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ANWAR ZAIDI
CEO HBL UK
WELCOME BY ANWAR ZAIDI
CONTENTS
The Power 100 8
The Women 100 52
The Future Leaders 73
Trailblazers 46
Arts & Literature 30
Business 10
Corporate & Finance 42
Media, Fashion & Music 18
Public Sector 34
Social & Community 24
Aamina Taseer 17
Aaqil Ahmed 19
Abdul Sattar Edhi 27
Abida Parween 18
Afzal & Akmal Khushi 11
Ahmed Rashid 31
Amber Haroon 19
Ameena Saiyid 31
Amin Gulgee 31
Amir Khan 79
Amjad Hussain 40
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi 42
Arif Naqvi 43
Arif Nizami 19
Art Malik 19
Asif Rangoonwala 11
Asma Jahangir 25
Atif Bajwa 43
Ayesha Vardag 54
Baroness Warsi 39
Bilquis Edhi 25
Bunto Kazmi 57
Bushra Nasir 56
Ehsan Malik 43
Farrok Captian 25
Ghouse Akbar 11
Hanif Kureshi 30
Haroon & Farooq Sheikh 11
Hassan Sheheryar Yasin 23
Hina Rabbani Khar 35
Huma Abedin 35
Hussain Dawood 11
Iftikhar Muhammad 34
Imam Qasim 25
Imran Aslam 19
Imran Khan 29
Irfan Mustafa 43
Izzat Majeed 43
Jahangir Siddiqui 43
James Caan 15
Jamil Naqsh 31
Kiswer Falkner 35
Lord Nazir Ahmed 38
Mansoor Karim Shaikh 19
Mian Gohar Ejaz 10
Mian Mansha 11
Michael Nazir Ali 41
Mir Shakil ur Rahman 19
Moazzam Malik 37
Mohammed Adil 16
Mohammed Jawad 37
Monis Rahman 48
Musharaf Hai 43
Naeem Ghauri 16
Nafis Sadik 35
Nigar Ahmed 24
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79
49
65
33
Tariq Sohail 36
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 20
Rashid Rana 32
Rizwan Beyg 18
Roshaneh Zafar 26
Sadruddin Hashwani 14
Salman Ahmed 21
Salman Iqbal 20
Seema Aziz 26
Shabir Hussain 46
Shahid Ali Shah 10
Shahid Azeem 42
Shahid Sheikh 49
Sharmeen O Chinoy 22
Shirin Tahir Kheli 34
Shoaib Mansoor 19
Shoaib Sultan Khan 24
Sir Anwar Pervez 11
Souriya Anwar 25
Sultan Ali Allana 13
Surraiya Zia 68
Syed Baber Ali 12
Syed Kauser Kazmi 47
Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi 43
Syra Munir 99
Tariq Ali 31
Tariq Saigol 14
Tehmina Durrani 33
Zakir Mahmood 45
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THE JUDGES
Khalid Darr
Chairman Virtual Hospital
Khalid Darr has been involved in philanthropic
activities since 1999 and is currently involved in
the set up of a Virtual Hospital, an organization
which will drastically alter the healthcare
provision for the poor by linking remote villages
in the third world, to doctors and specialists
based across the globe. Khalid is also currently
Chairman of the international Power 100 Brand
which is now in over 23 countries and includes
the development of the UAE Power 100, China
Power 100 and Russia Power 100. Through
Power 100 Khalid has developed an effective
fast track into the very highest level of networks
and has earned himself an enviable Black Book
of contacts both within the UK &
internationally.
James Caan
Hamilton Bradshaw
James knew from a young age that he
wanted to run his own business. His father
was probably his biggest influence: he
owned a successful leather goods
manufacturing business and hoped James
would one day takeover. James decided not
to pursue a career in the family business and
instead followed his own path to become an
entrepreneur. At sixteen he left school with
no qualifications. Despite this in the mid
1980s, he began a successful career in
recruitment. Just a few years later James
founded Alexander Mann, a UK
recruitment business which he successfully
grew to 130m turnover with 30 offices
worldwide.
James has worked on a number of projects
to support the British entrepreneur. He is
currently working with Business Secretary
Vince Cable as a member of the
Entrepreneurs Forum to help and advise
government on the new business policies.
