List of University of Karachi alumni
This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.
A
- Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar
- Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher
- Rukhsana Ahmad – writer, playwright, and translator[1]
- Moonis Ahmar – scholar of international relations and conflict resolution
- Afaq Ahmed – leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan
- Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure
- Riaz Ahsan – professor and former president of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association
- Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford
- Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations
- Ahmed Ali – co-founder of Progressive Writers Movement & Association; novelist; short story writer; critic; translator; diplomat; scholar
- Sohail Aman – Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force
- Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies
- Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
- Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan; former Citibank executive officer
B
- Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist
- Hina Baig – Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography
- Sanam Baloch – television actress
- Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist
D
- Noon Meem Danish – poet[2]
- Quentin D’Silva – former Chairman and Chief Executive, Shell Pakistan Limited
F
- Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster
- Tarek Fateh – writer, novelist, columnist, author
- Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
- Robin Fernandez – journalist and Foreign Editor for the Express Tribune[3]
G
- Khalida Ghous – scholar of international relations and human rights; activist
H
- Husain Haqqani – Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States
- Hussain Haroon – Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations
- Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert
- Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan
- Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
- Nehal Hashmi – Senator, General secretary PML-N Sindh
- Mehwish Hayat – model
- Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet
- Abdul Rasheed Hussain – Maldivian politician and public figure
- Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
I
- Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer
J
- Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature
- Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi; MQM leader
K
- Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
- Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan; exchange student in the early 1970s[4]
- Rashid Kausar – Professor of Knowledge Management
- Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects
- Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
- Rana Muhammad Akram Khan – former Chairman, Punjab Bar Council
L
- Anthony Theodore Lobo – Roman Catholic bishop
M
- Rehman Malik – Senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan
- Yawar Malik – former Competitive Gymnastics under-18 national champion
- Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
- Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer
- Gholam Mujtaba – politician and Pakistani American
- Waheed Murad – film actor
N
- Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister
- Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist
- Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England
- Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer
P
- Nadeem F. Paracha – journalist, cultural critic and satirist
- Tanwir Phool – poet; children's literature author; officer of the central bank of the Government of Pakistan
- Zinia Pinto – principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963-99[5]
Q
- Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi
R
- Raza Rabbani – Senator
- Atta ur Rahman – Chairman of HEC; Director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
- Raheel Raza – author
S
- Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist
- Faisal Sabzwari – deputy parliamentary leader of MQM
- Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News
- Ehsan Sehgal – poet and journalist
- Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Rashid Minhas Shaheed – PAF Officer; received Nishan-e-Haider
- Parveen Shakir – Urdu poet, teacher, civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
- Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic
- Muhammad Rashid Ali (Siddiqui) – sports journalist
- Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
- Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960–1962[6]
U
- Muhammad Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar; served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
W
- Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party
- Raees Warsi – poet; author; founder and president of Urdu Markaz New York
- Talat A. Wizarat – scholar of international relations and Middle Eastern studies
References
- ↑ "Rukhsana Ahmad". The Feminist Press. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ Farrukhi, Asif (2007-12-09). "Author: A poet in New York". Dawn. Pakistan Herald Publications. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ↑ Express Tribune November 11, 2011
- ↑ Parekh, Rauf (2008-08-26), "A Japanese scholar of Urdu", Dawn, retrieved 2010-05-28
- ↑ The Express Tribune, June 6, 2013
- ↑ "Japanese scholar of Urdu passes away", Dawn, 2005-01-16, retrieved 2010-05-28
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