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FINAL <strong>POWER</strong> 100 <strong>BOOK</strong> 2.59 TUE_Layout 1 14/02/2017 13:54 Page 1<br />

welcome from the chairman<br />

Pakistan faces several urgent challenges today and how these challenges are addressed will have<br />

profound implications on the everyday lives of the people of Pakistan and on<br />

the security and economic stability of the country.<br />

In recent years the once patriotic Pakistani Diaspora, although continuing to demonstrate a level<br />

of patriotism, hasbecome more cynical towards Pakistan. This coupled with the regularity of<br />

damaging news stories about Pakistan has caused great challenges for the country on a national<br />

and international level,and somewhere along the way, we have stopped reaching for the possible<br />

and resignedourselves to that which is most probable in relation to Pakistan’s future.<br />

However, there are still people who believe that this isn’t the way it was supposed to be, that<br />

thingsshould be different in Pakistan. People who believe that if we have a collective<br />

responsibility to look out for one another and if our bond of common mutuality can be<br />

reawakened, then at that point we will all start working together to<br />

usher in a new era of change for Pakistan.<br />

Indeed, there must also be a change in hearts and minds; in cultures and attitudes. Neither<br />

philanthropist, nor scientist; neither government nor industrialists, can solve Pakistan’s<br />

problems on their own – this must be an all for one and one for all effort, and I<br />

for one want to play apart in that, no matter how small, or insignificant my role may be.<br />

The original idea with Pakistan Power 100 was to identify some great people who had achieved<br />

great things and to connect these individuals together so that they could share knowledge,<br />

expertise and resource. The Pakistani Diaspora across the world is a source<br />

of great strength for Pakistan and if we all come together to collectively use<br />

our intellectual and financial capital, we can bring significant<br />

and positive change to the people of Pakistan.<br />

Pakistan Power 100 is not just about PR – its role is to promote Pakistan to the global<br />

community,to showcase our greatest influencers and to work towards changing the<br />

perception of Pakistan through these highest achievers. The world currently sees Pakistan<br />

being overwhelmed by unprecedented displays of fundamentalist, religious<br />

and anti-western feeling. This negative image is very harmful for a country of some<br />

sophistication and Power 100 will allow the world to see that we are well educated,<br />

have a strong collective IQ and have the ability to stand alongside the world’s<br />

greatest intellectuals, industrialists, artists and scientists.<br />

khalid darr<br />

chairman power 100


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prime minSter daVid cameron<br />

I am pleased to offer a message of support for the Pakistan Power 100.<br />

There is little doubt that Britain today is a far more diverse and<br />

tolerant society than it was a generation ago. The many and various communities<br />

that make up Britain today energise our businesses and immeasurably<br />

enrich our cultural and social life.<br />

The Pakistani community is a long standing and welcome presence in our society<br />

and offers us a wealth of examples of the kind of hard work and charity<br />

that lead to real success and lasting achievement.<br />

It therefore gives me great pleasure to send you this greeting message and<br />

to wish you every success in the future.<br />

daVid cameron<br />

prime miniSter


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welcome BY anwar Zaidi<br />

The future belongs to the fearless, the innovative, the entrepreneurial which is why we<br />

welcome all initiatives that portray the best in mankind.<br />

Those Pakistanis who have been chosen by Power100 as recipients of awards deserve<br />

congratulations and recognition as the standard bearers or leaders for others to follow<br />

suit. Personal Leadership essentially is the capacity to lead our own lives in<br />

accordance with principles that are consistent with a right understanding<br />

of the world and of ourselves, so as eventually to live the good life.<br />

To do that, the award winners have had to set a personal mission, which is the project<br />

that defines their identity: who they want to be. The strength of that mission will depend<br />

on its content, credibility and urgency. To fulfil their mission, they must have continually<br />

monitored and corrected their course. The will is the engine of personal change:<br />

it takes sides among rational and spontaneous motivation, orchestrating<br />

changes in their behaviour. The will is, therefore, the centre of our<br />

freedom and, precisely for that reason, the centre of our personal history:<br />

in the end, we become the person we have chosen to be.<br />

I applaud those who have been instrumental in arranging this event<br />

and setting high standards in their selection criteria. It is now<br />

incumbent on the award winners to shine their light on<br />

others to bring harmony amongst all.<br />

anwar Zaidi<br />

ceo hBl Uk


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33<br />

49<br />

29 65<br />

79<br />

CONTENTS<br />

The Power 100 8<br />

The Women 100 52<br />

The Future Leaders 73<br />

Trailblazers 46<br />

Arts & Literature 30<br />

Business 10<br />

Corporate & Finance 42<br />

Media, Fashion & Music 18<br />

Public Sector 34<br />

Social & Community 24<br />

Aamina Taseer 17<br />

Aaqil Ahmed 19<br />

Abdul Sattar Edhi 27<br />

Abida Parween 18<br />

Afzal & Akmal Khushi 11<br />

Ahmed Rashid 31<br />

Amber Haroon 19<br />

Ameena Saiyid 31<br />

Amin Gulgee 31<br />

Amir Khan 79<br />

Amjad Hussain 40<br />

Aqeel Karim Dhedhi 42<br />

Arif Naqvi 43<br />

Arif Nizami 19<br />

Art Malik 19<br />

Asif Rangoonwala 11<br />

Asma Jahangir 25<br />

Atif Bajwa 43<br />

Ayesha Vardag 54<br />

Baroness Warsi 39<br />

Bilquis Edhi 25<br />

Bunto Kazmi 57<br />

Bushra Nasir 56<br />

Ehsan Malik 43<br />

Farrok Captian 25<br />

Ghouse Akbar 11<br />

Hanif Kureshi 30<br />

Haroon & Farooq Sheikh 11<br />

Hassan Sheheryar Yasin 23<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar 35<br />

Huma Abedin 35<br />

Hussain Dawood 11<br />

Iftikhar Muhammad 34<br />

Imam Qasim 25<br />

Imran Aslam 19<br />

Imran Khan 29<br />

Irfan Mustafa 43<br />

Izzat Majeed 43<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui 43<br />

James Caan 15<br />

Jamil Naqsh 31<br />

Kiswer Falkner 35<br />

Lord Nazir Ahmed 38<br />

Mansoor Karim Shaikh 19<br />

Mian Gohar Ejaz 10<br />

Mian Mansha 11<br />

Michael Nazir Ali 41<br />

Mir Shakil ur Rahman 19<br />

Moazzam Malik 37<br />

Mohammed Adil 16<br />

Mohammed Jawad 37<br />

Monis Rahman 48<br />

Musharaf Hai 43<br />

Naeem Ghauri 16<br />

Nafis Sadik 35<br />

Nigar Ahmed 24


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<strong>PAK</strong>ISTAN <strong>POWER</strong> 100<br />

SPONSORS<br />

67<br />

27 37<br />

Tariq Sohail 36<br />

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 20<br />

Rashid Rana 32<br />

Rizwan Beyg 18<br />

Roshaneh Zafar 26<br />

Sadruddin Hashwani 14<br />

Salman Ahmed 21<br />

Salman Iqbal 20<br />

Seema Aziz 26<br />

Shabir Hussain 46<br />

Shahid Ali Shah 10<br />

Shahid Azeem 42<br />

Shahid Sheikh 49<br />

Sharmeen O Chinoy 22<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli 34<br />

www.power100.co.Uk<br />

Shoaib Mansoor 19<br />

Shoaib Sultan Khan 24<br />

Sir Anwar Pervez 11<br />

Souriya Anwar 25<br />

Sultan Ali Allana 13<br />

Surraiya Zia 68<br />

Syed Baber Ali 12<br />

Syed Kauser Kazmi 47<br />

Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi 43<br />

Syra Munir 99<br />

Tariq Ali 31<br />

Tariq Saigol 14<br />

Tehmina Durrani 33<br />

Zakir Mahmood 45<br />

See main Index on inside back page<br />

project directors:<br />

Senior project managers:<br />

hr & team manager:<br />

research director:<br />

project team:<br />

with thanks to lattitude pr lahore:<br />

tahira Shamim, william fisher.<br />

lydia draper, diana marinova, rahul Garhwal.<br />

Saba ibrahim<br />

emma Broome<br />

david edwards, andrea matalin, Giles manningham,<br />

annie James, Sara williams.<br />

nuscie Jamil and omar Jamil<br />

all rights reserved. power 100 and all associated power 100 titles are trademarked. no part of this publication or the power 100 series<br />

may be reproduced or copied in any way, electronic or print, without prior written permission from the publisher, power 100 dubai.


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THE JUDGES<br />

the ethos of pakistan power 100 is both transparent and self-levelling. the nominations for each individual are counted,<br />

verified and collated by the power 100 research team. the ten most nominated individuals within each classification are<br />

then automatically included in the final power 100 list. in addition the individual who has received the most votes within<br />

their classification is honoured with the power 100 excellence award. once all power 100 names have been shortlisted, a<br />

lengthy process of peer group verification follows, thereby ensuring a highly verified source of information. the judging<br />

panel are retained primarily to oversee the process and to judge the future leaders shortlist inorder to identify the winners<br />

of power 100 future leaders award.<br />

Khalid Darr<br />

Chairman Virtual Hospital<br />

khalid darr has been involved in philanthropic<br />

activities since 1999 and is currently involved<br />

in the set up of a Virtual hospital, an<br />

organization which will drastically alter the<br />

healthcare provision for the poor by linking<br />

remote villages in the third world, to doctors<br />

and specialists based across the globe. khalid is<br />

also currently chairman of the international<br />

power 100 Brand which is now in over 23<br />

countries and includes the development of the<br />

Uae power 100, china power 100 and russia<br />

power 100. through power 100 khalid has<br />

developed an effective fast track into the very<br />

highest level of networks and has earned himself<br />

an enviable ‘Black Book’ of contacts both within<br />

the Uk & internationally.<br />

James Caan<br />

Hamilton Bradshaw<br />

James knew from a young age that he<br />

wanted to run his own business. his father<br />

was probably his biggest influence: he<br />

owned a successful leather goods<br />

manufacturing business and hoped James<br />

would one day takeover. James decided not<br />

to pursue a career in the family business and<br />

instead followed his own path to become an<br />

entrepreneur. at sixteen he left school with<br />

no qualifications. despite this in the mid<br />

1980 s, he began a successful career in<br />

recruitment. Just a few years later James<br />

founded alexander mann, a Uk<br />

recruitment business which he successfully<br />

grew to £130m turnover with 30 offices<br />

worldwide.<br />

James has worked on a number of projects<br />

to support the British entrepreneur. he is<br />

currently working with Business Secretary<br />

Vince cable as a member of the<br />

entrepreneurs’ forum to help and advise<br />

government on the new business policies.<br />

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David Smedley<br />

Head of Commercial<br />

Litigation<br />

david is a senior partner in the<br />

practice, head of commercial<br />

litigation, employment, human<br />

resources and diversity. david<br />

has also been and remains a<br />

member of the firm’s<br />

management Board (an elected<br />

post) for over a decade. david<br />

studied law at manchester<br />

University. david qualified into<br />

commercial litigation at walker<br />

morris in 1986. he<br />

subsequently formed one of the<br />

largest and most respected<br />

employment teams in the<br />

region.<br />

Hanif Malik<br />

Chief Executive Hamara<br />

one of the largest and most<br />

influential South asian led third<br />

sector agencies in the country.<br />

Based in leeds he has been<br />

responsible for raising over £3<br />

million worth of capital and<br />

revenue funding to help build,<br />

develop and run the centre.<br />

he was widely praised for his<br />

role in maintaining community<br />

relations following the events of<br />

7/7 and has been instrumental in<br />

multi-faith work for over a<br />

decade. he has represented the<br />

third Sector on a number of key<br />

strategic boards and worked at a<br />

national level on many important<br />

issues.<br />

Nina Amin<br />

Tax partner at KPMG<br />

nina amin is a tax partner at<br />

kpmG, one of the Big four<br />

professional services firms in the<br />

Uk. She joined the firm in<br />

1997 and spent nine months on<br />

secondment with the<br />

confederation of British<br />

industry (cBi) in 2003 where<br />

she was responsible for helping<br />

to draft policy on the long term<br />

vision for Uk pensions. nina has<br />

won a number of awards<br />

including the 2008 professional<br />

of the Year and the 2009 asian<br />

who’s who leadership award.<br />

She is a board member of<br />

kpmG’s advisory council.<br />

Anwar Zaidi<br />

CEO and Director of<br />

Habib Allied<br />

International Bank Plc<br />

(HBL UK).<br />

anwar Zaidi is the ceo and<br />

director of habib allied<br />

international Bank plc (hBl<br />

Uk). he began his banking<br />

career with Grindlays Bank in<br />

1979 and moved on to establish<br />

hSBc in pakistan. he has also<br />

worked in senior roles at;<br />

american express Bank,<br />

mashreq Bank and most recently<br />

headed United Bank in new<br />

York.<br />

Laura Taggart<br />

The Co-operative<br />

laura taggart is an elected<br />

member of the co-operative<br />

Group`s leeds and wakefield<br />

area committee. this is one of<br />

nine committees rep[resenting<br />

members across the north<br />

region. they monitor business<br />

performance, award grants to<br />

organisations, support<br />

community events and are<br />

ambassadors for the co-operative<br />

movement within the area.<br />

laura has worked in education<br />

and community development all<br />

her professional life, as a<br />

teacher, lecturer and researcher.<br />

Mark Cleary<br />

Vice Chancellor<br />

Bardford University<br />

professor mark cleary took up<br />

office as Vice-chancellor of the<br />

University of Bradford in June<br />

2007. he took his<br />

undergraduate and postgraduate<br />

degrees at Jesus college,<br />

cambridge, in Geography.<br />

from 1980-1989 he was a<br />

lecturer at exeter University<br />

before taking up a post at the<br />

University of Brunei darussalam<br />

in 1989 and subsequently<br />

lecturing at the University of<br />

waikato, new Zealand (1992-<br />

1994), he joined the University<br />

of plymouth in 1994.<br />

Shabir Nawab<br />

Shabir Nawab and Co<br />

Shabir nawab is principal and<br />

founder of Shabir nawab and<br />

co. as well as a leading<br />

businessman and philanthropist<br />

Shabir nawab is a highly<br />

respected member of the<br />

business community in the<br />

midlands who has also built a<br />

reputation as a local community<br />

leader and supporter of impact<br />

charitable projects. alongside<br />

being a patron and chairman to<br />

the west midlands region of<br />

mosaic has actively spearheaded<br />

various charitable initiatives and<br />

projects both local and<br />

nationally.<br />

Cllr Rizwan Malik<br />

rizwan has been very active in<br />

voulntary work for various charity<br />

and community causes for the past<br />

10 years and more recently has<br />

developed as one of the lead<br />

volunteers for islamic relief in the<br />

north organising fundraising events.<br />

he spearheaded a volunteer led<br />

national campaign to help the flood<br />

victims of pakistan and raised over<br />

a million pounds within a year<br />

which got highlighted from national<br />

media. he now recently has joined<br />

the power100 team as a volunteer<br />

and is the man responsible for<br />

taking the first ever power 100<br />

event to the north of the country<br />

by organising the power 100 future<br />

leaders gala event.<br />

7


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the final power 100<br />

power 100 has been integrally involved in the process of publishing,<br />

launch and distribution of the pakistan power 100 publication. the<br />

100 list is an eclectic mix of highly influential individuals, and it would<br />

be too subjective to rank from 1 to 100 by the general criteria<br />

employed. most certainly the list is not exhaustive! rather, the<br />

power 100 simply profiles individuals who are widely regarded as<br />

power Brokers and key influencers within the community.<br />

there are two ways of measuring power and influence. one is by<br />

simply using the range of public & private sector activities, or the<br />

performance of an organisation to calculate its impact, and<br />

nominating whoever runs it. the other is more subtle - to gauge the<br />

contribution made by individuals to the culture and well-being of the<br />

organisation for whom they work, or the region in which they live. we<br />

have used both methods in compiling our list.<br />

the ethos of pakistan power 100 is both transparent and self-levelling.<br />

the nominations for each individual are counted, verified and collated<br />

by the power 100 research team. the ten most nominated individuals<br />

within each classification are then automatically included in the final<br />

power 100 list. in addition the individual who has received the most<br />

votes within their classification is the recipient of the power 100<br />

excellence award. once all power 100 names have been shortlisted,<br />

a lengthy process of peer group verification follows, thereby ensuring<br />

a highly verified source of information.<br />

Aamna Taseer<br />

Pace<br />

Aaqil Ahmed<br />

BBC<br />

Abdul Razzaq Yakub ARY Group<br />

Abdul Sattar<br />

Edhi Welfare<br />

Abida Parween Singer<br />

Aftab Tapal<br />

Tapal Group<br />

Akmal & Afzal Khushi Trespass<br />

Ahmed Rashid<br />

Writer<br />

Amber Haroon Dawn Group<br />

Ameena Saiyid<br />

OUP Pakistan<br />

Amin Guljee<br />

Artist<br />

Amjad Hussain Royal Navy<br />

Anwar Pervez<br />

Bestway<br />

Aqeel Karim Dhedhi AKD Group<br />

Arif Navqi<br />

Abraaj Capital<br />

Arif Nizami<br />

Pakistan Today<br />

Art Malik<br />

Actor<br />

Asif Rangoonwalla Entrepreneur<br />

Asma Jahngir<br />

AGHS<br />

Atif Bajwa<br />

ADG<br />

Bashir Ali Mohammad Gul Ahmad<br />

Ehsan Malik<br />

Unilever<br />

Farrokh Captain LRBT<br />

Fehmida Mirza National Assembly<br />

Fred Hasan<br />

Bausch & Lomb<br />

Ghouse Akbar<br />

Akbar Group<br />

Ghauri Brothers Netsol Technologies<br />

Hameed Haroon Dawn Group<br />

Hanif Kureishi<br />

Playwright<br />

Haroon & Farouq Sheikh Caretech PLC<br />

Hassan Sheheryar Yasin HSY<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar Foreign Minister<br />

Huma Abedin<br />

Politics<br />

Hussain Dawood Dawood Group<br />

8


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Iftikhar M Chaudhry<br />

Imam Qasim<br />

Imran Aslam<br />

Imran Khan<br />

Irfan Mustafa<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui<br />

James Caan<br />

Jamil Naqsh<br />

Javed Ahmed<br />

Javed Saifullah Khan<br />

Jehangir A. Monnoo<br />

Kiswer Falkner<br />

Lord Nazir Ahmed<br />

Maleeha Lodhi<br />

Mansoor Karim Shaikh<br />

Mian Abdullah<br />

Mian Gohar Ejaz<br />

Mian M Latif<br />

Mian Mansha<br />

Michael Nazir Ali<br />

Mohammad Jawad<br />

Mohammed Raja Adil<br />

Monis Rahman<br />

Mozzam Malik<br />

Muhammad T Sohail<br />

Mukhtar Mai<br />

Musharaf Hai<br />

Naeem Zamindar<br />

Ghauri Brothers<br />

Nafis Sadiq<br />

Namira Salim<br />

Nasreen M Kasuri<br />

Nigar Ahmed<br />

Rafiq Habib<br />

Chief Justice<br />

Al Khair<br />

GEO<br />

Shaukat Khanum<br />

Yum Group<br />

J&S Group<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

Artist<br />

Tate & Lyle<br />

Saif Group<br />

Monnoo Group<br />

House of Lords<br />

House of Lords<br />

Writer<br />

JWT<br />

Sapphire Group<br />

Ejaz Group<br />

Chenab Group<br />

Nishat Group<br />

Bishop<br />

Surgeon<br />

Adil Group<br />

Rozee.pk<br />

DIFID<br />

Surgeon<br />

Human Rights<br />

L’Oreal<br />

Wateen<br />

Netsol<br />

UN<br />

Explorer<br />

Beacon House<br />

Aurat<br />

House of Habib<br />

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Singer<br />

Rashid Rana<br />

Artist<br />

Roshaneh Zafar Kashf<br />

Sadiq Khan<br />

Labour MP<br />

Sadaruddin Hashwani Hashoo Group<br />

Salman Ahmad Junoon<br />

Salman Amin<br />

PepsiCo<br />

Salman Iqbal<br />

ARY<br />

Sarfaraz Alam<br />

Texpo<br />

Sayeeda Warsi<br />

House of Lords<br />

Seema Aziz<br />

Care<br />

Sehyr Saigol<br />

Fashion<br />

Shahid Ali Shah Treats<br />

Shahid Azeem<br />

Arcom IT<br />

Shahid Khan<br />

Flexngate<br />

Shakil ur Rahman Jang Group<br />

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Filmaker<br />

Sheikh Abid Hussain Abid Group<br />

Sherry Rehman Journalist<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli Politics<br />

Shoaib Sultan Khan RSPN<br />

Souriya Anwar<br />

SOS Villages<br />

Sultana Ali Allana Habib Bank Ltd<br />

Syed Babar Ali<br />

Packages Group<br />

Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi KPMG<br />

Tariq Ali<br />

Historian<br />

Tariq Saigol<br />

Saigol Group<br />

Tehmina Durrani Writer<br />

Zakir Mahmood Habib Bank Ltd<br />

Zamir Alam<br />

UN Ambassador<br />

Zouhair A Khaliq Telecoms<br />

Painting by Afsana Karim<br />

renowned artist afsana karim has been commissioned by power 100 to create a<br />

series of paintings for each global power 100 title. for private commissions from<br />

afsana please contact: andrea@hamptonsmanagement.com<br />

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the power 100<br />

BUSineSS power BrokerS<br />

Mian Gohar Ejaz<br />

Ejaz Group<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

aamna taseer<br />

first capital Securities<br />

abdul razzaq Yakub<br />

arY Group<br />

aftab tapal<br />

tapal Group<br />

akmal & afzal khushi<br />

trespass<br />

Sir anwar pervez<br />

Bestway<br />

asif rangoonwalla<br />

entrepreneur<br />

Bashir ali mohammad<br />

Gul ahmed Group<br />

Ghauri Brothers<br />

netsol technologies<br />

Ghouse akbar<br />

akbar Group<br />

haroon & farouq Sheikh caretech plc<br />

hussain dawood<br />

dawood Group<br />

James caan<br />

hamilton Bradshaw<br />

Javed Saifullah khan<br />

Saif Group<br />

Jehangir a. monnoo<br />

monnoo Group<br />

mian abdullah<br />

Sapphire Group<br />

mian Gohar ejaz<br />

ejaz Group<br />

mian muhammad latif<br />

chenab Group<br />

mian muhammad mansha nishat Group<br />

mohammed raja adil<br />

adil Group<br />

Sadaruddin hashwani<br />

hashoo Group<br />

Shahid ali Shah<br />

treats<br />

Shahid khan<br />

flexngate<br />

Sheikh abid hussain<br />

abid Group<br />

Sultana ali allana<br />

habib Bank ltd<br />

Syed Babar ali<br />

packages Group<br />

tariq Saigol<br />

Saigol Group<br />

this establishment owns<br />

country’s largest knitwear-cumdyeing<br />

facility at lahore. more<br />

than half a dozen textile units of<br />

ejaz Group are being run by yet<br />

another chinioti scion mian<br />

Gohar ejaz, son of late Senator<br />

Sheikh ejaz. Gohar held the reins<br />

of this group very much during<br />

his college days when Sheikh ejaz<br />

left for his heavenly abode after<br />

protracted illness that lasted<br />

months. Gohar is now a noted<br />

policy maker at both federal and<br />

provincial textile Boards. he is<br />

one of the Boards of Governors<br />

at the punjab institute of<br />

cardiology lahore. people<br />

started paying a heed to his<br />

leadership abilities in 1997, when<br />

he took on the aptma greyheads<br />

convincingly during the<br />

1997 annual polls and narrowly<br />

lost to his opponent in fight for<br />

the top slot.<br />

Shahid Ali Shah<br />

Treats<br />

Syed Shahid ali serves as a<br />

non-executive director of<br />

packages limited. he also holds<br />

directorship of several other<br />

companies including treet<br />

corporation limited. he inherits<br />

the drive to accept the challenges<br />

created due to changing<br />

enviroments and market<br />

conditions. he has kept himself<br />

abreat of future trends, keeping<br />

the dynamism in the company.<br />

he is also actively involved in<br />

social and cultural activities and<br />

holds senior positions on the<br />

governing boards of severa;<br />

hospitals and philanthropic<br />

organizations including Gulab<br />

devi hospital and liaquat<br />

national hospital.<br />

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Hussain Dawood<br />

Engro<br />

dawood is chairman of engro<br />

Group, dawood hercules<br />

chemicals, pakistan poverty<br />

alleviation fund and karachi<br />

education initiative. he is also<br />

serving as honorary consul of<br />

italy in lahore. he is also<br />

pakistan’s first member in world<br />

economic forum and member of<br />

boards of commonwealth<br />

Business council, Beaconhouse<br />

national University, pakistan<br />

Business council and pakistan<br />

council of philanthropy. he is<br />

also the recipient of italian<br />

republic award.<br />

Sadruddin Hashwani<br />

Hashoo Group<br />

Sadruddin hashwani is the<br />

chairman of hashoo Group, one<br />

of the most diversified industrial<br />

groups in pakistan with interests<br />

across tourism, travel, real-estate<br />

development, pharmaceuticals,<br />

it, and oil and gas. also, the<br />

hashoo Group of companies has<br />

in its fold, as owners and<br />

operators, the pearl continental<br />

hotels and marriott hotels<br />

brands with presence in all major<br />

cities of pakistan. today he is<br />

known to be the leading figures<br />

in hospitality industry around the<br />

world<br />

Ghouse Akbar<br />

Akbar Group<br />

Ghouse akbar a graduate of<br />

Brown University and inSead,<br />

he has successfully introduced<br />

various global brands to pakistan<br />

such as mcdonald’s, nike, UpS,<br />

lVmh, amadeus, etc. the group<br />

is also the largest in the aviation<br />

sector and represents a number<br />

of world renowned airlines in<br />

pakistan such as Singapore<br />

airlines, thai, Jal, austrian. etc.<br />

Ghouse has also set-up in joint<br />

venture with the fauji<br />

foundation, pakistan's only<br />

Grain and fertiliser terminal<br />

handling a throughput of 4<br />

million tons.<br />

Haroon & Farouq Sheikh<br />

Caretech PLC<br />

two of the Uk’s leading<br />

entrepreneurs, philanthropists and<br />

community figureheads. their<br />

business interests encompass<br />

healthcare, private equity,<br />

property investment and<br />

development. Best known as<br />

co-founders of caretech holdings<br />

plc, a respected national<br />

provider of specialist services to<br />

adults and children with learning<br />

or physical disabilities or mental<br />

health problems which now<br />

supports over 1800 service users<br />

and employs around 3500<br />

Afzal and Akmal Khushi<br />

TRESPASS<br />

afzal and akmal khushi are<br />

directors and co-owners of Jacobs<br />

& turner international, probably<br />

better known as treSpaSS. Since<br />

taking over they have transformed<br />

the small manufacturing company<br />

into an international lifestyle<br />

brand now selling and producing<br />

in more than 62 countries.<br />

treSpaSS was awarded the Uk<br />

fashion exports award, three<br />

years in a row. trespass entered<br />

the retail trade at the end of the<br />

1990s and now has more than 70<br />

stores in the Uk and more than<br />

40 franchises worldwide.<br />

Asif Rangoonwala<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

asif’s rangoonwala’s phenomenal<br />

success has led him to become<br />

one of the most prominent asian<br />

businessmen in the Uk. in 1992,<br />

asif identified a gap in the Uk<br />

market in the baked goods sector,<br />

prompting him to launch<br />

eurobuns- a baked goods<br />

company which supplied highstreet<br />

chains, which achieved a<br />

sales turnover of £50 million<br />

within a decade under asif’s<br />

direction and supervision. his<br />

courage and conviction led him<br />

to dominate the baked goods<br />

market.<br />

Mian Muhammad<br />

Mansha<br />

Nishat Group<br />

mian mohammad mansha is the<br />

chairman of “nishat Group” - the<br />

biggest industrial and financial<br />

conglomerate of pakistan. this<br />

group was founded in 1948 by<br />

mansha’s father mian mohammad<br />

and his three brothers. nishat<br />

currently comprises of 21<br />

companies including 13 listed<br />

companies with manufacturing<br />

assets of nearly 27 billion and<br />

three of mansha’s close relatives,<br />

Saigols, Jehangir elahi and S m<br />

Saleem of United Bank among<br />

the top 45 industrial families in<br />

pakistan.<br />

Sir Anwar Pervez<br />

Bestway Group<br />

Sir anwar pervez oBe, hilal-ipakistan,<br />

is a businessman in the<br />

United kingdom. he is the<br />

founder and chairman of Bestway<br />

Group. Sir anwar is also the<br />

deputy chairman of United Bank<br />

limited (UBl); pakistan’s second<br />

largest private bank. he is a<br />

council member of the<br />

federation of wholesale<br />

distributors. he is the chairman<br />

of the Board of trustees of<br />

Bestway foundation Uk, patronin-chief<br />

of Bestway foundation<br />

pakistan, trustee of memorial<br />

Gates trust.<br />

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SYED BABER ALI<br />

Packages Group<br />

and secondary school teachers. he promoted the cause of<br />

the world wide fund for nature where he served in<br />

various capacities, both in pakistan and internationally,<br />

from 1972 to 1996. he was international president of<br />

wwf from 1996 to 1999 succeeding hrh the duke of<br />

edinburgh. he is now Vice president emeritus, wwf<br />

international. he served as pakistan’s minister of<br />

finance, economic affairs & planning in 1993. he<br />

received honours and awards from the Government of<br />

Sweden, the netherlands, an oBe from Britain (1997),<br />

and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree of laws<br />

from mcGill University, montreal, canada (1997).<br />

Syed Babar ali is an entrepreneur and industrialist, Syed<br />

Babar ali envisioned and set up packages limited which<br />

is pakistan’s largest paper & board mill, milkpak limited<br />

which now is nestle milkpak limited which has become<br />

one of the largest food processing companies in pakistan<br />

especially liquid milk in tetra pak containers; tetra pak<br />

pakistan limited, international General insurance<br />

company of pakistan limited, tri-pack films limited,<br />

first international investment Bank and Systems private<br />

limited. he is chairman of aventis pakistan limited,<br />

Bayer cropScience pakistan limited, Siemens. pakistan<br />

engineering company limited, coca-cola Beverages<br />

pakistan limited and director of Unilever pakistan<br />

limited and mitchell’s fruit farms limited. he believes<br />

in the joint venture philosophy and most of his businesses<br />

are joint ventures with major multinationals.<br />

as an educationist, he envisioned and established lahore<br />

University of management Sciences (lUmS) in 1985 of<br />

which he is the first pro-chancellor. lUmS is pakistan’s<br />

premier management education institution. he also<br />

founded ali institute of education for training of primary<br />

ali served as the finance minister of the country in<br />

the caretaker government of moeenuddin ahmad<br />

Qureshi from July 23, 1993 to october 19, 1993. he is<br />

chairman of Sanofi-aventis pakistan limited, Siemens<br />

pakistan engineering company limited, coca-cola<br />

Beverages pakistan limited and director of Unilever<br />

pakistan limited and mitchell’s fruit farms the lahore<br />

University of management Sciences. he is a member of<br />

the board of aitchison college, f.c. college, kinnaird<br />

college, and lahore School of economics and a founding<br />

member of the initiative on Social enterprise of harvard<br />

University. he served as the president of the world<br />

wildlife fund from 1996 to 1999. he also acts as the<br />

honorary consul General of Sweden in lahore.<br />

ali is known for his interest in academics and his vision of<br />

providing quality education to people of all origins within<br />

the country, without any differences of color, creed or<br />

race.<br />

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SULTAN ALI ALLANA<br />

Habib Bank Limited<br />

as chairman of pakistan’s largest<br />

commercial bank, Sultan ali allana is a<br />

leading figure in pakistan’s financial<br />

landscape.<br />

banking ordinance and subsequently<br />

established the first microfinance<br />

Bank limited where he served as<br />

chairman until 2006.<br />

Since 2004, he has led the Board of<br />

hBl as a representative of the aga<br />

khan fund for economic<br />

development of which he is a<br />

director. on behalf of akfed, mr<br />

allana was involved in leading the<br />

successful privatisation bid for hBl.<br />

post privatisation, hBl has made<br />

significant progress in enhancing its<br />

footprint in the country and in the<br />

diversified overseas regions where it<br />

maintains a niche presence. the<br />

domestic growth has been significant<br />

but measured to ensure that the longer<br />

term objectives of the Bank are in sync<br />

with the ethos of the major<br />

shareholders which is to be a key<br />

contributor in the economic welfare<br />

of pakistan. the Bank is well<br />

positioned to be the premier financial<br />

institution of the country.<br />

mr allana is committed to the cause of<br />

financial inclusion in order to reach<br />

out to the unbanked population of<br />

pakistan and it is in this vein that he<br />

has been extensively involved in<br />

promoting sustainable microfinance in<br />

pakistan. in 2000, he was instrumental<br />

in promulgating the microfinance<br />

In recognition of<br />

his services to<br />

the business and<br />

social sector in<br />

Pakistan, the<br />

Government of<br />

Pakistan conferred<br />

the highest civilian<br />

award Sitara-e-Imtiaz<br />

upon him in 2006.<br />

his contribution within pakistan<br />

extends beyond the financial services<br />

sector as he has been engaged in<br />

defining and setting standards of<br />

excellence in the hospitality industry<br />

as well. Since 1997, mr allana has<br />

been involved with the Serena hotels<br />

and in his capacity as the chairman of<br />

the executive committee was<br />

responsible for the execution of their<br />

flagship hotel in islamabad. the<br />

Serena hotels chain is engaged in<br />

promoting tourism in pakistan with<br />

their significant presence in urban as<br />

well as rural areas.<br />

mr allana holds Undergraduate and<br />

post Graduate degrees from mcGill<br />

University and the University of<br />

wisconsin in engineering and<br />

management.<br />

in recognition of his services to the<br />

business and social sector in pakistan,<br />

the Government of pakistan<br />

conferred the highest civilian award<br />

Sitara-e-imtiaz upon him in 2006.<br />

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SADRUDDIN<br />

HASHWANI<br />

Hashoo Group<br />

TARIQ SAIGOL<br />

Kohinoor Textile Mills<br />

Sadruddin hashwani is the chairman of hashoo<br />

Group (established 1960). he is ismaili nizari muslim<br />

(aga khani) by faith. today, ‘hashoo Group’ is one of<br />

the most diversified industrial groups in pakistan with<br />

interests across tourism, travel, real-estate<br />

development, pharmaceuticals, it, and oil and gas.<br />

also, the hashoo Group of companies has in its fold,<br />

as owners and operators, the pearl continental hotels<br />

and marriott hotels brands with presence in all major<br />

cities of pakistan and ocean pakistan limited, a<br />

prestigious oil and Gas exploration and production<br />

company. today he is known to be the leading figures<br />

in hospitality industry around the world and has been<br />

honored with various awards including a gold medal<br />

for distinguished services for hospitality industry in<br />

pakistan at world tourism convention.<br />

tariq Saigol belonging to the eighth most richest family in pakistan, is<br />

a businessman by profession. Son of the pioneer of the renowned<br />

Saigol dynasty, which was established as a shoe shop with the name<br />

kohinoor rubber works. the company became market leaders till<br />

nationalization, when progress was halted and two-thirds of the<br />

company’s wealth was lost. the Saigol family harvested excellent crop<br />

and opened a textile mill under the name of kohinoor textile mills.<br />

this group was the first to open an lc with the State Bank of pakistan.<br />

they bought the United Bank in 1959 and then witnessed five of their<br />

units getting nationalized. they lived in Saudi arabia during the Bhutto<br />

regime. today, cousins tariq and nasim are holding the family’s fort<br />

together and have risen to unprecedented heights in individual<br />

capacities.<br />

tariq serves as the chief executive officer of Zimpex (private)<br />

limited. mr. Saigol serves as chief executive officer of kohinoor<br />

textile mills limited, and maple leaf cement factory ltd. he started<br />

his career in 1968 at kohinoor’s chemical complex at kala Shah<br />

kaku. Upon trifurcation of the Group in 1976, he became chief<br />

executive of kohinoor textile mills limited, rawalpindi. Since 1984,<br />

he has been chairman of the kohinoor maple leaf Group which has<br />

interests in textiles, cement manufacturing and energy. he serves as<br />

the chairman of maple leaf cement factory ltd. and kohinoor<br />

textile mills limited. he has been a director of State Bank of pakistan<br />

since may 2007. he serves as a director of kohinoor mills limited.<br />

he served as the chairman of all pakistan textile mills association<br />

from 1992 to 1994, president of lahore chamber of commerce and<br />

industry from 1995 to 1997 and chairman of all pakistan cement<br />

manufacturers association from 2003 to 2006.<br />

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JAMES CAAN<br />

Hamilton Bradshaw<br />

James caan is one of the Uk’s most<br />

successful and dynamic entrepreneurs.<br />

he made his fortune in the<br />

recruitment industry, which included<br />

the global success of his companies,<br />

alexander mann Group and humana<br />

international, and he has been building<br />

and selling businesses ever since. in<br />

2004 he founded private equity firm<br />

hamilton Bradshaw based in london’s<br />

mayfair. the company specialises in<br />

buyouts, venture capital, real estate<br />

and now manages a portfolio of over<br />

30 companies.<br />

James is best known for joining the<br />

panel of the hit tV show on BBc,<br />

dragons’ den, where he invested in<br />

14 companies and committed over<br />

£1m of investment, over 4 series.<br />

in 2011 James launched a property<br />

venture, hB real estate, to target<br />

investments in prime london<br />

residential and commercial real estate<br />

assets. the new division has raised a<br />

£100m fund and has recently made its<br />

first acquisition, a residential asset in<br />

prime knightsbridge with an<br />

estimated GdV in excess of £30m.<br />

James has received various prestigious<br />

awards including ‘Bt enterprise of the<br />

Year’, pricewaterhousecoopers<br />

‘entrepreneur of the Year’ and<br />

entrepreneur of the Year in the asian<br />

Jewel awards.<br />

James supports a variety of<br />

government initiatives including the<br />

entrepreneur’s forum; James was<br />

selected to join a panel of high profile<br />

business people who meet regularly to<br />

debate their views on enterprise<br />

policy.<br />

James is heavily<br />

involved with charity<br />

and set up The James<br />

Caan Foundation in<br />

2011 to help<br />

underprivileged<br />

children get access to<br />

education.<br />

in may 2012 he was appointed<br />

chairman of StartUp loans, a<br />

government initiative to support<br />

young people with funding to start up<br />

new businesses in the Uk. over £82<br />

million of loans will be offered to 18-<br />

24 year olds over the next 3 years.<br />

James is heavily involved with charity<br />

and set up the James caan<br />

foundation in 2011 to help<br />

underprivileged children get access to<br />

education.<br />

James has written three bestselling<br />

books, the real deal, his<br />

autobiography, Get the Job You really<br />

want, based on his 30 years of<br />

experience in the recruitment<br />

industry (Get the Job reached no. 1<br />

in 3 categories on amazon and was<br />

the best-selling practical business<br />

book of 2011). in his latest book,<br />

Start Your Business in 7 days, James<br />

uses his experience to help the new<br />

generation of entrepreneurs to work<br />

out if their business ideas are<br />

workable and bankable. Start Your<br />

Business reached no. 2 in the amazon<br />

business chart within two weeks of<br />

launching.<br />

James is extremely passionate about<br />

supporting small businesses and<br />

recently launched a free app, James<br />

caan Business Secrets to help other<br />

entrepreneurs on their journey to<br />

success. the app was the fastest<br />

downloaded business app of 2011 and<br />

is regularly ranked in the top 100 apps<br />

ever in apps magazine.<br />

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NAEEM, NAJEEB & SALIM GHAURI<br />