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The ethos of Pakistan Power 100 is both transparent and self-levelling. The nominations for each individual are counted,
verified and collated by the Power 100 research team. The ten most nominated individuals within each classification are then
automatically included in the final Power 100 list. In addition the individual who has received the most votes within their
classification is honoured with the Power 100 Excellence Award. Once all Power 100 names have been shortlisted, a
lengthy process of peer group verification follows, thereby ensuring a highly verified source of information. The judging
panel are retained primarily to oversee the process and to judge the Future Leaders shortlist inorder to identify the winners
of Power 100 Future Leaders Award.
David Smedley
Head of Commercial
Litigation
David is a senior partner in the
practice, Head of Commercial
Litigation, Employment, Human
Resources and Diversity. David
has also been and remains a
member of the Firms
Management Board (an elected
post) for over a decade. David
studied law at Manchester
University. David qualified into
commercial litigation at Walker
Morris in 1986. He
subsequently formed one of the
largest and most respected
employment teams in the
region.
Hanif Malik
Chief Executive Hamara
One of the largest and most
influential South Asian led third
sector agencies in the country.
Based in Leeds he has been
responsible for raising over 3
million worth of capital and
revenue funding to help build,
develop and run the centre.
He was widely praised for his
role in maintaining community
relations following the events of
7/7 and has been instrumental in
multi-faith work for over a
decade. He has represented the
Third Sector on a number of key
strategic boards and worked at a
national level on many important
issues.
Nina Amin
Tax partner at KPMG
Nina Amin is a Tax Partner at
KPMG, one of the Big Four
professional services firms in the
UK. She joined the firm in
1997 and spent nine months on
secondment with the
Confederation of British
Industry (CBI) in 2003 where
she was responsible for helping
to draft policy on the long term
vision for UK pensions. Nina has
won a number of awards
including the 2008 Professional
of the Year and the 2009 Asian
Whos Who Leadership award.
She is a board member of
KPMGs Advisory Council.
Laura Taggart
The Co-operative
Laura Taggart is an elected
member of the Co-operative
Group`s Leeds And Wakefield
Area Committee. This is one of
nine Committees rep[resenting
members across the North
Region. They monitor business
performance, award grants to
organisations, support
community events and are
ambassadors for the co-operative
movement within the area.
Laura has worked in education
and community development all
her professional life, as a
teacher, lecturer and researcher.
Mark Cleary
Vice Chancellor
Bardford University
Professor Mark Cleary took up
office as Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Bradford in June
2007. He took his
undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees at Jesus College,
Cambridge, in Geography.
From 1980-1989 he was a
Lecturer at Exeter University
before taking up a post at the
University of Brunei Darussalam
in 1989 and subsequently
lecturing at the University of
Waikato, New Zealand (1992-
1994), he joined the University
of Plymouth in 1994.
Shabir Nawab
Shabir Nawab and Co
Shabir Nawab is Principal and
founder of Shabir Nawab and
Co. As well as a leading
businessman and philanthropist
Shabir Nawab is a highly
respected member of the
business community in the
Midlands who has also built a
reputation as a local community
leader and supporter of impact
charitable projects. Alongside
being a Patron and Chairman to
the west midlands region of
Mosaic has actively spearheaded
various charitable initiatives and
projects both local and
nationally.
Cllr Rizwan Malik
Rizwan has been very active in
voulntary work for various charity
and community causes for the past
10 years and more recently has
developed as one of the lead
volunteers for Islamic relief in the
north organising fundraising events.
He spearheaded a volunteer led
national campaign to help the flood
victims of Pakistan and raised over
a million pounds within a year
which got highlighted from national
media. He now recently has joined
the power100 team as a volunteer
and is the man responsible for
taking the first ever power 100
event to the north of the country
by organising the power 100 future
leaders gala event.
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Anwar Zaidi
CEO and Director of
Habib Allied
International Bank Plc
(HBL UK).
Anwar Zaidi is the CEO and
Director of Habib Allied
International Bank Plc (HBL
UK). He began his banking
career with Grindlays Bank in
1979 and moved on to establish
HSBC in Pakistan. He has also
worked in senior roles at;
American Express Bank, Mashreq
Bank and most recently headed
United Bank in New York.
