Dr. A. Q. Khan
Born 1 April 1936 (age 75) Bhopal, British Bhopal State, British Indian Empire (Present day, India) Residence Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory Citizenship, Pakistan Nationality Pakistani. Fields, Metallurgical Engineering
Institutions URENCO Group, Khan Research Laboratories
Physics Research Laboratories
GIK Institute of Engineering
Alma mater Karachi University
Technical University Berlin
Catholic University of Leuven
Delft University of Technology
Doctoral advisor Martin J. Brabers[1]
Other academic advisors Bashir Syed
Known for Nuclear detterence programme
Ultracentrifuges development
Notable awards Hilal-i-Imtiaz (14-8-1989)
Nishan-i-Imtiaz (14-8-1996 and 23-3-1999)
Spouse Henny Qadeer Khan
Dr. A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and a metallurgical engineer who served as the Director-General of the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) from 1976 till 2001. Abdul Qadeer Khan is widely regarded as the founder of HEU based Gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment programme for Pakistan's nuclear deterrence development.[2]
Born January 1, 1928 Bantva, British India
Citizenship Pakistan Pakistani
Occupation Humanitarian Spouse Bilquis Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi, (R), a philanthropist and the head of The Edhi Foundation, the largest non-profit social welfare organisation in Pakistan, receives charity money in Karachi July 10, 2008. Edhi has started his campaign to beg for alms on streets, aimed at providing food for millions of homeless and needy people on a daily basis, according to local media. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN) REUTERS
Muhammad Iqbal
Born November 9, 1877
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Died April 21, 1938 (aged 60)
Lahore, Punjab, British India
Era Modern philosophy
Region British India
School Islamic philosophy
Main interests Urdu poetry, Persian poetry
Iqbal encouraged the creation of a "state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims" in his 1930 presidential address.[2] Iqbal encouraged and worked closely with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and he is known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-e-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of the Ummah"). He is officially recognised as the "national poet" in Pakistan. The anniversary of his birth (Yōm-e Welādat-e Muḥammad Iqbāl) on November 9 is a holiday in Pakistan.
( born in 25 December, 1949) is a Pakistani conservative politician and steel magnate who served as 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990-July 1993 and February 1997-October 1999. He currently served as the President of the Pakistan Muslim League (N-Wing). Before becoming the Prime minister, Sharif was the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1985 to 1990 and embarked his political career under the military regime of President General Zia-ul-Haq. A businessman and lawyer by profession, he owns Ittefaq Group, a private steel mill enterprise and one of the largest producer of Iron materials. Sharif is noted as being as Pakistan's one of the wealthiest investor in Steel mill business and a conservative politician advocating for the conservatism in the country, and capitalism as its economic base. His first term was shortened after the Pakistan Army pressured him to resign after developing serious issues with another conservative President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, which he too was forced to resigned.
From 1993 until 1996, Sharif served as the Leader of the Opposition in the socialist democratic government of Benazir Bhutto. In 1997, he was elected on for a second term by an overwhelming margin after brutally defeating Benazir Bhutto whose government was dismissed on serious economical and financial scandals became known in public. During his second term, he notably ordered Pakistan's first nuclear tests in response to India's nuclear tests, as part of his tit-for-tat policy, a termed he coined after the tests.
Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
( born in 1950) is a well-known Pakistani politician and currently President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N). He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab since 2008. Previously, he held this position from 1997 to 1999, when Pervez Musharraf took control of Pakistan in a military coup. He, along with his entire family, was forced into exile until his return to Pakistan in late 2007.
Benazir Bhutto(21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani woman socialist-democratic politician who was the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, and also the 3rd chairwoman the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)— a democratic socialist, centre-left, and the largest political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state,having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister and was the eldest child of former Prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and former First Lady of Pakistan Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of current President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, after having reached an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 in which she was a leading opposition candidate. The following year, she was named one of seven winners of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 05 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and the 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)— the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan— and served as its chairman until his execution in 1979 on charges of murder. His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as Prime minister, while his son Murtaza Bhutto, served as member of Parliament of Pakistan.
IMRAN KHAN
Born 25 November 1952 (age 58)Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Spouse(s) Jemima Khan (1995 - 2004)
Children 2 (Sulaiman Isa and Kasim)
Residence Lahore
Occupation Politician, philanthropist
Religion Islam
Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently
throughout 1982-1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992
Proud Of Pakistan