Nayyara Noor was born in 1950 in Guwahati, Assam, northeastern India, and spent her early childhood there.
Her family and ancestors, belonging to a merchant class, were long settled in Assam having migrated from Amritsar, in Punjab.
Her father was an active member of the All-India Muslim League, and had hosted Pakistan's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah during his trip to Assam before the partition in 1947.
In 1957 or 1958, Noor with her mother and siblings migrated from India to Pakistan, settling in Karachi. However, her father stayed back in Assam until 1993 to look after the family's immovable properties.
As a child, Nayyara is said to have been inspired by the bhajans of Kanan Devi and Kamla as well as the ghazals and thumris of Begum Akhtar.
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Mahmud Hussain [born 1907 Farrukhabad (UP), died 1975 Karachi] was a Pakistani academic, educationist, and politician, credited with pioneering the study of social sciences in Pakistan.
A supporter of the Pakistan Movement, he was a member of the country's first Constituent Assembly.
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Mahmud Hussain [born 1907 Farrukhabad (UP), died 1975 Karachi] was a Pakistani academic, educationist, and politician, credited with pioneering the study of social sciences in Pakistan.
A supporter of the Pakistan Movement, he was a member of the country's first Constituent Assembly.
He was appointed Minister of State for both Defence and Foreign Affairs in 1949, and later served as Minister for Education from 1952 to 1953, when he quit politics over the assembly's dissolution.
Returning to academia, Husain taught as visiting professor at Heidelberg University and Columbia University during the 1960s.
Returning to academia, Husain taught as visiting professor at Heidelberg University and Columbia University during the 1960s.
He served as vice-chancellor of Dhaka University from 1960 to 1963, and of Karachi University from 1967 until his death in 1975. A proponent of greater rights for East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, Hussain emerged a vocal but unsuccessful critic of Pakistan's military action in 1971.
Mahmud Hussain was the younger brother of Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) who became the third President of India.
As member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Mahmud Hussain supported the Objectives Resolution which permanently implanted Islam into the structure of Pakistani state, turning 'Hindus' and other non-Muslims into second-class citizens.
(Presented in the Constituent Assembly on 07 March 1949, the Objectives Resolution was bitterly opposed by the 'Hindu' members of the assembly who deemed it a violation of Jinnah’s 11 August speech.)
Pakistani-Swedish academic Ishtiaq Ahmed points out that EVERY Muslim member of the Constituent Assembly supported the Objectives Resolution, including a "Leftist"Miyan Iftikharuddin.
(That is to say not a SINGLE Muslim member of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly actually stood up to oppose a measure that permanently curtailed the full rights and freedoms of the non-Muslims.)
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Shahryar Khan (born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who became Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so until his retirement from service in 1994.
He later served as UN SRSG to Rwanda (1994–1996). Since August 1999, he has intermittently served as the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board. He is the current president of Asian Cricket Council.
He was born in the Qasr-e-Sultani, Bhopal State (honoured with 19-gun salute until 1947) in British India.
He was born in the Qasr-e-Sultani, Bhopal State (honoured with 19-gun salute until 1947) in British India.
He is the only son and male heir of both Nawab Muhammad Sarwar Ali Khan, the ruler of former princely state of Kurwai and princess Abida Sultan (Suraya Jah, and Nawab Gauhar-i-Taj) Begum Sahiba, herself the Crown Princess and the eldest daughter of last ruling Nawab of Bhopal, Haji-Hafiz Sir Muhammad Nawab Hamidullah Khan, who reigned state of Bhopal after a prolonged era of Begums regime (the queens).
His aunt Sajida Sultan became the Begum of Bhopal after her mother migrated to Pakistan, and she was married to cricketer Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the 8th Nawab of Pataudi. He has four children, the eldest being Faiz Mohammad Khan, father of Aalia Sultan Khan.
He is the first cousin of the Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who died on 22 September 2011. His nephew and niece Saif Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan are film actors, the former of whom is married to actress Kareena Kapoor.
Khan studied at the following institutes:
Daly College, Indore
Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun
University of Cambridge
The Fletcher School–Tufts University
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Khan studied at the following institutes:
Daly College, Indore
Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun
University of Cambridge
The Fletcher School–Tufts University
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