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Most by far of us imagine a mother when requested to think from a supporting parental figure. In reality, even as current dads go facing what’s coming to them of the work that goes with raising children, various adolescents – particularly energetic ones – slant toward their mothers as a …

Career Khan began her career as an actress at the age of 18, making her debut with a supporting role in the romance Tum Jo Miley, that aired on Hum TV. After portraying supporting roles in several television series, she appeared as leading actress in the Geo TV romantic drama Tootey Huwey Per (2011).She later established …

Life Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, son of Ibrahim Kabeeruddin, was born in Maiwand, today’s Afghanistan. He was a SunniMuslim and his ancestors had migrated from Baghdad, Iraq and settled in Mashhad, Iran before moving to Maiwand. He lived when the Ghaznavid and Ghurids ruled in the Indus region(today’s Punjab, Pakistan). A contemporary of Rumi, he travelled around the Muslim world and settled in Sehwan, Sindh where he was eventually buried. There is …

Early life Amir was born in 1992 in Changa Bangial, Gujar Khan, Pothohar, Pakistan. He is the son of Raja Muhammad Fayyaz.He was the second youngest of seven children. “Wasim Akram is my favourite, he’s my idol. When I used to watch him on TV, I would try to see what exactly he was doing …

Early life During the PTCL ad commercial at Karachi with F&I (Miandad in green shirt) Javed Miandad was born on 12 June 1957 in Karachi. His parents moved from Palanpur, Gujarat, India, where his father, Miandad Noormohammad Tyagi, worked in the police department. He is a Tyagi caste Gujarati Muslim. He was posted in cities like Ahmedabad and Baroda, whilst at the same time, he was …

Personal life In February 2010, Saeed opened Cafe Rock restaurant at Hussain Chowk, situated off the M. M. Alam Road, Gulberg, Lahore. The restaurant follows the theme/trend of Hard Rock Cafes, providing underground bands and young aspiring artists with a platform to project themselves and perform in front of an audience. He married Urwa Hocane on 16th …

Early and personal life Younis was born in Vehari, Punjab in a Punjabi Jatt Muslim family in Pakistan. He was educated in Sadiq Public School in Bahawalpur in Pakistan, the Pakistani College (Pakistan Islamia Higher Secondary School) in Sharjah and the Government College in Vehari. He was raised in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where his father was a contract worker. …

  Early life and education See also: Sharif family Sharif was born on 28 October 1973 in Lahore, Pakistan,to Nawaz Sharif and Kulsoom Butt. She received her early education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore. She wanted to become a doctorhence she enrolled in King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s, however after a controversy over illegal …

Fatima Bhutto Early life Family Bhutto was born on 29 May 1982 to Murtaza Bhutto and an Afghan mother, Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto, the daughter of Afghanistan’s former foreign affairs official in Kabul.Her father was in exile during the military regime of general Zia-ul-Haq. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and her …

Early life and education Qureshi was born on 22 June 1956 in Multan, Punjab to a wealthy, political and prominent Sufi Muslim family. His family claims to be of saintly lineage and caretaker of the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya in Multan, which provides the family with substantial incomeas well votes during the elections. However, in 2014, he rejected …

Personal life His family moved out from the city of Hansi, nowadays in the modern Indian state of Haryana but then part of Punjab, during the Partition. In 2010, Inzamam and Saeed Anwar started Meat One, a chain of specialty meat shops.In 2017, Inzamam launched Legends of Inzamam ul Haq, a clothing store in Lahore. His nephew Imam-ul-Haq also plays for …

Early life Muhammad Taqi Usmani was born on 5 October 1943 (5 Shawwal 1362 AH) in Deoband, a city in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, British India. Education In 1958, Usmani passed the Fazil-e-Arabi (Arabic language examination) with distinction, administered by the Punjab Board. In 1959 he graduated from the `Alim course at Darul Uloom Karachi. Fiqh He …

Early life Esakhelvi was born in Esa Kheil, Mianwali, Punjab Province, Pakistan as Attaullah Khan Niazi. Niazi is a populous Pashtun tribe based in extreme north-west Punjabprovince of Pakistan and eastern regions of Afghanistan. Attaullah developed an interest in music as a child, but music was strictly forbidden in his home. Despite the restriction on music in his home, Attaullah secretly sought to learn …

Personal life She’s the daughter of veteran actor Abid Ali. In February 2019 she married Babar Bhatti, a Canada-based businessman and the grandson of Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, in Lahore.[4] Career Modelling Iman is a super model and one of the highest-paid models of Pakistan. Ali has worked with Indian designers such …