NetSol Technologies<br />

MOHAMMED ADIL<br />

Adil Group of Companies<br />

the Ghauri brothers, naeem, najeeb<br />

and Salim founded netSol in 1996.<br />

from its inception, their vision was to<br />

establish netSol as a global business,<br />

competing with large, established<br />

multi national it companies like Sap<br />

and oracle.<br />

netSol went public via a successful<br />

ipo in 1999 and started trading on<br />

nasdaq. the company still holds the<br />

distinction of the only company ever<br />

from pakistan to have done an ipo<br />

and is listed on nasdaq. within a year<br />

of listing on nasdaq, it achieved a<br />

market cap of $1Billion, during the<br />

dot com boom. Since then, through<br />

many corrections in the financial<br />

markets, netSol has continued to be a<br />

resilient player in a very competetive<br />

landscape.<br />

netSol now operates in 7 countries<br />

and has customers in over 40<br />

countries and large clients such as<br />

mercedes Benz finance and toyota<br />

financila Services, spend multimillion<br />

dollar budgets in licensing the<br />

netSol technology ips to run their<br />

mission critical systems.<br />

netSol is a highly profitable company,<br />

with considerable cost arbitrage in its<br />

business model. it builds the majority<br />

of its ip in lahore, pakistan and its<br />

cost base is in pakistan rupees.<br />

however, its revenue is almost<br />

entirely generated in hard currencies,<br />

such as the dollar, Sterling and the<br />

euro.<br />

the three brothers work in unison<br />

and all three have held the ceo job.<br />

currently, najeeb is the ceo and<br />

Salim and naeem are both presidents<br />

who manage Service delivery and<br />

Global sales respectively.<br />

the founders still own a significant<br />

amount of equity in the company and<br />

have several investments in property<br />

and other ventures.<br />

mohammed adil, born in Gujjar khan, pakistan,<br />

came to the Uk as a teenager in 1963 and became a<br />

millionaire before the age of 40. he started his<br />

career as a bus driver; however in 1969 became the<br />

first asian franchisee of the fast food chain, his first<br />

branch being in willesden. he also created his own<br />

brand “Burger delight”. he progressed to acquire<br />

more restaurants, which he converted to Burger<br />

king franchise over time. he is now a proud<br />

franchisee of the wimpy, Burger king, kfc, and<br />

costa brands, and has in excess of 80 restaurants in<br />

the Uk, employing around 2000 people throughout<br />

the group.<br />

he climbed onto the property ladder at an early<br />

age, unlike other asian colleagues, who acquired<br />

corner shops. currently mr adil holds a huge<br />

commercial and residential property portfolio in<br />

and around london along with the two successfully<br />

operating hotels.<br />

mr adil contributes to the asian community<br />

through donations to reputable charities. he has<br />

been awarded many prestigious honorary awards.<br />

respected for his contribution to the community,<br />

he associates well with high calibre people of the<br />

Uk and pakistan.<br />

his two sons follow in his footsteps: raja Jameel<br />

adil, a qualified and highly successful solicitor<br />

manages the kfc restaurants whilst Zahir adil the<br />

Burger king restaurants and other businesses.<br />

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AAMINA TASEER<br />

First Capital Securities Corporation Limited<br />

Aamna Taseer serves as the<br />

Chairman and Chief Executive<br />

Officer of First Capital Securities<br />

Corporation Limited. She has<br />

been the Chief Executive Officer<br />

of Pace Pakistan Limited since May<br />

2, 2011 and has been the<br />

Chairman of the Board at Media<br />

Times Limited since June 29,<br />

2011.<br />

She is one of the main promoters<br />

who established First Capital<br />

Securities Corporation Limited<br />

(“FCSC”) in Pakistan in 1994, a<br />

full service brokerage house with<br />

equity participation by Smith<br />

Barney Inc USA and HG Asia<br />

Hong Kong.<br />

FCSC ser the tone for investment<br />

banking services and together with<br />

the help of international banks,<br />

Amina Taseer successfully laid the<br />

background for important advisory<br />

and corporate finance transactions.<br />

Since then she has been actively<br />

involved in establishing other<br />

companies in the financial sectors.<br />

As a Director of Pace Pakistan Ltd,<br />

with a listing in Pakistan and<br />

convertible bond listing in<br />

Singapore, the Pace brand is<br />

recognized not only in Pakistan<br />

but by international fund managers<br />

across the globe.<br />

As a Director of Pace<br />

Pakistan Ltd, with a<br />

listing in Pakistan and<br />

convertible bond<br />

listing in Singapore,<br />

she has ensured the<br />

Pace brand is<br />

recognized not only<br />

in Pakistan but by<br />

international fund<br />

managers across<br />

the globe.<br />

Today the group has 6 operational<br />

shopping malls in different cities<br />

and around eight projects under<br />

various phases of development.<br />

First Capital Group also took the<br />

lead by introducing the first<br />

English news channel in Pakistan<br />

Business Plus which was followed<br />

by the first exclusive kids channel,<br />

Zaiqa Channel, Media Times<br />

Limited, a First Capital Group<br />

Company is one of the fastest<br />

growing English newspaper, The<br />

Daily Times and an Urdu daily by<br />

the name of Aaj Kal<br />

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the power 100<br />

media, faShion & mUSic<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

Aaqil Ahmed<br />

BBC<br />

Abida Parween<br />

Singer<br />

Amber Haroon<br />

Dawn Group<br />

Arif Nizami<br />

Pakistan Today<br />

Art Malik<br />

Actor<br />

Hameed Haroon<br />

Dawn Group<br />

Hassan Sheheryar Yasin HSY<br />

Imran Aslam<br />

GEO<br />

Mansoor Shaikh<br />

JWT<br />

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Singer<br />

Salman Ahmad<br />

Junoon<br />

Salman Iqbal<br />

ARY<br />

Sehyr Saigol<br />

Libas<br />

Shakil ur Rahman Jang Group<br />

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Filmaker<br />

Shoaib Mansoor<br />

Director<br />

Abida Parween<br />

Singer<br />

abida perveen is one of the most<br />

well known names in the music<br />

industry, both nationally and<br />

internationally. She is of Sindhi<br />

descent and started receiving<br />

musical training from her father<br />

at an early age. She started her<br />

professional career in 1973 and is<br />

now one of the most sought after<br />

singers of this country. her<br />

genres include the Ghazal, kafi<br />

and Qawwali, and she sings in<br />

multiple languages including<br />

Urdu, Sindhi and persian. She has<br />

had numerous international<br />

performances which have led to<br />

an avid international fan<br />

following.<br />

Rizvan Beyg<br />

Fashion<br />

one of the sparkling names in the<br />

list of pakistani fashion designers<br />

is rizwan Beyg. he is no doubt<br />

one of the top class designers of<br />

the pakistani fashion industry.<br />

fashion designer Beyg is<br />

establishing and creating latest<br />

and unique designs on the fabrics<br />

since 1986.<br />

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Aaqil Ahmed<br />

BBC<br />

aaqil ahmed is the first head of<br />

religion and ethics and<br />

commissioning editor of<br />

religion at the BBc. he runs the<br />

in-house department making<br />

radio and tV shows such as<br />

thought for the day and Songs of<br />

praise. he also commissions<br />

content from across the BBc and<br />

independent producers. prior to<br />

this position, aaqil spent six years<br />

at channel 4 as commissioning<br />

editor of religion and the head<br />

of multicultural programming.<br />

he commissioned award winning<br />

projects such as inside the mind<br />

of the Suicide Bomber.<br />

Art Malik<br />

Actor<br />

art malik achieved international<br />

fame in the 1980s through his<br />

starring and subsidiary roles in<br />

assorted British and merchantivory<br />

television serials and films.<br />

he is especially remembered as<br />

the doomed hari kumar in the<br />

Jewel in the crown at the outset<br />

of his career. the success of these<br />

ventures brought malik to<br />

hollywood, where he was an<br />

afghan rebel leader who teams<br />

with James Bond (timothy<br />

dalton) in “the living daylights”<br />

(1987). in roland Joffe’s “city of<br />

Joy” (1992), malik portrayed a<br />

brutal gangster who demands<br />

graft from the local inhabitants of<br />

the area.<br />

Arif Nizami<br />

Nawa-i-Waqa<br />

founder of nawa-i-waqat, arif<br />

nizami is the son of a renowned<br />

journalist hamid nizami. after<br />

being terminated from his<br />

father’s company by his own<br />

uncle, pakistan today was born.<br />

pakistan today uplholds a liberal<br />

and moderate editorial policy<br />

through its editorial and<br />

contents. pakistan today has<br />

among other personalities of high<br />

net worth, the financial support<br />

and backing of the best-known<br />

corporate entity in the country .<br />

post-modern and contemporary<br />

in its outlook, pakistan today<br />

espouses core values of<br />

independence, authenticity and<br />

Mir Shakil ur Rahman<br />

Jang Group<br />

mir Shakil ur rahman is the part<br />

owner of the independent media<br />

corporation and Group chief<br />

executive and Group editor in<br />

chief of Jang Group of<br />

companies in pakistan. this<br />

media group publishes a number<br />

of newspapers and magazines in<br />

Urdu and english. today, around<br />

10 top newspapers and the multibillion-rupee<br />

Geo tV project<br />

are being run by mir Shakeel-urrehman.<br />

independent media<br />

corporation (imc) also owns the<br />

Geo tV network. Business week<br />

magazine selected mir Shakil ur<br />

rahman in its list of 25 Stars of<br />

asia.<br />

Mansoor Karim Shaikh<br />

JWT<br />

currently as Group ceo for<br />

Jwt, contract advertising and<br />

t-media, mansoor leads a team of<br />

200 plus people in karachi and<br />

lahore. an optimist to the core,<br />

he believes that for pakistan the<br />

best is yet to come. with<br />

communication being such a<br />

powerful platform to showcase<br />

pakistan’s potential, mansoor was<br />

also nominated as Vice chairman<br />

the advertising association of<br />

pakistan (aap) in 2011. the aap<br />

serves as the voice of the industry<br />

and represents nearly 200<br />

agencies at various forums and<br />

platforms.<br />

Shoaib Mansoor<br />

Film maker<br />

Shoaib mansoor is among the<br />

most influential and famous<br />

figures in the pakistan showbiz<br />

scene. he has written, produced<br />

and directed hit tV shows such as<br />

ankahi and fifty fifty. he has<br />

also been a successful songwriter<br />

and music composer and, in the<br />

1980s, introduced the then-pop<br />

sensation Vital Signs to the<br />

mainstream. in 2009, he began<br />

directing a big budget film Bol<br />

which had atif aslam, mahira<br />

khan, humaima abbassi and<br />

iman ali playing lead roles.<br />

Amber Haroon<br />

Dawn media group<br />

amber haroon is the<br />

chairperson of dawn Group.<br />

dawn is one of the widest read<br />

english newspapers of pakistan,<br />

with a daily circulation of over<br />

30,000 copies. the dawn media<br />

Group is the trading name of<br />

pakistan herald publications<br />

(pvt.) ltd. the karachi based<br />

group is owned by the powerful<br />

haroon and Saigol families. it’s<br />

ceo is hameed haroon, and its<br />

chairman is amber haroon<br />

Saigol, daughter of the previous<br />

chairman mahmoud haroon and<br />

the 11th richest individual in<br />

pakistan in 1993.<br />

Imran Aslam<br />

GEO<br />

imran aslam is a journalist and<br />

media personality from pakistan.<br />

imran aslam graduated from<br />

Government college lahore, he<br />

began his journalistic career as<br />

the editor of the Star in the<br />

1980s. in the 1990s he was editor<br />

of the news, a karachi english<br />

daily. he is currently the<br />

president of Geo television, a<br />

subsidiary of the Jang Group.<br />

aslam has written political<br />

satirical plays for television, and<br />

for the Gripps theatre, with<br />

translations of dario fo’s plays<br />

for children, localised for<br />

pakistani audiences.<br />

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SALMAN IQBAL<br />

ARY Digital Network<br />

RAHAT FATEH<br />

ALI KHAN<br />

inheriting a passion for excellence and<br />

enterprise from the family, Salman<br />

have been able to become one of the<br />

most dynamic and effective members<br />

of arY Group. within a span of<br />

seventeen years, today Salman is the<br />

head of pakistan’s largest private<br />

Satellite network comprising of a<br />

brilliant team of more than a 2600<br />

professionals across the globe. in<br />

addition to his enthusiasm for success<br />

in business, Salman strives to be a<br />

humble and beneficial human being<br />

and give back to society at large and to<br />

his country to the best of his ability.<br />

Salman took over the business of arY<br />

digital network with the acquisition<br />

of the pakistani channel in london in<br />

early 2000. within less than 3 years of<br />

the takeover, Salman had turned the<br />

12 hour channel from Uk to a global<br />

network of 11 channels –<br />

broadcasting into pakistan, india,<br />

north america, Uk/ europe and the<br />

middle east.<br />

Salman has simply pioneered the<br />

emergence of the private media in<br />

pakistan. he has been responsible for<br />

quite a few firsts. he launched the<br />

first pakistani, Global news and<br />

current affairs channel - arY news<br />

which introduced to pakistan, “free<br />

news”, that had been limited till then<br />

to the information provided by the<br />

State owned channel. Since its<br />

inception arY news has set many<br />

path breaking trends such as the first<br />

pakistani channel, to cover the<br />

situation in afghanistan and afghan<br />

elections in depth. has extensive<br />

team, covering the tribal areas of<br />

pakistan. arY news, was the first<br />

channel from the region to cover the<br />

iraq war from within iraq, the first<br />

and only channel to cover the israeli /<br />

lebanon war from the war zone itself,<br />

including the first ever channel to<br />

broadcast the israeli prerogative as<br />

well to a predominantly muslim<br />

population of viewers, which was a<br />

risky move by Salman, well received<br />

in pakistan.<br />

he has also been credited with placing<br />

pakistan on the map in the world of<br />

entertainment. he engineered and<br />

orchestrated strategic partnerships<br />

with global media organizations such<br />

as hBo and Viacom, endemol,<br />

celador to introduce them to the<br />

country and expand their business<br />

interests and as well representing<br />

them pakistan. Salman has organised<br />

the first and only mega concert by a<br />

western pop star, Bryan adams in<br />

2006 with proceeds donated to a<br />

children’s charity in pakistan.<br />

rahat fateh ali khan is a pakistani singer,<br />

primary singing in the genre Qawwali, a<br />

devotional music of the muslim Sufis. he also<br />

performs ghazals and other light music. he is<br />

popular as a Bollywood playback singer.<br />

rahat fateh ali khan has created his own space in<br />

the music market today from assisting his uncle<br />

nusrat fateh ali khan, collaborating an album<br />

with the famous american rock band pearl Jam.<br />

he has also contributed to the soundtrack of the<br />

1995 hollywood film dead man walking, the<br />

2002 soundtrack of four feathers in<br />

collaboration with american composer of<br />

orchestral and film music, James horner. his<br />

recent hollywood contribution is in mel<br />

Gibson’s apocalypto in 2006.<br />

he has won awards for Best male playback<br />

Singer; filmfare awards 2011, Best male<br />

playback; Screen awards 2011 and 2010 and the<br />

Best international act; Uk asian music awards<br />

2010.<br />

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SALMAN AHMAD<br />

Music and UN Goodwill Ambassador<br />

Salman ahmad, one of South asia’s most<br />

influential cultural figures, is a musician,<br />

physician and United nations goodwill<br />

ambassador. with his wife, Samina, he<br />

launched an nGo called the Salman &<br />

Samina Global wellness initiative, focused<br />

on interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue,<br />

global health and wellness, and music<br />

education.<br />

ahmad popularized a blend of western<br />

rock music and eastern/islamic music that<br />

has been called “Sufi rock” and that has<br />

been hailed as a cultural bridge within<br />

South asia and between the east and west.<br />

Born in lahore, pakistan, ahmad spent his<br />

teenage years in new York before<br />

returning to lahore to train as a medical<br />

doctor.<br />

turning then to his true passion of music,<br />

ahmad founded South asia’s biggest rock<br />

band, Junoon, in 1990. the band faced<br />

death threats and harassment from<br />

religious extremists and government<br />

forces in its early years, but Junoon’s<br />

sweeping melodies, bhangra rock rhythms<br />

and driving guitars led it to become known<br />

as “the U2 of South asia.”<br />

Junoon has sold over 25 million albums<br />

worldwide and has shared the stage with<br />

artists such as melissa etheridge, alicia<br />

keys, Sting, earth wind and fire, and<br />

wyclef Jean. ahmad has recently cowritten<br />

and recorded a song with academy<br />

award winning artist melissa etheridge<br />

called ring the Bells.<br />

ahmad led Junoon in a 2001 performance<br />

at the U.n. General assembly hall, the<br />

first such rock performance in that hall. in<br />

2007 Junoon performed at the nobel<br />

peace prize ceremony in oslo. the group<br />

defied death threats from militants to<br />

perform in 2008 in the valley of kashmir,<br />

the first rock concert to be held in<br />

Srinagar.<br />

Hollywood actress<br />

Susan Sarandon also<br />

presented a<br />

documentary on<br />

Junoon for VH1<br />

titled, ‘Islamabad:<br />

Rock City’.<br />

Jon pareles of the new York times has<br />

described Junoon as “South asia’s answer<br />

to Santana,” and the wall Street Journal<br />

called Junoon’s eclectic music “a powerful<br />

combination of led Zeppelin and<br />

traditional South asian percussion like<br />

tabla and dholak.”<br />

ahmad has written a memoir for Simon<br />

and Schuster titled rock and roll Jihad<br />

(scheduled for publication in early 2010)<br />

and has written commentaries for the<br />

washington post’s “on faith” website. he<br />

is also a member of the Brookings<br />

institute’s US-islamic arts & culture panel<br />

for public diplomacy.<br />

ahmad has appeared on major television<br />

networks such as cnn, foX, aBc, nBc,<br />

al-Jazeera and al-arabiya and has been<br />

the subject of two documentary films:<br />

“the rockstar and the mullahs” and “its<br />

my country too” for pBS/wide angle<br />

and the BBc.<br />

hollywood actress Susan Sarandon also<br />

presented a documentary on Junoon for<br />

Vh1 titled, “islamabad: rock city.”<br />

ahmad is also a professor at Queens<br />

college (cUnY) where he teaches music<br />

and poetry from muslim culture.<br />

he received an honorary doctorate from<br />

the claremont Graduate University in<br />

2009.<br />

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HASSAN SHEHERYAR YASIN<br />

Fashion Designer<br />

a young pakistani fashion designer hassan<br />

Sheheryar Yasin started his career as a fashion<br />

choreographer in 1994. after his success in<br />

choreography, he stepped in to the world of<br />

fashion designing. he mostly made bridal<br />

and formal wear at the beginning of his<br />

fashion designing career. due to his<br />

remarkable work, he achieved an emerging<br />

south asian fashion label ‘hSY’ in 2000. his<br />

early fashion designing success made him to<br />

plan men’s line in 2006 and to introduce the<br />

jewelry line in 2007. he also introduced<br />

different collection of home furniture,<br />

interior accessories and soft furnishing.<br />

he started his bridal and formal wear cot<br />

our house in the most traditional city of<br />

pakistan, lahore. he owns fourteen display<br />

centers at international level including Uk,<br />

Saudi arabia, Uae, USa and pakistan. he has<br />

six stores internationally with the<br />

collaboration of flagship studio in lahore. he<br />

has been planning more furniture show<br />

rooms in toronto and new York. But he has<br />

also organized various fashion shows at<br />

international fashion scenes including dubai,<br />

london, new York city and toronto.<br />

recently, he has displayed both his latest<br />

men’s and women’s wear collection for<br />

winters in pfdc Sunsilk fashion week 2012<br />

karachi. he is working on traditional formal<br />

line, made-to-order line, ready to wear<br />

line and Studio line these days.<br />

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SHARMEEN OBAID CHINOY<br />

Director<br />

Sharmeen obaid chinoy had ambition to<br />

do something for her country; she started<br />

by writing columns in newspapers about<br />

the forlorn and unfortunate events<br />

happening in pakistan. later, she entered<br />

the film making industry just so she could<br />

convey her message to the public.<br />

her career in documentary filmmaking<br />

began when she examined the plight of<br />

arghan refugee children in pakistan for an<br />

article. their situation was so ominous,<br />

and their stories so compelling, that<br />

Sharmeen decided to return to pakistan<br />

and create a film about them. She<br />

petitioned Smith college and new York<br />

times television production division for<br />

the funds that would allow her to<br />

accomplish her goals. intrigued and<br />

interested by her story, both organizations<br />

gave her the finances as well as production<br />

equipment and training.<br />

obaid began her calling with new York<br />

times television in 2002 where she<br />

produced terror’s children, a film<br />

about afghan refugee children, which won<br />

her the overseas press club award, the<br />

american women and radio and<br />

television award, and the South asian<br />

Journalist association award. Since then,<br />

she has produced and reported on more<br />

than twelve films around the world.<br />

obaid produced and accounted on four<br />

multi-award winning documentary films<br />

for new York times television. in<br />

2003, reinventing the taliban was awarded<br />

the Special Jury award at the Banff tV<br />

festival in canada, the cine Golden eagle<br />

award, the american women in radio and<br />

television award, and the livingston<br />

award. in 2005, her film women of the<br />

holy kingdom, which provided an inside<br />

look at the women’s movement in Saudi<br />

arabia, won the South asian Journalist<br />

association award.<br />

Known for<br />

documentaries<br />

focusing on life in<br />

the Muslim world,<br />

Obaid-Chinoy<br />

became the first<br />

non-American<br />

to win the<br />

Livingston Award.<br />

in 2005, obaid began working with<br />

channel 4 in the United kingdom<br />

reporting on four films for their<br />

Unreported world series. pakistan’s<br />

double Game looked at sectarian violence<br />

in pakistan, city of Guilt explored the<br />

catholic church’s pro-life movement in<br />

the philippines, the new<br />

apartheid looked into growing<br />

xenophobia in South africa, and Birth of a<br />

nation delved into the politics of east<br />

timor. in 2007, obaid was named<br />

“journalist of the year” by the one world<br />

media awards for her work in the series.<br />

in 2007, obaid travelled to afghanistan<br />

and reported for channel 4 and cnn.<br />

her film, afghanistan Unveiled/lifting<br />

the Veil, focuses on stalled reconstruction<br />

and the repression of women in the<br />

country.in 2010, she won an emmy<br />

award for her documentary, pakistan:<br />

children of the taliban, which explores<br />

taliban recruitment strategies, their effect<br />

on the youth and their methods to<br />

radicalize the country’s young and often<br />

dejected populace. children of the taliban<br />

premiered filums (2011) - the largest<br />

film festival in pakistan held annually at<br />

the lahore University of management<br />

Sciences.<br />

on february 26, 2012, obaid became the<br />

first pakistani woman to win an oscar for<br />

the co-directed documentary Saving face,<br />

which she made with daniel Junge (who<br />

started the film and titled it before she<br />

came aboard as co-director) and which<br />

chronicles the lives of acid attack<br />

survivors in pakistan. the film also follows<br />

British-pakistani plastic surgeon<br />

mohammad ali Jawad who performs<br />

reconstructive surgeries on survivors of<br />

such terrible attacks. the film was codirected<br />

by american filmmaker daniel<br />

Junge.<br />

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the power 100<br />

Social & commUnitY<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

Shoaib Sultan Khan<br />

Rural Support<br />

Programmes (RSPs)<br />

Shoaib Sultan khan (SSk) is<br />

widely renowned as one of the<br />

pioneers of rural<br />

development programmes in<br />

pakistan. he served for 59 years<br />

in a range of development<br />

organizations including aga khan<br />

foundation, Unicef, Undp,<br />

and rural Support programmes<br />

network. as a cSp officer, he<br />

worked with the Government<br />

of pakistan for 25 years, later on<br />

he served Geneva-based aga<br />

khan foundation for 12 years<br />

and Unicef and Undp for 14<br />

years. Since his retirement, he has<br />

been involved with the rural<br />

Support programmes (rSps)<br />

of pakistan full-time, on<br />

voluntary basis.<br />

Abdul Sattar<br />

Asma Jahngir<br />

Bilquis Edhi<br />

Farrokh Captain<br />

Imran Khan<br />

Imam Qasim<br />

Mukhtar Mai<br />

Nigar Ahmed<br />

Roshaneh Zafar<br />

Seema Aziz<br />

Shoaib Sultan Khan<br />

Souriya Anwar<br />

Edhi Welfare<br />

AGHS<br />

Bilquis Edhi Foundation<br />

LRBT<br />

Shaukat Khanum Hospital<br />

Al Khair<br />

Human Rights Fighter<br />

Aurat Foundation<br />

Kashf Foundation<br />

Care Foundation<br />

Rural Support Program<br />

SOS Villages<br />

Nigar Ahmed<br />

Aurat Foundation<br />

an academic and social activist,<br />

the founder of aurat foundation,<br />

nigar ahmad is one of the 1000<br />

women who were proposed for<br />

the nobel peace prize in 2005.<br />

while pursuing a career in<br />

academia she taught economics<br />

for 16 years at the faculty of the<br />

Quaid-e-azam University in<br />

islamabad and was drawn into the<br />

struggle of pakistani women<br />

against the anti-women policies<br />

of the military dictatorship<br />

headed by Zia-ul-haq. it is at this<br />

point in time where she founded<br />

the aurat foundation with the<br />

help of other likeminded women<br />

friends. from then on, under her<br />

leadership, the aurat foundation<br />

has taken up provocative issues,<br />

from mobilizing women<br />

candidates for local government<br />

elections to generating<br />

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Farrok Captian<br />

LRBT<br />

in 1978 farrokh k captain lead a<br />

major US-pakistan joint venture<br />

chemical manufacturing business<br />

in pakistan, namely captain-pQ<br />

chemical industries (private)<br />

limited. he is also a<br />

distinguished member of the<br />

Board of the american Business<br />

council. mr. captain now<br />

devotes much of his time in the<br />

field of social work. he is a<br />

trustee of the layton rehmatulla<br />

Benevolent trust and has served<br />

as chairman of the pakistan<br />

human development fund. he is<br />

currently serving his eighth<br />

three-year term as director of<br />

Shell pakistan ltd.<br />

Seema Aziz<br />

Care Foundation<br />

Seema aziz is an entrepreneur<br />

and social activist who has been<br />

working for the cause of<br />

education in pakistan since 1988.<br />

in 1985, she started a business, to<br />

prove that pakistan could produce<br />

embroidered fabric equal in<br />

quality and design to the best in<br />

world. today, 26 years on,<br />

Bareeze is a symbol of pride for<br />

pakistan. after the flood of<br />

1988, which devastated a large<br />

part of the punjab, Seema<br />

founded care foundation,<br />

which is currently the largest<br />

non-governmental organization in<br />

pakistan, and perhaps the largest<br />

school system in the world.<br />

Bilquis Edhi<br />

Bilquis Edhi Foundation<br />

Bilquis edhi is one of the most<br />

well known names in the field of<br />

public service. She heads the<br />

Bilquis edhi foundation, a<br />

nonprofit organization that<br />

provides 24 hour emergency<br />

services across the country.<br />

Bilquis edhi married her husband<br />

abdul Sattar edhi at an early age<br />

and since then the two have been<br />

of invaluable service to the<br />

people of pakistan. the<br />

Bilquisedhi foundation, better<br />

known as edhi foundation,<br />

provides shelter and free medical<br />

care for the poor, rehabilitation<br />

for drug addicts, relief efforts in<br />

times of national crises.<br />

Asma Jahangir<br />

AGHS<br />

asma Jahangir is currently the<br />

president of the Supreme court<br />

Bar association of pakistan and<br />

has been twice elected as<br />

chairperson of the human rights<br />

commission of pakistan. She is<br />

also a director of the aGhS<br />

legal aid cell, which provides<br />

free legal assistance to the needy.<br />

Jahangir was instrumental in the<br />

formation of the punjab women<br />

lawyers association in 1980 and<br />

the women action forum in<br />

1985. Jahangir has authored two<br />

books and five papers. She has<br />

been the recipient of a number of<br />

international and national awards,<br />

magsaysay award in 1995.<br />

Imam Qasim<br />

Al-Khair<br />

imam Qasim founded al-khair in<br />

2003, Since its establishment, the<br />

foundation has been meticulously<br />

engaged in charitable work<br />

assisting those who are less<br />

fortunate than others. al-khair<br />

has established overseas schools<br />

for orphans and shelters for<br />

widows and vulnerable women.<br />

the foundation also constructs<br />

water-wells making fresh, clean<br />

drinking water accessible to<br />

remote communities.<br />

Roshaneh Zafar<br />

Kashf Foundation<br />

roshaneh Zafar is the founder<br />

and managing director of kashf<br />

foundation, chair kashf holdings<br />

and founder kashf microfinance<br />

Bank limited based in pakistan.<br />

She founded the kashf<br />

foundation the first specialized<br />

microfinance organization in<br />

pakistan in 1996. today, one of<br />

the fastest growing mfis in the<br />

country, kashf foundation was<br />

the first microfinance institute in<br />

pakistan to achieve financial self<br />

sufficiency and demonstrated the<br />

business case for investing in<br />

women’s economic<br />

empowerment.<br />

Souriya Anwar<br />

SOS Villages<br />

Souriya anwar became president<br />

of the international women’s<br />

club, she turned the socialising<br />

club into a service oriented<br />

group, which it steadfastly<br />

remains, to date. along the road<br />

there have been other projects,<br />

each bringing its own brand of<br />

responsibility like office bearing<br />

for the muscular dystrophy<br />

welfare association, the fatima<br />

memorial hospital, the<br />

committee for crimes against<br />

women, the prison reforms<br />

commission, the divisional<br />

Social welfare council, to a fiveyear<br />

tenure as a Justice of the<br />

peace!<br />

Mukhtar Mai<br />

Activist<br />

in June 2002, mukhtar mai was<br />

the victim of a gang rape.<br />

although custom would expect<br />

her to commit suicide after being<br />

raped, mukhtaran spoke up, and<br />

pursued the case, which was<br />

picked up by both domestic and<br />

international media. She started<br />

the mukhtar mai women’s<br />

welfare organization to help<br />

support and educate pakistani<br />

women and girls. in april 2007,<br />

mukhtar mai won the north-<br />

South prize from the council of<br />

europe.<br />

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SEEMA AZIZ<br />

Care Foundation<br />

ROSHANEH ZAFAR<br />

Kashf Foundation<br />

Seema aziz is an entrepreneur and social activist who<br />

has been working for the cause of education in pakistan<br />

since 1988.<br />

in 1985, she started a business, to prove that pakistan<br />

could produce embroidered fabric equal in quality and<br />

design to the best in world. today, 26 years on, Bareeze<br />

is a symbol of pride for pakistan and the most<br />

recognizable pakistani brand both within the country<br />

and abroad. the Bareeze group, which now has 7<br />

brands, sells through over 400 points of sale worldwide<br />

and is pakistan’s largest fashion retailer.<br />

after the flood of 1988, which devastated a large part<br />

of the punjab, Seema founded care foundation,<br />

which is currently the largest non-governmental<br />

organization in pakistan, and perhaps the largest school<br />

system in the world. care educates more than<br />

150,000 students through 225 schools providing them<br />

with a “quality marketable” education which sets them<br />

at par with some of the best schools in the country.<br />

care’s mission is to have 1 million children enrolled<br />

in its schools within the next 5 years.<br />

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roshaneh Zafar is the founder and managing director of kashf<br />

foundation, chair kashf holdings and founder kashf microfinance<br />

Bank limited based in pakistan. She founded the kashf foundation –<br />

the first specialized microfinance organization in pakistan – in 1996<br />

after a chance meeting with professor muhammad Yunus of the<br />

Grameen Bank. today, one of the fastest growing mfis in the country,<br />

kashf foundation was the first microfinance institute in pakistan to<br />

achieve financial self sufficiency and demonstrated the business case for<br />

investing in women’s economic empowerment. in 2002, kashf<br />

foundation was awarded the microfinance excellence award by the<br />

Grameen foundation-USa for its groundbreaking innovations in the<br />

field of microfinance in pakistan, while in 2005 it won the aGfUnd<br />

international prize for microcredit 2005 out of 98 countries. in 2008,<br />

forbes ranked kashf foundation 34th in its top 50 mfis of the world.<br />

ms Zafar has also spearheaded and led the team to establish the kashf<br />

microfinance Bank, the first mfB in pakistan to mobilize deposits from<br />

low income households especially women which received its license in<br />

october 2008.<br />

prior to starting kashf, she worked with the world Bank in islamabad<br />

in the water and Sanitation department for several years. ms. Zafar was<br />

one of the first ashoka fellows in pakistan and was also selected as a<br />

Social entrepreneur by the Schwab foundation in 2002 and the Skoll<br />

foundation in 2007. She represented the Social entrepreneurs at the<br />

world economic forum in January 2004 and spoke at the opening<br />

plenary of the wef along with foreign Secretary Jack Straw, president<br />

obasanjo of nigeria, carly fiorina of hewlett packard and mr.<br />

wolfenson of the world Bank, responding to the theme partnering for<br />

Security and prosperity. ms Zafar has also been awarded the tamgha-iimtiaz,<br />

one of pakistan’s highest civilian awards 2005, by the president<br />

of pakistan for her work in the field of development and women’s<br />

empowerment. in 2009 kashf foundation under the leadership of<br />

roshaneh Zafar was awarded the onewoman initiative award by the<br />

US State department in a ceremony in islamabad by US deputy<br />

Secretary of State mr. Jacob lew. She has also been awarded the Vital<br />

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ABDUL SATTAR EDHI<br />

Edhi foundation<br />

edhi established his first welfare centre<br />

and then the Bilqis edhi trust with a mere<br />

rs. 5000. what started as a one-man show<br />

operating from a single room in karachi is<br />

now the edhi foundation, the largest<br />

welfare organization in pakistan. the<br />

foundation has over 300 centers across the<br />

country, in big cities, small towns and<br />

remote rural areas, providing medical aid,<br />

family planning and emergency assistance.<br />

they own air ambulances, providing quick<br />

access to far-flung areas.<br />

in karachi alone, the edhi foundation runs<br />

8 hospitals providing free medical care, eye<br />

hospitals, diabetic centers, surgical units, a<br />

4- bed cancer hospital and mobile<br />

dispensaries. in addition to these the<br />

foundation also manages two blood banks<br />

in karachi.<br />

edhi is to karachi what mother teresa was<br />

to the poor of calcutta. edhi and wife<br />

Bilquees have spent a lifetime working for<br />

people and their welfare work to date<br />

remains unparalleled in pakistan. they are<br />

both very private people who shun<br />

publicity. they have had little formal<br />

education, and are totally committed to<br />

the cause of helping the poor and needy.<br />

Born in 1928 in Bantwa , Gujarat, india ,<br />

edhi’s family belonged to the industrious<br />

memon community. from a young age his<br />

mother taught edhi to be kind towards<br />

others and to help the poor. in 1947 the<br />

family migrated to pakistan and settled in<br />

karachi. that was a time of great<br />

emotional trauma and social and political<br />

upheaval. edhi became involved in social<br />

work and began working with welfare<br />

organisations and soon started his own<br />

Edhi and Bilquis have<br />

spent a lifetime<br />

working for the poor<br />

and their welfare<br />

work to date<br />

remains<br />

unparalleled<br />

in Pakistan.<br />

dispensary, providing medical aid to the<br />

poor. he bought his first ambulance, an<br />

old van which he called the "poor man’s<br />

van" and went around the city providing<br />

medical help and burying unclaimed<br />

bodies. his van became his advertisement<br />

and soon he came to be known for his<br />

work with the poor. as a consequence,<br />

donations started pouring in and his<br />

operations expanded, employing<br />

additional nurses and staff. it was here that<br />

edhi met his wife Bilquees who was a<br />

trainee nurse at the dispensary. they were<br />

married in 1966. Bilquees became the<br />

ideal wife for edhi, totally committed to<br />

welfare work.<br />

edhi established his first welfare centre<br />

and then the edhi trust with a mere rs.<br />

5000 [$1000]. the edhi foundation grew<br />

as people began to recognize its<br />

humanitarian aims. in 1973 when an old<br />

apartment building collapsed in karachi,<br />

edhi’s ambulances and volunteers were<br />

the first to reach the scene and start<br />

rescue operations. from then, on, through<br />

the troubles in karachi and all over the<br />

country, edhi’s ambulances have been<br />

rescuing and taking the injured to<br />

hospitals and burying unclaimed bodies.<br />

they go to places where even government<br />

agencies hesitate to venture.<br />

the edhi foundation is the first of its kind<br />

in South asia that owns air ambulances,<br />

providing quick access to far-flung areas.<br />

whether it is a train accident or a bomb<br />

blast, edhi ambulances are the first to<br />

arrive. the foundation relies on the<br />

support of its 3, 500 workers and<br />

thousands of volunteers who form the<br />

backbone of the organisation<br />

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VIRTUALHOSPITAL.ORG.UK<br />

