unique style of Qatanigari […]

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah

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Zaib-un-Nissa ( Arabic: زیب‌النسا‎; transliterated Zeb-un-Nissa, Zaibunnissa, Zaibun Nisa, Zaibunisa, Zaib-un-Nisa, Zebunnissa, Zeb-un-Nisa) Hamidullah (December 25, 1921 – September 10, 2000) was a pioneer of Pakistani literatureand journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan. She was Pakistan’s first female columnist (in English), editor, publisher and political commentator. Zaibunnisa Street inKarachi was named for her.  Before Partition, she wrote for many Indian newspapers, and was the first Muslim […]

Feroze Khan (field hockey)

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Feroze Khan (Urdu: فیروز خان) (September 9, 1904 – April 21, 2005) was, at the time of his death, the world’s oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of U.S. athlete James Rockefeller in 2004. He was part of British India’s Olympic hockey team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who won the gold medal for the event.  After his death, Roger Beaufrand of France became the oldest living Olympic […]

Pakistan students outshine US youth in Space Art Contest

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Colorado: Capturing many of award slots, Brilliant Pakistani students outshine their counterparts from United States and Turkey in Space Foundation Student Art Contest. The Space Foundation invited students from around the world in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to submit original artwork depicting the theme, “Space is Infinite — Explore!” More than 1,500 contestants from U.S. […]

Haider Ali

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KARACHI: Pakistan’s Haider Ali wants to create history by becoming the first Pakistani athlete to lift a Paralympic gold as he prepares for tomorrow’s long jump event. Ali, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy, took part in F-37/38 Category men’s long jump in Beijing Paralympics in 2008 and covered a distance of 6.44 meters, winning a silver […]

Melody in the Darkness

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“We may have lost the light in our eyes, but we wish to see a bright future for our country”, says Khaadim Jaffri, a visually impaired musician from Multan who has not allowed his disability to become a handicap. Along with brother Mukhtiar Jaffri and pianist Ajmal,the trio have composed music for several Siraiki albums. […]

Pakistani film “Lamha” bags two awards at New York Film Festival

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KARACHI: Pakistani film “Lamha (Seedlings)” bagged two awards at the New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF), which concluded early Friday. “Lamha” won the Best Feature Film – Audience Award and its leading lady Aamina Sheikh won the Best Actress in Leading Role award in a late-night ceremony at the Angelika Film Centre in New […]

Hindu shoemaker’s son tops matriculation exam

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RAHIM YAR KHAN: Revtash Kumar, who belongs to an impoverished household in the lower district of Rahim Yar Khan has surprised everyone by securing the top most position in matriculation examinations. His success was celebrated in a traditional way, amidst Pakistani folk songs. His family was very happy on their son’s achievement. Despite topping the […]

Pakistani polio survivor Mudassar Baig dreams of winning a medal at the London Paralympics, hoping to inspire a nation

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“It’s a dream come true for me and I want to be a role model — not only for disabled people in my country but also for the able-bodied who lose courage,” said Baig, whose right leg was left shorter than his left by polio in childhood. The 33-year-old post office clerk who thought life […]

Saima ammar’s Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness

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Saima Ammar, Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness (PFFB) lost her eyesight at the age of two-and-a-half. Her optic nerve was totally damaged following a severe attack of typhoid in 1971. Saima’s started her education in Pakistan at the Al-Maktoum Special Education Centre, did her matric from Station School, and graduated from F […]

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital

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Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) is a state-of-the-art cancer research centre and hospital located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, which is a charitable organization established under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 of Pakistan. The institution is the brainchild of Pakistani cricket superstar and Politician, Imran Khan. The […]

Azme Alishan

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Azme Alishan has been conducting various activities around Pakistan as part of its awareness drive including Sanwaro Pakistan, Canal Mela, National Song Competition and much more. As part of the Azm-e-Alishan awareness drive a motorcycle rally took place in Karachi and Lahore for three consecutive days. 70 motorcyclists symbolizing 70 years since the signing of […]

Taabeer

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Taabeer is a philanthropic organization established by young undergrads from various Pakistani universities. Tabeer’s motto is “identifying different ways through which we can fulfill the dreams of the less privileged people around us”. The organization’s strategy differs from others since they don’t believe in distributing donations only. The young volunteers at Tabeer first assess a […]

Sarah Nasir

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Twenty-one year old Sarah Nasir (Left) is the only female karateka from Pakistan to have earned a gold medal in karate at a recognised martial arts competition. It was during the South Asian Games in Dhaka that Sarah bagged a gold in the -53kg kumite (sparring) and bronze in kata (imaginary fight routine) events. A […]