THE FINAL POWER 100
Aamna Taseer Pace
Aaqil Ahmed BBC
Abdul Razzaq Yakub ARY Group
Abdul Sattar Edhi Welfare
Abida Parween Singer
Aftab Tapal Tapal Group
Akmal & Afzal Khushi Trespass
Ahmed Rashid Writer
Amber Haroon Dawn Group
Ameena Saiyid OUP Pakistan
Amin Guljee Artist
Amjad Hussain Royal Navy
Anwar Pervez Bestway
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi AKD Group
Arif Navqi Abraaj Capital
Arif Nizami Pakistan Today
Art Malik Actor
Asif Rangoonwalla Entrepreneur
Asma Jahngir AGHS
Atif Bajwa ADG
Bashir Ali Mohammad Gul Ahmad
Ehsan Malik Unilever
Farrokh Captain LRBT
Fehmida Mirza National Assembly
Fred Hasan Bausch & Lomb
Ghouse Akbar Akbar Group
Ghauri Brothers Netsol Technologies
Hameed Haroon Dawn Group
Hanif Kureishi Playwright
Haroon & Farouq Sheikh Caretech PLC
Hassan Sheheryar Yasin HSY
Hina Rabbani Khar Foreign Minister
Huma Abedin Politics
Hussain Dawood Dawood Group
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Power 100 has been integrally involved in the process of publishing,
launch and distribution of the Pakistan Power 100 publication. The
100 list is an eclectic mix of highly influential individuals, and it would
be too subjective to rank from 1 to 100 by the general criteria
employed. Most certainly the list is not exhaustive! Rather, The
Power 100 simply profiles individuals who are widely regarded as
Power Brokers and Key Influencers within the community.
There are two ways of measuring power and influence. One is by
simply using the range of Public & Private sector activities, or the
performance of an organisation to calculate its impact, and
nominating whoever runs it. The other is more subtle - to gauge the
contribution made by individuals to the culture and well-being of the
organisation for whom they work, or the region in which they live. We
have used both methods in compiling our list.
The ethos of Pakistan Power 100 is both transparent and self-levelling.
The nominations for each individual are counted, verified and collated
by the Power 100 research team. The ten most nominated individuals
within each classification are then automatically included in the final
Power 100 list. In addition the individual who has received the most
votes within their classification is the recipient of the Power 100
Excellence Award. Once all Power 100 names have been shortlisted,
a lengthy process of peer group verification follows, thereby ensuring
a highly verified source of information.
Iftikhar M Chaudhry Chief Justice
Imam Qasim Al Khair
Imran Aslam GEO
Imran Khan Shaukat Khanum
Irfan Mustafa Yum Group
Jahangir Siddiqui J&S Group
James Caan Entrepreneur
Jamil Naqsh Artist
Javed Ahmed Tate & Lyle
Javed Saifullah Khan Saif Group
Jehangir A. Monnoo Monnoo Group
Kiswer Falkner House of Lords
Lord Nazir Ahmed House of Lords
Maleeha Lodhi Writer
Mansoor Karim Shaikh JWT
Mian Abdullah Sapphire Group
Mian Gohar Ejaz Ejaz Group
Mian M Latif Chenab Group
Mian Mansha Nishat Group
Michael Nazir Ali Bishop
Mohammad Jawad Surgeon
Mohammed Raja Adil Adil Group
Monis Rahman Rozee.pk
Mozzam Malik DIFID
Muhammad T Sohail Surgeon
Mukhtar Mai Human Rights
Musharaf Hai LOreal
Naeem Zamindar Wateen
Ghauri Brothers Netsol
Nafis Sadiq UN
Namira Salim Explorer
Nasreen M Kasuri Beacon House
Nigar Ahmed Aurat
Rafiq Habib House of Habib
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Singer
Rashid Rana Artist
Roshaneh Zafar Kashf
Sadiq Khan Labour MP
Sadaruddin Hashwani Hashoo Group
Salman Ahmad Junoon
Salman Amin PepsiCo
Salman Iqbal ARY
Sarfaraz Alam Texpo
Sayeeda Warsi House of Lords
Seema Aziz Care
Sehyr Saigol Fashion
Shahid Ali Shah Treats
Shahid Azeem Arcom IT
Shahid Khan Flexngate
Shakil ur Rahman Jang Group
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Filmaker
Sheikh Abid Hussain Abid Group
Sherry Rehman Journalist
Shirin Tahir Kheli Politics
Shoaib Sultan Khan RSPN
Souriya Anwar SOS Villages
Sultana Ali Allana Habib Bank Ltd
Syed Babar Ali Packages Group
Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi KPMG
Tariq Ali Historian