Using the internet to deliver 21st<br />

century medical care to the world s<br />

poorest people .<br />

Virtual Hospital seeks to ensure<br />

that the benefits of modern<br />

medicine are available to all people<br />

and that the poor are not deprived<br />

of medical treatment for want of<br />

money, or a lack of access to


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IMRAN KHAN<br />

Politics & welfare<br />

on 13 december 2007, khan<br />

received the humanitarian award at<br />

the asian Sports awards in kuala<br />

lumpur for his efforts in setting up<br />

the first cancer hospital in pakistan. in<br />

2009, at international cricket<br />

council’s centennial year celebration,<br />

khan was one of fifty-five cricketers<br />

inducted into the icc hall of fame.<br />

in 2011 he was given Jinnah award.<br />

on 28 July 2012, imran khan was<br />

awarded an honorary fellowship by<br />

the royal college of physicians of<br />

edinburgh in recognition of his<br />

services for cancer treatment in<br />

pakistan, through the Shaukat<br />

khanum memorial cancer hospital<br />

and research centre.<br />

imran khan niazi is a pakistani<br />

politician, statesman and former<br />

cricketer. he has played international<br />

cricket for two decades in the late<br />

twentieth century. after retiring, he<br />

entered politics, besides his political<br />

activism, khan is also a philanthropist,<br />

cricket commentator, chancellor of<br />

the University of Bradford and<br />

founding chairman Board of<br />

Governors of Shaukat khanum<br />

memorial cancer hospital &<br />

research centre.<br />

he was pakistan’s most successful<br />

cricket captain, and played for the<br />

pakistani cricket team from 1971 to<br />

1992 and served as its captain<br />

intermittently throughout1982–1992<br />

after retiring from cricket at the end<br />

of the 1987 world cup, in 1988 due to<br />

popular public demand he was<br />

requested to come back by the<br />

president of pakistan to lead the team<br />

once again. at 39, khan led his<br />

teammates to pakistan’s first and only<br />

world cup victory in 1992. he has a<br />

record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets<br />

in test cricket, making him one of<br />

eight world cricketers to have<br />

achieved an ‘all-rounder’s triple’ in<br />

test matches. on 14 July 2010, khan<br />

was inducted into the icc cricket<br />

hall of fame.<br />

in april 1996, khan founded and<br />

became the chairman of a political<br />

party pakistan tehreek-e-insaf<br />

(movement for Justice). he<br />

represented mianwali as a member of<br />

the national assembly from nov<br />

2002 to oct 2007. foreign policy<br />

magazine has described him as<br />

“pakistan’s ron paul”. through<br />

worldwide fundraising, he founded<br />

the Shaukat khanum memorial<br />

cancer hospital & research centre<br />

in 1996 and mianwali’s namal<br />

college in 2008.<br />

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the power 100<br />

artS & literatUre<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

Ahmed Rashid Writer & Journalist<br />

Ameena Saiyid Oxford University Press<br />

Amin Guljee Artist<br />

Hanif Kureishi English playwright<br />

Jamil Naqsh Artist<br />

Maleeha Lodhi Writer<br />

Rashid Rana Artist<br />

Sherry Rehman Journalist<br />

Tariq Ali<br />

Historian<br />

Tehmina Durrani Writer<br />

Hanif Kureshi<br />

Playwright<br />

hanif kureishi cBe is an english<br />

playwright, screenwriter and<br />

filmmaker, novelist and short<br />

story writer. the themes of his<br />

work have touched on topics of<br />

race, nationalism, immigration,<br />

and sexuality. in 2008, the times<br />

included kureishi in their list of<br />

“the 50 greatest British writers<br />

since 1945”<br />

he wrote my Beautiful<br />

laundrette in 1985, a screenplay<br />

about a gay pakistani-British boy<br />

growing up in 1980s london for<br />

a film directed by Stephen frears.<br />

it won the new York film critics<br />

Best Screenplay award and an<br />

academy award nomination for<br />

Best Screenplay.his book the<br />

Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won<br />

the whitbread award for the best<br />

first novel, and was also made<br />

into a BBc television series with<br />

a soundtrack by david Bowie.the<br />

next year, 1991, saw the release<br />

of the feature film entitled<br />

london kills me; a film written<br />

and directed by kureishi himself.<br />

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Tariq Ali<br />

Writer<br />

tariq ali, is a British pakistani<br />

military historian,novelist,<br />

journalist, filmmaker, public<br />

intellectual, political<br />

campaigner, activist, and<br />

commentator. he has written<br />

more than two dozen books on<br />

world history and politics and<br />

several novels which have been<br />

translated into over a dozen<br />

languages, as well as scripts for<br />

the stage and screen. he is<br />

currently an editor of the new<br />

left review. he is the writer of<br />

several books, including pakistan:<br />

military rule or people’s power<br />

(1970), can pakistan Survive?<br />

Ameena Saiyid<br />

Oxford University Press<br />

ameena Saiyid, managing<br />

director, oxford University press<br />

pakistan, is the first woman in<br />

pakistan to head a multinational,<br />

and to be elected president of the<br />

overseas investors’ chamber of<br />

commerce and industry in its<br />

150 years’ history. She was<br />

awarded the oBe by the British<br />

Queen for the promotion of<br />

anglo-pakistan relations,<br />

democracy, women’s rights,<br />

education, and intellectual<br />

property rights. She developed<br />

oUp pakistan’s publishing<br />

programme to make it the most<br />

successful publisher in pakistan.<br />

Ahmed Rashid<br />

Journalist<br />

ahmed rashid is a pakistani<br />

journalist based in lahore, who<br />

has covered afghanistan, pakistan<br />

and central asia for a variety of<br />

publications since 1979. his<br />

books, ‘taliban’ and ‘descent<br />

into chaos’ are on course lists at<br />

over 200 universities around the<br />

world. he writes for the<br />

financial times, the new York<br />

times, the new York review of<br />

Books, el mundo and BBc<br />

online and pakistani publications.<br />

in 2001 he won the ‘the nisar<br />

osmani courage in Journalism<br />

award,’ given by the human<br />

rights Society of pakistan.<br />

Tehmina Durrani<br />

Writer<br />

tehmina durrani’s controversial<br />

autobiography ‘my feudal lord’<br />

was published in 1991. it is now<br />

translated into 39 languages and<br />

is a european Bestseller. the<br />

book was a pioneer in<br />

surmounting the hitherto<br />

unbroken silence of muslim<br />

women since the 14th century,<br />

reconciling the rights of women<br />

with the paramount principle laid<br />

down for them in islam… and<br />

yet it was a book before its time.<br />

writing was not enough she<br />

searched for other ways to<br />

express. in 1992 she exhibited<br />

her paintings — ‘catharsis’.<br />

Jamil Naqsh<br />

Painter<br />

Jamil naqsh is a pakistani painter<br />

deemed the only living pakistani<br />

modern master artist. he<br />

currently lives a reclusive life in<br />

london. he is best known for his<br />

female nude figures. he was a<br />

student of Shakir ali and briefly<br />

studied at national college of<br />

arts but left before obtaining a<br />

degree. his work is very idealized<br />

and sensual. the artist is known<br />

for his palette knife work and<br />

prominent line work on canvas.<br />

Rashid Rana<br />

Artist<br />

rashid rana is one of the most<br />

important artists of his<br />

generation in pakistan. a leading<br />

name among the younggeneration<br />

artists on the<br />

contemporary art scene. he is<br />

popular with developing a<br />

conceptually driven, wellinformed<br />

art practice, which<br />

consists of a pixilated attention to<br />

formal concerns. his works<br />

revolve around a subtle<br />

simultaneous exploration of<br />

media and identity – both bound<br />

by a sharp political edge as he<br />

satirizes pop culture and looks to<br />

reinterpret varied elements of art<br />

and cultural history. .<br />

Maleeha Lodhi<br />

Writer & Diplomat<br />

maleeha lodhi, is a journalist,<br />

academic and diplomat from<br />

pakistan. She was the high<br />

commissioner of pakistan to the<br />

United kingdom and is a former<br />

pakistani ambassador to the<br />

United States. in the fall of 2008,<br />

she was a resident fellow at the<br />

institute of politics, John f.<br />

kennedy School of Government<br />

at harvard University. She has<br />

also been a member of the<br />

United nations Secretary-<br />

General’s advisory Board on<br />

disarmament.<br />

Amin Gulgee<br />

Artist<br />

amin Gulgee is an innovator of<br />

tradition. Using metal, his<br />

inspiration is the rich spiritual<br />

history of pakistan. wellestablished<br />

in pakistan, the artist<br />

has also exhibited extensively in<br />

the USa, europe and the middle<br />

east. the artist’s forty-odd shows<br />

include open: prima esposizione<br />

di Sculture e installazioni in<br />

Venice, where he showed<br />

alongside cesar and ten other<br />

international sculptors, and a solo<br />

show at the imf Gallery in<br />

washington.<br />

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RASHID RANA<br />

Artist<br />

among artists from pakistan, rashid rana is the<br />

most significant figure today. the recognition he has<br />

received in international art as well as in the region<br />

is unprecedented for any pakistani artist. distinct<br />

for his ideas, imagery and pictorial strategies, his<br />

work has been shown extensively around the world,<br />

especially at some prestigious museums in europe,<br />

north america, australia and asia. he is popular<br />

with developing a conceptually driven, wellinformed<br />

art practice, which consists of a pixilated<br />

attention to formal concerns. his work, in the past<br />

decade and a half, portrays dramatically different<br />

modes such as paintings, stainless steel sculptures,<br />

video installations, photo sculptures, and photo<br />

mosaics, each time finding a freshness of purpose<br />

and a surprising inventiveness of visual language.<br />

his works revolve around a subtle simultaneous<br />

exploration of media and identity – both bound by<br />

a sharp political edge as he satirizes pop culture and<br />

looks to reinterpret varied elements of art<br />

and cultural history. his new media<br />

projects deal with everyday issues ranging<br />

from tradition to faith and from<br />

urbanization to popular culture. Using<br />

photography and video installations he<br />

depicts his commentary and parody of<br />

both social and political scenarios.<br />

through the relationship between the<br />

larger image and its constituent elements,<br />

he leads us to meditations about part and<br />

whole, surface and depth, fragment and<br />

meaning.<br />

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TEHMINA DURRANI<br />

Writer & Artist<br />

tehmina durrani’s controversial<br />

autobiography ‘my feudal lord’ was<br />

published in 1991. it is now translated into<br />

39 languages and is a european Bestseller.<br />

the book was a pioneer in surmounting<br />

the hitherto unbroken silence of muslim<br />

women since the 14th century, reconciling<br />

the rights of women with the paramount<br />

principle laid down for them in islam…<br />

and yet it was a book before its time.<br />

there is a price that comes with all<br />

rebellions and revolts that break the status<br />

quo. tehmina has experienced it.<br />

writing was not enough she searched for<br />

other ways to express. in 1992 she<br />

exhibited her paintings — ‘catharsis’.<br />

one of the paintings became the cover of<br />

her third book ‘Blasphemy’.<br />

observing that no political party since<br />

pakistan’s inception had raised a voice for<br />

the accountability of corrupt public<br />

representatives, and recognizing that the<br />

silent majority of pakistan had neither,<br />

voice, influence nor resources to make the<br />

demand on the affluent, in 1993 she<br />

formed an issues oriented movement,<br />

Jihad for accountability of public Servants.<br />

She went on a hunger strike for seven days.<br />

her demand was meant to create public<br />

awareness towards the core issue facing<br />

pakistan’s progress and prosperity;<br />

through the self- preservation of criminal<br />

activity and its wide spread acceptance<br />

which had shred the moral fabric of the<br />

new generation. today accountability is a<br />

household word.<br />

Believing, those who ruled over our<br />

people knew nothing about the core issues<br />

that confronted the oppressed, deprived<br />

and directionless millions in every corner<br />

of the country, she sought out the only<br />

man who had spent a lifetime in the<br />

service of the downtrodden — abdul<br />

Satar edhi.<br />

“Many forms of<br />

expression are<br />

required to break out<br />

of the multiple<br />

confines that imprison<br />

the soul. Writing<br />

and Painting are<br />

just two of them”,<br />

says Tehmina.<br />

She recorded the thoughts, inspirations,<br />

motives, observations and works of<br />

pakistan’s most revered and renowned<br />

social reformer. it’s a guide towards<br />

making a personal revolution, which in<br />

time would move the collective spirit<br />

towards humanitarian islam. in 1994, ‘a<br />

mirror to the Blind’, mr. edhi’s narrated<br />

autobiography, an official document of the<br />

founder of edhi foundation.<br />

consistent in her attempt to expose<br />

current, social, religious and political<br />

contradictions, in the year 1998, she<br />

published Blasphemy, a novel inspired by a<br />

true story.<br />

as an act of compulsory Universal<br />

compassion, and oneness with human<br />

community, in 2002, she stood up for the<br />

freedom of fakhra Yunas, a victim of acid<br />

terrorism. fakhra’s son is under the<br />

supervision of an italian family and<br />

tehmina durrani.<br />

after a great silence now comes; ‘a love<br />

affair’, oil and water colour paintings<br />

along with a coffee table book,<br />

symbolizing the freedom of the soul from<br />

the bondage expressed in catharsis, as she<br />

says.<br />

‘happy things in Sorrow times’ is a novel<br />

with 38 water colour illustrations done at<br />

afghan refugee camps in kandahar,<br />

turkham and chaman. it is the first part<br />

of a trilogy. a story told from the heart of<br />

a child, Basrabia, in war torn afghanistan<br />

from the time of the Soviet invasion of<br />

afghanistan to the present US war on<br />

terror.<br />

a war, not against soldiers and warriors,<br />

but against innocent children…’they’<br />

need another chance in the interest of<br />

world peace.<br />

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pUBlic Sector<br />

Iftikhar Muhammad<br />

Chaudhry. Chief Justice<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

Amjad Hussain<br />

Royal Navy<br />

Fehmida Mirza<br />

National Assembly<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar Foreign Minister<br />

Huma Mahmood Abedin Aide to Hilary Clinton<br />

Iftikhar M Chaudhry Chief Justice<br />

Kiswer Falkner Baroness House of Lords<br />

Lord Nazir Ahmed House of Lords<br />

Michael Nazir Ali<br />

Bishop of Rochester<br />

Mohammad Jawad Surgeon<br />

Mozzam Malik<br />

DIFID<br />

Muhammad Tariq Sohail Surgeon<br />

Nafis Sadiq<br />

UN Special Envoy<br />

Sadiq Khan<br />

Labour MP<br />

Sayeeda Warsi<br />

House of Lords<br />

Shamshad Akhtar<br />

United Nations<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli<br />

Advisor to Sec of State<br />

Zamir Akram<br />

Ambassador to UN<br />

chief Justice iftikhar muhammad<br />

chaudhry, is the 18th and the<br />

incumbent chief Justice of<br />

pakistan, having been nominated<br />

by former president General<br />

pervez musharraf on 30 June<br />

2005, prior to his suspension on 3<br />

november 2007.<br />

hailing from Quetta, Balochistan<br />

province of pakistan, chaudhry<br />

was educated at the Sindh<br />

University and beginning the<br />

practice as an advocate from the<br />

Sindh high court in 1976, his<br />

lordship was appointed as Judge<br />

Supreme court of pakistan on 4th<br />

february 2000 and as chief Justice<br />

pakistan on 30th June 2005.<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli<br />

Politics<br />

dr. prof. Shirin r. tahir-kheli is a<br />

pakistani-american<br />

ambassador and political scientist.<br />

in 2008, she was the senior advisor<br />

for women’s empowerment to<br />

the United States Secretary of<br />

State condoleezza rice and was<br />

Senior director for democracy,<br />

human rights and international<br />

operations at the Un Security<br />

council from 2003-2005. She has<br />

served 5 republican presidential<br />

administrations since 1980.<br />

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Kiswer Falkner Baroness<br />

kishwer falkner, Baroness<br />

falkner of margravine is a British<br />

liberal democrat politician and<br />

life peer. She is liberal<br />

democrat Spokesperson for the<br />

ministry of Justice in the house<br />

of lords. prior to her<br />

entitlement as a life peer with<br />

the title Baroness falkner of<br />

margravine, falkner worked in a<br />

variety of jobs for the liberal<br />

democrats in the house of<br />

commons and the party<br />

headquarters including as<br />

director of international affairs<br />

and director of policy. in<br />

february 2008 she was appointed<br />

as the inaugural chancellor of<br />

the University of<br />

Nafis Sadik<br />

dr. nafis Sadik served as<br />

executive director of the United<br />

nations population fund<br />

(Unfpa), with the rank of<br />

Under-Secretary-General, from<br />

1987 through 2000. on her<br />

appointment in 1987, she became<br />

the first woman to head one of<br />

the United nations’ major<br />

voluntarily-funded programmes.<br />

in June 1990, the Secretary-<br />

General of the United nations<br />

appointed dr. Sadik Secretary-<br />

General of the international<br />

conference on population and<br />

development (icpd), 1994. dr.<br />

Sadik’s work has brought her<br />

many international awards and<br />

honours.<br />

Huma Abedin<br />

huma mahmood abedin (born<br />

1976) is a deputy chief of staff<br />

and aide to US Secretary of State<br />

hillary rodham clinton. abedin<br />

began working as an intern for<br />

the white house in 1996 and was<br />

assigned to hillary rodham<br />

clinton. She currently works for<br />

clinton, now Secretary of State,<br />

at the State department and is<br />

known as hillary’s shadow. in<br />

2010, abedin was included in<br />

time’s “40 under 40”, a list of a<br />

“new generation of civic leaders”<br />

and “rising stars of american<br />

politics.”<br />

Fehmida Mirza<br />

dr. fehmida mirza is the current<br />

and 18th Speaker of the national<br />

assembly, a lower house of<br />

parliament of State of pakistan.<br />

She is the first woman to hold the<br />

office to date, and is widely<br />

regarded as one of the highest<br />

ranking female politicians in the<br />

history of pakistan. fehmida<br />

mirza hails from the influential<br />

Sindhi family, and currently<br />

representing the Badin<br />

constituency since 1997 and has<br />

continued to be a parliamentarian<br />

since then. She runs several<br />

welfare projects in her<br />

constituency, one of the poorest<br />

districts of pakistan.<br />

Zamir Akram<br />

Ambassador<br />

as pakistan’s ambassador and<br />

permanent representative to the<br />

Un and other international<br />

organizations in Geneva since<br />

2008, Zamir akram has been<br />

playing a leading role in areas<br />

such as disarmament, human<br />

rights, refugees, humanitarian<br />

affairs, trade and development,<br />

intellectual property, labour and<br />

health among others. he was<br />

instrumental in promoting<br />

consensus on contentious<br />

resolutions regarding religious<br />

intolerance, freedom of religion<br />

and freedom of expression.<br />

Moazzam Malik<br />

DIFID<br />

moazzam malik is director for<br />

western asia and Stabilisation at<br />

the Uk department for<br />

international development<br />

(dfid). he oversees the Uk<br />

Government’s development<br />

partnerships in afghanistan,<br />

pakistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan<br />

and stabilisation assistance to<br />

address conflict and insecurity in<br />

developing countries. moazzam<br />

leads a division comprising over<br />

300 staff and a budget of almost<br />

£500m spread across five<br />

departments.<br />

Michael Nazir Ali<br />

Bishop michael nazir-ali was the<br />

106th Bishop of rochester, for 15<br />

years, until 1 September 2009.<br />

he is originally from asia and<br />

was the first non-white diocesan<br />

Bishop in the church of england.<br />

he was appointed in 1994.<br />

Before that he was the General<br />

Secretary of cmS from 1989-<br />

1994 and prior to holding this<br />

position was Bishop of raiwind in<br />

pakistan. he holds both British<br />

and pakistani citizenship and from<br />

1999 was a member of the house<br />

of lords where he was active in a<br />

number of areas of national and<br />

international concern.<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar<br />

hina rabbani khar is the first<br />

female and the youngest person<br />

to ever head pakistani’s ministry<br />

of foreign affairs since July<br />

2011. She graduated with a B.Sc.<br />

in economics from lahore<br />

University of management<br />

Sciences in 1999 and received her<br />

m Sc (hon) in Business<br />

management from the University<br />

of massachusetts amherst in<br />

2001. She won the elections in<br />

2002 from the platform of pml-<br />

Q and was the parliamentary<br />

Secretary for economic affairs<br />

and Statistics.<br />

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PROF. MUHAMMAD TARIQ SOHAIL<br />

prof. muhammad tariq Sohail is specialized in Spine,<br />

trauma & Joint replacement Surgery. he has keen mind<br />

& had significant research in field of Spine Surgery &<br />

Bone Substitutes. he has more than 100 publications to<br />

his credit & holds six patents for Bone Substitutes, Spinal<br />

fusion cages & Vertebral body replacement devices. he<br />

is also known internationally for his innovative Spine<br />

work & Surgery for hemophiliac patients. he is on the<br />

faculties of various universities/institutions abroad & he<br />

is regularly invited as guest speaker to various countries.<br />

prof. muhammad tariq Sohail has also contributed<br />

internationally in various books & Journals and has<br />

published more than 40 chapters in various reference<br />

books which are also translated in persian and Spanish<br />

languages. he’s got more than hundered scientific articles<br />

to his credit. he is also co-authored /edited “mayo<br />

manual of fracture management” and orthopedic<br />

management of patients with hemophilia in developing<br />

countries. these contributions has brought laurels to the<br />

country & earned a lot of respect for pakistan & its<br />

medical community.<br />

Prof. Muhammad Tariq Sohail facilitated<br />

provision of modern & fully equipped<br />

Orthopedics Operation TheatreS in<br />

Services Hospital for the poor<br />

through donation & charities.<br />

prof. muhammad tariq Sohail is also very active in<br />

philanthropic and charitable work in helping few nGo’<br />

s in various ways from providing medical assistance and<br />

help to fund raising. he also facilitated provision of<br />

modern & fully equipped 3 orthopedics operation<br />

theatre in Services hospital through donation &<br />

charities. these theatres are fully functional & providing<br />

efficient service to the poor & needy in public sector.<br />

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MOAZZAM MALIK<br />

DFID<br />

moazzam malik is director for<br />

western asia and Stabilisation<br />

at the Uk department for<br />

international development<br />

(dfid). he oversees the Uk<br />

Government’s development<br />

partnerships in afghanistan,<br />

pakistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan<br />

and stabilisation assistance to<br />

address conflict and insecurity<br />

in developing countries.<br />

moazzam leads a division<br />

comprising over 300 staff and<br />

a budget of almost £500m spread across five<br />

departments: dfid afghanistan, dfid pakistan,<br />

dfid central asia, the Uk Stabilisation Unit, and the<br />

director’s office in london.<br />

Before taking up responsibilities in this area,<br />

moazzam was director for Un, conflict and<br />

humanitarian issues. he managed the Uk’s<br />

relationship with the Un development system and<br />

oversaw major Uk humanitarian operations.<br />

moazzam previously led work on the 2006 white<br />

paper on international development ‘making<br />

Governance work for the poor’. Between 2003 and<br />

2005, moazzam was principal private Secretary to<br />

first Baroness amos and then the right hon hilary<br />

Benn mp, Secretary of State for international<br />

development. as principal private Secretary,<br />

moazzam worked with ministers and colleagues<br />

across Government on a wide range of issues<br />

including the Uk’s assistance in africa and South asia;<br />

migration and trade policy; reform of international<br />

institutions; and the G8 Summit at Gleneagles. earlier<br />

in his dfid career, moazzam managed dfid’s<br />

programmes in pakistan, iraq and on trade policy.<br />

moazzam is on the advisory Board to the Uk all<br />

party parliamentary Group on conflict, sits on the<br />

Board of Goodweave Uk, and was previously a<br />

member of the Un Secretary General’s advisory<br />

Group on the central emergency revolving fund.<br />

outside Government, moazzam has worked as a<br />

consultant economist advising large Uk corporate<br />

clients and the world Bank amongst others; a<br />

researcher at the london School of economics and<br />

the overseas development institute; an adviser on<br />

monetary and foreign exchange policy in the central<br />

Bank of Uganda; an economist in a pakistani<br />

development bank; and run a production engineering<br />

business and an urban regeneration nGo based in<br />

london.<br />

MOHAMMED JAWAD<br />

surgeon<br />

mr mohammad Jawad, a pioneering reconstructive and<br />

cosmetic surgeon was catapulted to fame in 2009 when a<br />

channel 4 documentary ‘my Beautiful face’ aired. mr Jawad’s<br />

work with acid burns victims continued in pakistan, where he<br />

uses his skills to to treat survivors of radically disfiguring acid<br />

attacks, the majority of whom are women targeted by family<br />

members. in 2011-12 the oscar winning documentary, Saving<br />

face chronicled his work there. his work for burns and acid<br />

victims in pakistan has seen him recognised at Buckingham<br />

palace.<br />

in 2005 mr Jawad led a surgical team to offer expertise from the<br />

Uk to victims of the earthquake in pakistan. they established a<br />

clinical facility carrying out reconstructive procedures for limb<br />

salvaging on approximately 25 patients per day for 7 weeks.<br />

Simultaneous training of the al-Shifa medical staff members was<br />

an added long-term bonus to the country.<br />

he was awarded the Star of pakistan in 2009, for a project led<br />

by him where a team of plastic surgeons went to indus hospital,<br />

karachi to operate on children with cleft lips and palates and<br />

burns victims, including training of local plastic surgeons.<br />

mr Jawad qualified from dow medical college, pakistan, before<br />

completing a cosmetic Surgery fellowship in london and<br />

further training in the USa, italy, france, Belgium and turkey<br />

before launching his career in the Uk.<br />

he has held eminent posts throughout the Uk, including<br />

extensive work with children, incl. at the chelsea and<br />

westminster hospital in london, as consultant plastic,<br />

reconstructive and Burns Surgeon, and honorary clinical<br />

Senior lecturer at the University of london.<br />

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SADIQ KHAN MP<br />

ddddddd<br />

LORD NAZIR AHMED<br />

Sadiq khan was elected member of parliament for tooting<br />

(in South london) in 2005. he is the first ever muslim mp<br />

to be elected in london, to be part of the privy council<br />

and the first asian or muslim to attend cabinet. as Shadow<br />

lord chancellor and Justice Secretary, he is the only ever<br />

ethnic minority or muslim to be elected to the Shadow<br />

cabinet. from becoming the youngest elected councillor<br />

in london in 1994 aged 23, he has become the most senior<br />

muslim in labour’s 112 year history.<br />

Sadiq was campaign manager for the leadership bid for ed<br />

miliband and currently sits on labour’s national executive<br />

committee. he is a past chair of the fabian Society.<br />

his appointment as a Government whip made him,<br />

alongside former mp Shahid malik, the first British muslim<br />

government minister. Sadiq has also been a minister in the<br />

department for transport and the department for<br />

communities and local Government. as an initiator in<br />

facilitating debate and dialogue between senior politicians,<br />

opinion formers and British muslims, Sadiq advises a<br />

number of leading community & muslim groups in the Uk<br />

and charities working to help lives both in the Uk and<br />

overseas.<br />

prior to becoming an mp, Sadiq was one of the country’s<br />

leading human rights lawyers and a founding partner of a<br />

leading solicitors firm. he acted in a number of landmark<br />

cases in all major courts and tribunals. he was also chair<br />

of liberty.<br />

nazir ahmed was born in 1958 and is a member of the house of lords, having<br />

become the United kingdom’s first muslim life peer in 1998. many of his<br />

political activities relate to the islamic community both in the Uk and abroad,<br />

and he has often attracted controversy. he was suspended from the labour<br />

party pending investigation of alleged remarks made at a meeting in haripur,<br />

pakistan on 13 april 2012.<br />

as a resident of rotherham, ahmed has spoken on behalf of the communities<br />

in that region, particularly the families of the former steelworkers of the<br />

1960s, from the indian subcontinent who are now second or third generation<br />

British. he has expressed that he is anxious to see that these regions continue<br />

to live peacefully amidst the growing move towards the far right across<br />

europe, and strives to encourage positive integration into society so that<br />

people of all cultures can live together harmoniously.<br />

Born in pakistan, ahmed has a personal interest in seeing a peaceful resolve to<br />

the ongoing bloody dispute in kashmir and seeks international mediation to<br />

achieve this. as well as being an active figure in the indian Subcontinent, he has<br />

worked on the plight of muslims around the world ranging from the collapse<br />

of former Yugoslavia, especially to the Bosniaks and palestinians.<br />

he has won many awards including ‘newcomer of the Year’<br />

by the Spectator magazine parliamentarian awards 2005. in<br />

2012, he received the inaugural ‘achievement and<br />

inspiration’ award from the foSiS (federation of Student<br />

islamic Societies).<br />

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BARONESS WARSI<br />

House of Lord<br />

a lawyer, a businesswoman, a campaigner<br />

and a cabinet minister, Sayeeda warsi has<br />

had many roles, but she is best known for<br />

being the first muslim to serve in a British<br />

cabinet and the foremost muslim politician<br />

in the western world.<br />

one of five girls born to immigrants of<br />

pakistani origin in dewsbury, west<br />

Yorkshire, Sayeeda studied law at leeds<br />

University, going on to work for the<br />

crown prosecution Service before setting<br />

up her own legal practice.<br />

her father, a former millworker and bus<br />

driver who set up his own business,<br />

instilled in her values of freedom,<br />

responsibility and aspiration. these are the<br />

values that inspired her to get involved in<br />

the conservative party and it was there<br />

that she became Vice chairman and advisor<br />

to the leader, michael howard, in 2004.<br />

She unsuccessfully stood as a<br />

parliamentary candidate in her home town<br />

the following year. in 2007 she was<br />

elevated to the house of lords aged 36,<br />

making her the youngest peer in<br />

parliament. later that year she travelled to<br />

Sudan and famously helped to secure the<br />

release of the British teacher Gillian<br />

Gibbons who was on trial for blasphemy.<br />

a racial justice campaigner for many years,<br />

instrumental in the launch of operation<br />

Black Vote and serving six years at the<br />

Joseph rowntree charitable trust,<br />

Sayeeda was chosen to take on nick Griffin<br />

on Question time in 2009. it was the first<br />

time the British national party leader<br />

appeared on a flagship BBc political show.<br />

her performance singled her out as ‘sharp,<br />

articulate, unhysterical and warmly<br />

engaging’ (observer).<br />

in 2010 she was appointed by prime<br />

minister david cameron as minister<br />

without portfolio, becoming the first<br />

muslim to serve in a British cabinet. the<br />

iconic image of her on the steps of no 10<br />

downing Street in a shalwar kameez (a<br />

traditional ethnic outfit) were beamed<br />

In 2012 she led the<br />

UK’s largest ever<br />

ministerial delegation<br />

to the Vatican,<br />

gaining global<br />

coverage for a<br />

speech which<br />

called on Europe<br />

to strengthen its<br />

Christian<br />

identity.<br />

around the world. She was also appointed<br />

as co-chairman of the conservative party<br />

– the first asian to chair a major British<br />

political party. in 2012, Sayeeda was made<br />

Senior minister of State at the foreign and<br />

commonwealth office and minister for<br />

faith and communities.<br />

in government she has devoted herself to<br />

making the case for faith, declaring in a<br />

2010 address to the anglican Bishops’<br />

conference that governments should ‘do<br />

God’. in 2011 she provoked support and<br />

controversy when she famously declared<br />

that islamophobia had ‘passed the dinner<br />

table test’. in 2012 she led the Uk’s<br />

largest ever ministerial delegation to the<br />

Vatican, gaining global coverage for a<br />

speech which called on europe to<br />

strengthen its christian identity.<br />

outspoken and challenging on the issues<br />

that many people seek to avoid, she has<br />

become an interesting and distinct voice<br />

on topics previously considered taboo. She<br />

led the government’s campaign to<br />

criminalise forced marriage and spoke out<br />

on the sexual grooming of children by<br />

gangs.<br />

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AMJAD HUSSAIN<br />

Royal Navy<br />

the Most Honourable Order of the<br />

Bath in the New Years Honours<br />

List of 2011 and awarded an<br />

honorary doctorate by Durham<br />

University the same year.<br />

Amjad Hussain was born in a village in<br />

Pakistan, came to the UK at the age of 5 and<br />

was raised in London. Keen to travel, develop<br />

as an engineer and avoid an office job, he<br />

surprised by joining the Royal Navy, an odd<br />

choice for an 18 year old Muslim first<br />

generation immigrant. He has sought variety<br />

in his subsequent career. Sea jobs have ranged<br />

from inspecting fishing catches in UK waters to<br />

operations in an aircraft carrier in the Gulf,<br />

whilst postings ashore have included training,<br />

buying missile systems and Whitehall<br />

strategy/finance positions.<br />

With more challenges to explore,<br />

he left the Navy this Summer and is<br />

currently an executive director of a<br />

technical services company and<br />

about to take up two non-executive<br />

chair roles in small technology<br />

start-ups. He also aims to develop<br />

further his charitable interests and,<br />

with his wife, keep up with an<br />

active family that enjoys activities<br />

ranging from equestrian to<br />

alpine…so the golf clubs continue<br />

to gather dust.<br />

More recently he was the Naval Base<br />

Commander Portsmouth and then the<br />

Director General Weapons, responsible for all<br />

UK missiles, ammunition and artillery. This<br />

was followed by 3 years as Controller of the<br />

Navy, an executive member of the Main Board<br />

of the Royal Navy and responsible for planning<br />

all future warships, submarines, combat jets and<br />

missile systems. He was made a Companion of<br />

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MICHAEL NAZIR ALI<br />

Bishop<br />

Bishop michael nazir-ali was the<br />

106th Bishop of rochester, for 15<br />

years, until 1 September 2009.<br />

he is originally from asia and was the<br />

first non-white diocesan Bishop in the<br />

church of england. he was appointed<br />

in 1994. Before that he was the<br />

General Secretary of cmS from 1989-<br />

1994 and prior to holding this position<br />

was Bishop of raiwind in pakistan. he<br />

holds both British and pakistani<br />

citizenship and from 1999 was a<br />

member of the house of lords where<br />

he was active in a number of areas of<br />

national and international concern. he<br />

has both a christian and a muslim<br />

family background and is now<br />

president of the oxford centre for<br />

training, research, advocacy and<br />

dialogue (oXtrad).<br />

michael’s secondary education was in<br />

pakistan. he read economics,<br />

Sociology and islamic history at the<br />

University of karachi, and theology at<br />

fitzwilliam college and ridley hall,<br />

cambridge.<br />

his interests have led him to research<br />

and study in several fields, including<br />

comparative literature, comparative<br />

philosophy of religion and theology at<br />

the Universities of cambridge,<br />

oxford, and elsewhere. he has taught<br />

at colleges and universities in the<br />

United kingdom and pakistan. he is<br />

an honorary fellow of St. edmund<br />

He has both a<br />

Christian and a<br />

Muslim family<br />

background and<br />

is now President<br />

of the Oxford<br />

Centre for<br />

Training,<br />

Research,<br />

Advocacy and<br />

Dialogue<br />

hall, oxford and fitzwilliam<br />

college, cambridge. he is Visiting<br />

professor of theology and religious<br />

Studies in the University of<br />

Greenwich and on the faculty of the<br />

london School of theology (lSt)<br />

affiliated to the Universities of Brunel<br />

and middlesex.<br />

michael has been a visiting lecturer in<br />

a number of universities and colleges<br />

in the Uk, canada, the USa and<br />

australia. he has travelled widely in<br />

africa, asia, australia, europe, north<br />

and South america. he is the author<br />

of ten books and of numerous articles<br />

on mission, ecumenism, the anglican<br />

communion, and relations with<br />

people of other faiths (particularly<br />

islam).<br />

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the power 100<br />

corporate & finance<br />

THE <strong>POWER</strong> BROKERS<br />

aqeel karim dhedhi<br />

akd Group<br />

arif navqi<br />

abraaj capital<br />

atif Bajwa<br />

abu dhabi Group<br />

ehsan malik<br />

Unilever pakistan<br />

fred hasan<br />

Bausch & lomb<br />

irfan mustafa<br />

Yum Group<br />

izzat majid<br />

alyph<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui<br />

J&S Group<br />

Javed ahmed<br />

tate & lyle<br />

musharaf hai<br />

l’oreal<br />

naeem Zamindar<br />

wateen<br />

Salman amin<br />

pepsico<br />

Sarfaraz alam<br />

texpo<br />

Shahid azeem<br />

arcom it<br />

Shahid khan<br />

flexngate<br />

Syed masoud ali naqvi<br />

kpmG taseer hadi<br />

Zakir mahmood<br />

habib Bank limited<br />

Zouhair a khaliq<br />

telecoms consultant<br />

Shahid Azeem<br />

Arcom IT<br />

Shahid is an award winning<br />

British-pakistani entrepreneur<br />

and philanthropist, and one of<br />

Surrey’s best known business<br />

leaders. in addition to a string of<br />

successful businesses, he has been<br />

named one of the top 100 most<br />

influential muslims in the Uk by<br />

royal Bank of Scotland. Shahid<br />

was asian entrepreneur of the<br />

Year in 2006/07, is chairman of<br />

the woking asian Business<br />

forum, former chairman of<br />

woking football club and<br />

currently director at aldershot<br />

football club .<br />

Aqeel Karim Dhedhi<br />

AKD Group<br />

aqeel karim dhedhi, son of<br />

(late) haji abdul karim dhedhi,<br />

is the chairman of the akd<br />

Group. he has built the akd<br />

Group as a leading and vibrant<br />

set of business enterprises<br />

operating in key sectors of<br />

pakistan's economy, ranging from<br />

stocks and shares, media, textile,<br />

real estate and oil and Gas<br />

exploration. aqeel karim<br />

dhedhi is a highly regarded<br />

member of the karachi Stock<br />

exchange kSe with over thirty<br />

years of mainstream experience<br />

in stock-broking.<br />

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Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi<br />

KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co<br />

mr. naqvi is a fellow of the<br />

institute of chartered<br />

accountants of pakistan and is<br />

the Senior partner of kpmG<br />

taseer hadi & co. he is<br />

currently Board member of<br />

kpmG meSa sub region which<br />

comprises of 15 countries in<br />

South asia and middle east and<br />

has the Board oversight<br />

responsibility for risk<br />

management. mr. naqvi also<br />

served as the chairman of the<br />

sub region during 2009-10. mr.<br />

naqvi was also a director of the<br />

karachi Stock exchange.<br />

Arif Naqvi<br />

Abraaj Capital<br />

arif naqvi is the founder and<br />

Group chief executive of abraaj<br />

capital, based in dubai. abraaj<br />

capital is the largest private<br />

equity firm in the middle east,<br />

north africa and South asia<br />

(menaSa) and was voted one of<br />

the 50 most admired companies<br />

in the Gulf in 2007. mr.naqvi<br />

was a member of the Young<br />

presidents organisation, where<br />

he was the emirates chapter<br />

chairman. he was designated a<br />

new asian leader by the world<br />

economic forum (wef).<br />

Musharaf Hai<br />

L’Oreal<br />

musharaf hai is the first woman<br />

who was appointed as the head of<br />

a multinational company in<br />

pakistan, l’oreal. She is ex-chair<br />

and chief executive officer of<br />

Unilever pakistan , former head<br />

of consumer banking, citi Bank,<br />

pakistan . She currently is<br />

engaged in establishing l’oreal<br />

brand in pakistan.<br />

Ehsan Malik<br />

Unilever Pakistan<br />

ehsan joined the Board on<br />

September 01, 2006. he is the<br />

chairman and chief executive<br />

officer of Unilever pakistan<br />

limited and is also the chairman<br />

of Unilever pakistan food<br />

limited. prior to this, ehsan was<br />

chairman and ceo of Unilever<br />

Sri lanka limited. his earlier<br />

international appointments<br />

covered Unilever’s regional<br />

business in egypt, lebanon,<br />

Jordan, Syria, Sudan as well as<br />

Unilever’s head office in Uk.<br />

these preceded senior<br />

commercial and financial roles at<br />

Unilever pakistan.<br />

Atif Bajwa<br />

Abu Dhabi Grou<br />

atif Bajwa was appointed as<br />

president of abu dhabi Group in<br />

pakistan in 2011. he is president<br />

& chief executive officer of<br />

Bank alfalah, which is a<br />

progressive, full service banking<br />

institution, majority owned and<br />

operated by abu dhabi Group.<br />

mr. Bajwa manages a network of<br />

407 branches spanning 158 cities.<br />

as part of his role with abu<br />

dhabi Group, he oversees the<br />

interests and investments in<br />

pakistan worth over USd 10<br />

billion in assets.<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui<br />

JS Group<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui founded JS<br />

Group in 1970 and led the group<br />

to become one of the largest and<br />

most profitable business houses in<br />

pakistan with over 20,000<br />

employees. he retired from<br />

executive duties at JS Group in<br />

1999 but remains an advisor in<br />

which capacity the Group is able<br />

to call on him to seek guidance<br />

on strategic matters. he also<br />

serves as chairman of JS Bank<br />

limited. he serves on the boards<br />

of a number of pakistan’s largest<br />

companies and dedicates time to<br />

two charitable foundations.<br />

Izzat Majeed<br />

Alyph Limited<br />

dynamic and multi-faceted, izzat<br />

majeed’s success as one of<br />

pakistan’s most prominent<br />

investors is just one aspect of his<br />

diverse career. Based in london<br />

as the ceo of alyph limited, a<br />

leading investment company,<br />

izzat majeed is widely<br />

acknowledged for his<br />

philanthropic initiatives and his<br />

patronage of pakistani music and<br />

culture. he is famed for his<br />

landmark investments in<br />

pakistan, most notably the<br />

purchase of Union Bank which<br />

was transformed into one of the<br />

top seven banks of the country.<br />

Irfan Mustafa<br />

Yum Restaurants<br />

irfan mustafa is managing<br />

director - middle east, north<br />

africa, pakistan & turkey for<br />

Yum! restaurants international,<br />

the largest restaurant company in<br />

the world based out of louisville,<br />

kentucky. his responsibility<br />

comprises 14 countries with a<br />

network of 1400 restaurants and<br />

US$ 1.5 Billion turnover.<br />

his previous assignments include<br />

6 years with pepsico and 14<br />

years with Unilever in marketing<br />

and General management in<br />

pakistan, west asia, egypt and<br />

U.S.a.<br />

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ZOUHAIR A. KHALIQ<br />

Independent Telecom Advisor<br />

SARFARAZ ALAM<br />

TEXPO<br />

Zouhair is a Uk based Board level Senior<br />

executive with a successful track record in<br />

building, growing and turning around<br />

companies in the telecom and technology<br />

space. he has over 28 years of experience<br />

in Board and senior leadership positions<br />

with expertise in finance, marketing,<br />

corporate strategy, business development,<br />

human resource development and<br />

relationship management.<br />

Zouhair is currently working with dhabi<br />

holdings of the Uae leading the<br />

restructuring of its telecom assets and<br />

serves on the Boards of warid telecom<br />

limited and wateen telecom limited.<br />

Zouhair is also actively involved with<br />

advising and investing in young start up<br />

entrepreneurs in the telecom and<br />

technology space particularly relating to<br />

mobile broadband and mobile financial<br />

services and is currently on the advisory<br />

Board of myBiz.com which is designed to<br />

mentor and support young entrepreneurs.<br />

prior to this while based in egypt in<br />

2009/10 he led the orascom telecom<br />

Group initiative in mobile financial<br />

Services and Banking for the unbanked and<br />

was involved with the setting up of a<br />

microfinance Bank. he also led Group<br />

Strategy on infrastructure sharing with<br />

several projects in different countries. he<br />

oversaw the planning and strategy for a<br />

potential US$1 billion tower Sharing Joint<br />

Venture.<br />

during 2003 - 2008 as chief executive<br />

officer of mobilink in pakistan, he led the<br />

growth of the customer base from 1<br />

million to 31 million over 5 years, growing<br />

revenues 15 times to US$ 1.25 billion,<br />

maintaining stable eBitda and market<br />

leadership in a 5 player market. he<br />

oversaw the deployment of US$2.5 billion<br />

in cellular infrastructure, a nationwide<br />

fiber optic backbone and wi-max<br />

operations transforming mobilink into the<br />

leading telecom Solutions provider in the<br />

country. in 2006-2007 mobilink was rated<br />

amongst the 5 fastest growing companies<br />

in the asian region alongside china<br />

mobile, ntt docomo and Bharti<br />

telecom. mobilink is still rated as the<br />

largest private sector company in<br />

pakistan.<br />

Zouhair successfully helped raise over US$<br />

1.1 Billion dollars of debt working with<br />

european export credit agencies and<br />

local and international banks and the<br />

ministry of finance including the first ever<br />

US$ 250 million private sector Bond in<br />

the country’s history. he played a pivotal<br />

strategic role, in helping to shape and<br />

formulate the mobile cellular policy of<br />

the Government of pakistan, working<br />

extensively with the ministry of<br />

communications and lobbying the<br />

Government at all levels.<br />

as Group coo at orascom telecom in<br />

egypt in early 2003, he revamped the<br />

Board Governance structure and<br />

operational Strategy of the Group,<br />

restructured the management of the<br />

algerian operations and helped launch the<br />

tunisian cellular operations and planned<br />

the launch of the iraq operations thus<br />

contributing to the Group’s subsequent<br />

rapid expansion. earlier in 2002 as Group<br />

cfo at orascom telecom he successfully<br />

led the restructuring of the Group’s US$<br />

1.8 billion debt with egyptian and<br />

international banks and major equipment<br />

suppliers.<br />

while at motorola during 1997-2001 he<br />

exercised a key Board role in helping to<br />

successfully build mobinil, a US$ 4 billion<br />

quoted cellular company, to a position of<br />

dominant market leadership in the<br />

egyptian market with 1.2 million<br />

subscribers in 2 years. he also exercised a<br />

key Board role in helping establish market<br />

leadership and subscriber growth of 6.5<br />

times in 3 years in fastlink, Jordan.<br />

dr Sarfaraz alam is the president & chief<br />

executive officer of teXpo and the main<br />

visionary behind this multinational organization,<br />

a leading i.t business and one of the very<br />

successful businesses in the G.c.c region. today<br />

teXpo is one of the leading i.t companies in<br />

the middle east where its clientel ranges from<br />

Government through to private businesses.<br />

Under Sarfaraz’s leadership teXpo engineers<br />

have helped astrium Uk ltd., a fully owned<br />

eadS company, to build the ground satellite<br />

control and communication station for Yahsat’s<br />

satellites Y1a and Y1B or worth $ 1.6bn and a<br />

first for the Uae. it stands as a unique showcase<br />

for a communications networks controlled<br />

completely by it and networking systems.<br />

teXpo was an integral part of this build out, as<br />

the exclusive solution and it services partner for<br />

astrium. moreover Sarfraz led the team of<br />

network engineers who designed the complete<br />

passive corporate network of the same ground<br />

station for YahSat; a mUBadala company.<br />

teXpo is now offers its services from dubai,<br />

houston, ontario, riyadh, karachi, and ras-alkhaimah<br />

where the company is mainly focusing<br />

on development of advanced network<br />

infrastructures for telecom and satellite ground<br />

communication stations.<br />

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ZAKIR MAHMOOD<br />

Habib Bank Limited<br />

Zakir mahmood –is the president &<br />

ceo, hBl. he is a graduate of the<br />

University of karachi in engineering<br />

and subsequently obtained a masters<br />

in engineering and an mBa in finance<br />

from the University of california, los<br />

angeles (Ucla).<br />

he began his professional career with<br />

Bank of america in 1977. during his<br />

14 years there, he held senior<br />

management assignments in Boa’s<br />

operations in europe and the middle<br />

east where he headed the Gulf<br />

operations as regional manager. in<br />

1991, mr. mahmood joined credit<br />

agricole indosuez Bank as General<br />

manager for the Uae. he returned to<br />

pakistan in 1995, to head the country<br />

operations of credit agricole<br />

indosuez. in 2000, mr. mahmood was<br />

appointed president and ceo of<br />

habib Bank ltd (hBl) by the<br />

Government of pakistan and was<br />

tasked with restructuring the bank to<br />

facilitate its privatization. after four<br />

years of comprehensive restructuring,<br />

the Bank was successfully privatized in<br />

december 2003 with the aga khan<br />

fund for economic development<br />

(akfed) acquiring a majority share<br />

holding.<br />

mr. mahmood chairs the boards of<br />

several organizations including habib<br />

allied international Bank plc, Uk and<br />

Mr. Mahmood<br />

has received<br />

civilian awards<br />

from the<br />

governments<br />

of Pakistan<br />

and France.<br />

habib finance international limited,<br />

hong kong. he is also on the Board of<br />

directors of khushhali Bank limited<br />

and has held directorships in large<br />

pakistani corporations like pakistan<br />

international airlines, pakistan Steel<br />

mills, the karachi Stock exchange<br />

and the national investment trust. he<br />

has also been a member of several<br />

prominent government commissions,<br />

including the pay and pension<br />

commission for Government<br />

employees and the armed forces,<br />

and the private Sector development<br />

task force. he was also chair of the<br />

commission established by the State<br />

Bank of pakistan that successfully<br />

developed a national crop loan<br />

insurance program.<br />

mr. mahmood represents hBl at the<br />

world economic forum and has<br />

served as a panelist at the forum’s<br />

meetings in davos and in china. he<br />

also represents hBl at the institute of<br />

international finance meetings in<br />

washington dc.<br />

mr. mahmood has received civilian<br />

awards from the governments of<br />

pakistan and france; the “Sitara-iimtiaz”<br />

by the Government of<br />

pakistan in 2005 and the “chevalier de<br />

l’ordre national du merite” awarded<br />

by the Government of france in<br />

2001.<br />

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TRAILBLAZERS<br />

THE ONES TO WATCH<br />

ZUFFAR HAQ<br />

Business & Charity<br />

SHABIR HUSSAIN<br />

Akbar’s Restaurants<br />

a man with a vision and certainly ahead of his time, Shabir hussain, the<br />

founder and chairman of akbar’s group of restaurants glances<br />

back at the root of his entrepreneurial success.<br />

Better described as a technically advanced chef whose growth was<br />

down to creating cutting edge menus and constantly pushing<br />

boundaries to achieve perfection.<br />

today Shabir’s portfolio of restaurants boasts 10 spellbinding<br />

asian restaurants, a Gourmet cafe and now duely to open a 250<br />

seater, indo-chinese restaurant. all outlets in hand picked and<br />

strategic locations around Uk, despite which, many diners even<br />

today travel great distances to reach one of their nearest branches<br />

of akbar’s in order to satisfy their addiction for his sumptuous<br />

cuisine.<br />

Shabir has received a string of accolades over the years which<br />

including being crowned, ‘king of curry’. in June 2012 asian<br />

lite awards evening awarded Shabir was voted ‘restauranteur of<br />

the Year 2012’.<br />

Zuffar haq is a humanitarian and tireless<br />

international charity worker with an<br />

indefatigable spirit. he is chairperson for a<br />

charitable organization known as<br />

international hospital relief trust founded<br />

in 2001, and is personally in charge of all<br />

activities in operations relating to this<br />

charity. he has personally delivered<br />

hospital equipment, food packages,<br />

medicines and hygiene equipment to<br />

different countries –mainly pakistan and<br />

also kenya, Sudan, nigeria, india and<br />

Gambia.<br />

he is a successful entrepreneur and has<br />

stood as a parliamentary candidate for<br />

leicester South, harborough for the liberal<br />

democrats and is on leadership programme<br />

which is set up to help and support talented<br />

candidates within the party. he is also a<br />

local grassroots community campaigner<br />

particularly in health matters and has been<br />

very influential on national level in<br />

eradicating 0844 no from Gp’S surgery’s,<br />

he is also Vice-chair of leicestershire &<br />

rutland crimestoppers.<br />

in 2003 he received the Sony and eastern<br />

eye community award for his charitable<br />

efforts and he has more recently received<br />

the lloyds tSB Jewel award 2009 for the<br />

central region.<br />

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in spite of his business obligations,<br />

commercial interests have always played a<br />

secondary role to his charity work and his<br />

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MOHAMMED IQBAL<br />

Consultant<br />

as a consultant, dr iqbal has shown<br />

persistent high quality care by<br />

receiving 4 excellence in healthcare<br />

awards in the last 7 years. he was<br />

elected unanimously as the chair of<br />

association of pakistani physicians and<br />

Surgeons of Uk in recognition of his<br />

vision, hard work, dedication and<br />

proven leadership quality. he has been<br />

able to bring all healthcare workers of pakistani heritage under one<br />

umbrella in less than six months, and to contribute 25 good projects in<br />

pakistan including state of art centre of hearing and balance for children<br />

in karachi and lahore being undertaken.. he has organized a number<br />

of deaf camps in pakistan where hundreds of deaf children were<br />

rehabilitated with hearing aids. he serves international deaf charity<br />

“aud med” as a trustee, which provides service in 17 countries. he has<br />

earned the respect of a wider community due to his commitment as a<br />

non-executive director of an award winning Social enterprise<br />

Unlimited potential and by working with prince charles for the project<br />

“Seeing is believing”. he is the chair of altrincham muslim association<br />

matrimonial Section, which is the most successful welfare matrimonial<br />

service in Uk.<br />

DR SUHAIL<br />

CHUGHTAI<br />

dr Suhail chughtai is an orthopaedic<br />

Surgeon with almost 15 years of<br />

experience at a consultant level in Uk,<br />

pakistan and Saudi arabia, as a medicolegal<br />

orthopaedic expert for 5 years<br />

with 10,000 plus reports to his credit,<br />

as an entrepreneur with a business<br />

award to his credit for his medico-legal<br />

firm with the name of medico-legal professionals, as a microsoft<br />

certified Specialist with 50 plus medical computing courses led as an<br />

instructor, as founder-director of an online tV channel (tVapex)<br />

backed up with modern studios and conference centre in east london,<br />

as founder-director of Jinnah forum and as the lead coordinator of<br />

association of pakistani physicians and Surgeons-Uk for east london<br />

chapter. mr chughtai is an extraordinary ambassador for the<br />

innovative product like advanced medical reporting System.<br />

SYED KAUSAR KAZMI,<br />

Head of Business Development<br />

– Europe, Habib Bank AG<br />

Zurich, UK, and Director,<br />

Habib European Bank, Isle of<br />

Man<br />

Born in pakistan, in 1953, Syed kazmi’s<br />

father was the manager of habib Bank<br />

limited, which meant he moved around<br />

a lot and spent his schooling years in<br />

cantonment public Schools, which, he<br />

recalls, “were great disciplinary<br />

institutions”.<br />

he could not go to the Uk for his<br />

planned higher education, which led to a<br />

chemical engineering degree.<br />

on reflection he says his greatest achievement was starting up and establishing<br />

habib european Bank in the isle of man at the age of 28: “not only was i able to<br />

get the bank recognition, but i feel proud to have been successful in making a<br />

place amongst the manx community, as head of a young muslim family, in the<br />

eyes of the manx people, where asians, let alone muslims were few and far<br />

between”.<br />

the habib story began in karachi, in 1974, at the prestigious 23-storey head<br />

office, habib Bank plaza. after two years of training, he joined habib Bank aG<br />

Zurich in dubai and then went to oman in 1997. the following year he got his<br />

first major break when he was asked to start the nairobi Branch as operations<br />

manager which he duly ran for 4 years.<br />

Syed kazmi took up his post in isle of man in 1982 at 28 years of age, having<br />

never previously been to europe before. he spent over eight years there and,<br />

looking back, says this was the biggest challenge of his career given his relatively<br />

young age. after being appointed as the executive director of habib european<br />

Bank in 1988, he was transferred to london in 1990 to head up its main Branch<br />

in moorgate. from 2009 until 2012 mr kazmi was the chief executive officer<br />

of the Uk Zone and currently is head of Business development – europe. he<br />

continues to be a member of the global management committee of the habib<br />

Group of Banks.<br />

he credits his father as his biggest inspiration; “despite having suffered from<br />

polio at a young age, leaving him with a slight limp, his father was able to reach<br />

Senior executive positions through sheer hard work, honesty, determination<br />

and vision”.<br />

a die-hard liverpool football fan, he rarely misses a good cricket match and<br />

enjoys spending time with the family, watching sports and assisting charities.<br />

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TRAILBLAZERS<br />

THE ONES TO WATCH<br />

JOHNGIR SADDIQ<br />

Big Johns<br />

48<br />

a devoted mother has two sons, instilling them<br />

both from an early age with the need for hard<br />

work, the value of discipline and the benefits of<br />

loyalty. it is these values that the three of them,<br />

mother and sons built their business empire on.<br />

it all started with the classic immigrant’s corner<br />

shop. open all hours, when others would close,<br />

the family kept the shop open, serving the locals<br />

of inner-city Birmingham. all hands to the<br />

counter, before school, after and every weekend. no surprise then when the<br />

eldest boy, John, broke out with his own business and started to carve a new<br />

business groove. this was the start of the Big John’s empire as we know it.<br />

the year was 1992 in erdington, Birmingham, a working class neigh-borhood<br />

and the first Big John’s store opened for business. immediately, it had an<br />

enormous impact on the surrounding community. fish and chips for 99p<br />

were the reason. Queues were wrapped around that small store day and night<br />

from day one. Big John’s hadn’t just arrived; it had driven a truck over all other<br />

competition within weeks. no business could cope with the sheer volume,<br />

discounting and energy that propelled this new business forward. if it was<br />

John’s giant personality and creativity that got the ball rolling, it was when he<br />

was joined by brother, Bob that everything clicked.<br />

not only do they own the Big John’s brand, they also own Shere khan’s and<br />

tipu Sultan indian restaurants and the brand spanking new oodle’n’oodle<br />

noodle Bar concept. as company they have always played the patient game.<br />

creating a fabulously popular brand like Big John’s cannot be done by any<br />

other way. Steady and annual growth has kept everything and everybody<br />

moving forward, till this point now. the Big John’s group has 30 stores, but<br />

the future beckons and our ambition to grow the group to a £50-£60m is<br />

approaching reality.<br />

MONIS RAHMAN<br />

Naseeb Networks<br />

monis is the chairman and ceo of naseeb<br />

networks, inc., a Silicon Valley new media<br />

company with offshore development<br />

offices in lahore and karachi. naseeb<br />

networks owns and operates pakistan’s<br />

largest jobsite and the internet’s largest<br />

muslim social networking site. he has<br />

previously founded and run many<br />

companies ranging from internet startups<br />

to chip design consultancies. he has also been featured by many magazines<br />

and newspapers including the new York times, cnn, infoworld, and the<br />

red herring. today at rozee.pk, there are over 30,000 employers, 1.5<br />

million professionals and 87 hec accredited universities. recently the<br />

website won Brand of the Year award 2009. the award was presented by<br />

prime minister of pakistan Syed Yousuf raza Gilani, on 7th may, 2010 at<br />

governor house karachi.<br />

DR MOHAMMED ALI OBE<br />

Founder and Chief Executive, QED-UK<br />

mohammed ali founded Quest for economic<br />

development an ethnic minority economic<br />

development agency. he has had experience of<br />

working with diverse communities in the Uk and<br />

participated in seminars and conferences in europe,<br />

canada and asia on ethnic minority education and<br />

employment integration issues.<br />

mohammed ali has won many accolades for his work<br />

with communities: professor handy’s alchemist<br />

award, finalist in lifetime achievement, principal of<br />

the Year categories of the Uk charity awards; and<br />

institute of directors award. in 1997, an honorary<br />

doctorate from Bradford University and in 2001<br />

received oBe for his work with communities.<br />

S M KHALID<br />

Euro Quality Lambs<br />

S m khalid is the owner and chief executive of euro<br />

Quality lambs ltd - the largest muslim-owned<br />

halal lamb abattoir in europe. he was born in<br />

Samundri, faisalabad in 1952. a graduate in<br />

economics from the University of punjab, his thirst<br />

for further education led him to england in 1973.<br />

he later left for ireland to pursue business<br />

opportunities in the meat industry. he moved back<br />

to the Uk in 1992 to take over a troubled abattoir<br />

in Shropshire, west midlands, thus establishing euro<br />

Quality lambs ltd. mr S m khalid is hugely<br />

experienced in the meat industry and was part of<br />

the Uk Sheep Strategy council at the turn of the<br />

millennium. for the year to June 2012 total group<br />

turnover exceeded £50m. his philanthropic<br />

endeavours led to the establishment of euro Quality<br />

charitable trust in 2007 as a vehicle for business<br />

Zakah and other types of charity, with over £2.1m<br />

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SHAHID SHEIKH<br />

dm Broadcasting network<br />

Shahid Sheikh is the managing<br />

director of clifton packaging<br />

Group ltd, a 31 year established<br />

family business and a leader in the<br />

innovation and manufacture of<br />

flexible packaging for the fmcG<br />

Sector. Supplying a broad range of<br />

innovative packaging to some of<br />

the Uk’s biggest multinationals, clifton is proud to be flying the flag for<br />

the Uk overseas and was recently awarded the tittle of ‘Business of the<br />

Year’ at the hSBc British asian Business awards. Shahid himself was<br />

also the first asian to be awarded the title of ‘entrepreneur of the Year’<br />

at the leicestershire Business awards and has won the same title at the<br />

world food awards. in addition to this Shahid was also the first asian<br />

chairman of the leicestershire branch of the institute of directors, a<br />

non-executive chairman of cSd Global, partner of<br />

Sportscorporation.com (exclusive re-sellers of amir khan tickets) and a<br />

partner in dmS Sports, supplier of clothing apparel to major clubs such<br />

as leicester county cricket club to name just one. Shahid is also<br />

extremely committed to helping and supporting charities, in particular<br />

rainbows, loros, wishes for kids and derbyshire, leicestershire and<br />

rutland air ambulance and even hosted leicester’s biggest<br />

multicultural party in aid of these charities.<br />

JEHANGIR MALIK<br />

Islamic Relief<br />

Jehangir malik oBe is the director of<br />

islamic relief Uk, with a long and rich<br />

career in the humanitarian sector. in 2006,<br />

Jehangir was appointed director of islamic<br />

relief Uk, and in 2010 was awarded an<br />

oBe by her majesty the Queen, in<br />

recognition of his 20 years of dedication and<br />

contribution to the humanitarian cause.<br />

during the course of his career, he has visited numerous field missions<br />

including pakistan, afghanistan, the Balkans, Sudan, kenya, Somalia,<br />

chechnya, iraq and Yemen. he has remained an active member of the Uk<br />

community throughout, participating in and encouraging civic<br />

engagement, such as the mosaic mentoring scheme initiated by hrh the<br />

prince of wales.<br />

DR LIAQUAT MALIK<br />

DM Broadcasting Network<br />

dr. malik, aged 50, chairman of the<br />

dm Broadcasting network, owns a<br />

portfolio of businesses which include<br />

a leading broadcast company,<br />

available to over 17.1 million Uk<br />

households and to over 30 million<br />

households in asia. this has made the<br />

dm digital television network the<br />

largest of the asian free to air channels. this company was the first to<br />

broadcast programmes in six languages: english, punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi,<br />

persian and hindi. the channel is available through Sky, Jadoo tV and<br />

asia Sat platforms as a free view for over 180 countries with several<br />

regional licenses and viewers from the Uk, europe, the middle east,<br />

africa, and asia. the programmes cover a range of genres which include<br />

live tV, entertainment, news, current affairs, sports, and children’s<br />

programmes.<br />

dr. malik has also diversified his business interests in a property letting<br />

agency, and also a higher education college. in his thriving portfolio of<br />

entrepreneurial enterprises, dr. malik employs over three hundred fulltime<br />

staff worldwide. this is divided between his national and<br />

international operations. in the Uk, he is managing a hundred<br />

employees who work on a full-time basis, and two hundred full-time<br />

employees in pakistan.<br />

DR SYED NAYYER ABIDI<br />

dr abidi is a British asian doctor & a health<br />

promotion Specialist. his area of interest is<br />

preventive medicine in public health and he has<br />

recently been honoured with an mBe by hm the<br />

Queen for his 12 years-long community health<br />

services. during 1998 -1999, he worked in the<br />

radiology department of north manchester General<br />

hospital as clinical assistant. in 2002, he launched the U.k’s first-ever<br />

bilingual (english/Urdu) book ‘prevention is always better than cure’. So<br />

far, about 5,000 copies had been distributed to public/nhS libraries, G.p<br />

surgeries and a & e units. during 2003-2006, he served as ceo of a health<br />

awareness trust and organised 30 national health awareness seminars in<br />

Greater manchester area. he is spokesperson of the association of pakistani<br />

physicians & Surgeons of the U.k and also the ambassador of the cancer<br />

research Uk, fellow of the royal Society of public health & founder<br />

director (since 2006) of community health involvement & empowerment<br />

forum (chief), a national social enterprise in health & social care that<br />

exists to serve health needs of the Bme communities of the U.k<br />

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VIRTUALHOSPITAL.ORG.UK<br />

Virtual Hospital uses the internet to<br />

deliver 21st century medical care to the<br />

world’s poorest people.<br />

Virtual Hospital seeks to ensure that the<br />

benefits of modern medicine are available<br />

to all people and that the poor are not<br />

deprived of medical treatment for want of<br />

money, or a lack of access to effective<br />

healthcare.


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WOMEN <strong>POWER</strong> 100<br />

In the inaugural Pakistan Power 100 we have dedicated a whole section just<br />

to women. Women who, during the past 60 years, broke records, broke<br />

ground, blazed trails, and suffered trials, shattering ceilings of glass and<br />

made their mark in a male dominated world. While some are obvious<br />

choices and some obscure, all acted to increase our<br />

liberty, safety, and prosperity<br />

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women power 100<br />

52<br />

Painting by Afsana Karim<br />

They are politicians, CEOs, bankers, cultural<br />

icons, academics and entrepreneurs. All are<br />

inspirational. Yet they are a small selection of the<br />

thousands of Pakistani women who are shaping<br />

today’s global community. Their contributions<br />

have inspired the actions of women for<br />

generations to come and ensure Pakistan remains<br />

proud of their achievements and conscious of<br />

their impact.<br />

In the inaugural Pakistan Power 100 we have<br />

dedicated a whole section just to women. Women<br />

who, during the past 60 years, broke records,<br />

broke ground, blazed trails, and suffered trials,<br />

shattering ceilings of glass and made their mark<br />

in a male dominated world. While some are<br />

obvious choices and some obscure, all acted to<br />

increase our liberty, safety, and prosperity<br />

Aamna Taseer<br />

Abida Parween<br />

Adeeba Malik<br />

Aleema Khan<br />

Amber Haroon<br />

Ameena Saiyid<br />

Asma Jahangir<br />

Attiya Inayatullah<br />

Ayesha Vardag<br />

Bapsi Sidhwa<br />

Bilquis Edhi<br />

Bunto Kazmi<br />

Bushra Nasir<br />

Faiza Butt<br />

Farhat Hashmi<br />

Fariha Razak<br />

Farkhunda S Ahmed<br />

Farrah Qureshi<br />

Farzana Bari<br />

Fatima Bhutto<br />

Fehmida Mirza<br />

Feriha Peracha<br />

Hina Rabbani khar<br />

Huma Abedin<br />

Imtaz Khaliq<br />

Jugnu Mohsin<br />

Kaukab Rajput<br />

Kishwar Naheed<br />

Kiswer Falkner<br />

Laila H Sarfraz<br />

Madeeha Gauhar<br />

Maheen K Ali<br />

Maheen Khan<br />

Maleha Lodhi<br />

Maliha Ahmed<br />

Marvi Memon<br />

Meesha Shafi<br />

Meherene Jabbar<br />

Mehreen Rizvi<br />

Mona Siddiqui<br />

Mukhtar Mai<br />

Musharaf Hai<br />

Nadia F Jamil<br />

Nafis Sadik<br />

Namira Salim<br />

Nargis Sethi<br />

Naseem Hameed<br />

Naseem Zehra<br />

Nasira J Iqbal<br />

First Capital Group<br />

Singer<br />

QED-UK<br />

SAARC<br />

Dawn Group<br />

Oxford Univesity Press<br />

SCBAP<br />

UNESCO<br />

Vardag Lawyers<br />

Author<br />

Edhi foundation<br />

Fashion<br />

Headteacher<br />

Artist<br />

Al-Huda International<br />

Jang Group of Newspapers<br />

Associated Liner Agencies<br />

Global Diversity Partnership<br />

Human Rights Activist<br />

Writer and Activist<br />

Speaker National Assembly<br />

PHD Doctor<br />

Foreign Minister<br />

Deputy chief of Staff<br />

Fashion Designer<br />

Publisher Friday Times<br />

Consultant<br />

Poet<br />

House of Lords<br />

APWA<br />

Writer<br />

Karma<br />

Fashion<br />

Journalist<br />

Business<br />

Parliamentarian<br />

Singer & model<br />

Film Director<br />

Bonhams<br />

Professor<br />

Human Rights<br />

L’Oreal<br />

Actor / TV Anchor<br />

United Nations<br />

Explorer<br />

Politics<br />

Athlete<br />

Journalist<br />

Poet


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Nasreen Jalil<br />

Nasreen M Kasuri<br />

Nasreen Rehman<br />

Naz Mansha<br />

Nergis Mavalvala<br />

Nigar Ahmad<br />

Nighat Awan<br />

Nilofer Saeed<br />

Noshena Mobarik<br />

Qaisra Shahraz<br />

Rameeza Nizami<br />

Reedah El-Sale<br />

Roshaneh Zafar<br />

Sabiha Sumar<br />

Saima Mohsin<br />

Saira Wasim<br />

Salima Hashmi<br />

Salma Maqbool<br />

Salma Yaqoob<br />

Samar Minallah<br />

Samina Ahmad Dr<br />

Samina Khan<br />

Samina Qureshi<br />

Sara Suleri<br />

Sarah Belal<br />

Sarah Hashwani<br />

Senator<br />

Beacon House<br />

Academic<br />

Nishat Linen<br />

Astrophysiscist<br />

Aurat Foundation<br />

Shere Khan<br />

Citizens Foundation<br />

M Computer Technologies<br />

Novelist<br />

Nawa-i-Waqt Group<br />

Mica Gallery<br />

Kashf founder<br />

Film-maker<br />

journalist<br />

Artist<br />

Artist<br />

Fighting Blindness<br />

Respect Party<br />

Film maker<br />

Global Wellness Initiative<br />

Paper magazine<br />

Writer<br />

Yale professor<br />

Lawyer<br />

Hashoo Foundation<br />

Sayeeda Warsi<br />

Seema Aziz<br />

Sehba Sarwar<br />

Sehyr Saigol<br />

Shafqat Sultana<br />

Shaheen Sardar Ali<br />

Shaila Abdullah<br />

Shamshad Akhtar<br />

Shandana Khan<br />

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy<br />

Shazia Hidyat<br />

Shazia Marri<br />

Shehnaz Wazir Ali<br />

Shehrbano Taseer<br />

Sherry Rehman<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli<br />

Sidra Sadaf<br />

Simi Kamal<br />

Sophia Khalique<br />

Souriya Anwar<br />

Sultana Siddiqui<br />

Surraiya Zia<br />

Syeda Hina Babar Ali<br />

Tanveer Naim<br />

Tehmina Durrani<br />

House of Lords<br />

CARE Foundation<br />

Author<br />

PDFC<br />

First Women Bank<br />

UN<br />

Author<br />

State Bank of Pakistan<br />

Rural Support Program<br />

Film Maker<br />

Olympic Athlete<br />

Politician<br />

Journalist / Activist<br />

Activist<br />

Political scientist.<br />

Cyclist<br />

Aurat Foundation<br />

Doctor<br />

SOS Villages<br />

HUM TV<br />

Doctor<br />

Packages,<br />

Author and Activist<br />

Writer<br />

Painting by Afsana Karim<br />

renowned artist afsana karim has been<br />

commissioned by power 100 to create a<br />

series of paintings for each global power<br />

100 title. for private commissions from<br />

afsana please contact:<br />

andrea@hamptonsmanagement.com<br />

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AYESHA VARDAG<br />

Vardags Solicitors<br />

ADEEBA MALIK<br />

QED UK<br />

Britain’s top divorce lawyer’ was ayesha Vardag’s<br />

billing by both the law Society and new York’s<br />

prestigious huffington post though easy living<br />

magazine march 2012 featured her as “the diva of<br />

divorce”. She is best known for winning the landmark<br />

Supreme court case of radmacher, changing the law<br />

on prenuptial agreements to make them work in<br />

england. Vardag entered divorce law from a blue chip<br />

city/international/Bar base. She trained and qualified<br />

as a solicitor at linklaters london and moscow on<br />

project finance work with diamond mines and power<br />

stations. She dual-qualified as a barrister and was once<br />

nicholas mostyn Qc’s mini-pupil. her own divorce<br />

lawyer hired her away from the Bar to join his team.<br />

ayesha Vardag established her eponymous firm, now<br />

Vardags, in 2005. She has a reputation for hard-hitting<br />

litigation, commercial savvy, fearlessness and strategic<br />

intellectual; vision. this, coupled with an informal<br />

no-nonsense style, gritty life experience and empathy<br />

in spades, won her a high-value, high-profile client<br />

base within weeks of opening her doors. She has acted<br />

against heirs and heiresses, tycoons, international<br />

footballers/polo players, celebrities and royalty. She<br />

has acted in cases involving the royalty of arab states<br />

and in leading pakistani divorce and nullity matters.<br />

ayesha Vardag is one of the very few family lawyers to<br />

have received the accolade of the times ‘lawyer of the<br />

week’. She is regularly sought by the media for expert<br />

commentary on the leading cases and legal issues of<br />

the day, appearing not least on BBc tV news, cnn<br />

and the today programme. She is sought out as a<br />

lecturer, appearing recently in the white paper<br />

conference and at the inaugural session of the law<br />

Society’s public debates, on the ‘the end of marriage<br />

as we know it’.<br />

adeeba malik mBe has held numerous ministerial and non-ministerial high<br />

profile regional/national board level appointments in large, complex and<br />

diverse organisations over the last 15 years. She has been the “first” asian<br />

woman or non white person to serve on most of these boards. these include<br />

Yorkshire forward, British waterways, the national clinical assessment<br />

authority, advisory Board on naturalisation and immigration, waterways<br />

trust. in 2007 she was appointed chair of the national ethnic minority<br />

Business forum based in the department for trade and industry and became<br />

a commissioner for the women and work commissioner set up by the then<br />

prime minister tony Blair. as a result of her very varied experience of board<br />