Saad Shahid

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Saad Shahid, is a first year medical student, and a professional squash player in second position in the world ranking for under 17 squash players. Saad won the Under 15 event in India and grabbed the second ranking in the Under 15 category in Pakistan. Grateful to his parent’s support both financially and morally, Saad […]

Faisal Kashif

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Faisal Kashif received his BSc in Electronic Engineering from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, Pakistan, and both SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Prior to commencing his graduate education at MIT, Faisal gained considerable research experience in industry in Pakistan and the United States. […]

Saadi Abbas

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Pakistan’s first-ever Asian karate champion. Abbas etched his name in history when he beat his South Korean opponent to win gold in the sub-67 kilogramme category at the Asian Karate-do Championships. He not only became the first Pakistani but also the first south Asian to achieve this feat at an event, and a sport, dominated […]

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi

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Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (Urdu: اعصام الحق قریشی) (born March 17, 1980, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a professional tennis player from Pakistan. He is currently Pakistan’s top player. A top 10 doubles player, his highest Singles Race ranking is 103rd and is the formerAsian No. 3. He is the only Pakistani tennis player to reach the final of a Grand Slam, which […]

Adeel Ameer

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The Special Olympics is a global event held every four years where athletes with intellectual disabilities, ranging from moderate to severe, show the world they are capable of taking centre-stage as well. Taking part in a global event is a gruesome ask. And performing with the world watching is even more daunting, especially if your […]

Ishtiaq Ahmad

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Ishtiaq Ahmad (or Ishtiaq Ahmed or اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ اﺤﻤﺩ in Urdu), is primarily a fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan (originally from Jhang,Pakistan), famous for his spy, detective novels in the Urdu language, and is the author of the highest number of novels (his 773rd novel is published by Atlantis Publications in April 2011) by any author in any language throughout the world.[citation needed] He started by writing short […]

Hakim Muhammad Said

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Sir Hakim Muhammad Said (Urdu: حکیم محمد سعید; January 9, 1920 – October 17, 1998, NI, PhD), was a prominent and world acclaimed medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist, and a former Governor of Sindh Province of Pakistan from 1993 until 1996. Said was one of Pakistan’s most renowned medical researchers in the field of eastern medicines. He established the Hamdard Foundation in 1948, prior to his settlement in West-Pakistan. In a […]

Shahid Khan Afridi

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Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi(Urdu: صاحبزادہ محمد شاہد خان آفریدی) (born 1 March 1980 in Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, popularly known asShahid Afridi (Pashto:شاهد ‏افریدی), is a Pakistani Cricketer. Between 1996 and 2012, Afridi played 27 Tests, 334 One Day Internationals, and 46 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Pakistani national […]

Sohail Abbas

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Sohail Abbas (Urdu: سہیل عباس) (born 9 June 1977 in Karachi) is a field hockey defender and penalty corner specialist from Pakistan. He is the highest scorer of goals in Hockey breaking Dhyan Chand’s record 274 goals for the most goals scored in international competition] with his current goal tally at 328. (on 30.06.2011). When […]

Aleem Dar

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Aleem Sarwar Dar(Urdu:علیم سرور ڈار) (born June 6, 1968 in jhang,Punjab) is a retired Pakistani first-class cricketer and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won three consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards 2009, 2010 and 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar and Simon Taufelare the only umpires to have received the award since […]

Saeed Anwar

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Saeed Anwar (Urdu: سعید انور; born September 6, 1968 in Karachi, Sind) is a former Pakistani left-handed opening batsmanand ocasional Slow left arm orthodox bowler who played international cricket between 1989 and 2003. He played 55Test matches scoring 4052 with the help of eleven centuries while in 247 One Day Internationals (ODIs) he made 8824 runs. He made twenty centuries in ODIs which are the most than any other pakistani […]

Saqlain Mushtaq

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Saqlain Mushtaq (Urdu: ثقلین مشتاق) (born December 29, 1976) is Pakistani cricketer. He is best known for pioneering the “doosra”, which he employed to great effect during his career. Saqlain has not been active in international cricket since 2004. Saqlain made his international debut in September 1995 playing against Sri Lanka at Peshawar. He picked up four wickets at an average of […]

Fatima Surayya Bajia

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Fatima Surayya Bajia PP (Urdu: فاطمہ ثُڑیا باجیا), is a renowned Urdu novelist,playwright and drama writer of Pakistan. She has been awarded various awards at home and abroad including Japan’s highest civil award in recognition of her works. She also remained Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh province in Pakistan. Born on 1 September 1930 in Hyderabad, India, she has never attended a formal school, all her […]