Tariq Saigol Saigol Group
Tehmina Durrani Writer
Zakir Mahmood Habib Bank Ltd
Zamir Alam UN Ambassador
Zouhair A Khaliq Telecoms
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Painting by Afsana Karim
Renowned artist Afsana Karim has been commissioned by Power 100 to create a
series of paintings for each global Power 100 title. For private commissions from
Afsana please contact: Andrea@hamptonsmanagement.com
BUSINESS POWER BROKERS
THE POWER 100
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THE POWER BROKERS
Aamna Taseer First Capital Securities
Abdul Razzaq Yakub ARY Group
Aftab Tapal Tapal Group
Akmal & Afzal Khushi Trespass
Sir Anwar Pervez Bestway
Asif Rangoonwalla Entrepreneur
Bashir Ali Mohammad Gul Ahmed Group
Ghauri Brothers Netsol Technologies
Ghouse Akbar Akbar Group
Haroon & Farouq Sheikh Caretech PLC
Hussain Dawood Dawood Group
James Caan Hamilton Bradshaw
Javed Saifullah Khan Saif Group
Jehangir A. Monnoo Monnoo Group
Mian Abdullah Sapphire Group
Mian Gohar Ejaz Ejaz Group
Mian Muhammad Latif Chenab Group
Mian Muhammad Mansha Nishat Group
Mohammed Raja Adil Adil Group
Sadaruddin Hashwani Hashoo Group
Shahid Ali Shah Treats
Shahid Khan Flexngate
Sheikh Abid Hussain Abid Group
Sultana Ali Allana Habib Bank Ltd
Syed Babar Ali Packages Group
Tariq Saigol Saigol Group
Mian Gohar Ejaz
Ejaz Group
This establishment owns
countrys largest knitwear-cum-
dyeing facility at Lahore. More
than half a dozen textile units of
Ejaz Group are being run by yet
another chinioti scion Mian
Gohar Ejaz, son of late Senator
Sheikh Ejaz. Gohar held the reins
of this group very much during
his college days when Sheikh Ejaz
left for his heavenly abode after
protracted illness that lasted
months. Gohar is now a noted
policy maker at both Federal and
Provincial Textile Boards. He is
one of the Boards of Governors
at the Punjab institute of
Cardiology Lahore. People
started paying a heed to his
leadership abilities in 1997, when
he took on the APTMA grey-
heads convincingly during the
1997 annual polls and narrowly
lost to his opponent in fight for
the top slot.
Shahid Ali Shah
Treats
Syed Shahid Ali serves as a
Non-Executive Director of
Packages Limited. He also holds
directorship of several other
companies including Treet
Corporation Limited. He inherits
the drive to accept the challenges
created due to changing
enviroments and market
conditions. He has kept himself
abreat of future trends, keeping
the dynamism in the company.
He is also actively involved in
social and cultural activities and
holds senior positions on the
governing boards of severa;
hospitals and philanthropic
organizations including Gulab
Devi Hospital and Liaquat
National Hospital.
Hussain Dawood
Engro
Dawood is chairman of Engro
Group, Dawood Hercules
Chemicals, Pakistan Poverty
Alleviation Fund and Karachi
Education Initiative. He is also
serving as Honorary Consul of
Italy in Lahore. He is also
Pakistans first member in World
Economic Forum and member of
boards of Commonwealth
Business Council, Beaconhouse
National University, Pakistan
Business Council and Pakistan
Council of Philanthropy. He is
also the recipient of Italian
Republic Award.
Sadruddin Hashwani
Hashoo Group
Sadruddin Hashwani is the
Chairman of Hashoo Group, one
of the most diversified industrial
groups in Pakistan with interests
across tourism, travel, real-estate
development, pharmaceuticals,
IT, and oil and gas. Also, the
Hashoo Group of Companies has
in its fold, as owners and
operators, the Pearl Continental
Hotels and Marriott Hotels
brands with presence in all major
cities of Pakistan. Today he is
known to be the leading figures
in hospitality industry around the
world
Ghouse Akbar
Akbar Group
Ghouse Akbar a graduate of
Brown University and INSEAD,
He has successfully introduced
various global brands to Pakistan
such as McDonalds, Nike, UPS,
LVMH, Amadeus, etc. The group
is also the largest in the aviation
sector and represents a number
of world renowned airlines in
Pakistan such as Singapore
Airlines, Thai, JAL, Austrian. etc.