and non executive appointments, she has been promoted and highlighted as a<br />

role model in national media campaigns led by the cabinet office and the<br />

Governments equalities office over the last 12 years.<br />

She is also deputy chief executive of a leading and respected national<br />

economic development agency Qed-Uk, which is currently celebrating its<br />

21st anniversary. Some of Qed-Uk’s highlights include runner up to the<br />

national charity of the Year award, winner of the charity finance award and<br />

winner of the professor charles handy alchemist award. Qed-Uk has ran<br />

campaigns for the private and public sector aimed at the disadvantage<br />

communities and it delivers public sector contracts. Qed-Uk is currently<br />

delivering a european commission funded programme in pakistan, a first of<br />

its kind to help women with language and citizenship skills.<br />

She continues to speak at high profile events at national and international level<br />

and has won numerous mainstream awards. currently she is a commissioner<br />

of the northern economic futures forum set up by the leading national think<br />

tank ippr, whose remit is to look at the drivers for a northern economic<br />

growth. She is also a governor of Sheffield hallam University, one of the<br />

largest universities in the country.<br />

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SHERRY REHMAN<br />

Ambassador to United States<br />

Sherry rehman is a member of the pakistan<br />

people’s party parliamentarians (pppp.)<br />

She has been politically active as a politician<br />

since 2002 and continues to do so today.<br />

She served as a member of the national<br />

assembly (mna) from 2002 to 2007,<br />

where she acted as central information<br />

Secretary. during this time, she was also<br />

president of policy planning for the pppp<br />

and served on the party’s foreign relations<br />

committee.<br />

in march 2008, rehman was appointed<br />

again by declaration as mna for Sindh<br />

province to the reserved mna seat for<br />

women. prime minister Yusuf<br />

Gilani appointed her minister for<br />

information and Broadcasting, and on 31<br />

march 2008 she took oath under the reign<br />

of president pervez musharraf.<br />

during her tenure in parliament, rehman<br />

authored all five ppp bills tabled in the<br />

national assembly: the women<br />

empowerment Bill, anti-honor killings<br />

Bill, domestic Violence prevention Bill,<br />

affirmative action Bill and hudood repeal<br />

Bill. She also moved two bills concerning<br />

the media: the freedom of information Bill<br />

and the press act, which prevents working<br />

journalists from being arrested under the<br />

1999 press ordinance.<br />

in civil society, rehman is the chair of the<br />

lady dufferin foundation trust, allegedly<br />

the largest non-profit provider of women<br />

and children’s subsidized healthcare in the<br />

province of Sindh.<br />

in January 2009, an article in<br />

the international republican<br />

institute referred to her as “democracy’s<br />

hero” as a result of her close association<br />

with former prime minister Benazir<br />

Bhutto’s campaign for democratic rule in<br />

pakistan. the reference, picked up by<br />

several pakistani media outlets, received<br />

mixed coverage. in the same month,<br />

rehman was named among the “100 most<br />

influential asians” by Uae magazine ahlan.<br />

Rehman’s latest<br />

book The Kashmiri<br />

Shawl, was<br />

nominated for<br />

The R.L Shep<br />

Ethnic Textiles<br />

Book Award<br />

for 2006<br />

in the US.<br />

rehman resigned her post as information<br />

minister on 14 march 2009, due to<br />

differences of opinion with the<br />

president asif ali Zardari on imposing<br />

restrictions on the media and taking away<br />

the free will from them.<br />

She was named pakistan’s ambassador to<br />

United States following the resignation<br />

of hussain haqqani, who was asked to<br />

resign by prime minister Gilani in the<br />

wake of the “memogate” scandal.<br />

rehman’s latest book the kashmiri<br />

Shawl: from Jamawar to paisley, coauthored<br />

with naheed Jafri, was published<br />

in 2006 by mapin publishing india and<br />

antique collectors club Uk. the book<br />

was nominated for the r.l Shep ethnic<br />

textiles Book award for 2006 in the US.<br />

She accomplished many things in such a<br />

short period of time for example in 2002<br />

she became the first pakistani to be<br />

recognized with an award for independent<br />

journalism by the Uk house of lords in<br />

its muslim world awards ceremony in<br />

the year 2002. in 2006 she won the r.l<br />

Shep ethnic textiles Book award, for the<br />

kashmiri Shawl. two years down the lane,<br />

in 2008 Sherry rehman presented the<br />

international peace award for democrats<br />

by the human rights commission. She<br />

won the title of “democracy’s hero” by<br />

the international republican institute in<br />

2009 for her services to the restoration of<br />

democracy. the same year she also won<br />

‘the freedom award’ pakistan by the<br />

association of television Journalists for<br />

her work for media independence in<br />

pakistan/ then in 2011 she also owned<br />

the Jeane J. kirkpatrick award by the<br />

women’s democracy network (wdn),<br />

washington.<br />

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FARRAH QURESHI<br />

Global Diversity Practice<br />

BUSHRA NASIR<br />

Headteacher<br />

farrah Qureshi is the managing director<br />

and owner of the Global diversity practice<br />

ltd. She is recognised as one of the<br />

foreamost experts of international<br />

repute on Global diversity consultancy<br />

and training in the world.She is a leading<br />

authority on combining the disciplinesof<br />

Behavioural economics, psychology,<br />

leadership and organisational consulting<br />

with human capital issues of diversity<br />

and inclusion. farrah has put the mission<br />

of equity and the full utilisation of human<br />

capital at the heart of her professional life,<br />

initially inspired by the experiences of her<br />

professional father who migrated to the<br />

Uk in the early 60s and now further<br />

motivated by the aspirations of her two<br />

teenage daughters to excel and contribute<br />

as third generation British pakistanis.<br />

farrah had delivered unique and<br />

innovative learning and consultancy<br />

products and specialises in advising and<br />

coaching ceo’s, Boards and top teams.<br />

the impact of her work and global<br />

footprint has left an indelible mark on her<br />

clients and has been experienced in 93<br />

countries spanning an impressive portfolio<br />

of corporate and public sector clients.this<br />

diverse range of clients and pioneering<br />

solutions ranges from leading the team<br />

that was commissioned to develop the<br />

award-winning diversity collateral and<br />

Strategy for theolympic Games 2012 to<br />

delivering keynote addresses for the world<br />

Bank in washington to delivering<br />

innovative solutions for large corporates<br />

such as wal-mart, Shell Santander, dell,<br />

microsoft, walt disney,lloyds of london<br />

kellogg’s,dhl, aviva,rBS, Jpmorgan,<br />

nike, nuvo nordisk,aBB,kpmG, mod<br />

dfid,Un, eU, and many more.<br />

farrah has 24 years’ experience in her<br />

field, her early career combined academic<br />

rigour as head of consultancy Solutions<br />

for the University of leeds, then she was<br />

headhunted to join the private sector<br />

where for the past 18 years,she has<br />

developed and led both european and<br />

Global diversity practices. prior to her<br />

current position, farrah was managing<br />

director within norman Broadbent, a<br />

leading Global executive Search Business.<br />

three years ago she gained ownership of<br />

the business and has gone onto to be a<br />

successful entrepreneur.<br />

She is the author of ‘Understanding<br />

diversity – an organisational Guide<br />

which was her first book. farrah has also<br />

contributed to “Understanding dignity @<br />

work.”<br />

farrah has been the recipient of numerous<br />

awards including Grattan award winner<br />

for her work in diversity. She has been<br />

shortlisted for asian women of<br />

achievement 2004/7 corporate category<br />

(nominated by aviva), 2005 opportunity<br />

now award for london Underground.<br />

the aviva toolkit won the Un world<br />

diversity award 2008 for innovation<br />

dfid was short-listed for the cipd<br />

people management awards in 2009 for<br />

her work. farrah has also been included in<br />

the asian power100 publication in 2009<br />

by rBS and was recognised as one of the<br />

“top twenty leaders to look out for in<br />

2010!” in 2010, farrah received an award<br />

from walmexfor her services to Global<br />

diversity.<br />

Bushra nasir is a secondary headteacher with 19 years<br />

experience at plashet School in the london Borough of<br />

newham. She was the first muslim female headteacher<br />

of a secondary school in the Uk. in 2003, she was<br />

awarded a cBe for her services to education and in 2005<br />

won the ‘asian professional women of the Year’ award.<br />

She served on the General teaching council from 2000-<br />

2005 and was president of the muslim teachers’<br />

association for 3 years. in 2006, mrs nasir was awarded<br />

an honorary doctorate from University of east london<br />

for her services to education and in 2007 she received a<br />

fellowship from Queen mary college london.<br />

plashet is an 11-16 comprehensive Girls’ School with<br />

1355 students. 90% of the students are from ethnic<br />

minority backgrounds, a high percentage with free school<br />

meals. plashet gained Beacon status in September 2000,<br />

leading edge status in 2004 and Science Specialist<br />

college Status in September 2007. the school was<br />

‘outstanding’ in its ofSted inspection in march 2005<br />

and march 2008. it was featured in a national report<br />

produced by ofSted entitled ‘12 outstanding Schools –<br />

excelling against the odds’.<br />

mrs nasir has spoken at a wide range of conferences and<br />

events related to educational issues for parents,<br />

headteachers and educationalists. She is co-author of a<br />

book called ‘Breaking Stereotypes’ which aims to provide<br />

positive role models for ethnic minority young people.<br />

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BUNTO KAZMI<br />

Fashion<br />

a wall in Bunto kazmi’s office is decorated<br />

with framed embroideries. Some are<br />

Bunto’s own creations, while others are<br />

samples that she’s collected over the years.<br />

a wooden door is fixed alongside another<br />

wall, the intricate carvings surrounding a<br />

full-length mirror. Bunto’s work desk<br />

stands in a corner of the large room. it is<br />

scattered with mementoes, a sample card<br />

labelling various Swarovski jewels and a<br />

curious case of numerous magnifying<br />

glasses which, as i later discover, are used to<br />

scrutinise the intricate embroideries of her<br />

designs. and while the exquisite formals<br />

that Bunto designs are nowhere in sight,<br />

this room still reflects her ethos as a<br />

designer, her mastery over luxurious<br />

detailing, her penchant for the arts and<br />

traditions and her predilection for intricate<br />

craftsmanship.<br />

it is Bunto’s love for her craft that attracts a<br />

sizeable number of clients to her office on a<br />

daily basis. most of them are eager<br />

brides-to-be, who are more than happy to<br />

dictate nothing more than their preferred<br />

color palette, leaving the intricacies to<br />

Bunto. “i have been very lucky with my<br />

clients,” she tells me. “while i do take the<br />

bride’s preferences into consideration, the<br />

clothes are often completely based on my<br />

own vision. the bride and her family only<br />

see the final outfit once it’s completed. Yet,<br />

i have never had one disgruntled client.<br />

there are entire families who have had<br />

their bridal wear designed by me. my<br />

mother-in-law dressed their mothers at<br />

their weddings and now i am dressing their<br />

daughters and granddaughters.”<br />

in this day and age of media hype and<br />

advertising, Bunto’s thriving bridal business<br />

is something of an anomaly. She has never<br />

advertised nor has she ever invested in a<br />

fashion shoot. She hardly ever gives<br />

interviews to television or the print media.<br />

“i suffer from sleepless nights every time i<br />

read something about myself in the<br />

newspaper. i am a very shy person and i’d<br />

Bunto creates veritable<br />

works of art, with the<br />

fabric serving as her<br />

canvas Bunto’s<br />

work isn’t just<br />

breathtakingly<br />

beautiful, it’s<br />

representative<br />

of our culture<br />

and traditions.<br />

much rather let my work speak for me as<br />

opposed to speaking about myself in<br />

interviews,” she confesses, right before i<br />

manage to cajole her into an interview.<br />

for while Bunto may not like talking<br />

about herself, there are certainly many<br />

people who want to know about her.<br />

taught by her mother-in-law, the pioneer<br />

Sughra kazmi, Bunto’s bridal couture is in<br />

a league of its own. She handles her work<br />

with a grace and an intelligence that is<br />

rare.<br />

“i began working while my children were<br />

still young and i knew from the outset that<br />

i wanted my work to set a standard of its<br />

own and never be run-of-the-mill,” she<br />

says. at the recent fashion pakistan week<br />

(fpw) in karachi, one of the highlights<br />

was her career’s most iconic designs<br />

showcased as the opening act for the<br />

event. “i took part in fpw to show my<br />

support to the fashion pakistan council,<br />

of which i am a founder member,” she<br />

says. “to date, i have only taken part in a<br />

handful of fashion shows and i, frankly<br />

speaking, wouldn’t want to be part of any<br />

such event again. fashion weeks are<br />

beneficial for designers who earn by<br />

replicating their designs for retail. i am a<br />

couturier who creates one-of-a kind<br />

pieces on order. i don’t have any stock<br />

stowed away expressly for the catwalk and<br />

have to borrow clothes from my clients. i<br />

don’t want to put that kind of pressure on<br />

them again and even business-wise, there<br />

is no point in my taking part in fashion<br />

weeks.”<br />

when i designed Sharmeen obaid<br />

chinoy’s outfit for the oscars, i got<br />

numerous calls, asking me to replicate the<br />

dress. i refused simply because i had<br />

expressly created the dress for Sharmeen,<br />

with a lot of love and effort. i just couldn’t<br />

reproduce it for the sake of acquiring<br />

more business!”<br />

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FEHMIDA MIRZA<br />

Speaker of National Assembly<br />

ddddddd<br />

dr. fehmida mirza, born on december 20, 1956 in karachi,<br />

is an agriculturist and business woman by profession and is<br />

politically affiliated with the pppp. She was previously<br />

elected mna in 1997. fahmida mirza is the current and<br />

18th Speaker of the national assembly, a lower house of<br />

parliament of State of pakistan.<br />

She is the first woman to hold the office to date, and is<br />

widely regarded as one of the highest ranking female<br />

politicians in the history of pakistan. fehmida mirza hails<br />

from the influential Sindhi family, and currently representing<br />

the Badin constituency since 1997 and has continued to be<br />

a parliamentarian since then. a graduate of liaquat medial<br />

University in 1982; she is a practiced physician and did her<br />

house job in gynecology and pediatrics. . She is one of the<br />

few women elected from a non-reserved constituency.<br />

Before entering politics, dr. fahmida mirza ran an<br />

advertising agency informachine, later renamed information<br />

communication limited (icl). dr. mirza is married to dr.<br />

Zulfiqar mirza, a close friend of asif ali Zardari, the cochairman<br />

of the pakistan people’s party. Both her husband<br />

and her brother, journalist, Qazi asad abid, are former<br />

members of the national assembly. Zulfikar mirza is also<br />

currently a member of the Sindh provincial assembly and<br />

was former provincial home minister. She runs several<br />

welfare projects in her constituency, one of the poorest<br />

districts of pakistan.<br />

FAUZIA AZIZ MINALLAH<br />

Artist and Writer<br />

fauzia aziz minallah is an<br />

artist and writer of children<br />

books. fauzia’s work<br />

encompassing, stone carving,<br />

painting, photography,<br />

illustrating and writing for<br />

children converges with her<br />

activism through writing and<br />

campaigning for tolerance,<br />

peace, heritage conservation,<br />

environmental and social<br />

matters. through children<br />

literature she raises these<br />

issues. her book 'Sadako's<br />

prayer' is published by the<br />

asian network of trust in<br />

hiroshima, in Japanese,<br />

english, dari, Urdu, pashto<br />

and torwali. it is the winner<br />

of hiroshima citizen's award<br />

for peace education and was<br />

distributed free of cost among<br />

nearly 10,000 children in<br />

pakistan, afghanistan and<br />

Japan. another peace book "<br />

'titli and the music of hope' written and illustrated by her is published by the<br />

national Book trust of india under the international center for literacy and<br />

culture's peace Book project in South asia.<br />

her involvement with children is through a platform that she has provided to<br />

them in the shape of an nGo called funkor child art centre, carrying out art<br />

and book reading workshops for children living in shanty towns, for special<br />

children; refugee and internally displaced children (idps) and so on. funkor<br />

distributes picture books and notebooks with messages on hygiene, Sanitation<br />

and environment protection, free of charge among children. funkor was short<br />

listed for the Bremen peace award in Germany in 2009, as one of the<br />

nominated projects and organizations, which are exemplary in their work for<br />

peace, justice and integrity of creation. for democratizing art education and<br />

making it accessible to kids from low-income families, so that they too can<br />

playfully discover their own creativity.<br />

fauzia is the winner of the ron kovic peace prize, USa in 2010. She is also<br />

the only female editorial cartoonist of pakistan to have won the all pakistan<br />

newspaper award for ‘Best cartoonist’ of 1986-87. her winning entry<br />

lampooned dictator Zia’s version of democracy with each member of his<br />

majlis-i-Shoora shown as an identical copy of the general himself. in January<br />

2008,during the lawyer’s movement against the imposition of emergency by<br />

General musharraf , her cartoon depicting the general as the ‘emperor without<br />

clothes’ was used on the cover of himal magazine published from nepal.<br />

fauzia is a graduate of the pratt institute new York. She is one of the few artists<br />

of pakistan, who revived a dying craft and used it as a medium of her art too.<br />

She is dedicated to promoting, ‘chitarkari’ or slate engraving, found in the<br />

cemeteries of Gangar mountain range, hazara, pakistan.<br />

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FATIMA BHUTTO<br />

Writer<br />

fatima murtaza Bhutto is the<br />

granddaughter of former prime<br />

minister Zulfikar ali Bhutto, the niece<br />

of former prime minister Benazir<br />

Bhutto, and daughter of murtaza<br />

Bhutto. She has created her own<br />

identity as a pakistani poet, writer<br />

activist and journalist. despite having<br />

all the credentials to be a successful<br />

pakistani politician, fatima Bhutto has<br />

opted not to run for any political<br />

office.<br />

following her father murtaza Bhutto’s<br />

assassination in 1996 at the hands of<br />

karachi police, fatima continued<br />

living with her step-mother Ghinwa<br />

Bhutto. fatima’s birth mother was an<br />

afghan pashtun, fauzia fasihudin<br />

Bhutto.<br />

Bhutto received her secondary<br />

education at the karachi american<br />

School. She graduated from columbia<br />

University in 2004, majoring in<br />

middle eastern languages and<br />

cultures and from the School of<br />

oriental and african Studies (SoaS)<br />

in 2005 with a masters in South asian<br />

Government and politics.<br />

fatima’s work has appeared in the<br />

new Statesman, daily Beast,<br />

Guardian, and the caravan<br />

magazine.fatima wrote a weekly<br />

column for Jang - pakistan’s largest<br />

Urdu newspaper and its english sister<br />

Despite having all the<br />

credentials to be a<br />

successful Pakistani<br />

politician, Fatima<br />

Bhutto has opted<br />

not to run for<br />

any political<br />

office.<br />

publication the news – for two years.<br />

She covered the israeli invasion and<br />

war with lebanon from lebanon in<br />

the summer of 2006 and also<br />

reported from iran in January 2007<br />

and cuba in april 2008.<br />

She has gained recognition as an<br />

author through her books the first of<br />

which was ‘whispers of the desert’, a<br />

volume of poetry, which was<br />

published in 1997 by oxford<br />

University press pakistan when<br />

fatima was 15 years old. her second<br />

book was titled ‘8.50 a.m. 8 october<br />

2005’, a collection of first-hand<br />

accounts from survivors of the 2005<br />

earthquake in pakistan, was published<br />

by oUp in 2006. her third book,<br />

‘Songs of Blood and Sword’, tells the<br />

story of a family of feudal landlords<br />

who became powerbrokers. the book<br />

reveals a daughter’s love for her father<br />

and her search to uncover the truth of<br />

his life and death.<br />

fatima currently writes and lives in<br />

karachi and despite not being directly<br />

active as a politician she continuous to<br />

support her step-mother Ghinwa<br />

Bhutto’s party pakistan peoples party<br />

(Shaheed Bhutto).<br />

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DR FERIHA PERACHA<br />

Educationist and a Psychologist<br />

dr feriha peracha is a rare and courageous woman.<br />

Being an educationist and a psychologist she believes<br />

that change is necessary but only through proper<br />

awareness and education.<br />

She has a lot of achievements to her credit. She is<br />

currently the director, Sabaoon academy, malakand,<br />

(Swat) chairperson, Swaat, V p, lahore mental<br />

association, V p fountain house, Vice chairperson i-<br />

care foundation pakistan, Board member wwf<br />

pakistan, Board member Sanjan nagar, Board member,<br />

hum pakistani foundation (hpf)<br />

dr peracha has lived in canada and london (Uk) for<br />

nearly 25 years, where she pursued post graduate<br />

studies and a phd degree in psychology.<br />

her mentors were humanists and eclectic intellectuals.<br />

they shaped her thinking and instilled awareness, a<br />

sense of responsibility in her, much more then formal<br />

education at University of alberta and University<br />

college london.<br />

london still remains her primary home, but her work<br />

is now in kpk, pakistan.<br />

Swaat, an nGo, has just taken over 5 schools in the<br />

most vulnerable areas in Swat where the intention is to<br />

prevent students from dropping out and picked up by<br />

militants and extremists. Swaat encourages the<br />

students to persevere with their age appropriate goals<br />

in academics, and in pursuing jobs in pakistan.<br />

DR KAUKAB RAJPUT<br />

Consultant<br />

dr kaukab rajput achieved her<br />

fellowship from the royal college of<br />

surgeons of Glasgow in 1992. after<br />

completing her Senior registrar training<br />

in london she was appointed as a<br />

consultant physician to lead the cochlear<br />

implant program in the prestigious<br />

Great ormond Street hospital in 1999.<br />

this made her the first woman of<br />

pakistani origin to be appointed as a consultant physician. She was enrolled as<br />

the fellow of the royal college of physicians london in 2009 for her services<br />

to deaf children. Since being appointed as the clinical lead to cochlear implant<br />

dr rajput’s department has become one of the largest departments in the<br />

U.k. She has led cutting edge research in the field disability due to deafness in<br />

children and has published over 25 articles in highly respected journals. the<br />

latest article is due to be published in the lancet. her research interest lies n<br />

ototoxicity, prevention of deafness as well as unsusal types of deafness.<br />

following on from the pakistani earthquake in 2005 dr rajput and her dear<br />

friend Yasmin Salim set up a charity known as Uk association of medical aid<br />

to pakistan which achieved registration with charity commission in 2008. the<br />

charity has raised over £100,000 over 4 years for causes related to prevention<br />

of disease for the poor and under privileged people of pakistan.<br />

IMTAZ KHALIQ<br />

Fashion<br />

Bradford born imtaz khaliq is an<br />

internationally known awarding winning<br />

tailor. her award winning business was<br />

established over 20 years ago in<br />

london. She was based in Bond Street and<br />

now works in islington. She was<br />

recently recognised by the Queen with an<br />

mBe for her services to fashion.<br />

She has featured widely in the press as<br />

londons first woman tailor such as<br />

being featured in the independent as<br />

celebrity tailor. She is a pioneer woman and was shortlisted in red magazine’s<br />

red hot women awards. imtaz has dressed supermodels, hollywood celebrities<br />

and world leaders, highfliers in the media, politics, and business. her work has<br />

been worn by michele pfiffer, dina carroll, mishal husain, kay Burley, cherie<br />

Blair and Sian lloyd on the cover of ‘hello’ magazine. imtaz’s work has been<br />

used in major television adverts and programmes.<br />

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HINA RABBANI KHAR<br />

Foreign Minister<br />

hina rabbani khar is a pakistani<br />

stateswoman and an economist who is the<br />

current and 26th foreign minister of<br />

pakistan. hailing from the powerful feudal<br />

family, she embarked her statesmanship in<br />

2002 in the government of prime minister<br />

Shaukat aziz and subsequently served in<br />

the finance ministry and foreign ministry<br />

as its minister of state. after successfully<br />

contesting in 2008 general elections, she<br />

briefly served in the finance ministry and<br />

directed the policies concerning the<br />

national economy in the absence of the<br />

finance minister in 2010.<br />

finally, she was ascended as first female<br />

foreign minister of the country in July<br />

2011 after the surprise and dramatic<br />

resignation of mehmood Qureshi. Since<br />

2008, she has been a senior and highranking<br />

member of the central executive<br />

committee, and is widely regarded as one<br />

of the highest ranking female officer in the<br />

political arena of pakistan.<br />

khar was appointed minister of State for<br />

foreign affairs, the deputy head of the<br />

ministry of foreign affairs, on 11 february<br />

2011, as part of Gillani's cabinet reshuffle.<br />

after Shah mehmood Qureshi's<br />

resignation as foreign minister, she<br />

became acting minister of foreign affairs<br />

on 13 february 2011.She was approved as<br />

foreign minister on 18 July and was<br />

sworn-in on 19 July, becoming the<br />

youngest and first female minister of<br />

foreign affairs. president asif ali Zardari,<br />

who succeeded musharraf in 2008, said<br />

the appointment was "a demonstration of<br />

the government's commitment to bring<br />

women into the mainstream of national<br />

life". She was appointed foreign minister<br />

during the difficult times of pakistan,<br />

especially when country's armed forces<br />

were striking down the extreme elements<br />

in western pakistan and the huge outcry<br />

and an anti-american emotions were at<br />

high rise.<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar<br />

is a Pakistani<br />

stateswoman and<br />

an economist<br />

who is the current<br />

and 26th<br />

Foreign Minister<br />

of Pakistan<br />

on 6 June 2012, pakistan on tuesday<br />

renewed its call for a U.S. apology over<br />

the killing of 24 soldiers in U.S. warplane<br />

attacks at the Salala checkpost ,as foreign<br />

minister hina rabbani khar argued that<br />

"higher principles should take precedence<br />

over politically popular considerations".<br />

khar challenged the U.S. to "live up to its<br />

democratic ideals by respecting the will of<br />

pakistan’s elected legislature", foreign<br />

policy magazine said in a doha-datelined<br />

report on its interview with the top<br />

pakistani diplomat. on 15 december<br />

2011, when the United States cut off the<br />

financial aid to pakistan, khar warned her<br />

counterpart hillary clinton and quoted:<br />

"the United States will be responsible for<br />

defeat in war on terror as pakistan could<br />

not fight the war alone".<br />

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MEHREEN RIZVI KHURSHEED<br />

Bonhams<br />

DR SOPHIA KHALIQUE<br />

Doctor<br />

62<br />

mehreen rizvi currently head the<br />

modernart dept at Bonhams,<br />

london. fluent speaker in Urdu and<br />

english she started her working career<br />

as an intern at Sotheby’s islamic<br />

department in 1992 and then moved<br />

to the company’s finance<br />

department. She moved to the<br />

modern indian paintings department<br />

as a cataloguer and introduced<br />

pakistani paintings for the first time.<br />

She researched and introduced<br />

modern arab art in this department<br />

and organized the first sale for it in<br />

2001. from the years 2003 to 2008<br />

mehreen rizvi khursheed was a<br />

consultant at Bonhams for the indian<br />

and islamic department, where she<br />

became responsible for modern<br />

indian and pakistani art sales.<br />

during her career mehreen rizvi<br />

khursheed organized the first<br />

international arab art auction at<br />

Sotherby’s in london, helped to<br />

organize Sotherby’s jewellery talks<br />

and courses in riyadh and Jeddah in<br />

Saudi arabia. mehreen was part of a<br />

team of three people responsible for<br />

the entire middle eastern region,<br />

travelling extensively on behalf of the<br />

company to Beirut, amman, Saudi and<br />

Bahrain and dubai. She also helped to<br />

put together talks and courses on<br />

jewellery and art for Sotheby’s<br />

institute. She worked at Sotheby’s for<br />

a total of ten years. She also<br />

discovered a number of unrecognized<br />

indian paintings, and initiated the<br />

unique first sale of francis newton<br />

Souza works on paper.<br />

the new department evolved out of<br />

the indian and islamic department,<br />

headed by claire penhallurick, which<br />

has grown the modern and<br />

contemporary area so productively<br />

that the time has come to establish a<br />

stand-alone specialist area.<br />

mehreen rizvi khursheed who has<br />

extensive understanding in this area<br />

will now head the new department.<br />

her team includes farah hakemi, an<br />

iranian art specialist, and charlie<br />

moore who has recently joined the<br />

department. the team which is based<br />

at 101 new Bond Street, supervises<br />

sales in dubai and london as part of<br />

its brief. She has discovered a number<br />

of unrecognized indian paintings<br />

which sold for six figure sums.<br />

at Bonhams she initiated and<br />

organized the unique first sale of<br />

francis newton Souza works on<br />

paper. this was the first time any<br />

auction house had dedicated a sale to<br />

one particular indian artist. mehreen<br />

helped to develop the pakistani<br />

market which has led to record prices<br />

for the artists Sadequain, Jamil naqsh<br />

and chughtai among others.<br />

dr Sophia khalique is a partner in private medical practice<br />

in wimpole Street giving great support to charitable<br />

causes around the world and helping people in different<br />

spheres of medical needs.<br />

initially Sophia specialised in anasthesia where she sat for<br />

the fellowship of the royal college of anaethetists and<br />

was awarded the rare Gold magill medal, awarded only<br />

when a candidate is deemed extraordinary.<br />

Sophia is extremely driven, competitive and commited to<br />

alleviate suffering. her biggest passion in is her<br />

commitment to charitable causes. mere months after<br />

giving birth to her third child Sophia raised tens of<br />

thousands of pounds for luekaemia research by competing<br />

in the gruelling Ultra triathlon finishing in an astonishing<br />

3 hours. She has dedicated much of her adult life working<br />

hands on in the third world recently returning from a trip<br />

to Sierra leone working closely with wherever the need<br />

assisting their work on improved sanitation.<br />

YASMIN QURESHI MP<br />

Yasmin Qureshi has been the member of parliament for<br />

Bolton South east since the 2010 General election.<br />

Yasmin began her legal career with the crown<br />

prosecution Service as an in-house Barrister. She<br />

prosecuted on behalf of the crown in numerous criminal<br />

cases. later she became a specialist casework advocate<br />

dealing with complex and sensitive cases. Since becoming<br />

a member of parliament Yasmin has been elected as a<br />

member of the Justice Select committee and a member<br />

of the political and constitutional reform Select<br />

committee. Yasmin is the chair of the all party<br />

parliamentary Group on international Justice and the<br />

Secretary of the all party parliamentary Group on legal<br />

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MEHREEN JABBAR<br />

Film Director<br />

MALEEHA LODHI<br />

Journalist<br />

mehreen Jabbar is a film and television director with 16<br />

years of experience in the industry, with a prolific career<br />

making of gritty, hard-hitting films for pakistani television.<br />

over the years she has earned a reputation for<br />

professionalism and excellence, and is quoted widely as an<br />

expert in her field.<br />

mehreen began her career in television directing tV films<br />

and drama series under the banner of tasVeer productions,<br />

all of which were critically acclaimed by the pakistani press.<br />

‘ramchand pakistani’, her first feature length film, was<br />

released theatrically in pakistan, india and the Uk in<br />

2008/2009 to wide critical and audience acclaim. the film<br />

premiered in the competition section of the tribeca film<br />

festival in new York in 2008. it won the fipreSci priZe<br />

from the international federation of film critics and<br />

received many other awards at film festivals around the<br />

world. it was shown at the moma (museum of modern<br />

art), new York for a week long screening in 2010. the film<br />

continues to screen in film festivals and college campuses.<br />

mehreen has been a member of the national Board of film<br />

censors in karachi, a founding member of war (war<br />

against rape), the karafilm festival in karachi, has served<br />

as a juror at the leeds international film festival in 2002 and<br />

was the artistic director at the maisha film lab in Uganda,<br />

a non-profit training lab founded by director mira nair.<br />

over the years mehreen has won numerous awards<br />

including the indus drama award (2004), best director for<br />

harjai, indusVision Young achievers award (2002), lux<br />

Style awards (2002) aur Zindagi Badalti hai nominated for<br />

Best tV Series, kara film festival (2001) Best director &<br />

Best medium-length film for daughters of the late colonel<br />

and the 9th lux Style awards (2010) Best tV director for<br />

doraha.<br />

dr maleeha lodhi, is a journalist,<br />

academic and diplomat from<br />

pakistan. She was the high<br />

commissioner of pakistan to the<br />

United kingdom and is a former<br />

pakistani ambassador to the<br />

United States. in the fall of 2008,<br />

she was a resident fellow at the<br />

institute of politics, John f.<br />

kennedy School of Government<br />

at harvard University. She has<br />

also been a member of the United<br />

nations Secretary-General’s<br />

advisory Board on disarmament.<br />

She obtained her ph.d in politics from the london School of<br />

economics in 1980, having received her B.Sc (econ) from the same<br />

institution in 1976. She taught politics and Sociology at the london<br />

School of economics for five years, 1980-85, before returning home<br />

to embark on what was to be a remarkable career in journalism. She<br />

also briefly taught for a year at the Quaid-i-azam University,<br />

islamabad, in the department of public administration. lodhi has<br />

been the editor of pakistan’s leading english daily, the news and is<br />

considered amongst the country’s top political commentators.<br />

dr. lodhi became pakistani ambassador to the US under two different<br />

presidents from 1994–1997 and then during 1999–2002 (in the<br />

process of becoming pakistan’s longest ever serving ambassador to the<br />

US), before leaving her post on the completion of her second tour of<br />

duty. Since 2001, she has also served on the Un Secretary General’s<br />

advisory Board on disarmament affairs (2001–2005) and continued<br />

to do so while holding the post of pakistan’s high commissioner to the<br />

United kingdom (2003–2008). She has addressed top think tanks and<br />

other foreign policy forums across the world, drawing on her<br />

diplomatic skills and media background.<br />

She married a banker in london but they divorced five years after<br />

marriage. She has a son, faisal from this marriage. She has been<br />

awarded hilal-i-imtiaz award in pakistan (2002). She received an<br />

honorary fellowship from the london School of economics (2004)<br />

and an honorary degree of doctor of letters from london’s<br />

metropolitan University (2005).<br />

dr. lodhi is also the author of two books: pakistan’s encounter with<br />

democracy and the external challenge both collections of her essays<br />

on contemporary issues.<br />

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QAISRA SHAHRAZ<br />

Writer<br />

REEDAH NIJABAT<br />

EL-SAIE<br />

Qaisra Shahraz, born in pakistan and living<br />

in the United kingdom, is a critically<br />

acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter and a<br />

fellow of the royal Society of arts. her<br />

novels the holy woman, typhoon have<br />

been translated into several languages<br />

including mandarin. She has completed<br />

her third novel and is working on her<br />

fourth Silence.<br />

her first novel the holy woman was<br />

awarded the title ‘Best Book of the month’<br />

by waterstone booksellers, won the ‘<br />

Golden Jubilee award’ and has now<br />

become a best seller in indonesia and is<br />

published as a ‘Gold edition.’ She has taken<br />

part in many international literary festivals<br />

and book fairs including Jaipur, Beijing,<br />

ottawa, london, philadelphia, abu dhabi,<br />

istanbul, kerala, Bali and dubai.<br />

her drama serial the heart is it (dil hee<br />

to hai) won two tV awards in pakistan.<br />

her award-winning short stories are<br />

studied in schools and colleges, especially<br />

a pair of Jeans in Germany and Uk. her<br />

work is studied in many universities<br />

around the world. a text book, the holy<br />

and the Unholy – critical essays on Qaisra<br />

Shahraz’s fiction published recently,<br />

celebrates her literary achievement.<br />

Qaisra Shahraz has an excellent academic<br />

record with four degrees including two<br />

masters in literature and script-writing for<br />

tV. Qaisra feels passionately about<br />

education and women’s issues. She enjoys<br />

a second highly successful career as an<br />

inspector for ofsted, an international<br />

education consultant, school governor,<br />

teacher trainer and visiting professor at<br />

universities around the world. Under the<br />

auspices of the British council she has<br />

trained thousands of teachers and heads of<br />

institutions in many countries, including<br />

in india, Germany, morocco, indonesia,<br />

dubai and pakistan; promoting quality and<br />

equality in education and adult literacy<br />

(lifelong learning)– especially for women.<br />

She is devoted to empowering women<br />

through her novels and drama serials, as<br />

well as encouraging them into education<br />

and the world of work. She a former<br />

director of Gatehouse Books.<br />

at a global level Qaisra through her<br />

literature and lectures successfully<br />

achieves her mission to challenge<br />

islamophobia, build cultural bridges and<br />

promote a better understanding about the<br />

muslim world. at a local level she works<br />

with many communities including the<br />

chinese, hindu and the Jewish<br />

community to promote community<br />

cohesion. as an executive member of faith<br />

network for manchester and muslim-<br />

Jewish forum, she is dedicated to<br />

promoting respect for other faiths.<br />

She is proud of and enjoys her multiple<br />

identities as a British muslim woman of<br />

pakistani origin, regarding it as an<br />

extremely enriching life experience. She<br />

has excellent personal and work links with<br />

pakistan. She is devoted to her family life,<br />

siblings and three sons.<br />

reedah nijabat el-Saie, of pakistani origin, is the founder<br />

and director of mica hub, which includes mica Gallery,<br />

mica home and social enterprise mica creative cic. the<br />

company was established in 2007 and specialises in<br />

modern islamic & contemporary art and has been said to<br />

be “…forging an entirely new market.” (roxane Zand,<br />

director of middle eastern art, Sotheby’s).<br />

reedah has recently curated ‘my place on the isle;<br />

exploring faith & identity’ an art competition capturing a<br />

snapshot of Britain in the prelude to the olympic Summer<br />

2012, judged by roxane Zand (Sotheby’s), dr Venetia<br />

porter (the British museum) & professor Ben Quash<br />

(king’s college), the winners of which were announced at<br />

the Saatchi Gallery in July 2012. She also curated ‘the Brit<br />

pak’ showcasing the Best of British pakistani artists, which<br />

toured at the Southbank’s ‘alchemy’ festival in april<br />

2012. She co-curated ‘from facebook to nassbook’ part<br />

of the london mayor’s arab art festival ‘Shubbak’<br />

promoting contemporary egyptian art, which toured in<br />

frankfurt. reedah is also developing mica home’s<br />

contemporary islamic home furnishings range.<br />

reedah regularly comments on emerging art markets and<br />

artists and advises a wide range of international buyers<br />

and institutional collectors. She is increasingly being<br />

invited to speak on modern islamic & contemporary art<br />

and has been featured in the times women’s power list,<br />

moneymarket Uk, choice magazine, the Guardian, the<br />

independent, al masry alyoum, Blue chip magazine,<br />

hello! pakistan, international herald tribune pakistan, al-<br />

Jazeera, cnn and more recently BBc’s ‘hidden art of<br />

islam’. reedah has completed a foundation in art at<br />

chelsea college of art & design, a diploma in islamic art<br />

at Vita (Visual islamic traditional arts) as well as a<br />

number of executive courses at Sothebys.<br />

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MEESHA SHAFI<br />

Actor & music<br />

Meesha Shafi became<br />

famous in the fashion<br />

industry as a model,<br />

the television industry<br />

as an actor and<br />

the music industry<br />

as a singer, she<br />

established herself<br />

in every arena<br />

she has chosen<br />

and made sure<br />

she excelled in<br />

each of these.<br />

meesha Shafi is a pakistani singer,<br />

actress and model. meesha started her<br />

career as one of pakistan’s charming<br />

models and took over pakistan’s<br />

fashion industry in a very short time in<br />

her professional career being ranked as<br />

a leading fashion model. from there<br />

she began her acting career as well,<br />

and she now plans to make a<br />

renowned position in the field of<br />

singing as well.<br />

having charm and chic, meesha is<br />

amazingly establishing her name as a<br />

versatile lady; by working in various<br />

fields at a time. currently, meesha<br />

Shafi, is also working as the Brand<br />

Spokesperson of l’oreal pakistan.<br />

She has acted in different and versatile<br />

television programs such as “muhabbat<br />

khawab ki Soorat” and “Ye Zindagi to<br />

woh nahi”. and she is set to appear in<br />

hollywood mira nairs adaption of<br />

mohsin hamid’s the reluctant<br />

fundamentalist. this project also<br />

starred well known hollywood actress<br />

kate hudson, live Schreiber, riz<br />

ahmed, kiefer Sutherland, and an<br />

indian actor om puri. meesha Shafi is<br />

also playing a role in Bilal kashani’s<br />

waar. She grew fame in the fashion<br />

industry as a model, the television<br />

industry as an actor and the music<br />

industry as a singer, she established<br />

herself in every arena she has chosen<br />

and made sure she excelled in whatever<br />

she chose.<br />

meesha was lead the vocalist<br />

for overload from 2008 until 2011.<br />

She was also featured in coke<br />

Studio with arif lohar and as a solo<br />

artist. the single with lohar gathered<br />

over 9 million views on Youtube, the<br />

most-viewed coke Studio song yet, the<br />

song was currently featured in a<br />

Bollywood movie called cocktail. She<br />

has also contributed to the soundtrack<br />

of the reluctant fundamentalist in a<br />

track produced by her husband,<br />

musician mahmood rahman. Shafi will<br />

also be on adil omar’s debut<br />

album, the mushroom cloud effect,<br />

releasing in 2012 and also featuring<br />

guests such as Xzibit, everlast, cypress<br />

hill, and dJ lethal of limp Bizkit<br />

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SAMINA AHMAD<br />

Doctor<br />

doctor ahmad has led a<br />

gifted life. it is rare that one<br />

can combine two distinct, but<br />

totally dissimilar, careers and<br />

achieve unprecedented<br />

success in both endeavors.<br />

dr. ahmad has done just that.<br />

a graduate of the University<br />

of punjab, lahore, pakistan<br />

with a medical doctor<br />

degree, she began her<br />

medical career at Services<br />

hospital as an internal<br />

medicine physician in the<br />

Senior Gastroenterology<br />

department where she<br />

assisted with fiber optic video<br />

endoscopic procedures.<br />

thereafter she accepted an<br />

appointment with the<br />

national institute of child health as a casualty medical officer working<br />

with emergency patients. She rapidly progressed with that clinic to<br />

assistant to the director, assisting in all areas of the clinic. thereafter, she<br />