Inzamam-ul-Haq

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Inzamam-ul-Haq(Saraiki, Punjabi, Urdu:انضمام الحق; born 3 March 1970[1]), also known as Inzy, is a Pakistani cricketer who was a leading batsman and the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team from 2003 to 2007. He is the second-highest run scorer for Pakistan inTest cricket, after Javed Miandad. Inzamam rose to fame in the semi-final of the 1992 Cricket World Cup, in which he […]

Anwar Maqsood

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Anwar Maqsood Hameedi(Urdu: انور مقصود حمیدی) commonly known as Anwar Maqsood Urdu: انور مقصود) (born 1935) is a Pakistani Playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, infrequent actor and painter who has worked in the entertainment industry since the 1970s. Born in Hyderabad State which, in 1935, was part of British Rajand, since 1948, part of India, Anwar Maqsood studied at the Gulbarga Trust School in […]

Ismail Gulgee

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Ismail Gulgee Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (twice), Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. From about 1960 on, he was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American […]

Umer Sharif

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Umer Sharif, TI (Urdu: عمر شریف, also spelled Omer Sharif; born 19 April 1955 in the town of Liaquatabad in Karachi, Sindh) is a Pakistani stand-up comedian, stage, film and television actor, writer, director and producer. His original name is Mohammad Umer, however he changed that to Umer Zarif when he joined the theater and […]

Sadequain

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Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi (Urdu: سید صادقین احمد نقوی), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced. During nineteen sixties he stayed in interior Sindh in areas surrounded by desert where nothing […]

Javed Miandad

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Javed Miandad is the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced. There was little doubt in the mind of Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistan’s first Test captain and influential administrator, when he first laid eyes on him as a youngster in the early 70s and famously predicted Miandad “the find of the decade.” He wasn’t wrong, as […]

Mir Zafar Ali

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Mir Zafar Ali (Urdu:میر ظفر علی) is an award-winning Pakistani movie visual effects specialist and artist. He played a background role in the team that won the Oscar award for best visual effects in 2007, for the movie The Golden Compass. He is the first Pakistani to have been connected with an Oscar award-winning venture, for Best Visual Effects. Ali has worked […]

Ashfaq Ahmed

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Ashfaq Ahmed, PP, SI (Urdu: اشفاق احمد) (August 22, 1925 – September 7, 2004) was a distinguished writer, playwright, broadcaster, intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan. His qualities of head and heart, in particular his ability to weave Islamic (sufi) wisdom into everyday folk experience earned appreciation across the world. He was regarded by many as […]

Amjad Islam Amjad

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Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, SI (Urdu: امجد اسلام امجد) (born August 4, 1944 in Sialkot) is a famous Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan. He received his education in Lahore. He graduated from Islamia College Civil Lines, Lahore. His career started as a lecturer in M.A.O College Lahore. From 1975 to 1979 he […]

Ayub Khan Ommaya

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Ayub Khan Ommaya, MD, ScD (h.c.), FRCS, FACS (April 14, 1930, Mian Channu – July 11, 2008, Islamabad) was a Pakistani neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the tumor site for brain tumors. Ommaya was also a leading expert in traumatic brain injuries. He is honored as an Amazing […]

Abida Parveen

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Abida Parveen (born 1954) (Sindhi: عابده پروين, Urdu: عابده پروین), is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi,Saraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of […]

Dr. Naveed Zaidi

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Development of the world’s first workable plastic magnet at room temperature by organic chemist and polymer scientist Naveed Zaidi. Zaidi and colleagues synthesized the new material out of a combination of emeraldine base polyaniline (PANi) and tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). The measurements made by the group indicate that the material has a Curie temperature above 350 K […]

Raja Aziz Bhatti

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Major Raja Aziz Bhatti (1928 – September 10, 1965) (Punjabi, Urdu: عزیز بهٹی) was a Hong Kong-born Pakistan Army’s Staff officer who received Pakistan’s highest award for valor. He was born in Hong Kong in 1928. He moved to Pakistan before it became independent in 1947, living in the village of Ladian,Kharian, Gujrat. There he enlisted with the newly formed Pakistani Army and was commissioned to the Punjab Regiment in 1950. […]

Rashid Minhas Shaheed

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Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, (Urdu: راشد منہاس) (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force(PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He is also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to […]

Samar Mubarak Mand

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Samar Mubarakmand (Urdu: ثمر مبارک مند) (born September 17, 1942), (NI, HI, SI, Ph.D, FPAS), is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, who served as the founding chairman of National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) from 2001 until 2007.Samar Mubarak-Mand launched the Missile Integration Programme in 1987 which was successfully completed in 2005. A pioneer of Fluid and Aerodynamics in Pakistan, Mand earned renowned internationally in May 1998, when he headed the team […]