Ghouse has also set-up in joint
venture with the Fauji
Foundation, Pakistan's only
Grain and Fertiliser Terminal
handling a throughput of 4
million tons.
Haroon & Farouq Sheikh
Caretech PLC
Two of the UKs leading
entrepreneurs, philanthropists and
community figureheads. Their
business interests encompass
healthcare, private equity,
property investment and
development. Best known as
co-founders of CareTech Holdings
PLC, a respected national
provider of specialist services to
adults and children with learning
or physical disabilities or mental
health problems which now
supports over 1800 service users
and employs around 3500
Afzal and Akmal Khushi
TRESPASS
Afzal and Akmal Khushi are
directors and co-owners of Jacobs
& Turner International, probably
better known as TRESPASS. Since
taking over they have transformed
the small manufacturing company
into an international lifestyle
brand now selling and producing
in more than 62 countries.
TRESPASS was awarded The UK
Fashion Exports Award, three
years in a row. Trespass entered
the retail trade at the end of the
1990s and now has more than 70
stores in the UK and more than
40 franchises worldwide.
Asif Rangoonwala
Entrepreneur
Asifs Rangoonwalas phenomenal
success has led him to become
one of the most prominent Asian
businessmen in the UK. In 1992,
Asif identified a gap in the UK
market in the baked goods sector,
prompting him to launch
Eurobuns- a baked goods
company which supplied high-
street chains, which achieved a
sales turnover of 50 million
within a decade under Asifs
direction and supervision. His
courage and conviction led him
to dominate the baked goods
market.
Mian Muhammad
Mansha
Nishat Group
Mian Mohammad Mansha is the
Chairman of Nishat Group - the
biggest industrial and financial
conglomerate of Pakistan. This
group was founded in 1948 by
Manshas father Mian Mohammad
and his three brothers. Nishat
currently comprises of 21
companies including 13 listed
companies with manufacturing
assets of nearly 27 billion and
three of Manshas close relatives,
Saigols, Jehangir Elahi and S M
Saleem of United Bank among
the top 45 industrial families in
Pakistan.
Sir Anwar Pervez
Bestway Group
Sir Anwar Pervez OBE, Hilal-i-
Pakistan, is a businessman in the
United Kingdom. He is the
founder and Chairman of Bestway
Group. Sir Anwar is also the
Deputy Chairman of United Bank
Limited (UBL); Pakistans second
largest private bank. He is a
Council Member of the
Federation of Wholesale
Distributors. He is the Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of
Bestway Foundation UK, Patron-
in-Chief of Bestway Foundation
Pakistan, Trustee of Memorial
Gates Trust.
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Syed Babar Ali is an entrepreneur and industrialist, Syed
Babar Ali envisioned and set up Packages Limited which
is Pakistans largest paper & board mill, Milkpak Limited
which now is Nestle Milkpak Limited which has become
one of the largest food processing companies in Pakistan
especially liquid milk in Tetra Pak containers; Tetra Pak
Pakistan Limited, International General Insurance
Company of Pakistan Limited, Tri-Pack Films Limited,
First International Investment Bank and Systems Private
Limited. He is Chairman of Aventis Pakistan Limited,
Bayer CropScience Pakistan Limited, Siemens. Pakistan
Engineering Company Limited, Coca-Cola Beverages
Pakistan Limited and Director of Unilever Pakistan
Limited and Mitchells Fruit Farms Limited. He believes
in the joint venture philosophy and most of his businesses
are joint ventures with major multinationals.
As an educationist, he envisioned and established Lahore
University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 1985 of
which he is the first Pro-Chancellor. LUMS is Pakistans
premier management education institution. He also
founded Ali Institute of Education for training of primary
and secondary school teachers. He promoted the cause of
the World Wide Fund for Nature where he served in
various capacities, both in Pakistan and internationally,
from 1972 to 1996. He was International President of
WWF from 1996 to 1999 succeeding HRH The Duke of
Edinburgh. He is now Vice President Emeritus, WWF
International. He served as Pakistans Minister of
Finance, Economic Affairs & Planning in 1993. He
received honours and awards from the Government of
Sweden, the Netherlands, an OBE from Britain (1997),
and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Laws
from McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997).