Early life Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was born in Chakwal, Punjab, British Indian Empire on 4 February 1917, according to the references written by Russian sources.He and his family were of Pathan (Pashtun) origin. Few Pakistanis knew anything about Yahya Khan when he was vaulted into the presidency two years ago. The stocky, bushy–browed Pathan had …

Early life Born in England, her father is a retired interior designer while her mother was an art teacher. She has one brother and one sister, Adnan Saeed and Amira Saeed respectively.The multi-ethnic family (her father is a Punjabi while her mother is a Memon) moved back to Karachi in 1990. She did her O-levels at Bay View High …

Career Khan began her career as an actress at the age of 18, making her debut with a supporting role in the romance Tum Jo Miley, that aired on Hum TV. After portraying supporting roles in several television series, she appeared as leading actress in the Geo TV romantic drama Tootey Huwey Per (2011). She later established …

Early life and career Abbas studied architecture at the National College of Arts in Lahore. He also writes Urdu poetry.His family settled in Lahore, Pakistan, after the independence in 1947.Abbas appeared in Pakistani dramas, telefilms, soaps and films.He has also appeared in Bollywood productions. Bollywood career Abbas made his debut in Bollywood opposite Bipasha Basu in Vikram Bhatt’s Creature 3D, …

Early life Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt was born in the Amritsar district village of Jabbowal into a Kashmiri Muslim family of wrestlers in the Punjab region of Northern India. He came from a wrestling family which was known to produce world-class wrestlers.[citation needed] The Butt family is believed by historians to originally have been Kaundinya gotra …

Life Tarek Fatah was born in 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan into a Punjabi family which had migrated from Mumbai to Karachi following the Partition of India in 1947. He was a leftist student leader in the 1960s and 1970s. Although he graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Karachi, Fatah entered journalism as a reporter for …

Early life and education Zardari was born in Karachi on 21 September 1988 to former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and her husband, former President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari. He is the maternal grandson of former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his wife Nusrat Bhutto. His paternal grandfather, Hakim Ali Zardari, was a politician and …

Personal life Akhtar was born in a small town in Morgah near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His father, Mohammad Akhtar, “from a hardworking economically unprivileged Punjabi family of the Gujjar community”, who worked as a night watchman at a petrol station belonging to the Attock oil refinery, married his mother, Hameeda Awan, when she was still a teenager, and …

Early life Malik was born as Zahida Malik in a Punjabi family in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan to Malik Mohammad Aslam, and his wife, Zeenat Malik. Career Television In 2002, Malik was asked by Prime TV to host a show called Prime Gupshup for them ushering a new direction for her comic skills and she improvised on the hour-long show …

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Early life Khan was born in Bhopal, British India, into an Khanzada (Muslim Rajput ) ethnicity family.His mother, Zulekha (née Begum), was a housewife. His father, Abdul Ghafoor, was an alumnus of Nagpur University and an academic who served in the Indian Education ministry then permanently settled the family in Bhopal State after he retired in 1935.After the partition of India in 1947, his family emigrated from India to Pakistan in …

Early life Zafar at the premiere of Tere Bin Laden, 2010 Ali Zafar was born on 18 May 1980 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan to a Punjabi family. His parents, Mohammad Zafarullah and Kanwal Ameen, were professors at the University of Punjab. He has two brothers; Zain and Danyal, the latter of these is a commercial model …

Early life Bakhtiar is the daughter of former attorney general Yahya Bakhtiar. Personal life Bakhtiar married singer Adnan Sami in 1993 and they divorced in 1997. They have a son together named Azaan.She also got married to Javed Jaffrey before Adnan sami Filmography This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help …

Birth and education This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Aly Khan was born in Turin, Italy, the younger son and only surviving child of the Aga Khan III and Cleope Teresa “Ginetta” Magliano. His father …

Early and personal life Wasim Akram was born on 3 June 1966 to a Punjabi Muslim Arain family in Lahore.Akram’s father, Chaudhary Muhammed Akram, was originally from a village near Amritsar in east Punjab, India, who moved to Kamonki, Punjab, Pakistan, after the partition of India in 1947. At the age of 30, Akram was diagnosed …

Early life The name “Ramzi Yousef” is believed to be an alias. The 9/11 Commission claimed that Yousef’s real name is Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim.He was born in Kuwait to his parents who were from Pakistan and Palestine. His father is Mohammed Abdul Karim from Balochistan, Pakistan. His mother is believed to be the sister of Khalid Sheikh …