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy

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Dr. Prof. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: پرویز ہودبھائی; born 11 July 1950), is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and political-defence analyst. He is the professor of nuclear and high-energy physics, and the head of the Physics Department at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU). He graduated and also received PhD from MIT and continues to do research in Particle physics. He received the Baker Award for Electronics in 1968, and the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics in 1984. He has authored various scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Hoodbhoy […]

Muhammad Suhail Zubairy

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Muhammad Suhail Zubairy is a Professor of Physics at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics. He has made pioneering contributions in the fields of laser physics and quantum optics. He has authored and co-authored several books and over 250 research papers on a wide variety of research problems relating to theoretical physics. […]

Ishfaq Ahmad

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Ishfaq Ahmad (Urdu: اشفاق احمد), D.Sc., Minister of State, SI, HI, NI, FPAS, (born 3 November 1930) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, and well-known educationist and academic from Pakistan. A versatile theoretical physicist, Ahmad made significant contributions in nuclear, particle and quantum electrodynamics, Ahmad played an important role in establishing research institutes in Nuclear sciences in Pakistan. During 1970s, Ahmad was the head of the Nuclear Physics Division at the secret Pinstech Institute which developed […]

Munir Ahmad Khan

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Munir Ahmad Khan (Urdu: منير احمد خان; May 20, 1926 – April 22, 1999), HI, was a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scientist who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1972 to 1991. Along with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (former Prime minister), Munir Ahmad Khan on the technical side, is often called as the “father of the Pakistan’s atomic bomb project”, for his role […]

Hafeez A. Pasha

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Dr. Hafiz Ahmed Pasha (Urdu: حفیظ احمد پاشا) is a distinguished economist of Pakistan who is a member of the country’s Panel of Economists, an independent advisory committee for the government. He is also the dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. He is also the Vice Chairman of the university’s think-tank, the Institute of Public Policy. […]

Rashid Kausar

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A R Kausar (born April 8, 1948), is a well known Pakistani Professor of Knowledge Management. Dr. Kausar was born in Punjab, Pakistan. He enrolled at Karachi University in 1970, and completed Bachelor of Science (Hons) with first position and very good grades. Thereafter, Dr. Kausar was awarded assistant-ship from Michigan State University, USA in 1973 for PhD. He earned his […]

Ansar Burney

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Ansar Burney (Urdu: انصار برنی; born 14 August 1956 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan) is a leading Pakistani human rights and civil rights activist. He is a graduate of Masters and Law from Karachi University and honorary recipient of a PhD. in Philosophy. In 1980, Ansar Burney began the “Ansar Burney Welfare Trust”, “Prisoners Aid Society”, and “Bureau of Missing and Kidnapped Persons” in Karachi, Pakistan. Ansar Burney is accredited […]

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman

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Atta-ur-Rahman, D.Phil., TI, SI HI, NI, is a leading scientist and scholar in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan, especially renowned for his research in the various areas relating to natural product chemistry. With over 840 publications in the field of his expertise, he is also credited for reviving the higher education and research practices in Pakistan. Atta-ur-Rahman has had a prominent record in Cambridge Overseas School Certificate in 1958, and ‘A’ […]

Moin Akhter

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Moin Akhtar (Urdu: معین اختر, also spelled as, Moeen Akhtar; 24 December 1950 – 22 April 2011) was a Pakistani television, film and stage actor, as well as a humorist, comedian, impersonator, and ahost. He was also a play writer, singer, film director and a producer.  Akhtar was born in Karachi to Urdu speaking Kashmiri parents migrated from Mumbai India,  was highly dynamic and versatile performer, he made his debut for television on 6 September 1966, in a variety show held on PTV to celebrate […]

Jahangir Khan

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Jahangir Khan, HI, (born 10 December 1963, in Karachi, Pakistan) (sometimes spelled “Jehangir Khan“) is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan, who is considered by many to be the greatest player in the history of the game. Jahangir Khan is an ethnic Pashtun, originally from Neway Kelay, Peshawar.  During his career he won the World Opensix times and the British Open a record […]

Noor Jehan

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Noorjehan  was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai (September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) who was a legendary singer and actress in British India and Pakistan. Her career spanned seven decades. She was renowned as one of the greatest and most influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given the honorific title ofMalika-e-Tarannum (Urdu: ملکہ ترنم, English: the queen of […]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan   (October 13, 1948 – August 16, 1997), a world-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, he possessed a six-octave vocal range and could perform at a high level of […]