Ali served as the finance minister of the country in
the caretaker government of Moeenuddin Ahmad
Qureshi from July 23, 1993 to October 19, 1993. He is
Chairman of Sanofi-Aventis Pakistan Limited, Siemens
Pakistan Engineering Company Limited, Coca-Cola
Beverages Pakistan Limited and Director of Unilever
Pakistan Limited and Mitchells Fruit Farms the Lahore
University of Management Sciences. He is a member of
the board of Aitchison College, F.C. College, Kinnaird
College, and Lahore School of Economics and a founding
member of the Initiative on Social Enterprise of Harvard
University. He served as the president of the World
Wildlife Fund from 1996 to 1999. He also acts as the
honorary Consul General of Sweden in Lahore.
Ali is known for his interest in academics and his vision of
providing quality education to people of all origins within
the country, without any differences of color, creed or
race.
SYED BABER ALI
Packages Group
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As Chairman of Pakistans largest
commercial bank, Sultan Ali Allana is a
leading figure in Pakistans financial
landscape.
Since 2004, he has led the Board of
HBL as a representative of the Aga
Khan Fund for Economic
Development of which he is a
Director. On behalf of AKFED, Mr
Allana was involved in leading the
successful privatisation bid for HBL.
Post privatisation, HBL has made
significant progress in enhancing its
footprint in the country and in the
diversified overseas regions where it
maintains a niche presence. The
domestic growth has been significant
but measured to ensure that the longer
term objectives of the Bank are in sync
with the ethos of the major
shareholders which is to be a key
contributor in the economic welfare
of Pakistan. The Bank is well
positioned to be the premier financial
institution of the country.
Mr Allana is committed to the cause of
financial inclusion in order to reach
out to the unbanked population of
Pakistan and it is in this vein that he
has been extensively involved in
promoting sustainable Microfinance in
Pakistan. In 2000, he was instrumental
in promulgating the Microfinance
In recognition of
his services to
the business and
social sector in
Pakistan, the
Government of
Pakistan conferred
the highest civilian
award Sitara-e-Imtiaz
upon him in 2006.
SULTAN ALI ALLANA
Habib Bank Limited
banking ordinance and subsequently
established The First Microfinance
Bank Limited where he served as
Chairman until 2006.
His contribution within Pakistan
extends beyond the financial services
sector as he has been engaged in
defining and setting standards of
excellence in the hospitality industry
as well. Since 1997, Mr Allana has
been involved with the Serena Hotels
and in his capacity as the Chairman of
the Executive Committee was
responsible for the execution of their
flagship hotel in Islamabad. The
Serena Hotels chain is engaged in
promoting tourism in Pakistan with
their significant presence in urban as
well as rural areas.
Mr Allana holds Undergraduate and
Post Graduate degrees from McGill
University and the University of
Wisconsin in Engineering and
Management.
In recognition of his services to the
business and social sector in Pakistan,
the Government of Pakistan
conferred the highest civilian award
Sitara-e-Imtiaz upon him in 2006.
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SADRUDDIN
HASHWANI
Tariq Saigol belonging to the eighth most richest family in Pakistan, is
a businessman by profession. Son of the pioneer of the renowned
Saigol dynasty, which was established as a shoe shop with the name
Kohinoor Rubber Works. The company became market leaders till
nationalization, when progress was halted and two-thirds of the
companys wealth was lost. The Saigol family harvested excellent crop
and opened a textile mill under the name of Kohinoor Textile Mills.
This group was the first to open an LC with the State Bank of Pakistan.
They bought the United Bank in 1959 and then witnessed five of their
units getting nationalized. They lived in Saudi Arabia during the Bhutto
regime. Today, cousins Tariq and Nasim are holding the familys fort
together and have risen to unprecedented heights in individual
capacities.
Tariq serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Zimpex (Private)
Limited. Mr. Saigol serves as Chief Executive Officer of Kohinoor
Textile Mills Limited, and Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd. He started
his career in 1968 at Kohinoors Chemical Complex at Kala Shah
Kaku. Upon trifurcation of the Group in 1976, he became Chief
Executive of Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited, Rawalpindi. Since 1984,
he has been Chairman of the Kohinoor Maple Leaf Group which has
interests in textiles, cement manufacturing and energy. He serves as
the Chairman of Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd. and Kohinoor
Textile Mills Limited. He has been a Director of State Bank of Pakistan
since May 2007. He serves as a Director of Kohinoor Mills Limited.