Early life B. R. Chopra (sitting left) and Yash Chopra attending audio release of Naya Daur. At the start of his career Yash Chopra worked as an assistant director for his director-producer older brother, Baldev Raj Chopra. Chopra was born on 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India, into a Punjabi Hindu family in …

Biography Early life Saadat Hassan Manto was born in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab in a Muslim family of barristers on 11 May 1912. His father was a judge of a local court. He was ethnically a Kashmiri and proud of his Kashmiri roots. In a …

Early life Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was born in a Punjabi Arain family in Jalandhar, Punjab Province of the British India, on 12 August 1924 as the second child of Muhammad Akbar, who worked as a staff clerk in the Army GHQ of India Command of British Armed Forces in Delhi and Shimla, prior to the independence of Pakistan from British colonial rule in 1947. Most accounts confirm that Zia-ul-Haq …

Early and personal life Afridi was born in 1975in Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. He is from the Afridi tribe of Pashtuns.Afridi is married to his maternal cousin Nadia Afridi and has four daughters: Aqsa, Ansha, Ajwa and Asmara. Afridi was drafted to the Pakistan senior national team after fine performances at the …

Early life and education Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 21 December 1984 to parents who are Urdu-speaking Pathans.Her father, Hafeez Khan, was born in Delhi during the British Raj, and migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India. Khan attended the Foundation Public School in Karachi from where she did her O-levels at …

Background Siddiqui came to the United States on a student visa in 1990 for undergraduate and graduate education and eventually settled in Massachusetts. While completing the requirements for her Masters and her PhD in neuroscience in less than four years, she found time to marry and start a family, and volunteer …

Early life Aslam was born into a Punjabi Muslim family in Wazirabad, Punjab, Pakistan. He began his education in kindergarten at Kimberley Hall School, Lahore. In 1991, he moved to Rawalpindi where he continued his studies in St. Paul’s Cambridge School, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi. In 1995, Aslam returned to Lahore where he continued his studies in Divisional Public School. He attended PICS to …

Early life and family Hina Rabbani Khar was born in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Khar is the daughter of the powerful oligarch and politician Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar. Her father is a prominent national politician and serves as a member of the National Assembly.She is a niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar, the former Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab. Education Khar …

Early life Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was born in a family of Sargodha, Punjab.As told by him, his father, Kamal-ud-Din, a farmer, along with his family started migrating from East Punjab and reached Pakistan in around four months in the autumn of 1947. His family lost 36 of its members when migrating from Hisar, Haryana (erstwhile Punjab) to Lahore during …

Early life and background Nargis was born as Fatima Rashid in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British Indian Empire (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India). Her father Abdul Rashid, formerly Mohanchand Uttamchand (“Mohan Babu”), was originally a wealthy Mohyal Brahmin Hindu heir from Rawalpindi, Punjab Province who had converted to Islam.Her mother was Jaddanbai, a Hindustani classical music singer and one of the early pioneers of Indian cinema.Nargis’ family …

Early life According to Indian Investigation Kasab was born in Faridkot village in the Okara District of Punjab, Pakistan, to Amir Shahban Kasab and Noor Illahi.His father ran a snack cart while his elder brother, Afzal, worked as a labourer in Lahore.His elder sister, Rukaiyya Husain, was married and lived in the village.A younger sister, Suraiyya, and …

Early life and background The Kapoor Haveli in Peshawar, in modern-day Pakistan Kapoor was born into a Punjabi Hindu family in 1924 at Kapoor Haveli, a house then owned by his father, in Peshawar, North Western Frontier Province, British India (in modern-day Pakistan), to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Devi Kapoor. He was the eldest of six children in the family. He was the …

Early life Mohammad Ali was born in Rampur, British India on 19 April 1931. He was the son of Maulana Syed Murshid Ali, who was an Islamic scholar. Born into a religious family, he was the youngest of two brothers and two sisters. After his birth the family migrated from Rampur to Rohtak, and …

Early life Altaf Hussain was born on 17 September 1953 to Nazir Hussain and Khurseed Begum in Karachi, Sindh. Before the independence of Pakistan, Hussain’s parents resided at their ancestral home in Nai ki Mandi, Agra, UP, British India.His father was an officer with the Indian Railways.His paternal grandfather Mohammad Ramazan was the Grand Mufti of Agra …

Biography Family background and education Mohammad Ali was born in Barisal, East Bengal, India, on 19 October 1909.:5 He was born into an elite and wealthy aristocrat family who were known as the “Nawab of Bogra”, traditionally very close to the English monarchy.The prefix, Sahibzada (lit. Prince) is added before his name to represent the Bengali royalty which is customary to give …