started her own practice - family practice health care clinic for women<br />

and children, providing all types of medical healthcare services for women<br />

and children.<br />

deeply concerned about healthcare and its availability to underprivileged<br />

women and children, dr. ahmad subsequently opened and administered a<br />

hospital in karachi, the al-rehman welfare trust & medical center in<br />

karachi, pakistan. with boundless energy, dr. ahmad hired and trained<br />

competent staff, organized all functional areas of the clinic and facilitated<br />

assessment, treatment and care for thousands of women and children who<br />

might not have otherwise had ready access to such medical services. in<br />

addition to the hospital, a school was also built to serve underprivileged<br />

children.<br />

as though her medical career wasn't enough to fill a busy day, dr. ahmad<br />

concurrently developed a second career in scriptwriting, directing,<br />

producing and hosting numerous highly popular television programs<br />

targeted at healthcare, nutrition, family planning and social issues.<br />

comparable to a martha Stewart of pakistan, for many years, dr. ahmad<br />

hosted television programs on healthful cooking, family issues and<br />

nutrition.<br />

dr. Samina ahmad has been the Business<br />

manager for Junoon (www.Junoon.com) a<br />

highly acclaimed, internationally renowned,<br />

pakistani rock band that specializes in Sufi<br />

music promoting peace throughout the world.<br />

She organizes tours, books engagements, and<br />

manages business affairs, finances and publicity<br />

for the band. She recently negotiated in<br />

collaboration with the United nations, a south<br />

asian college tour for the band, to travel to<br />

Bangladesh, india and pakistan to raise aidS<br />

awareness. Samina led the band to memorable<br />

venues such as the nobel peace prize concert in<br />

oslo in december 2007 and a historic first ever<br />

concert in kashmir in may 2008.<br />

Samina, along with her husband Salman have<br />

launched their latest initiative the Salman and<br />

Samina Global wellness initiative [SSGwi].the<br />

new York-based nGo focuses on three main<br />

areas: interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue;<br />

global health and wellness; and education. they<br />

organized a concert for pakistan at the United<br />

nations General assembly hall, new York on<br />

September 12th ,2009 to increase awareness of<br />

the 3 million internally displaced persons in<br />

pakistan.<br />

SSGwi is working on two projects in pakistan ,<br />

the ‘’model village project’’ in Sajawal, thatta<br />

in Sind pakistan, where they have adopted a<br />

village Suleman mallah and are building houses<br />

for the flood affected villagers, this will be the<br />

first model village of its kind and will provide<br />

holistic health , education, vocational training,<br />

playgrounds and solar energy to the villagers.<br />

through the SSGwi ‘’ women’s wellness<br />

initiative “ Samina has adopted a school in<br />

mansehra, pakistan where she is providing<br />

academic and holistic health education to<br />

local girls in order to empower them to raise<br />

healthy families.<br />

She has graduated as a health counselor and qualified for national<br />

certification as a holistic health practitioner by the american association<br />

of drugless practitioners. She has also received a certificate of completion<br />

for educational outreach from the teachers college of columbia University.<br />

dr. Samina is a chopra University certified perfect health consultant and<br />

ayurveda coach and runs her wellness center called ''Samina's wellness'' in<br />

new York.<br />

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MUKHTAR MAI<br />

Activist<br />

mukhtaran Bibi now known as mukhtar<br />

mai is a pakistani woman from the village<br />

of meerwala, in the rural tehsil (county) of<br />

Jatoi of the muzaffargarh district of<br />

pakistan. in June 2002, mukht r<br />

m ’ was the victim of a gang rape as a<br />

form of honour revenge, on the orders of<br />

a panchayat (tribal council) of the local<br />

mastoi Baloch clan that was richer and<br />

more powerful as opposed to her tatla clan<br />

in that region.<br />

although custom would expect her to<br />

commit suicide after being raped,<br />

mukhtaran spoke up, and pursued the<br />

case, which was picked up by both<br />

domestic and international media. on<br />

September 1, 2002, an anti-terrorism<br />

court sentenced 6 men (including the 4<br />

rapists) to death for rape. in 2005, the<br />

lahore high court cited “insufficient<br />

evidence” and acquitted 5 of the 6<br />

convicted, and commuted the punishment<br />

for the sixth man to a life sentence.<br />

mukhtaran and the government appealed<br />

this decision, and the Supreme court<br />

suspended the acquittal and held appeal<br />

hearings. in 2011, the Supreme court too<br />

acquitted the accused.<br />

though the safety of mukhtaran, and her<br />

family and friends, has been in jeopardy<br />

she remains an outspoken advocate for<br />

women’s rights. She started the mukhtar<br />

mai women’s welfare organization to help<br />

support and educate pakistani women and<br />

girls. in april 2007, mukhtar mai won the<br />

north-South prize from the council of<br />

europe. in 2005, Glamour magazine<br />

named her “woman of the Year”.<br />

according to the new York times, “her<br />

autobiography is the no. 3 best seller in<br />

france , and movies are being made about<br />

her. She has been praised by dignitaries like<br />

laura Bush and the french foreign<br />

minister.<br />

“Her autobiography is<br />

the No. 3 best seller in<br />

France and movies<br />

are being made about<br />

her. She has been<br />

praised by dignitaries<br />

like Laura Bush and<br />

the French foreign<br />

minister.<br />

She recieved the fatima Jinnah gold medal<br />

for bravery and courage. mukhtaran spoke<br />

at the United nations headquarters in<br />

new York.<br />

in an interview with United nations tV,<br />

mai said that “she wanted to get the<br />

message across to the world that one<br />

should fight for their rights and for the<br />

rights of the next generation. mukhtaran’s<br />

memoir was released in the United States<br />

as in the name of honor: a memoir.<br />

mukhtaran formally received the 2006<br />

north-South prize of the council of<br />

europe for her contribution to human<br />

rights.in april 2007, mukhtaran mai won<br />

the north-South prize from the council<br />

of europe.in october 2010, laurentian<br />

University of canada decided to award an<br />

honourary doctorate degree to<br />

mukhtaran.<br />

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DR NIGHAT AWAN<br />

Business woman<br />

SURRAIYA ZIA<br />

Doctor<br />

nighat awan is one of the country’s<br />

most successful and high profile<br />

businesswomen. She successfully<br />

heads one of manchester’s most<br />

recognisable asian food businesses,<br />

the Shere khan Group. in addition<br />

her new ventures are property<br />

development and interior design.<br />

her previous achievements include<br />

successes in diverse companies<br />

encompassing fashion, floristry,<br />

property as well as food.<br />

from a modest start packing tights for<br />

pocket money at the age of 11 to<br />

printing t-shirts at 17 and starting her<br />

own fashion business at 20, hard work<br />

combined with tenacity has earned the<br />

diminutive 56 year old numerous<br />

honours and awards, most notably an<br />

oBe in 2004 for her services to<br />

export and charity. in July 2006<br />

received an honorary doctorate from<br />

manchester metropolitan University.<br />

a supporter of many charitable causes<br />

and a versatile individual, nighat is<br />

also the creator, director and lead<br />

presenter of 2005 documentary<br />

‘another pakistan’. this self funded<br />

documentary was aimed at putting<br />

pakistan in the right light and put paid<br />

to the negative publicity around that<br />

time, hence the interest by BBc<br />

worldwide who distributed and aired<br />

it in 22 countries. the film is also used<br />

as an educational tool for further and<br />

higher education.<br />

nighat has been chair of the north<br />

west development agency supported<br />

ethnic minority Business forum<br />

(emBf) since 2006. in 2011, nighat<br />

was appointed chair of mosaic, one of<br />

hrh the prince of wales charities.<br />

dr. Zia is a Gp principal with Special interests in<br />

Gynecology, dr Zia has been running her own practice<br />

for over 7 years, managing 3500 patients. dr Zia<br />

manages all the chronic diseases herself at the practice.<br />

She is a fellow of the royal college of General<br />

practitioners. faculty of Sexual and reproductive<br />

healthcare of the royal college of obstetrics and<br />

Gynecologists.<br />

dr Zia also currently a Gp tutor for postgraduate and<br />

Undergraduate students from University college<br />

london medical School teaching women’s health in the<br />

practice. dr Zia feels community base teaching is very<br />

important for medical students as they are learning<br />

everyday health problems which they do not see on the<br />

hospital wards.<br />

She is involved with charities focused to help people who<br />

are affected in natural disasters and is one of the<br />

directors in peace of mind and B.f.c.o in (Bagh, azad<br />

kashmir), which are non-profit organizations. She has<br />

helped many people who have been affected by the<br />

earthquake in pakistan in 2005, floods in Balochistan in<br />

2007, floods in Sindh in 2010, earthquakes in indonesia,<br />

floods in Bangladesh and the haiti earthquake disaster in<br />

2010. She aims to respond rapidly to any disaster and has<br />

provided the affected with acute medical relief, humanity<br />

missions, food and water. while these disasters quickly<br />

come and leave devastating effects, but relief works goes<br />

on for many months and years to rebuild lives for those<br />

who were effected. dr Zia offers rehabilitation missions,<br />

with a mobile team to manage chronic diseases, giving<br />

counseling and psychotherapy.<br />

She has also completed water supply schemes, to help<br />

those who were affected by the disasters. a medical<br />

centre has been built, to help with managing chronic<br />

diseases and was supplied with medication which are<br />

free. in Balochistan, arrangements were made to<br />

organize a medical camp to help and treat patients.<br />

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NASREEN MAHMUD KASURI<br />

Beaconhouse Schools<br />

nasreen mahmud kasuri, nèe nasreen<br />

monnoo, comes from a business<br />

family. She is married with three<br />

children. She has had her schooling at<br />

the convent of Jesus and mary –<br />

lahore, and Sacred heart convent –<br />

faisalabad. She did her Bachelor’s in<br />

applied psychology and history from<br />

kinnaird college – lahore. She<br />

studied child psychology at the<br />

postgraduate level at the punjab<br />

University. She has also done her<br />

master in Business administration<br />

(mBa) and holds a joint degree issued<br />

by the Universities of nYU (USa),<br />

lSe (Uk), and hec (france).<br />

mrs. kasuri founded the Beaconhouse<br />

Schools in 1975 which are the largest<br />

and oldest private school system in<br />

pakistan, and perhaps one of the largest<br />

system of its kind in the world. today,<br />

Beaconhouse Schools are located in<br />

over 31 cities across pakistan, and in 8<br />

other countries including the Uk,<br />

malaysia, thailand, oman, Uae,<br />

Bangladesh, indonesia and the<br />

philippines. Beaconhouse has a<br />

combined student body exceeding<br />

220,000 and a staff of over 18,900.<br />

Beaconhouse schools prepare student<br />

for the cambridge ‘o’ and ‘a’ levels,<br />

the international Baccalaureate and the<br />

local matriculation systems.<br />

Beaconhouse is a progressive school (it<br />

is an equal opportunity employer –<br />

though currently 62% of its employees<br />

are women; it has a broad based<br />

approach to education with a view to<br />

producing global citizens).<br />

Beaconhouse is also active in the<br />

professional development and training<br />

of its teachers, and was the first and the<br />

Today, Beaconhouse<br />

Schools are located<br />

in over 31 cities<br />

across Pakistan,<br />

and in 8 other<br />

countries including<br />

the UK, Malaysia,<br />

Thailand, Oman,<br />

UAE, Bangladesh,<br />

Indonesia and<br />

the Philippines.<br />

only school in pakistan which has its<br />

own teacher-training programme in<br />

collaboration with the Bradford and<br />

exeter Universities, Uk.<br />

for her philanthropic and humanitarian<br />

work mrs kasuri was awarded<br />

the ‘Sitara-e-eisaar’ by the<br />

Government of pakistan in 2006.<br />

mrs. kasuri has traveled widely and<br />

has attended many seminars and<br />

courses on education and management.<br />

She has served on the Boards<br />

of many Government and non-<br />

Government organisations, and is<br />

currently serving as the chairperson<br />

of the Beaconhouse national<br />

University, a University chartered by<br />

the pakistan Government.<br />

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NASREEN REHMAN<br />

Academic & writer<br />

nasreen is chair of British muslims for Secular<br />

democracy, an organisation she co-founded<br />

with the journalist Yasmin alibhai-Brown, who<br />

was its first chair. She has served on the<br />

runnymede national commissions on anti-<br />

Semitism and islamophobia. She values her<br />

association with nece (networking european<br />

citizenship education).<br />

Born in pakistan, nasreen rehman lives between england<br />

and South asia. She believes in challenging political<br />

borders that separate people and countries, as well as the<br />

disciplinary boundaries between the arts and academic<br />

disciplines. She believes in the power of the arts and<br />

dialogue to understand the human condition and<br />

transform lives.<br />

nasreen is an award-winning screenplay writer who has<br />

worked with the canadian deepa mehta on the<br />

screenplay and dialogue of earth 1947, and wrote the<br />

tele-films, marhoom colonel ki Betiyaan; maya; rehmat;<br />

Jazba-e-dil; panchi and the serial aur Zindagi Badalti hai<br />

for the pakistani director mehreen Jabbar. She co-wrote<br />

with aditya chopra the screenplay and dialogue of the<br />

director Yash chopra’s Veer Zara.<br />

her intellectual debt to the great economist<br />

mahbubul haq, who steered her towards<br />

development, took her to islamabad, to work<br />

as the director of his human development<br />

centre. She continues to work at the grassroots<br />

with development projects in india and<br />

pakistan.<br />

her translation from Urdu into english of kaifi<br />

and i, the autobiography of Shaukat kaifi was<br />

published to critical acclaim in 2010. her book<br />

on m.S Sathyu’s film Garm hava is due towards<br />

the end of this year. nasreen’s biography of,<br />

nur Jahan, melody Queen will be published by<br />

penguin, india and oxford University press,<br />

pakistan, in 2013.<br />

nasreen has two daughters, mariam fazal<br />

faruqi, a lawyer, and nasheed Qamar faruqi, a<br />

filmmaker and teacher.<br />

She is artistic director of the Grand trunk road, a<br />

performing arts and literature organisation, linking artists<br />

and writers between afghanistan, pakistan, india and<br />

Bangladesh. She serves on the Board of akademi, the lead<br />

organisation for South asian dance, in the U.k.<br />

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NAMIRA SALIM<br />

Explorer & Artist<br />

namira Salim, is a prominent designer and<br />

adventurer based in the principality of<br />

monaco. She is well renowned as the first<br />

pakistani and first potential South asian<br />

space tourist to go to space aboard Virgin<br />

Galactic —the world’s first private spaceline.<br />

in march 2006, Sir richard Branson,<br />

chairman Virgin Group, personally<br />

introduced namira to the world press as<br />

one of the earliest founders of Virgin<br />

Galactic. Subsequently, in august 2006,<br />

the ministry of information and<br />

Broadcasting, Government of pakistan,<br />

officially launched namira as the “first<br />

pakistani astronaut” earning her instant<br />

celebrity status. in october 2007, she<br />

qualified to go to space after successfully<br />

completing her spaceflight training in the<br />

US.<br />

namira holds an ivy league masters<br />

degree in international affairs from<br />

columbia University. her tireless efforts<br />

lead to the establishment of diplomatic<br />

relations between pakistan & monaco in<br />

2009. Subsequently, on 1st august 2011,<br />

his Serene highness prince albert ii, the<br />

Sovereign prince of monaco accepted<br />

namira Salim’s nomination as the first<br />

honourary consul of pakistan to the<br />

principality of monaco. in march 2012,<br />

his Serene highness, the prince<br />

inaugurated the consulate of pakistan in<br />

the presence of the highest monegasque<br />

authorities.<br />

as pakistan’s ambassador for tourism and<br />

during the international polar Year, in april<br />

2007, namira became the first pakistani to<br />

reach the north pole and in January 2008,<br />

the first pakistani at the South pole, as well<br />

as the first asian to skydive (tandem) over<br />

mount everest (third pole) in october<br />

2008. at all three poles, she raised her<br />

native flag, along with her universal peace<br />

flag, ´´peace making with nation Souls´´<br />

which was first unveiled during the United<br />

nations General assembly in may 2002.<br />

namira Salim’s daring adventures have<br />

generated positive press for pakistan<br />

worldwide and made her a continuous<br />

source of inspiration for women and<br />

youth internationally. Based on her<br />

exemplary achievements, on 23rd march<br />

2011 namira was conferred with a civil<br />

decoration of tamgha-i-imtiaz (medal of<br />

excellence) by his excellency asif ali<br />

Zardari, president of the islamic republic<br />

of pakistan.<br />

the philosophical foundation of her<br />

creations rests in “a•SoUl•affair,”<br />

–her private label of decorative arts from<br />

monaco which is regularly presented to<br />

heads of State and royalty. her<br />

innovative art with built-in music and<br />

messages in the actual voices of world<br />

leaders have promoted peace and<br />

goodwill at the Saarc Summit in<br />

January 2004, the United nations General<br />

assembl in may 2002 and during<br />

UneSco’s executive Board in october<br />

2000. namira also represented pakistan<br />

at UneSco’s oic day in paris in<br />

September 2011.<br />

in 1993, she became the founding<br />

president of aieSec (international<br />

association of Students in economics and<br />

Business management) in pakistan –which<br />

is the largest student run nGo of the<br />

world. She trained as a student pilot in<br />

1995 and is a padi certified advanced<br />

scuba diver.<br />

namira Salim’s daring spirit serves as a<br />

paragon for peoples of all cultures and for<br />

today’s youth to reach for the stars.<br />

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NADIA JAMIL<br />

Actor<br />

in 2009, nadia began hosting Jago duniya (‘wake up<br />

world’), the flagship morning show for duniya tV, one<br />

of pakistan’s leading satellite channels. as the host of<br />

Jago duniya, nadia highlighted a number of social,<br />

economic and political issues, not hesitating to<br />

comment on topics considered controversial in<br />

pakistan.<br />

following the incredible success of Jago duniya, nadia<br />

was offered a position hosting nai rahain (‘new<br />

directions’), the morning show for Samaa tV, a leading<br />

news and opinion channel launched by JaaG<br />

Broadcasting Systems (pvt) ltd – owners of cnBc<br />

pakistan.<br />

nadia Jamil is one of pakistan’s leading television and stage<br />

personalities, and is widely acclaimed as one of the most talented<br />

and versatile actors of her generation.<br />

nadia was born in london on october 2, 1972. her love for the<br />

dramatic was evident from her early years. after moving to pakistan<br />

at the age of 9, nadia continued to pursue her passion for drama at<br />

the convent of Jesus and mary from where she completed her o’<br />

levels in 1988. this love for the stage continued through nadia’s a’<br />

levels, including the title role in an Urdu adaptation of Sophocles’<br />

antigone opposite renowned stage veteran Shoaib hashmi. during<br />

this time, nadia also helped produce and direct, as well as starred<br />

in, pakistan’s first fully amateur production, phantom of the opera.<br />

nadia went on to complete her Bachelors in liberal arts from<br />

hampshire University, amherst, massachusetts, with a major in<br />

theatre and minors in creative writing and South asian studies.<br />

while at hampshire, nadia also became a student and mentee of<br />

dr eqbal ahmad, a renowned pakistani scholar, author/journalist<br />

and anti-war activist. Under dr ahmad’s tutelage, nadia developed<br />

a keen socio-political conscience, and found ways in which to use<br />

her art as a tool for social change. after finishing her Bachelors in<br />

1996, nadia returned to pakistan and took up acting in earnest. She<br />

has since appeared in a number of stage and television productions,<br />

including the critically acclaimed commercial hit meray pass pass<br />

(which was subsequently followed up with a sequel). She has also<br />

seen much national and international acclaim for her roles in films<br />

such as the short Beauty parlour by mehreen Jabbar, and raat chali<br />

hai Jhoom kai, for which she was awarded the Best Supporting<br />

actress ciepie at the 1st karafilm festival.<br />

in addition to her role as an actor and tV anchor/host,<br />

nadia is also actively involved in a number of social<br />

projects. nadia is an active member of the punjab<br />

government’s Youth task force and is also a member of<br />

Zimmedar Shehri – a youth organisation dedicated to<br />

cleaning up the streets of lahore. nadia also<br />

spearheaded a media campaign in collaboration with the<br />

world wildlife fund and the international Union for<br />

the conservation of nature to raise awareness of waste<br />

management and its affect on the environment and local<br />

wildlife and fauna. nadia is also a patron of the pakistan<br />

Society for the rehabilitation of the disabled (pSrd)<br />

and has used her show as a platform for promoting the<br />

rights of disabled youth in pakistan. She was responsible<br />

for getting disabled youth involved in the punjab<br />

Government’s Youth task force.<br />

She has currently worked on a production of an Urdu<br />

version of the taming of the Shrew with the theatre<br />

troupe, theatre walley-kaShf, which was performed<br />

at the Globe theatre in london as part of the run up to<br />

the olympic Games this summer. the ‘Globe to Globe’<br />

initiative is an unprecedented multi-lingual programme<br />

of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays produced by<br />

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre as part of the 2012<br />

cultural olympiad and world Shakespeare festival.<br />

over six weeks, every one of Shakespeare’s plays was<br />

performed by a major company from a different<br />

country in its own language. Starring nadia Jamil and<br />

Umair rana and directed by haissam hussain, the<br />

‘taming of the Shrew’ was performed in Urdu on may<br />

25th and 26th, 2012, at the Globe theatre to a standing<br />

ovation both nights.<br />

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the power 100 fUtUre leaderS<br />

The Pakistan Power 100 Future Leaders are<br />

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Boxer<br />

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Tennis Player<br />

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Basit Khan<br />

Islamic Relief<br />

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Politics<br />

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Barrister<br />

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Farzana Baduel<br />

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Gugsy Ahmed<br />

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Ikram Butt<br />

Imam Qari Muhammad Asim<br />

Imtiaz Chaudhry<br />

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Irfaan Afzal<br />

Jamshad Anwar<br />

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Kamal Munir<br />

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Latif Mir<br />

Mabs Hussain<br />

Mahira Khan<br />

Mahroof Hussain<br />

Mahmood Ul Hassan<br />

Majjid Nawaz<br />

Maria Ahmad<br />

Moeen Azhar<br />

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FUTURE LEADERS<br />

Aamina Sheikh<br />

Actress<br />

aamina Sheikh is a pakistani actress and model best known for<br />

portraying the main leads in television serials maat, Uraan, ishq<br />

Gumshuda, hum tum and daam. Sheikh also played leads, beside<br />

husband mohib mirza, in telefilms such as aasmaan chulay and azfar<br />

ali's Youth-oriented venture Baarish mein deewar.<br />

Sheikh won an award in Best emerging talent's category on lux Style<br />

award 2009. She was also nominated for model of the Year (female)<br />

award in the following year at lux Style award,. She is l'oreal paris<br />

pakistan's official spokes model.<br />

She got her primary education from mama parsi School and<br />

secondary from american international School (SaiS-r) in riyadh.<br />

Sheikh continued further education in karachi and did her o-levels<br />

and a-levels from St.Joseph’s convent and the lyceum, respectively.<br />

aamina has majored in film Video production from hampshire<br />

college, Boston and has also worked as an assistant at manhattan<br />

based multi-media company curious pictures. on returning back<br />

pakistan,aamina landed work with Geo television, where she directed<br />

and produced children talkshow Bachey man ke Sachey., aamina<br />

made her on-screen debut in Sharjil Baloch and khalid ahmed’s<br />

telefilm, Gurmuch Singh ki waseeyat in 2007. aamina did mehreen<br />

Jabbar’s mega drama serial daam and haissam hussain’s ishq<br />

Gumshuda.<br />

Aamer Anwar<br />

Solicitor<br />

aamer anwar, based in Scotland is one of the<br />

highest profile human rights lawyers in the<br />

United kingdom over the last year he<br />

successfully campaigned to expose mobile<br />

phone hacking at news of the world. he has<br />

been the vocal opponent of the draconian antiterror<br />

powers and was described by a national<br />

newspaper as ‘taking on the big guns of the<br />

legal system , a fighter for society’s underdogs.’<br />

the best description of aamer was given by<br />

moazzam Begg- ex Guantanamo prisoner - ‘in<br />

times of fear, hatred and violence it is often<br />

very difficult to find people with the courage<br />

and fortitude to fight for the rights of the<br />

demonised, down-trodden and marginalised but<br />

aamer anwar, is one of those people, an<br />

avid defender of others rights ....’<br />

Sabah Ibrahim<br />

Mentor<br />

having completed a<br />

Ba english degree at<br />

coventry University<br />

Sabah ibrahim has<br />

perfected the<br />

communication and<br />

writing skills needed to lead and motivate a<br />

young team. her analytical mind, strong team<br />

working-skills and good writing skills enabled<br />

her to fast track into and manage a project team<br />

responsible for researching and developing a<br />

number of innovative initiatives. her strong<br />

customer service and communication skills<br />

enhanced her ability to build trusting and long<br />

lasting relationships with team members for<br />

whom she was responsible. She has the ability<br />

to mentor and has worked with schools and<br />

school children and as a result obtained an<br />

aSdan qualification in peer tutoring, stage one.<br />

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Anas Sarwar MP<br />

anas Sarwar was born and<br />

brought up in the city of<br />

Glasgow. he studied dentistry at<br />

the University of Glasgow and<br />

worked as a general dental<br />

practitioner in the national<br />

health Service prior to<br />

becoming a member of<br />

parliament. anas was elected to<br />

represent the westminster<br />

constituency of Glasgow<br />

central on the 6th of may 2010<br />

increasing the majority held by<br />

the previous incumbent. in<br />

february 2009, anas won the<br />

Sun’s best new Scottish<br />

politician award.<br />

Hyder M. Ibrahim<br />

Arctitect<br />

hyder m. ibrahim one of the<br />

founding members of resettling<br />

the indus, a project under which<br />

over 600 houses completed<br />

through private donations in a<br />

period of two years. the idea of<br />

resettling the indus (rtindus)<br />

was the outcome of a meeting of<br />

architects, engineers, social<br />

workers and students, in<br />

response to the floods in 2010.<br />

rtindus aims to empower<br />

communities through a selfsustaining<br />

process, without<br />

disturbing the indigenous<br />

cultures and lifestyles.<br />

Ali Moeen Nawazish<br />

Student<br />

ali is a graduate in the politics,<br />

psychology and Sociology tripos<br />

from the University of<br />

cambridge, with a specialization<br />

in politics. ali also studied<br />

computer Science during my<br />

first year at university. ali is well<br />

known in pakistan and to some<br />

extent the Uk for attempting to<br />

do 23 a levels. he is also a<br />

recipient of the president’s<br />

award for pride of performance<br />

from the Government of<br />

pakistan which is one of the<br />

highest civil awards in the<br />

country.<br />

Aisam ul Haq:<br />

Tennis Player<br />

aisam-ul-haq Qureshi, born<br />

march 17, 1980, in lahore,<br />

pakistan, is a professional tennis<br />

player from pakistan. he is<br />

currently pakistan’s top player. a<br />

top 10 doubles player, his<br />

highest Singles race ranking is<br />

103rd and is the former Singles<br />

asian no. 3 and asian no. 2 in<br />

doubles. he is the only pakistani<br />

tennis player to reach the final<br />

of a Grand Slam, which he did<br />

in 2010 competing in both<br />

mixed doubles and men’s<br />

doubles (partnering with rohan<br />

Bopanna) at the US open.<br />

Dr. Kamal Munir<br />

Professor<br />

dr. kamal munir has been a<br />

professor of Strategy and policy<br />

at University of cambridge since<br />

2000, where he heads the<br />

Strategy and international<br />

Business Group within the<br />

University’s Judge Business<br />

School. dr munir has published<br />

several articles in leading<br />

management and economics<br />

journals, and has been invited to<br />

present his work in numerous<br />

highly level academic and policy<br />

forums around the world.<br />

Basit Khan<br />

Islamic Relief<br />

Basit khan is head of major<br />

Gifts for islamic relief Uk.<br />

with an impressive background<br />

in tax and finance, he has used<br />

his experience to effect positive<br />

change within the Global<br />

muslim community. at the age<br />

of nineteen, Basit was elected to<br />

the Shura council, of the Young<br />

muslims Uk where he<br />

pioneered events such as living<br />

islam and nasheed<br />

extravaganza. he graduated<br />

from kings college University,<br />

and quickly found his niche in<br />

tax and finance.<br />

Badar Khushnood<br />

Google Pakistan<br />

Badar khushnood specializes in<br />

B2B & B2c online strategy<br />

development, internet & email<br />

marketing & brand management<br />

with experience in developing<br />

and implementing: business<br />

strategies, project plans, and<br />

negotiating formal business<br />

relationships. he also has<br />

extensive experience of working<br />

in multi-cultural, multi-stakeholder<br />

and public-private-donor<br />

partnership business models.<br />

Andleeb Hanif<br />

Media<br />

British-born and bred, andleeb<br />

hanif, has been at the forefront<br />

of changing the shape of ethnic<br />

print media through her asian<br />

express newspapers. She stands<br />

as Britain’s first female Southasian<br />

editor-in chief. originally<br />

a teacher by profession, andleeb<br />

had returned to england after a<br />

decade of living abroad with her<br />

family. She was so antagonised<br />

with the biased exposure of<br />

South asians by the mainstream<br />

media that she decided to launch<br />

her own regional newspaper –<br />

the asian express Yorkshire in<br />

the year 2000.<br />

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AKEEL & JAMEEL<br />

AMINI<br />

ALMEENA AHMED<br />

BBC<br />

ARIF ZAMAN<br />

Chair Pakistan Action Group<br />

ranis Bradford was formed in 2005<br />

by twin brothers akeel and Jameel<br />

amini, who saw a gap in the asian<br />

fashion market for luxury fabrics and<br />

ready to wear garments. with<br />

existing experience of the textiles<br />

industry, and respectively educated in<br />

marketing and fashion design, the<br />

brothers embarked upon a journey<br />

that was determined to raise<br />

standards.<br />

Specialising in offering bespoke<br />

evening, bridalwear and menswear<br />

design, as well as carrying exclusive<br />

fabrics, the Bradford-born siblings<br />

have become synonymous in the<br />

asian fashion industry, attracting a<br />

global client base covering the Uk,<br />

europe, africa and asia.<br />

the boutique itself is referred to as<br />

‘bringing Bond St to Bradford’, with<br />

its flawless interior, merchandising<br />

and creative window displays, and<br />

with projects in the pipeline to bring<br />

in new ranges of casual ladieswear<br />

and an extension to the appointmentonly<br />

Bridal Suite, the twins are<br />

excited to take their brainchild to<br />

broader audiences.<br />

almeena ahmed is a Senior Broadcast<br />

Journalist at BBc london tV news.<br />

She has been a Journalist for over ten<br />

years and has worked at itn, itV<br />

news, channel 5 news, GmtV,<br />

newsnight, the BBc’s newschannel<br />

and Six / ten o’clock news.<br />

almeena was the first muslim<br />

presenter on itV wales news and has<br />

also reported from abroad including<br />

the “brain drain” of nurses from the<br />

philippines and the aftermath of the<br />

earthquake in kashmir.<br />

She read Social and political Science at<br />

cambridge University and completed a<br />

postgraduate course in Broadcast<br />

Journalism from cardiff<br />

Journalism School.<br />

almeena is involved with a range of<br />

mentoring charities and has set up her<br />

own charity called the Sasya<br />

foundation which aims to raise<br />

educational aspirations for schoolgirls<br />

and their mothers.<br />

.<br />

Governance and South asia; international chair of the<br />

pakistan action Group on foreign investment; on the<br />

faculty of the pakistan institute of corporate<br />

Governance; community alliance director of open<br />

london (the organisation of pakistani entrepreneurs);<br />

an associate at mettle consulting on governance and<br />

reputational risk; and visiting faculty at henley Business<br />

School, University of reading. he is author of the<br />

bestselling briefing on reputational risk (financial<br />

times, 2004 and published in russian, 2008).<br />

he was Global market and industry analyst at British<br />

airways where he won several company awards and<br />

industry awards and previously at hSBc. arif was a<br />

Visiting researcher at the Japanese ministry of economy,<br />

trade and industry; a member of the drafting committee<br />

of the european conference on cSr at the invitation of<br />

the dutch presidency of the eU; and the first person of<br />

pakistani origin to be a Visiting fellow at chatham<br />

house.<br />

arif is on the Board of the Sunshine project, which aims<br />

to empower muslims against domestic violence. he was<br />

the first associate director and a founder member of<br />

mosaic (founded by hrh the prince of wales) and Vice<br />

chair of the Business and economics committee of the<br />

mcB. he is on the Board of the intercountry adoption<br />

centre. in 2011 he received an award from former<br />

malaysian pm abdullah Badawi at the first Global<br />

muslim public relations awards for his ‘excellent<br />

contribution in the field of public relations serving world<br />

communities.’<br />

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AMIR KHAN<br />

Boxer<br />

the rising superstar of world boxing,<br />

Britain’s amir “king” khan burst on to the<br />

scene at the 2004 olympics in athens,<br />

where he captured a silver medal at the<br />

tender age of just 17.<br />

Quickly tipped for superstardom<br />

following his stunning success he has<br />

carried that momentum into his<br />

professional career which has seen him rise<br />

to the very top of the light-welterweight<br />

division. khan won the wBa lightwelterweight<br />

world title in July of 2009<br />

with a commanding 12-round win over<br />

andriy kotelnik and then successfully<br />

defended his belt with knockout wins over<br />

dmitriy Salita and paulie “magic man”<br />

malignaggi.<br />

in what was his US debut, taking place at<br />

the legendary madison Square Garden in<br />

new York, the boy from Bolton wowed<br />

onlookers with his assured demolition of<br />

the former world champion malignaggi.<br />

his poisonous jab, along with his speed,<br />

was too much for the new Yorker who saw<br />

the fight stopped in the 11th round.<br />

Boxing’s greats were at ringside and were<br />

quick to lavish praise on a fighter who is<br />

set to dominate the sport for years to<br />

come.<br />

his most exciting defence, however, came<br />

on december 11, 2010 during which khan<br />

scored a dramatic 12-round unanimous<br />

points victory over argentine bruiser<br />

marcos maidana. the fight saw khan<br />

score a first round knockdown and<br />

dominate the early rounds of the fight<br />

before maidana made the bout a close one<br />

by closing the gap in the late rounds.<br />

khan displayed an incredible amount of<br />

heart and fortitude in surviving a vicious<br />

tenth round onslaught by maidana that<br />

would have sent most fighters to the<br />

canvas. he survived the round and came<br />

out swinging in the eleventh and twelfth<br />

round, sealing the unanimous decision<br />

Khan’s future in the<br />

sport of boxing is an<br />

extremely bright one<br />

as he looks to regain<br />

his position at<br />

the very top of<br />

the 140lb<br />

division.<br />

victory in an instant classic. the fight was<br />

so acclaimed that it was named the Boxing<br />

writers association of america’s 2010<br />

‘fight of the Year’.<br />

on July 23 2011 khan took on the iBf<br />

light-welterweight world champion, Zab<br />

Judah, in a unification matchup at the<br />

mandalay Bay in las Vegas. his bid was to<br />

become Britain’s youngest ever unified<br />

champion and show the boxing world that<br />

he had no equal in the 140lb division.<br />

away from the ring khan is a humble and<br />

down-to-earth sportsmen who is often<br />

keen to support charitable causes such as<br />

raising funds and awareness for those<br />

affected by natural disasters like the July<br />

2010 floods in pakistan and the<br />

devastating haiti earthquake which struck<br />

only a few months earlier.<br />

the boxing ace is also eager to offer his<br />

help closer to home, opening up Gloves<br />

community Gym, which keeps<br />

underprivileged kids of the street by<br />

giving them the chance to learn the art of<br />

boxing. khan has also supported a number<br />

of other causes such as network rail’s ‘no<br />

messin’ campaign’ which aims to make<br />

young people aware of the dangers of<br />

playing on railway tracks by getting them<br />

involved in activities such as sport or<br />

music.<br />

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ASGHAR ALI ASIM SIDDIQUI JAMSHED ANWAR<br />