Early life Bushra Bibi was born to a conservative, politically influential family from central Punjab. She belongs to the Wattoo clan, of whom the Manekas are a sub-clan. She originates from the town of Pakpattan, located 250 km southwest of Lahore. The town is known for being home to the Shrine of Baba Farid, of …

Biography Family background, early life and education Nazimuddin was born into an aristocratic and wealthy family of the Nawabs of Dhaka, Dacca, Bengal, on 19 July 1894. His father was Khawaja Nizamuddin and paternal grandfather was Khwaja Fakhruddin. He was the maternal grandson of Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah and his mother, …

Education Shaukat Aziz was born in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan on 6 March 1949. He studied at Saint Patrick’s School, Karachi and Abbottabad Public School, Abbottabad, Pakistan. His father, S.A. Aziz (sometimes Abdul Aziz) was a radio engineer employed in the state-owned Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) as chief engineer.His father, S.A. Aziz was noted …

Early years Bacha Khan was born on 6 February 1890 into a generally peaceful and prosperous Pashtun family from Utmanzai in the Peshawar Valley of British India. His father, Bahram Khan, was a land owner in the area commonly referred to as Hashtnaghar. Bacha Khan was the second son of Bahram to attend the British-run …

Biography He was born on 20 April 1967. Ziauddin’s father was the orator Rohul Amin Yousafzai, who was also a teacher of theology at a government high school and Imam of the local mosque.He an educational activist himself. He was a teacher and used to run a chain of schools …

Origins Ancestral roots and family background Main articles: Mir Jafar and Nawab of Bengal Iskander Ali Mirza was born in Murshidabad, Bengal in India on 13 November 1899,into an elite and wealthy aristocrat family who were titled as Nawab of Bengal and later after 1880 Nawab of Murshidabad. Mirza was the eldest child of Fateh Ali Mirza (b. 1864–d. 1949) …

Early life and career See also: Jinnah family Fatima was born on 31 July 1893, the youngest of seven children to Jinnahbhai Poonja and his wife Mithibai, in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion, Karachi. Fatima had six siblings: Muhammad Ali, Ahmad Ali, Bunde Ali, Rahmat Ali, Maryam, and Shireen. Of …

Early life Edhi was born in the late 1920s in Bantva in the state of Gujarat, India into a Memon family. In his biography, he said his mother would give him 1 paisa for his meals and another to give to a poor child. When he was eleven, his mother became paralysed from a stroke …

Early life and career Shaheen belongs to the Zakhakhel Afridi tribe of the Pashtuns.He grew up in Landi Kotal, a town in Khyber District, Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan. He is the youngest of seven brothers; his eldest brother, 15 years his senior, is Riaz Afridi who played a solitary Test match for Pakistan in 2004. Shaheen started his …

Biography Youth and education Abdus Salam was born to Chaudhry Muhammad Hussain and Hajira Hussain, into a Punjabi Muslim family that was part of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam. In terms of caste-affiliation, they were Jats of Rajput descent from Jhang on his father’s side while his mother was a Kakazai from Gurdaspur. His grandfather, Gul Muhammad, was a …

Early life Noor Jehan was born into a Punjabi Muslim family in Kasur, Punjab, British India and was one of the eleven children of Imdad Ali and Fateh Bibi. Poster of Yamla Jatt (1940) Noor Jehan, M. Ismail, Pran Her career in British India Noor Jehan in 1946 film Humjoli Jehan began to sing at …

Iqbal Masih Childhood Iqbal Masih was born in 1983 in Muridke, a commercial city outside of Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan, into a poor Christianfamily.At age four, he was put to work by his family to pay off their debts.Iqbal’s family borrowed 600 rupees(less than USD$6.00) from a local employer who owned a carpet weaving business. In return, …

Early life Family background and education Liaquat Ali Khan was into an aristocrat Rajput Muslim family in Karnal, Punjab Province, British India, which is now in the Indian state of Haryana, on 1 October 1895. The origin of his family is described as Rajput,however his family had adopted the Urdu language, and he was a native Urdu speaker. His family belonged to the …

Early life and education Zardari was born on 26 July 1955 in Karachi, Sindhin the Zardari family. He is a Sindhi of Baloch origin, belonging to a Jat clan of the Sindhi-Baloch Zardari tribe.He is the only son of Hakim Ali Zardari, a tribal chief and prominent landowner, and Bilquis Sultana Zardari.He is also of partial Iraqi descent on his paternal side. In his …