Businessman Businessman Academic<br />

at the age of just 36, asghar ali’s rise in<br />

prominence as one of Bradford’s foremost<br />

entrepreneurs is noteworthy indeed.<br />

currently presiding over two of the city’s<br />

leading independent lifestyle brands –<br />

‘Smart moves Group’ and ‘lahore’ –<br />

asghar is passionate about his home town<br />

and is committed to transforming its<br />

economic fortunes through positive actions<br />

and wholehearted advocacy.<br />

Sharing his late father’s love of the food<br />

industry, asghar has established a successful<br />

multi-site food retailing business that also<br />

offers an external catering service to<br />

companies and private individuals alike.<br />

with an unwavering commitment to<br />

quality produce and true customer service,<br />

the lahore brand is likely to appear in yet<br />

further locations across the region during<br />

coming years.<br />

asghar’s second business, Smart moves<br />

Group, occupies an enviable position in<br />

Bradford’s blooming city living industry. as<br />

the principal broker of urban residential<br />

properties to buy or rent, Smart moves is<br />

similarly regarded as the leading source of<br />

independent advice relating to city centre<br />

housing development and is a key<br />

contributor to Bradford’s annual presence<br />

at the industry-leading mipim conferences<br />

in cannes.<br />

asim Siddiqui has over 17 years of<br />

experience in managing the family steel<br />

business. as managing director, he devises<br />

corporate strategy, oversees operational<br />

processes and directs aGe Group’s senior<br />

management efforts.<br />

age Group is in the business of steel<br />

stockholding, coil cutting and galvanizing<br />

with operations in the United arab<br />

emirates and Saudi arabia..<br />

asim graduated from webster University in<br />

Geneva, Switzerland and has a Bachelor of<br />

arts degree in management with a major in<br />

economics. he began his career as a banker<br />

in london before joining aGe Group as<br />

chief manager in dubai in 1995. Since<br />

becoming managing director in 2002, his<br />

extensive banking background has greatly<br />

assisted him in managing the flow of the<br />

company’s steel trade, and aGe Group has<br />

since seen 10-fold growth in the company’s<br />

business activities.<br />

asim attributes aGe Group’s long-term<br />

success to his mentor, his late father<br />

Ghayoor Siddiqui, and the company<br />

philosophy, which is based on the<br />

cultivation of a proactive workforce<br />

culture.<br />

professor Jamshed anwar is a highly acclaimed academic<br />

and scientist whose research is set to revolutionise how<br />

medicines are developed. he is leading the development<br />

of computational (in-silico) methods and tools that will<br />

minimise the need for experiments including those using<br />

animals, enhance quality, cut development costs, reduce<br />

time to market, and yield safer and more effective<br />

medicines.<br />

he has an exceptional international standing and<br />

reputation in physical chemistry and pharmaceutical<br />

sciences, evidenced by numerous research publications,<br />

invited talks at international meetings, and visiting<br />

fellowships at leading institutions. his research laboratory<br />

was highlighted for its world-leading contributions in<br />

computational pharmaceutical sciences in the Uk’s<br />

research assessment exercise (2008). he is a fellow of<br />

Sidney Sussex college (cambridge University), the royal<br />

Society of chemistry, and the royal pharmaceutical<br />

Society of Uk. prof. anwar currently holds a chair in<br />

computational pharmaceutical Sciences at the institute of<br />

life Sciences research (ilrS), University of Bradford,<br />

Uk. prior to his appointment at ilrS, he was a reader at<br />

king’s college london.<br />

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ALI ZAFAR<br />

Actor & Singer<br />

ali Zafar is a pakistani musician,<br />

composer, song writer, singer, actor,<br />

painter and model, popular for his music,<br />

acting in pakistani dramas and now<br />

movies.<br />

he graduated from the national college of<br />

arts as a painter in 2002 with honors.<br />

Before entering the pakistani musical<br />

scene, Zafar worked as a model for several<br />

advertisements besides acting in<br />

television. Some of his acting works<br />

includes the famous mini series kollege<br />

Jeans. he was also in the music video of<br />

preeto sung by abrar-ul-haq. in college he<br />

also acted in a musical theatre based on<br />

“ten things i hate about you”.<br />

ali Zafar made his debut as a musician with<br />

the album huqa pani, released in pakistan<br />

in 2003 and worldwide in 2005. the album<br />

was an instant hit, selling over 600,000<br />

copies worldwide and winning several<br />

major awards and nominations. his first<br />

two albums namely “huqa pani” and<br />

“masty” were pop albums but with his<br />

third album “Jhoom” Zafar made a shift<br />

towards more serious and spiritually<br />

inclined music. the album,besides his<br />

own, had verses from the great Sufi poets<br />

like Bulley Shah, Baba Ghulam fareed and<br />

mirza Ghalib. the album that Zafar<br />

produced, arranged, mixed and<br />

engineered himself showcased a visible<br />

transition and growth in him both as a<br />

musician and as a writer and elevated him<br />

into a space of a well respected and serious<br />

musician with multiple talents rarely<br />

witnessed.<br />

he won the award for “Best album”<br />

category at the lux Style awards in 2004<br />

for his massive hit album huqa pani and<br />

also the “Best male artist” at the 2008<br />

mtV awards. in addition to the album’s<br />

popularity being reflected in the music<br />

Zafar became the<br />

first to have<br />

rendered his<br />

services as an actor,<br />

singer, composer,<br />

lyricist, writer, arranger,<br />

programmer,<br />

recordist for<br />

his recent film<br />

London, Paris,<br />

New York.<br />

stores and by critics, it has been widely<br />

claimed that himesh reshammiya<br />

plagiarized one of the most well-known<br />

tracks from the album, rangeen, for his<br />

song dillagi mein Jo. Soon pritam too<br />

copied his track “channo” as “chori ki<br />

Baatein” in the film fight club.<br />

Zafar also won the “Youth icon” award in<br />

the lux Style awards 2007, in malaysia.<br />

Besides being a singer, painter, model and<br />

an actor, Zafar has also produced and<br />

directed his music video ek pal from his<br />

first album huqa pani. his song “dekha”<br />

of his album masty was part of the<br />

soundtrack of american film wall Street:<br />

money never Sleeps which was released<br />

on September 24, 2010. he is the fourth<br />

pakistani artist after nusrat fateh ali<br />

khan, Strings and atif aslam to have their<br />

song(s) featured in an american film.<br />

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AZHAR SIDDIQUE<br />

Business<br />

AZHAR<br />

Architect<br />

raised in colne, lancashire azhar Siddique studied at nelson &<br />

colne college and soon after graduated at manchester University in<br />

computer Science & management Systems. Being an entrepreneur,<br />

he first successfully sold a co-owned technology business to a<br />

subsidiary of carphone warehouse in 2007, before starting a global<br />

business in refrigeration which he sold in may 2012.<br />

he has helped setup more than 500 businesses and has been recognised<br />

for numerous awards over the past few years including hSBc business<br />

of the year, national Start-ups top100 companies and Green business<br />

of the year finalist to name a few. whilst azhar himself has been<br />

nominated as one of the Uk’s top young entrepreneurs by ‘Growing<br />

Business’.<br />

azhar is extremely passionate about enterprise and supporting the<br />

next generation of young entrepreneurs. recently he has launched a<br />

self-funded program which looks at the broader issue of ‘neets’. the<br />

personal investment of £25,000 will go into ideas generated from<br />

young individuals aged 16 to 24.<br />

azhar is a registered chartered architect, and<br />

has practiced architecture internationally for<br />

20 years including europe, asia, middle east<br />

and africa, as well as extensive experience in<br />

the Uk. azhar was born in the ancient city of<br />

lahore, he grew up in london. he was<br />

educated at University college london in<br />

Bloomsbury. he is a proud londoner and is<br />

passionate about the built environment,<br />

inspired by the past, and optimistic about the<br />

invention of the future<br />

azhar is a director of conran and partners,<br />

architects designers, which is part of conran<br />

holdings, founded by Sir terence conran. the<br />

practice works internationally on high quality<br />

projects from masterplanning to individual<br />

projects.<br />

he trained in architecture at the prestigious<br />

Bartlett School of architecture, University<br />

college of london, and has taught and lectured<br />

widely, at undergraduate and post-graduate<br />

levels including, University college london,<br />

national college of art lahore, chinese<br />

University hong kong, westminster University,<br />

middlesex University, Greenwich University<br />

and the kent School of architecture. at the<br />

kent School of architecture he was co-running<br />

the march (pt ii) architecture course at kSa-<br />

University of kent, the projects dealt with<br />

thames Gateway and olympic issues.<br />

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BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI<br />

Politics<br />

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was born on 21<br />

September 1988. he is the son of asif<br />

ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto. he<br />

was three months old when his<br />

mother first became prime minister.<br />

Bilawal was admitted in the<br />

prestigious aitichison college lahore,<br />

but due to some security problems he<br />

could not continue. instead he went to<br />

karachi Grammar School during his<br />

mother’s second term in office as<br />

prime minister. he also attended<br />

froebel’s international School in<br />

islamabad. he left pakistan with his<br />

mother in april 1999.<br />

he spent his childhood in dubai and<br />

london during his family’s self-exile.<br />

he later attended rashid School for<br />

Boys in dubai, where he was Vice<br />

president of the student council. he<br />

has a black belt in taekwondo but<br />

regrets he could not play cricket<br />

because of his family circumstances.<br />

Bilawal matriculated at christ<br />

church, a constituent college of the<br />

University of oxford, in mid-2007, to<br />

study modern history, studying British<br />

history before transitioning to general<br />

history. Benazir also enrolled him in<br />

the oxford Union debating society. in<br />

december 2007, he returned to<br />

pakistan after Benazir was<br />

assassinated. he also returned to<br />

pakistan in September 2008 to witness<br />

Bilawal was appointed<br />

chairman of the PPP<br />

on 30 December 2007.<br />

Asif Zardari also<br />

announced Bilawal’s<br />

name change from<br />

“Bilawal Zardari” to<br />

“Bilawal Bhutto<br />

Zardari”<br />

his father sworn in as president of<br />

pakistan. Bilawal completed his<br />

studies in June 2010.<br />

after the assassination of Benazir<br />

Bhutto, Benazir’s political will<br />

declared asif ali Zardari as Benazir’s<br />

successor for party leadership.<br />

however, Bilawal became chairman<br />

of the pakistan peoples party because<br />

Zardari favoured Bilawal to represent<br />

Bhutto’s legacy in part to avoid<br />

division within the party due to<br />

Zardari’s own unpopularity. Zardari<br />

planned to act as co-chairman of the<br />

ppp for at least three years until<br />

Bilawal completed his studies<br />

overseas.<br />

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BALAL ALI EBBA QURESHI FARAZ KHAN<br />

Entrepreneur Marketing Social Entrepreneur<br />

Balal ali, now 36 , is a very successful<br />

entrepreneur, running range of business<br />

from furniture to health care. he has<br />

developed his businesses in last 8 years<br />

with a growth of more than 20% a year in<br />

each sector.<br />

right after graduating from University,<br />

Balal went to build his carrier in it and<br />

worked for global business like Bmw and<br />

Glaxo welcome. after a few years he<br />

realised to invest his passion and effort<br />

into his own business as he always fancied<br />

having a feel for a higher level of<br />

achievement for himself. in 2003, Balal<br />

took over a very small furniture business<br />

from his father who sadly passed away,<br />

since then this business is catering<br />

nationwide customer base, including<br />

country’s large corporate investing groups,<br />

public and semi public organisations<br />

employing over a 100 people in the<br />

process.<br />

recently, realising the importance of<br />

diversifying Balal opted to go into the<br />

healthcare business with a carefully<br />

developed strategic expansion plan in this<br />

sector too.<br />

ebba Qureshi, born in kuwait but<br />

eventually bred in Surrey, qualified in<br />

Business and marketing at university. She<br />

managed to work on large projects during<br />

her early days in her chosen career. Some of<br />

which include launching Star tV and arY<br />

digital channels in the Uk. Guests<br />

attending these events were ranging from<br />

local Uk politicians to Bollywood actors<br />

such as amitabh Bachchan. Being a<br />

pakistani, she always wanted to help<br />

promote talent from back home, hence<br />

once she had flown down naeem abbas<br />

rufi to perform at the Star tV launch,<br />

which happened to be one of his first gigs<br />

abroad.<br />

due to the success of her events she<br />

managed to win bids on planning and<br />

organising large Bollywood premieres in<br />

leicester square. She was one of the first<br />

people to have worked on the most<br />

successful film premiere for a pakistani film<br />

called 'Yeh dil apka huwa'. which was<br />

premiered around the Uk.<br />

most recently she has been focusing on<br />

charity events simply due to the need of<br />

raising money for the underprivileged,<br />

concentrating in areas surrounding the sub<br />

continent especially pakistan. Being<br />

married to a pakistani cricketer, her strong<br />

links with cricketers has enabled her to<br />

raise funds for charities and projects in<br />

significant amounts.<br />

faraz khan is a Uk based pakistani social entrepreneur,<br />

investor and author who believes in bringing a positive<br />

change in the society through entrepreneurship business<br />

and trade. he is a published author, writer, lecturer and<br />

leading authority on social entrepreneurship in pakistan<br />

and Uk. he is well known for his forward-thinking<br />

business models that allow him to fulfill a personal<br />

commitment to better the lives of the residents in<br />

pakistan, Uk and beyond.<br />

in the past 9 years he with his partners have created 11<br />

leading businesses globally. he represents pakistan on<br />

major global entrepreneurial forums and has been<br />

recognized for his business acumen as well his passion to<br />

make pakistan an attractive business destination for local<br />

and global business community.<br />

he brings with him years of banking and corporate<br />

experience that is a mix of both local and international<br />

cultures of businesses, enabling him to integrate<br />

successful models into the entrepreneurial eco systems<br />

of Uk and pakistan.<br />

after over the period of 10 years he has taken many<br />

entrepreneurial initiatives, in the field of media, socioeconomic<br />

development, arts, entrepreneurship, trade<br />

promotion and urban development, transforming each<br />

into a success story and considers the idea of inspiring<br />

and mentoring the young generation to be the change<br />

agents themselves. a staunch believer in the concept of<br />

“everything is possible with intent, idea & people”<br />

provided that there is a will to make things happen.<br />

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FAISAL BUTT<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

faisal Butt is an entrepreneur and<br />

investor based in mayfair, Uk. he is<br />

best known for co-founding a range of<br />

ventures including the very well<br />

publicised “90 north”, an investment<br />

business specialising in Shar’iah<br />

compliant real estate.<br />

faisal is also a founding partner of hB<br />

real estate in partnership with<br />

celebrity entrepreneur James caan, a<br />

former judge on BBc’s dragons’ den.<br />

faisal Butt and James caan work<br />

closely together, identifying and<br />

investing in the next generation of<br />

entrepreneurs.<br />

faisal is a recipient of several<br />

noteworthy industry and academic<br />

Faisal is a recipient of<br />

several noteworthy<br />

industry and<br />

academic awards,<br />

including the<br />

much sought<br />

after “Skoll<br />

Scholarship”<br />

for social<br />

entrepreneurship.<br />

awards, including “Young<br />

entrepreneur of the Year” by Shell<br />

livewire and the much sought after<br />

“Skoll Scholarship” for social<br />

entrepreneurship. he is a co-founder<br />

of the islamabad chapter of tie, the<br />

world’s largest enterprise focused<br />

non-profit organisation.<br />

faisal completed his Bachelors degree<br />

at Ucla in 1999 in Business<br />

economics and computer Science<br />

and earned an mBa with distinction<br />

from the University of oxford in<br />

2009. faisal remains committed to<br />

investing in and mentoring<br />

entrepreneurs, which he regards as<br />

one of his core life missions.<br />

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AMJAD MALIK<br />

Barrister<br />

AZHAR MAHMOOD<br />

Cricket<br />

AAMIR IJAZ<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

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amjad malik is a member of lincolns inn<br />

and practices as a Solicitor–advocate of the<br />

Supreme court of england and wales from<br />

his rochdale office, and he is a life member<br />

of ScBa of pakistan, a specialist in<br />

immigration, human rights and<br />

constitutional law. he is a member of law<br />

Society’s immigration law committee.<br />

he was awarded ‘Young human rights<br />

lawyer award’ for the year 2000 BY<br />

liberty, Justice and law Society. in the year<br />

2001,Young pro Bono Solicitor’s Group<br />

also named him for the national ‘Young pro<br />

Bono Solicitor award’ for his active<br />

casework and representation up to house<br />

of lords pro bono. on 28 february 07 he<br />

was awarded by (Uicf) United<br />

international community forum (Uk)<br />

awarded him in recognition to his<br />

outstanding professional contribution<br />

towards service of asian and British<br />

community in role model capacity.<br />

he sits on ‘Uk foreign and commonwealth<br />

office’s pro Bono lawyer’s panel.’ he is<br />

Uk representative on young lawyer<br />

committee of the international Bar<br />

association & Uk director of human<br />

rights foundation (USa). he is currently<br />

doing phd from manchester mmU on the ‘<br />

role of judiciary during military<br />

dictatorships’. he oversaw the draft of<br />

‘charter of democracy’ in 2006,<br />

petitioned in Supreme court on the<br />

dismissal of chief Justice of pakistan<br />

(const. pet.no.15/2007) and acted for<br />

nawaz Sharif as his lawyer when he<br />

travelled to pakistan on 10 Set 2007.<br />

azhar mahmood is a mentally tough<br />

allrounder and belligerent batsman, who<br />

began his career with three test centuries<br />

against South africa. in one-day cricket he<br />

invariably raises the tempo in the lower<br />

middle-order. he is strong off his legs and<br />

relishes short bowling. But he pushes at the<br />

ball too firmly in defence, and is<br />

particularly vulnerable against legspin.<br />

in a team of reverse-swingers he is the only<br />

english-type seamer, virtuous in his pursuit<br />

of line and length. he is a useful fielder and,<br />

close in, he rarely misses an opportunity to<br />

enquire about the batsman’s health.<br />

during a one-month stint as a Surrey<br />

overseas player in 2002 he took 8 for 61<br />

against lancashire, then turned out for<br />

them for two seasons full-time as pakistan’s<br />

mercurial lost faith in him for reasons that<br />

have never quite been made clear.<br />

he signed with Surrey again for 2005, and<br />

later applied for British citizenship after<br />

marrying his British wife. he signed for<br />

kent in late 2007. he extended his contract<br />

with kent for two years, at the end of the<br />

2011 season. his twenty20 hitting also<br />

earned him a call-up to the auckland squad<br />

as their overseas pro for the 2011-12 hrV<br />

cup.<br />

aamir ijaz has been a successful entrepreneur with<br />

records of achievements in senior management positions.<br />

his key skills involves development, financial analysis,<br />

restructuring, acquisitions and risk management<br />

with proven leadership and technical skills<br />

demonstrated, he has the ability to institute, direct<br />

change and adapt financial models to changing<br />

economical environments with delivering revenue<br />

enhancing opportunities and operational efficiencies.<br />

he was head hunted in 2002 to identify and evaluate<br />

strategic hotels, and restaurants opportunities on behalf<br />

of investors. following that confidence he has managed<br />

to deliver 6 hotels on budget and on time with more than<br />

700+ keys for investors.<br />

he achieved this by managing project managers, legal<br />

advisors, accountants and operational management<br />

teams. he was also involved with arranging finance<br />

c£35m and liaising with external banks on behalf of<br />

investors<br />

he is currently involved in managing custom house<br />

hotel and overseeing its branding by early 2013, as well<br />

as a large development which includes 2 four star hotels,<br />

restaurants and 60+ high specification apartments in<br />

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ZEESHAN MEMON<br />

Habib Allied International Bank Plc<br />

Zeeshan memon is a successful banker<br />

and a valued member of the hBl Uk<br />

Business development team.<br />

with a successful track record in<br />

business development, he is now<br />

responsible for two key areas of the<br />

business within the Uk, key client<br />

relationships and marketing. as a<br />

Business manager he regularly<br />

interacts with senior business leaders<br />

and overseas clients on depository,<br />

lending or trade finance related<br />

matters. his ability to operate across<br />

borders has ensured an international<br />

business client base across the globe<br />

bringing sizeable deposits into the<br />

bank.<br />

Zeeshan’s banking career started as a<br />

Business development manager at<br />

Standard chartered Bank and aBn<br />

amro Bank where he held key roles<br />

in developing and launching various<br />

consumer banking products. in 2005,<br />

he moved to attain higher education<br />

in the field of Banking and finance<br />

and graduated from University of<br />

cardiff in 2007 with a distinction in<br />

masters of Business administration.<br />

he completed his dissertation on<br />

“corporate Governance in the<br />

Banking Sector an subject which has<br />

helped him maneuvered through the<br />

current economic climate and<br />

regulatory issues placed on the<br />

banking industry.<br />

Zeeshan also looks after marketing<br />

and Brand management for hBl Uk<br />

through a focused approach, he has<br />

fast-tracked himself to lead a number<br />

of key initiatives which includes;<br />

establishing new branches, launching<br />

financial products, cross selling<br />

products across the network, brand<br />

management and promoting the Bank<br />

within the South asian diaspora. he<br />

has been the instrument of change in<br />

the organization and leads from the<br />

front.<br />

.<br />

With a successful<br />

track record in<br />

business banking,<br />

he is now<br />

responsible for<br />

two key areas<br />

of the business<br />

within the UK,<br />

key client<br />

relationships<br />

and marketing<br />

Zeeshan regularly organises social<br />

events especially for pakistani<br />

diaspora and is one of the executive<br />

committee members of pakistani<br />

Bankers’ association Uk, (pBa ).<br />

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GUGSY AHMED<br />

Headteacher<br />

IKRAM BUTT<br />

Sports & community<br />

when Gugsy ahmed arrived at the<br />

failing parkinson lane primary School<br />

as headteacher in 2000, he was warned<br />

about the school’s hopeless prospects.<br />

twelve years later the school is<br />

virtually unrecognisable, with praise<br />

from ofsted and a growing waiting list.<br />

the 520-strong community of<br />

youngsters have thrived under the<br />

leadership of Gugsy who has<br />

transformed the school into a<br />

welcoming and captivating place where<br />

success and achievement know no<br />

limitations.<br />

recalling those early dark days, Gugsy<br />

said: “there was absolutely no<br />

discipline when i arrived and from day<br />

one i sent out the clear message that<br />

things were going to be different.”<br />

Gugsy’s own life could have been very<br />

different if wasn’t for the iron willed<br />

support of his mother when he went<br />

off the rails as a teenager. “my mum<br />

and dad were real community people<br />

and they instilled those values in me.<br />

“my dad died on christmas day when i<br />

was 14 and afterwards i felt that the<br />

world was against me. “dad was very<br />

proper and believed in education and,<br />

after he died, my mother ensured that<br />

everything they had ever wanted for<br />

my siblings and i happened. my mother<br />

told me that i had an opportunity to go<br />

to university and make something of<br />

my life. She even sold her bangles to<br />

raise the money to make it happen. i<br />

had always wanted to be the best i<br />

could – even though i lost my way for<br />

a while - and she gave me the kick<br />

start i needed to get through<br />

university and into a teaching career.”<br />

Gugsy puts a lot of importance on<br />

getting pupils out into the world to<br />

see for themselves what else is going<br />

on. however, when he started the job<br />

all trips had stopped because of a<br />

fatality. he said: “i went to see the<br />

bereaved parents and told them that i<br />

was reinstating the trips. i explained<br />

that i had a job to do and that i<br />

wanted their blessing. one of the<br />

highlights of my career was when that<br />

family sent their surviving child on a<br />

trip, it felt like they had had give me<br />

the ultimate vote of trust.”<br />

parkinson lane now boasts a student<br />

community of over 500, with more<br />

than 200 on the waiting list, a far cry<br />

from the falling roll of just 350 pupils<br />

twelve years ago.<br />

Gugsy said: “if i had to choose one<br />

winning ingredient for how we got to<br />

today’s position it would be that the<br />

staff and school community give so<br />

much of themselves. they treat pupils<br />

as if they were their own children;<br />

they want them to succeed, thrive<br />

and be happy and will move<br />

mountains to make it happen.<br />

as a school many awards have been<br />

received including the following:<br />

investors in pupils, arts mark Gold,<br />

international intermediate award,<br />

healthy Schools award, Basic Skills<br />

kitemark.<br />

on a personal level, Gugsy was<br />

named as winner of the promethean<br />

award for School leadership and is<br />

an increasingly popular speaker at<br />

educational events and conferences.<br />

he says he is interested in making a<br />

bigger impact in the community or<br />

nationally and has ‘only just got<br />

ikram Butt created history when he was selected<br />

for the 1995 european rugby league<br />

championships, becoming the first British asian to<br />

represent england.<br />

he has spearheaded a number of ground breaking<br />

initiatives, including the formation of the British<br />

asian rugby association, which develops sporting,<br />

educational and cultural links between pakistan,<br />

india, Jamaica and the Uk.<br />

he is an award winning development manager and<br />

highly sought after key note speaker who has<br />

lectured extensively on sport and its cohesive role<br />

in society. he is at parliament as an associate<br />

member of the all party rugby groups and advises<br />

them on equity and diversity.<br />

in 2009, he established the British pakistan rugby<br />

league team and published his autobiography<br />

‘tries and prejudice’ described by the Guardian<br />

newspaper as “fascinating and inspiring”, all<br />

proceeds going to two charities.<br />

a tireless fund raiser, he is a Sporting ambassador<br />

for the ‘kick it out’ campaign, cystic fibrosis<br />

trust, white ribbon, moSiac and the pakistan<br />

recovery fund.<br />

in July 2011, ikram was awarded an honorary<br />

doctorate in Sport Science for his enduring<br />

contribution to sport innovation and services to<br />

community Sport programmes by leeds<br />

metropolitan University.<br />

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HANAH CAAN<br />

JCF Foundation<br />

hanah, an lSe graduate, joined<br />

hamilton Bradshaw (hB), a private<br />

equity firm founded by her father, James<br />

caan. whilst being exposed to the<br />

business, she also took on the<br />

responsibility of managing her father’s<br />

charitable projects. in 2010, she<br />

relaunched the James caan foundation<br />

(Jcf) publicly, becoming one of its<br />

trustees. over the course of the<br />

following year, hanah was instrumental<br />

in raising over £100,000 for Unicef<br />

for the flood victims. furthermore, for<br />

the Jcf, she raised just under £700,000<br />

for the victims of the 2010 pakistan<br />

floods, building two villages in<br />

partnership with islamic relief, and<br />

rebuilding the lives of over 2,000<br />

people. her work at the foundation lead<br />

to James being asked to lead a Seeing is<br />

Believing visit to pakistan on behalf of<br />

hrh prince of wales, which resulted in<br />

the creation of the hrh pakistan<br />

recovery fund. more recently, hanah<br />

has been focusing on bringing together<br />

the Jcf and hB in the Uk, launching a<br />

new initiative providing British<br />

high-growth social businesses with<br />

access to business expertise.<br />

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DR AKBAR MALIK<br />

Barrister<br />

IMAM QARI<br />

MUHAMMAD ASIM<br />

dr malik, Ba, llB, ma, mSc,<br />

Jd, Barrister-at-law, Solicitor of<br />

the Supreme court of england<br />

and wales, has been practicing<br />

law since 1980. his areas of<br />

specialisation include human<br />

rights and immigration law. he<br />

has personally handled, over<br />

18,000 immigration cases,<br />

since1995. dr malik is the<br />

eminent founder of malik law<br />

chambers Solicitors, in the city<br />

of london. the firm enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and<br />

internationally, for its extensive expertise in the field of immigration<br />

law. it has set many high profile case law precedents, and has been<br />

instrumental in changing British immigration law.<br />

certainly he has established himself, as a ‘household’ brand, within the<br />

multiethnic communities. his formidable expertise in the legal field has<br />

significantly impacted the way in which Uk immigration law has<br />

actually developed. he is the author of several best –selling books, in the<br />

areas of law, Business and commerce, as well as mind Body Spirit. these<br />

include, British immigration law – a simple Guide to the points Based<br />

System; British immigration law – a Simple Guide for Business people;<br />

asian millionaires and how they make their millions and top tips to<br />

become a millionaire- with an introduction by philip Beresford, author<br />

of Sunday times rich list.<br />

for over 17 years dr mlik has extensively appeared in various media<br />

outlets/portals, tV and magazines, providing legal advice clinics to the<br />

public. his popular legal show, on sunrise radio ran for over 11 years.<br />

dr.malik is currently presenting a live legal show on sunrise tV – SkY<br />

channel 830, every Saturday at 5pm, as well as a live legal show on SkY<br />

805 and Venus tV, every Sunday at 3pm. dr malik’s live legal shows on<br />

kismat radio 1035 am, is aired every thursday between 2 to 3 pm. his<br />

weekly column on immigration law is published in Uk times, a leading<br />

publication. recipient of several high profile awards, dr malik has<br />

established himself as a ‘pioneer’. he is the recipient of several awards,<br />

including one from the london Borough of waltham forest, for his<br />

services to the community. aside from his passion for law, dr malik is<br />

also an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and is the editor of YoGa<br />

magazine, an international magazine being published in the Uk, the USa<br />

and italy.<br />

imam Qari muhammad asim mBe is one of the<br />

youngest imams in the Uk and has been serving<br />

British muslims for over 15 years from leeds<br />

makkah masjid1. he has taken it upon himself<br />

to address social issues affecting young British<br />

muslims, internally as well as externally, in<br />

particular after 7/7.<br />

he is the only full-time imam in the Uk who not<br />

only leads daily prayers but also works as a<br />

lawyer in the largest global law firm, dla piper,<br />

practicing real estate law and islamic finance.<br />

in the history of British muslims there has not<br />

been an imam who leads daily prayers as well as<br />

works full-time in the mainstream commercial<br />

environment. he is therefore a role model for<br />

British muslims that islam does not prevent<br />

integration in the society in which they live in.<br />

his practice of integration rather than isolation<br />

has been praised by many including hrh prince<br />

of wales.hm the Queen elizabeth has also<br />

praised the imam’s work in bridging the gap<br />

between British muslims and the wider<br />

community.<br />

imam asim is the only full-time imam that has<br />

undertaken substantial work with regards to<br />

social issues affecting British muslims by not<br />

shying away from dealing with taboo and<br />

“sensitive” matters, such as domestic abuse,<br />

forced marriages, obesity in children, childabuse,<br />

health and smoking. Qari has, in<br />

collaboration with nhS and Universities of<br />

leeds and Sheffield, produced resource packs<br />

such as domestic abuse – a guide for the<br />

muslim community, islam & health and Smoke<br />

free homes.imams throughout the country are<br />

using parts of these books in their friday<br />

sermons.<br />

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FARZANA BADUEL<br />

CURZON PR<br />

KHAWAR MANN<br />

Apax Partners<br />

khawar mann is a partner and co-head of apax partners the<br />

healthcare team. he has been based in the london office since joining<br />

apax partners in 2003. khawar has led/participated in a number of<br />

key deals including General healthcare Group ltd, capio, Unilabs,<br />

apollo hospitals and marken. he serves as a board member or<br />

observer on all of these companies.<br />

farzana Baduel is the founder and director of curzon pr.<br />

She has represented clients including mohammad Jawad,<br />

subject of an oscar winning documentary 2012, Saving face,<br />

and the Ukrainian Government. She is currently the editor<br />

at large and contributing editor on art, interiors and<br />

fashion for epicurean life magazine; as well as a<br />

contributing editor for Bond magazine.<br />

prior to founding curzon pr, farzana was the Vice-chair of<br />

conservative Business relations, a conservative party<br />

Business forum. She has also served as the Vice chair of club<br />

24, a debriefing and fundraising initiative for leading women<br />

ppc’s (parliamentary prospective candidates).<br />

prior to joining apax partners, khawar was the chief Business officer<br />

of weston medical Group plc, an innovative medical devices business.<br />

prior to that, khawar was a lawyer at linklaters in london and hong<br />

kong, specialising in healthcare and corporate finance.<br />

khawar is chairman of mosaic, the charity that inspires and mentors<br />

young people in some of the most deprived areas in the Uk. he is also<br />

the managing trustee of the Graham layton trust (Glt), the charity<br />

that provides free eye care in pakistan.<br />

khawar holds a master’s degree in medical Sciences and law from<br />

cambridge University and also an llm master of law. he has an<br />

mBa from the wharton School, University of pennsylvania, where he<br />

was a thouron and fulbright scholar.<br />

farzana currently sits on the committees of Seva mandir, the<br />

children’s trust (mad hatters event,) Soham for kids, and<br />

women 2 win. previous committees include the fSB and the<br />

institute of directors (london).<br />

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IRFAN MALIK<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