Early life Qamar was born on 5 April 1984 into a Sindhi family in Hyderabad, Sindh.She lost her father at a very young age and spent most of her childhood in Gujranwalawith her grandmother. She got her early education in Gujranwala then moved to Lahore to pursue further studies. Her family is settled in Karachi. …

Early life and education According to official records, Sheikh Mohammed was born on April 14, 1965 (or March 1, 1964), in Balochistan, Pakistan. Some sources indicate his place of birth as Kuwait. His father was Sheikh Mohammed Ali Doustin Baluchi,a lay Deobandi preacher, who moved the family to Kuwait from Balochistan in the 1960s.His …

Personal life and education See also: Sharif family Government College University, where Sharif studied business Sharif was born in Lahore, Punjab, on 25 December 1949.The Sharif family are Punjabis of Kashmiri origin.His father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business. They settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at …

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Biography Early life and career Khan was born in a Punjabi Muslimfamily in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, in 1948, shortly after the partition of India in 1947 during which his family had migrated to Pakistan from their native city of Jalandhar in Punjab, British India(now in Punjab, India). His family originates from Basti Sheikh in Jalandhar. His ancestors …

Early life See also: Bhutto family Zulfikar Ali Bhutto belonged to a Sindhi family, he was born to Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto and Khursheed Begum (née Lakhi Bai) near Larkana. Zulfikar was their third child—their first one, Sikandar Ali, had died from pneumonia at age seven in 1914, and the second, Imdad Ali, died of cirrhosis at …

Early life British India Pervez Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 to an Urdu-speaking family in Delhi, British India,the son of Syed Musharrafuddinand his wife Begum Zarin Musharraf.At the time of his birth his family lived at a large home that belonged to his father’s family for many years called Nehar Wali Haveli, which …

Domestic career Khawaja in 2011 A left-handed top order batsman, Khawaja was awarded Player of the Australian Under-19 Championship in 2005 and also played for Australia in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka as an opening batsman. He made his first-class debut for the New South Wales Blues in 2008.In the same year, he hit consecutive double …

  Personal life Background Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 in an ethnic Kashmiri family in Sialkot within the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). His family was Kashmiri Brahmin Sapru which had converted to Islam.[not in citation given] In the 19th century, when the Sikh Empire was conquering Kashmir, his grandfather’s family migrated to Punjab. Iqbal often mentioned …

Early life Nanjiani was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the son of Shabana and Aijaz Nanjiani.The Scottish radio presenter Shereen Nanjiani is his second cousin. During his childhood, Nanjiani lived in Karachi and attended St. Michael’s Convent School for his O Levels, and graduated Karachi Grammar School to complete his A Levels. At 18, he moved to the …

Early life Childhood: 1953–68 See also: Bhutto family Bhutto was born on 21 June 1953 in the Pakistani city of Karachi.Her father was the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and her mother was Begum Nusrat Ispahani, of Iranian Kurdish parentage. Zulfikar was the son of Shah Nawaz Bhutto, a prominent politician who had served as Prime Minister of the Junagadh State. The …

Early years Family and childhood See also: Jinnah family Portrait of Jinnah’s father, Jinnahbhai Poonja Jinnah’s given name at birth was Mahomedali,and he was born most likely in 1876, to Jinnahbhai Poonja and his wife Mithibai, in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion near Karachi, now in Sindh, Pakistan but then …

Early life Childhood Yousafzai with her father Ziauddinin 2013 Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, into a lower-middle-class family. She is the daughter of Ziauddin Yousafzai and Tor Pekai Yousafzai.Her family is Sunni Muslim of Pashtun ethnicity.e family did not …

Early life, education, and pre-Theranos career Ramesh Balwani was born in Pakistan to a Hindu family.Because of the difficulties of being a Hindu in Pakistan, the family later moved to India. The family then immigrated to the United States, and in 1986 Balwani began undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at …

Early life and family Further information: Family of Imran Khan Khan was born in Lahore on 5 October 1952. Some reports suggest he was born on 25 November 1952. It was reported that 25 November was wrongly mentioned by Pakistan Cricket Board officials on his passport. He is the only son of Ikramullah Khan …

Come to think of Pakistan and your mind will be swamped with images of nefarious crimes, political instability, Talibanism, corrupt elites and terrorism. But beyond all the hostile headlines and bad press, there exists another Pakistan — a country that boasts of unparalleled geographic beauty, mind-boggling architectural glories, unbelievable archaic …