JAVAD HAIDER RANA<br />

Accountant<br />

JAVED KHAN<br />

Victim Support<br />

irfan is a successful entrepreneur and a<br />

valued member of the British pakistani<br />

business community. he is an executive<br />

director and cofounder of Uk investment<br />

property Services a company which quickly<br />

evolved from its humble beginnings into an<br />

international business with client base across<br />

the globe bringing millions of pounds worth<br />

of investment into the Uk property market.<br />

irfan belongs to an academically high<br />

achieving family and in line with the high<br />

expectations he graduated from the<br />

University of leicester with llB (hons)<br />

before completing legal practice course<br />

from Bpp law School in london.<br />

irfan is a keen supporter of a number of<br />

charities. the plight of pakistanis is<br />

particularly very close to his heart.<br />

together with his family and friends he<br />

helped raise £35,000 for the 2010 flood<br />

victims in pakistan and continues to support<br />

various initiatives that are helping affected<br />

families to get their lives back on track.<br />

Javad came to england from pakistan in<br />

1984. he studied accounting at humberside<br />

college in hull. in 1986 he started his first<br />

job as a trainee accountant. after qualifying<br />

as a chartered certified accountant he<br />

worked with several small to medium sized<br />

firms in london. in 1998 he decided to set<br />

up his own practice, J r accounts. the firm<br />

became registered auditors as well in 2001.<br />

from humble beginnings his firm flourished<br />

and today he has offices in london and<br />

manchester and has clients with turnovers of<br />

up to £10 million.<br />

as a chartered certified accountant Javad<br />

works for a diverse range of clients<br />

throughout england. with a friendly and<br />

pro-active approach he provides invaluable<br />

support to many owner-managed businesses<br />

and high net-worth clients. he believes in<br />

“going the extra mile” for his clients.<br />

Javad has a wide portfolio of clients but has<br />

special expertise relating to charities,<br />

dentists, and Solicitor’s practices.<br />

he believes in being a true business advisor<br />

and not just an accountant. he has assisted<br />

with the launch of many ventures that have<br />

gone on to become substantial businesses,<br />

amongst them Genix healthcare.<br />

a few of the charities that he has worked<br />

with are islamic aid, nazia hassan<br />

foundation, Uganda community relief<br />

association (Ucra) and north east london<br />

cancer help centre.<br />

Javed khan has twenty 27 years of experience across the<br />

public and voluntary sectors. with a successful track<br />

record in high profile leadership roles, he is now the first<br />

British pakistani to lead a major national charity,<br />

employing 1500 people and 7000 trained volunteers. it<br />

is the world’s oldest and largest such organisation,<br />

supporting over 1.5m victims and witnesses each year,<br />

and has 600 sites across england and wales. he regularly<br />

interacts with very senior politicians, police, Judiciary,<br />

crown prosecution Service, the media and various local<br />

and national stakeholders. reporting to a major Board of<br />

trustees, he is responsible for a budget of £50m per year.<br />

having begun working life as a maths teacher, Javed’s<br />

previous roles have included executive director to the<br />

london Serious Youth Violence Board, director of<br />

education in the london borough of harrow and<br />

assistant director of education in Birmingham. Before<br />

that he was an assistant principal in further education.<br />

Javed’s parents, having emigrated from the kashmir<br />

region of pakistan, could neither read nor write.<br />

Growing up in the backstreets of inner city Birmingham,<br />

his comprehensive education led to a maths degree and<br />

then on to teacher training. he began his teaching career<br />

in the west midlands, and then made rapid progress<br />

through the education sector.<br />

he is a non-executive member of Skills for Justice, Sport<br />

for life international, the executive Board of Victim<br />

Support europe and has been an adviser to the Goldman<br />

Sachs Global leader’s programme. he is also a founder<br />

member of the kashmiri and pakistani professionals<br />

association (kappa). he is a regular contributor to<br />

national and international conferences, and often appears<br />

in national media.<br />

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NA’EEM RAZA<br />

Marketing & Fundraising<br />

na’eem raza has been described as “a<br />

fusion of experience, talent, sincerity,<br />

leadership, energy, creativity and<br />

charisma” producing one of the Uk’s<br />

leading presenters, marketing and<br />

fundraising consultants.<br />

an ex dJ before practising islam in<br />

1998, na’eem went on to become the<br />

lead presenter and producer on<br />

Glasgow’s radio ramadan until his<br />

recent tV, stage and consultancy<br />

career took over.<br />

na’eem has been elected to the<br />

national executive of the islamic<br />

Society of Britain since 2000- 2010<br />

and became president of the Young<br />

muslims Uk, 2005-2007. Since 2000,<br />

na’eem has also led a group of 300<br />

people to the annual hajj pilgrimage<br />

to makkah, Saudi arabia.<br />

in 2003 na’eem established Scotland’s<br />

first marketing consultancy advising,<br />

training and supporting organisations<br />

and businesses on engaging with faith<br />

based communities.<br />

invited as an annual lecturer for<br />

several years, on “islam and muslims”<br />

to Ba students, Glasgow University,<br />

na’eem went onto deliver a tour of<br />

Scotland’s churches exploring<br />

dialogue between christians and<br />

muslims in 2007.<br />

in 2008, na’eem was head hunted and<br />

became the Uk campaigns manager<br />

and subsequently international project<br />

manager on the 25th anniversary for<br />

one the world’s largest muslim<br />

charities which climaxed with a gala<br />

dinner in london attended by hrh,<br />

the prince of wales.<br />

During 2012, Na’eem<br />

hosted Pakistan’s<br />

Cricket World Cup<br />

winning ex-captain<br />

Imran Khan<br />

and singer<br />

Junaid Jamshed.<br />

as one of the lead presenters on islam<br />

channel’s ramadan fundraising<br />

appeals during ramadan 2010, 2011<br />

and 2012, na’eem helped to raise<br />

over £10 million each year,<br />

respectively. na’eem was also the<br />

anchor host at the Global peace and<br />

Unity 2010 at london’s excel<br />

attended by 100,000 people and went<br />

onto present the annual hajj coverage<br />

live on islam channel in 2011 from<br />

makkah and medina, Saudi arabia,<br />

viewed by millions and beamed across<br />

132 countries worldwide.<br />

a seasoned event, gala and conference<br />

compere, presenter and fundraiser<br />

with public speaking experience<br />

around europe, in 2011 alone,<br />

na’eem hosted or managed in excess<br />

of 100 events, raising millions for<br />

various local, national and<br />

international causes.<br />

a<br />

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MUSTAFA MOHAMMED<br />

Genix Healthcare<br />

NAEEM SATTAR<br />

HiSpek Group<br />

mustafa mohammed is a remarkable<br />

individual who has achieved great<br />

success at a young age. in just a few<br />

years he has grown Genix pharma to<br />

become a global organisation,<br />

presenting 60 established brands across<br />

6 countries. as a dedicated believer in<br />

equal opportunities, mustafa was<br />

boldly, the first businessman to recruit<br />

a female sales representative in the<br />

pharmaceuticals industry in pakistan<br />

and has continued to break down<br />

cultural barriers and prejudices within<br />

the workplace ever since.<br />

this trailblazing aptitude led mustafa<br />

to establish a number of other<br />

successful businesses in before<br />

returning to the .<br />

in 2003, mustafa set up a&h<br />

developers limited, a property<br />

investment and development company,<br />

whilst continuing to invest in various<br />

other business interests.<br />

in 2005 he launched Genix healthcare<br />

limited in a bid to provide better<br />

access to nhS dental facilities for<br />

thousands of patients. astute business<br />

acumen has allowed Genix healthcare<br />

limited to grow rapidly with 24 nhS<br />

dental practices to date now in<br />

operation across the Uk. Genix<br />

healthcare limited has brought<br />

innovation to the industry with a totally<br />

unique and first ever brand experience<br />

for nhS practices and strong focus on<br />

staff development.<br />

with a formidable team around him<br />

mustafa plans to further grow the<br />

company by acquisition and by setting<br />

up new practices in areas where the<br />

nhS has identified a shortage of nhS<br />

places. in 2007, Genix healthcare<br />

limited introduced the Gencare brand<br />

designed to provide more affordable<br />

private dental care for patients.<br />

having established a stronghold and<br />

great respect within the industry<br />

mustafa soon identified the severe lack<br />

of professionals entering dentistry. in<br />

2011 he become an ambassador to the<br />

national apprentice programme and<br />

announced major plans to recruit more<br />

than 100 apprentices. Genix<br />

healthcare limited was the first dental<br />

corporate to launch an apprentice<br />

programme and is committed to<br />

increasing its workforce by almost one<br />

third, with a significant investment to<br />

date of over £500,000. mustafa is now<br />

involved with the national programme<br />

helping to develop a blueprint for<br />

dental apprenticeship schemes<br />

nationwide.<br />

most recently, mustafa opened Sparkle<br />

dental labs limited, a Uk based state<br />

of the art dental laboratory accessible<br />

to all Uk dentists. during the set up of<br />

the company, mustafa identified that<br />

over £100 million of nhS contract<br />

work is currently being exported to<br />

overseas laboratories with no quality<br />

measures in place. he has set upon a<br />

mission to better compete and retain<br />

this major economic value and<br />

introduce quality assurance measures.<br />

co founder and ceo of the hiSpek Group,<br />

including hiSpek electronics.<br />

electricshop.com, hiSpek properties,<br />

hispek living and hiSpek charitable<br />

foundation. naeem Sattar has built a<br />

formidable reputation over three decades as<br />

a dynamic and innovate international<br />

businessman in the fast-moving consumer<br />

electronics business.<br />

he has always pushed both retail and online<br />

boundaries to become one of the best<br />

known retailers in the industry. he has<br />

always been passionate about technology<br />

and says, “retailing is now all about<br />

technology” he has tremendous respect<br />

amongst his peers in the industry including<br />

the top brands such as Sony, Samsung,<br />

Bosch, panasonic. he has equal admiration<br />

from his team of 50 people in his group at St<br />

albans.<br />

a dedicated family man with his feet on the<br />

ground and relying upon islamic business<br />

principles to ensure ethical and honest<br />

trading at all times. his charitable work in<br />

pakistan includes building an extensive<br />

village for the poor in charsadda following<br />

the devastating floods in 2010.<br />

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KADEER ARIF<br />

Business & Management Consultant<br />

kadeer arif graduated from harold<br />

washington college chicago in<br />

Business and then studied law at the<br />

University of Sussex, Brighton. he<br />

became one of the founding members<br />

of the Brighton & hove muslim<br />

forum and was appointed as the<br />

forums policy advisor. he was<br />

elected as one of the youngest chairs<br />

of the cities Brighton & hove racial<br />

harassment forum. kadeer worked<br />

with communities across the southern<br />

counties on race equalities and was a<br />

regular guest on the BBc southern<br />

counties radio on local culture and<br />

arts.<br />

kadeer was appointed as a visiting<br />

lecturer in commercial & contract<br />

law at Birmingham city University.<br />

he was elected as one of the youngest<br />

Governors at the University hospitals<br />

Birmingham nhS foundation trust<br />

(UhB), which is the leading university<br />

teaching hospital in the west midlands<br />

and later became a member of the task<br />

& finish group for the new £545<br />

million Queen elizabeth hospital<br />

Birmingham . his passion for<br />

education for all led him to numerous<br />

roles in schools in Birmingham, which<br />

led him to being appointed to the<br />

Kadeer was elected<br />

as one of the<br />

youngest Governors<br />

at the University<br />

Hospitals Birmingham<br />

NHS Foundation<br />

Trust which is<br />

the leading<br />

university teaching<br />

hospital in the<br />

West Midlands<br />

cities steering group for inner city<br />

schools which was chaired by the<br />

cabinet member for education<br />

whilst working as an analyst and<br />

economic development consultant<br />

to initiate inner city policy on local<br />

town centres, kadeer was appointed<br />

at the Birmingham chamber of<br />

commerce as an advisor in the<br />

regeneration department and<br />

worked throughout the city in<br />

delivering business initiatives with the<br />

regional development agencies and<br />

local strategic organisations. he was<br />

appointed to the economic<br />

development & partnership<br />

department at the chamber as a<br />

Business advisor, in which he worked<br />

on investment initiatives in the<br />

engineering, retail and the public<br />

Sector. he delivered some of the<br />

city’s first inner city town centre<br />

management projects to revitalise<br />

local industry and investment.<br />

currently kadeer works as a<br />

successful freelance consultant in<br />

setting the vision and strategy for<br />

upcoming and emerging businesses.<br />

he is working towards launching a<br />

new initiative to support future<br />

entrepreneurs.<br />

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MAAJID NAWAZ<br />

Quilliam<br />

MAHIRA KHAN<br />

Actor<br />

KHALID PATEL<br />

Smart Talk UK<br />

maajid nawaz is co-founder and chairman<br />

of Quilliam – a globally active organisation<br />

focusing on matters of integration,<br />

citizenship & identity, religious freedom,<br />

extremism and immigration - and founder<br />

of khudi, a pakistan based social movement<br />

campaigning to entrench democratic culture<br />

among the nation’s youth. maajid<br />

encourages inclusive citizenship-based<br />

participation of muslims in the west, while<br />

seeking to synergize a respect for human<br />

rights with the civic liberal imperative to<br />

defend those in danger of being stigmatized<br />

by extremists of all stripes due to their<br />

personal choices.<br />

he has become a prominent counterextremism<br />

consultant and a regular writer,<br />

debater and public commentator. in this<br />

regard, he has been called upon by heads of<br />

state, statesmen and international bodies for<br />

his professional opinion. maajid has spoken<br />

from various platforms internationally,<br />

ranging from universities across pakistan to<br />

addressing the US Senate in washington dc.<br />

he has been profiled by cBS 60 minutes,<br />

larry king live, BBc newsnight, has<br />

spoken at the ted conference, and is<br />

regularly interviewed by prominent<br />

journalists across the world. his work is<br />

published by the london times, the wall<br />

Street Journal, the financial times, india<br />

times, dawn pakistan, the independent,<br />

the telegraph, the Guardian, and the new<br />

Statesman among many others.<br />

mahira khan is a pakistani video jockey and<br />

actress. She has worked with satellite tV<br />

channels mtV pakistan and aag tV. She also<br />

played a prominent role in the film Bol. her<br />

professional career began as a VJ at the mere<br />

age of 16 years old. however her dream was<br />

to become an actress and it started coming<br />

true when she started landing roles in tV<br />

series and films. alongside those she also<br />

modeled for various advertisement<br />

campaigns and fashion shows.<br />

mahira khan hosted the live show most<br />

wanted for three days a week on mtV<br />

pakistan, and hosted weekend with mahira<br />

on aag. She has worked alongside other VJs<br />

like anoushey ashraf and ali charlie. her<br />

breakout acting role was as khirad ehsan in<br />

the popular tV serial drama humsafar,<br />

which became one of the most widelyknown<br />

dramas of the pakistani tV industry.<br />

She was praised for her performance by both<br />

critics and fans. khan had her film debut in<br />

Shoaib mansoor’s 2011 Bol, in which she costarred<br />

alongside renowned singer atif<br />

aslam, humaima abbasi, and the<br />

supermodel iman ali.<br />

khalid patel is the founding director of Smart talk Uk<br />

ltd (StUk). he initiated the formation of StUk in<br />

2005. Since formation, StUk made rapid growth in<br />

wholesales of electronics goods and now hold a good<br />

standing among companies dealing in mobile phone,<br />

consumer electronics goods & accessories.<br />

mr. patel moved to london in 1997; since he came to<br />

london he has completed his Ba (hons) degree in<br />

finance. after completion of his studies he started his<br />

career in an accountancy firm, where he learnt all aspect<br />

of the business & finance. later he started his career in<br />

Sales & marketing. during this period he worked with<br />

various top tier Uk companies as sales & marketing<br />

advisor. he then moved to the retail sector and joined<br />

phones 4U as Sales executive.<br />

mr. patel gained breath of experience and knowledge<br />

while working with phones 4U. he realised that the<br />

mobile phone industry has a lot potential & growth. Since<br />

7 years establishment of the business, mr patel grown the<br />

business significantly based upon professional customer<br />

service, consistency of execution and integrity. this<br />

reflects on financials of StUk, for last couple of years the<br />

turnover of the company grows more than 365%.<br />

StUk is now targeting to become the Uk distributor of<br />

major brands such as apple, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony<br />

etc. to diversify the portfolio within the same industry,<br />

StUk is also initiating its retails channels by setting up<br />

online shops on eBay & amazon.<br />

mr khalid also acquired franchise of top US food chain,<br />

Subway. he has already running a successful store at<br />

north west london and planning to acquire more stores.<br />

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SAEEDA AHMED<br />

Social Entrepreneur<br />

NAZIR AFZAL<br />

CPS<br />

nazir afzal oBe, is chief crown<br />

prosecutor for the north west of<br />

england and formerly director,<br />

communities for the crown<br />

prosecution Service and legal<br />

director in cpS london.<br />

Saeeda ahmed established trescom in 2001, a high profile<br />

training and ‘community regeneration that works in<br />

improving economic, social and civic inclusion and<br />

accessibility for diverse groups in society. trescom work with<br />

communities and key governmental organisations on<br />

innovative and ground breaking projects to improve their<br />

service delivery to the public.<br />

Saeeda has the inside experience of working with<br />

communities that face multiple barriers and Saeeda has<br />

utilised her personal experience to make positive change in<br />

local communities through trescom. trescom director<br />

Saeeda ahmed has been recruited as one of twenty national<br />

Social enterprise ambassadors for the cabinet office as<br />

inspirational people across the United kingdom making a<br />

difference to society through business. the has spoken and<br />

been involved in over 60 events nationally and regionally on<br />

social enterprise, equality or social justice. She is currently<br />

leading on apprenticeship and foundation learning contracts<br />

at trescom. the latest award which was being shortlisted as<br />

regional finalist for ernst and Young Social entrepreneur of<br />

the Year 2011.<br />

in terms of appointments, locally to Yorkshire and humber,<br />

Saeeda has been appointed as a Board member for the<br />

University of leeds and has been on both the board of<br />

adventure capital fund and aspire.<br />

trescom have undertaken over 70 projects on tackling social<br />

and economic barriers in communities and worked with over<br />

100 partnerships. trescom achieve our social objectives<br />

through training, policy development, research and<br />

community engagement projects. trescom regularly<br />

overachieve on their project outputs and their projects have<br />

won awards as they have contributed substantially in<br />

sustainable change in communities they have supported.<br />

during a 22 year career, nazir<br />

has prosecuted some of the most<br />

high profile cases in the country<br />

and advised on many others.<br />

many of his cases have set<br />

precedents for how the criminal<br />

law should operate. he initiated<br />

ground breaking conferences and<br />

seminars that have addressed;<br />

Stalking, crime in sport, Sexual<br />

explotation, airport crimes,<br />

‘honour’ crimes, forced<br />

marriage, anti-social behaviour<br />

and gang crime.. the present high profile of these subjects owes a considerable<br />

amount to nazir’s tireless ‘campaigning’ on the issues. he leads nationally on<br />

several legal topics. in recent months he decided that 3 householders should not be<br />

prosecuted for killing intruders thereby clarifying the law on self defence. he led<br />

the criminal justice response to the disorders in manchester and Salford which<br />

brought great reassurance to a frightened public. he successfully prosecuted the<br />

man who killed indian student anuj Bodve in Salford and the gang that groomed<br />

young girls in rochdale. he advises Uk government ministers and trains lawyers<br />

and judges from other countries including the US and canada. he has<br />

responsibility for more than 100,000 other prosecutions each year.<br />

nazir is a tutor for several leadership programmes in the public and private sector.<br />

he has made presentations to dozens of diverse organisations in this country and<br />

abroad. he is on the european Union list of expert speakers. he has given<br />

hundreds of interviews in all forms of media. he is also legal adviser to the<br />

successful itV series “law and order Uk” and legal advisor to the BBc eastenders<br />

drama series.<br />

in addition to his cpS commitments, nazir gives a considerable amount of time to<br />

charitable work and is trustee of several. he is a Governor of Brunel University<br />

and unpaid consultant to voluntary sector organisations working with vulnerable<br />

people.<br />

nazir’s has received many accolades, in 2005, he was awarded an oBe by the<br />

Queen for his work with the cpS and involvement with local communities. he has<br />

also had the honour of being the only lawyer to ever prosecute a case before the<br />

Queen. in 2007, he was awarded the cpS’s public Servant of the year, named legal<br />

personality of the Year by the Society of asian lawyers, the Uk Government’s<br />

Justice award 2007 and awarded the daily mirror newspaper “people’s award”<br />

voted for by readers. recently he was awarded the asian woman magazine<br />

excellence award and the law Society/Bar council mentoring award. nazir was<br />

also selected for the asian power 100 along with the muslim power 100 list,<br />

thereby recognised as one of the 100 most influential leading muslims and asians<br />

in the Uk.<br />

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NAFEES QAIS ASHFAQ ZIA SALIK<br />

Singer Boxer Islamic Relief<br />

the path that has led nafees to a career<br />

in singing has been all but conventional.<br />

negative influences prevented him<br />

realising his academic potential. people<br />

had lost faith in him and he had lost faith<br />

in himself. 4 years ago he was<br />

unexpectedly presented with the<br />

chance to make his passion his<br />

profession.<br />

music gave him an opportunity, a<br />

purpose and a dream. Seeing his vision<br />

become reality has been difficult, but<br />

thankfully the love and support of his<br />

family and his supporters has got him to<br />

where he is today.<br />

nafees has always used music as an<br />

escapism, to help him through the good<br />

and the bad times. he hopes to create<br />

music to connect with people’s<br />

emotions, and be as big of an influence<br />

in people’s lives as his musical idols have<br />

been for him.<br />

nafees always tell everyone that has an<br />

ambition in life to follow your heart.<br />

work as hard as you can, then leave the<br />

rest to the mighty one. You will receive<br />

whatever is written for you.<br />

Qais ashfaq has been boxing since the<br />

age of 8, he was first exposed to the<br />

sport through his uncle and his son<br />

who also boxes, they took him to the<br />

gym one day and Qais’s boxing journey<br />

began.<br />

Boxing kept Qais off the streets and on<br />

the right track.throughout his journey<br />

so far he has achieved a great amount,<br />

he has won 7 national titles, 4 GB<br />

titles, common-wealth Youth Gold<br />

medal, tammer Gold and many other<br />

international honours like Boxer of the<br />

tournament awards abroad he was also<br />

asked to be a torch bearer for the<br />

london 20120 olympics.<br />

Qais boxed for england since he was<br />

14, and he is now on the GB Boxing<br />

team for the rio 2016 olympics and<br />

the Glasgow 2014 commonwealth<br />

Games, Gold in both these is his aim!<br />

Qais believe there are no limits to his<br />

success as long as he keeps working<br />

hard.<br />

Born in pakistan, Zia Salik came to the Uk at a young<br />

age. he has always been heavily involved in community<br />

initiatives across the Uk, helping to set up youth and<br />

community development projects in several cities.<br />

Graduating in Software engineering from the University<br />

of hull, he worked in the it sector before returning to<br />

work in the community. he joined humber all nations<br />

alliance (hana) in 2007, and as programmes manager,<br />

he played a key role in increasing its capacity and<br />

ensuring sustainability. he is the chair of the<br />

humberside police independent advisory Group and<br />

sits on the board of trustees for pickering and ferens<br />

homes. in July 2010, he joined islamic relief as the<br />

regional fundraising manager, just a week before the<br />

biggest floods in pakistan’s history. he was able to<br />

manage a successful fundraising campaign for the floods,<br />

raising £1.2m to help those affected by the disaster.<br />

SAUD UL HAQ<br />

Solicitor<br />

haq hamilton Solicitors is a specialist legal practice<br />

based in london established since 1999 headed by mr<br />

Saudul haq who qualified initially as a barrister in 1999<br />

and then as a solicitor in 2003. the practice offers a<br />

highly tailored service to its clients on an individual and<br />

case-by-case basis, always focusing on a high level of<br />

professional service and obtaining the results that clients<br />

demand and expect in the current climate. the firm has<br />

represented many high profile clients in respect to high<br />

value litigation cases in the high court of Justice, large<br />

scale complex criminal fraud trials in the crown court<br />

and novel areas of criminal law such as in drugs cases.<br />

the firm has seen recent success representing the<br />

oxford Board of trustees in a complex litigation matter,<br />

and representing reverend elwon John who was<br />

acquitted following a 4 week criminal fraud trial. for<br />

clients looking to instruct a specialist firm dealing with<br />

any area of civil or criminal litigation haq hamilton<br />

offers results and service which are second to none.<br />

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SYRA MUNIR<br />

Hungama Events<br />

SHAKEEL DAD<br />

Solicitor<br />

Syra works as an accountant however it is what<br />

she does outside of her profession that<br />

occupies her interest in pakistan.<br />

She is known for her charitable work which<br />

has seen her in muzzafarabad working as an aid<br />

worker, a place which was devastated by the<br />

earthquake in 2005. working from one of the<br />

camps she was part of the relief operation<br />

which was trying to mobilise the people<br />

affected by this disaster. this incredible and<br />

moving experience led her to move over to<br />

pakistan. in pakistan she worked for a human<br />

rights organisation and got involved with<br />

micro finance.<br />

Syra is also active in the field of media. She has<br />

produced and hosted radio shows on fm100<br />

pakistan and managed the pr and media for<br />

the first pakistan fashion week which was<br />

hosted in london in 2011. her broad<br />

knowledge of pakistan has led her to<br />

contribute to al Jazeera english.<br />

Syra munir is a committee member of the<br />

pakistan Society.<br />

Shakeel’s parents arrived in this<br />

country illiterate, having not<br />

attended a day of school between<br />

them. Shakeel grew up in<br />

manningham, attending Belle Vue<br />

Boys School and seeing many of<br />

his friends turn to crime. despite<br />

this, Shakeel achieved outstanding<br />

academic success, obtaining 3 a<br />

grades at a level (scoring 100 per<br />

cent in several papers). he then<br />

graduated with a law degree<br />

from cambridge University<br />

following in the footsteps of his<br />

oxbridge role models imran<br />

khan and allama iqbal. Shakeel<br />

was elected president of the<br />

cambridge University pakistan<br />

Society, has advised the pakistani<br />

high commission and has been a<br />

governor of Belle Vue. he is an<br />

ambassador of Bradford council’s<br />

Bsomeone campaign which aims to provide outstanding role models<br />

for youngsters in the area. Shakeel is now a solicitor at leading firm<br />

walker morris where his clients include Bradford council, leeds<br />

United, and moss Bros Group plc.<br />

SAIMA MIR<br />

Writer<br />

Saima mir is an award-winning journalist who has worked at the BBc,<br />

and written for various media outlets including the Guardian and the<br />

times. in 2010 she was the recipient of the commonwealth Broadcast<br />

association travel award. She spent time reporting from pakistan.<br />

Saima presented the Jinnah awards 2010 and 2011 at the foreign<br />

office, and will be presenting the Brit writers awards 2012 in<br />

london later this year.<br />

S<br />

he is co-founder of the world’s first social ancestry site for South<br />

asians, whosthedaadi.com. the site has received attention from the<br />

wall Street Journal, the new York times, the BBc, the Guardian, and<br />

the times.<br />

She is currently writing a book and developing a documentary with<br />

mobeen azhar and early day films.<br />

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IRFAAN AFZAL<br />

Entrepreneur<br />

ADIL ANWAR<br />

Boxer<br />

irfaan is currently focusing on the expansion of imran’s restaurant<br />

which has been serving its authentic halal pakistani cuisine since 1981.<br />

But imran’s restaurant heritage goes back further; based in the heart of<br />

the world- renowned Balti triangle of Birmingham, imran’s restaurant<br />

was founded in 1971 as a small family business, and is now one of the<br />

best-known restaurants in the region and a major player within the<br />

industry.<br />

imran’s secret? Simple, they’ve kept to a single-minded vision to use<br />

authentic fresh ingredients to produce authentic dishes of the punjab and<br />

the northwest frontier of asia. imran’s food is all about sumptuous<br />

flavours that once tasted will never be forgotten.<br />

advising irfaan on future developments is his father mohammed afzal<br />

Butt and helping with the day-to-day operation of imran’s restaurant are<br />

his brothers imran and Usman.<br />

the future is certainly bright for the family, with the development of<br />

exciting new brands which include: Spice Bazaar - inspired by snacks<br />

originally served by street vendors in northern india, Spice Bazaar offers<br />

a rich tapestry of flavours that will fire your appetite and aroma’s that<br />

awaken your senses.<br />

Bakery Bazaar is the ‘art & Soul’ of fresh baking. all products are freshly<br />

made daily, with a lot of devotion and love, all made by hand to<br />

traditional recipes and working methods. the assortment consists of<br />

many classics like cakes, traditional asian sweets, pasties and pastries.<br />

MAHMOOD UL HASSAN<br />

Chairman Islamic Aid<br />

mahmood ul hassan, an entrepreneur with diversified business and social<br />

interests, is the founder and chairman of islamic aid, an international relief<br />

and development charity that he established following his own experiences<br />

of being born and brought-up in some of the most deprived areas of<br />

pakistan. he has an mBa from imperial college, University of london. he<br />

started his career as a university lecturer in marketing and strategic<br />

management and most recently runs his successful portfolio of businesses<br />

specialising in marketing and management services and project and<br />

investment management.<br />

having fought in over 60 amateur fights, winning 2 national titles, adil<br />

anwar was picked for the Young england boxing team in 2005, where he<br />

came through against Young italy as the victor. a boxing fan from a<br />

young age, anwar had high aspirations to compete in the 2008 Beijing<br />

olympics until a near fatal accident almost ended his prospering career<br />

and set him back from the boxing world for 18 months.<br />

his impressive record of 18 fights 17 wins & 7 by knockout is a feat that<br />

not many people can showcase. anwar is a determined and challenged<br />

fighter and won the english title with only 4 days notice. today, he is<br />

recognized mostly for winning the light-welter weight prizefighter<br />

tournament in february 2012 and has now set his sights higher. anwar is<br />

a step closer to the British title as he prepares for his final eliminator.<br />

HUMAYOUN KHAN<br />

Easy Eastates<br />

humayoun khan was born in 1962 at a hill station of murree in the district<br />

of rawalpindi pakistan with a very humble back ground although belonging<br />

to the elite family of herat (afghanistan) from the maternal side.<br />

humayoun always had an innate business attitude therefore after settling<br />

down in the United kingdom around 20 years ago started his own business<br />

by climbing up the property ladder for starters and the property market<br />

entrepreneur by establishing property letting and management business in<br />

the cosmopolitan area of east end of london and within the span of few<br />

years became well known and trust worthy figure.<br />

also he has always been treated as the pioneer of letting and management<br />

service providers in the whole of east london. easy estates is one of his<br />

well established business ventures which has grown vigorously over the last<br />

few years and now covers various boroughs of london and listed as an<br />

accredited agency.<br />

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ZACHARY LATIF<br />

Finance<br />

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Entrepreneur<br />

Zachary latif joined tlG capital in<br />

2011 to focus on credit and liquid<br />

markets. tlG capital is a company that<br />

invests in frontier markets, specifically<br />

Sub-Saharan africa, South asia & South<br />

east asia. the core focus is directed<br />

towards consumer led growth in<br />

sectors like healthcare driven by the<br />

rising middle classes.<br />

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debt and is a specialist in hard to value<br />

assets. he has also reviewed investment<br />

teams on projects as diverse from<br />

Uganda’s premier pharmaceutical plant<br />

to cancer health care facilities in west<br />

asia to the establishment of a family<br />

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surviving clinic in monrovia after the<br />

civil war in liberia).<br />

Zachary has been invited to speak at<br />

numerous conferences and has a<br />

widely-read monthly newsletter on<br />

asset allocation within the credit<br />

markets. he holds a masters degree in<br />

finance achieved at the age of 18 from<br />

cass Business School in 2003.<br />

dr Umran chaudhry is a rising star in the<br />

world of healthcare. a Gp registrar,<br />

healthcare investment consultant, sports<br />

doctor, technophile, scientific philanthropist<br />

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titles.<br />

Umran initially trained as a surgeon with the<br />

royal college of Surgeons of edinburgh but<br />

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community involvement, he trained in<br />

General practice. an active medical<br />

researcher, Umran has presented in national<br />

and international medical conferences. one<br />

of his special interests is innovative<br />

healthcare models and he runs his own<br />

consultancy firm advising on future<br />

healthcare investment opportunities.<br />

Umran was heavily involved with the 2005<br />

pakistan earthquake relief efforts and he<br />

currently aspires to commission an<br />

international institute of Scientific<br />

philanthropists. recently he has founded<br />

the telemedicine club and aims to raise<br />

awareness of telemedicine, especially<br />

amongst junior doctors. dr chaudhry is also<br />

the team doctor for the British asian rugby<br />

association.<br />

naveed khan started off with very humble beginnings setting<br />

up in the back yard of his house working on his first car, his<br />

own. at the same time he was going to college, and also<br />

selling car parts on ebay.<br />

after completing his vehicle body repair course at keighley<br />

college and winning a national award naveed decided to<br />

concentrate fully on his passion for cars and took the decision<br />

to move into a unit and set a business up in 2003. initially<br />

the company was set up in 1000sq unit with just naveed and<br />

one member of staff. over time the business grew from<br />

strength to strength and eventually ended up occupying a<br />

20,000 sq ft workshop. in 2011 the whole industrial site was<br />

purchased as a major investment and expansion. from<br />

vehicle body repairs the company also moved onto vehicle<br />

styling which lead to another company being born called<br />

Barugzai ltd design and manufacture of car body kits for cars<br />

such as lamborghini, ferrari and Bentleys. enkhanz<br />

currently employs nearly 50 staff.<br />

LATIF MIR<br />

Muslim Court chaplin<br />

latif is currently the only muslim court chaplain in the Uk.<br />

working part time for Bradford court chaplaincy Service<br />

since 2009 when this unique innovation was established. the<br />

charity prides itself on providing free personal, practical and<br />

spiritual assistance for all court users at both courts in<br />

Bradford. Sharing his time between roles as a community<br />

resource manager at a primary school where he is a valuable<br />

asset to staff, parents and pupils alike. living and working<br />

amongst the community, latif is seen as a positive inspiration<br />

to others. 2008 saw the birth of madrassa tul fatiha, the first<br />

madrassa to be run in the Uk as part of a state school. latif<br />

is currently the coordinator of the organisation, which is<br />

providing islamic teachings to140 students. the transferable<br />

skills and qualities he has gained have led him to be in a<br />

privileged position to help others.<br />

.<br />

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INDEX<br />

Aamer Anwar 76<br />

Aamina Sheikh 76<br />

Aamina Taseer 17<br />

Aamir Ijaz 86<br />

Aaqil Ahmed 19<br />

Abdul Sattar Edhi 27<br />

Abida Parween 18<br />

Adeeba Malik 54<br />

Adil Anwar 100<br />

Adil Anwar 76<br />

Afzal & Akmal Khushi 11<br />

Ahmed Rashid 31<br />

Aisam ul Haq 77<br />

Akeel & Jameel Amini 78<br />

Ali Moeen Nawazish 77<br />

Ali Zafar 81<br />

Amber Haroon 19<br />

Ameena Saiyid 31<br />

Amin Gulgee 31<br />

Amir Khan 79<br />

Amjad Hussain 40<br />

Amjad Malik 86<br />

Anas Sarwar 77<br />

Andleeb Hanif 77<br />

Aqeel Karim Dhedhi 42<br />

Arif Naqvi 43<br />

Arif Nizami 19<br />

Arif Zaman 78<br />

Art Malik 19<br />

Arts & Literature 30<br />

Asghar Ali 80<br />

Asif Rangoonwala 11<br />

Asim Siddiqui 80<br />

Asma Jahangir 25<br />

Atif Bajwa 43<br />

Ayesha Vardag 54<br />

Azhar 82<br />

Azhar Mahmood 86<br />

Azhar Siddique 82<br />

Badar Khushnood 77<br />

Balal Ali 84<br />

Baroness Warsi 39<br />

Basit Khan 77<br />

Bilawal Bhutto 83<br />

Bilquis Edhi 25<br />

Bunto Kazmi 57<br />

Bushra Nasir 56<br />

Corporate & Finance 42<br />

Dr Feriha Peracha 60<br />

Dr Kamal Munir 77<br />

Dr Kaukab Rajput 60<br />

Dr Malik 100<br />

Dr Mohammed Ali 48<br />

Dr Nighat Awan 68<br />

Dr Sophia Khalique 62<br />

Dr Suhail Chughtai 47<br />

Dr Syed N Abidi 49<br />

Dr Umran Chaudhry 101<br />

Ebba Qureshi 84<br />

Ehsan Malik 43<br />

Faisal Butt 85<br />

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Faraz Khan 84<br />

Farrah Qureshi 56<br />

Farrok Captian 25<br />

Farzana Baduel 91<br />

Fatima Bhutto 59<br />

Fauzia Aziz Minallah 58<br />

Fehmida Mirza 58<br />

Ghouse Akbar 11<br />

Gugsy Ahmed 88<br />

Hanah Caan 89<br />

Hanif Kureshi 30<br />

Hassan S Yasin 23<br />

Hina Rabbani Khar 35<br />

Huma Abedin 35<br />

Humayoun Khan 100<br />

Hussain Dawood 11<br />

Hyder M. Ibrahim 77<br />

Iftikhar Muhammad 34<br />

Ikram Butt 88<br />

Imam Asim 90<br />

Imam Qasim 25<br />

Imran Aslam 19<br />

Imran Khan 29<br />

Irfan Malik 92<br />

Irfan Mustafa 43<br />

Izzat Majeed 43<br />

Jahangir Siddiqui 43<br />

James Caan 15<br />

Jamil Naqsh 31<br />

Jamshed Anwar 80<br />

Javad Haider Rana 92<br />

Javed Khan 92<br />

Jehangir Malik 49<br />

Johngir Saddiq 48<br />

Kadeer Arif 95<br />

Khalid Patel 96<br />

Khawar Mann 91<br />

Kiswer Falkner 35<br />

Latif Mir 101<br />

Lord Nazir Ahmed 38<br />

Maajid Nawaz 96<br />

Mahira Khan 96<br />

Mahmood ul Hassan 100<br />

Maleeha Lodhi 63<br />

Mansoor K Shaikh 19<br />

Meesha Shafi 65<br />

Mehreen Jabbar 63<br />

Mehreen Rizvi 62<br />

Mian Gohar Ejaz 10<br />

Mian Mansha 11<br />

Michael Nazir Ali 41<br />

Mir Shakil ur Rahman 19<br />

Moazzam Malik 37<br />

Mohammed Adil 16<br />

Mohammed Iqbal 47<br />

Mohammed Jawad 37<br />

Monis Rahman 48<br />

Mukhtar Mai 67<br />

Musharaf Hai 43<br />

Mustafa Mohammed 94<br />

Na’eem Raza 93<br />

Nadia Jamil 72<br />

Naeem Sattar 94<br />

Naeem Ghauri 16<br />

Nafees 98<br />

Nafis Sadik 35<br />

Namira Salim 71<br />

Nasreen Kasuri 69<br />

Nasreen Rehman 70<br />

Naveed Khan 101<br />

Nazir Afzal 97<br />

Nigar Ahmed 24<br />

Muhammad T Sohail 36<br />

Qais Ashfaq 98<br />

Qaisra Shahraz 64<br />

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 20<br />

Rashid Rana 32<br />

Reedah El –Saie 64<br />

Rizwan Beyg 18<br />

Roshaneh Zafar 26<br />

S.M Khalid 48<br />

Sadiq Khan 38<br />

Sadruddin Hashwani 14<br />

Saeeda Ahmed 97<br />

Saima Mir 99<br />

Salman Ahmed 21<br />

Salman Iqbal 20<br />

Samina Ahmed 66<br />

Sarfaraz Alam 44<br />

Saudal Haq 98<br />

Seema Aziz 26<br />

Shabir Hussain 46<br />

Shahid Ali Shah 10<br />

Shahid Azeem 42<br />

Shahid Sheikh 49<br />

Shakeel Dad 99<br />

Sharmeen O Chinoy 22<br />

Sherry Rehman 55<br />

Shirin Tahir Kheli 34<br />

Shoaib Mansoor 19<br />

Shoaib Sultan Khan 24<br />

Sir Anwar Pervez 11<br />

Souriya Anwar 25<br />

Sultan Ali Allana 13<br />

Surraiya Zia 68<br />

Syed Baber Ali 12<br />

Syed Kauser Kazmi 47<br />

Syed M Ali Naqvi 43<br />

Syra Munir 99<br />

Tariq Ali 31<br />

Tariq Saigol 14<br />

Tehmina Durrani 33<br />

Yasmin Quershi 62<br />

Zachary Latif 101<br />

Zakir Mahmood 45<br />

Zamir Akram 35<br />

Zeeshan Memon 87<br />

Zia Salik 98<br />

Zouhair A. Khaliq 44<br />

Zuffar Haq 46

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