He served as the Chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association
from 1992 to 1994, President of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and
Industry from 1995 to 1997 and Chairman of All Pakistan Cement
Manufacturers Association from 2003 to 2006.
TARIQ SAIGOL
Hashoo Group
Sadruddin Hashwani is the Chairman of Hashoo
Group (Established 1960). He is Ismaili Nizari Muslim
(Aga Khani) by faith. Today, Hashoo Group is one of
the most diversified industrial groups in Pakistan with
interests across tourism, travel, real-estate
development, pharmaceuticals, IT, and oil and gas.
Also, the Hashoo Group of Companies has in its fold,
as owners and operators, the Pearl Continental Hotels
and Marriott Hotels brands with presence in all major
cities of Pakistan and Ocean Pakistan Limited, a
prestigious Oil and Gas exploration and production
company. Today he is known to be the leading figures
in hospitality industry around the world and has been
honored with various awards including a gold medal
for distinguished services for hospitality industry in
Pakistan at World Tourism convention.
Kohinoor Textile Mills
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James Caan is one of the UKs most
successful and dynamic entrepreneurs.
He made his fortune in the
recruitment industry, which included
the global success of his companies,
Alexander Mann Group and Humana
International, and he has been building
and selling businesses ever since. In
2004 he founded private equity firm
Hamilton Bradshaw based in Londons
Mayfair. The company specialises in
buyouts, venture capital, real estate
and now manages a portfolio of over
30 companies.
James is best known for joining the
panel of the hit TV show on BBC,
Dragons Den, where he invested in
14 companies and committed over
1m of investment, over 4 series.
In 2011 James launched a property
venture, HB Real Estate, to target
investments in prime London
residential and commercial real estate
assets. The new division has raised a
100m fund and has recently made its
first acquisition, a residential asset in
prime Knightsbridge with an
estimated GDV in excess of 30m.
James has received various prestigious
awards including BT Enterprise of the
Year, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Entrepreneur of the Year and
Entrepreneur of the Year in the Asian
Jewel Awards.
James supports a variety of
government initiatives including The
Entrepreneurs Forum; James was
selected to join a panel of high profile
business people who meet regularly to
debate their views on enterprise
policy.
James is heavily
involved with charity
and set up The James
Caan Foundation in
2011 to help
underprivileged
children get access to
education.
JAMES CAAN
Hamilton Bradshaw
In May 2012 he was appointed
Chairman of StartUp Loans, a
government initiative to support
young people with funding to start up
new businesses in the UK. Over 82
million of loans will be offered to 18-
24 year olds over the next 3 years.
James is heavily involved with charity
and set up The James Caan
Foundation in 2011 to help
underprivileged children get access to
education.
James has written three bestselling
books, The Real Deal, his
autobiography, Get the Job You Really
Want, based on his 30 years of
experience in the recruitment
industry (Get the Job reached No. 1
in 3 categories on Amazon and was
the best-selling practical business
book of 2011). In his latest book,
Start Your Business in 7 Days, James
uses his experience to help the new
generation of entrepreneurs to work
out if their business ideas are
workable and bankable. Start Your
Business reached No. 2 in the Amazon
business chart within two weeks of
launching.
James is extremely passionate about
supporting small businesses and
recently launched a free app, James
Caan Business Secrets to help other
entrepreneurs on their journey to
success. The app was the fastest
downloaded business app of 2011 and
is regularly ranked in the Top 100 apps
ever in Apps Magazine.
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NetSol technology IPs to run their
mission critical systems.
NetSol is a highly profitable Company,
with considerable cost arbitrage in its
business model. It builds the majority
of its IP in Lahore, Pakistan and its
cost base is in Pakistan Rupees.
However, its revenue is almost
entirely generated in hard currencies,
such as the Dollar, Sterling and the
Euro.
The three brothers work in unison
and all three have held the CEO job.
Currently, Najeeb is the CEO and
Salim and Naeem are both Presidents
who manage Service delivery and
Global sales respectively.
The founders still own a significant
amount of equity in the Company and
have several investments in property
and other ventures.
NAEEM, NAJEEB & SALIM GHAURI
NetSol Technologies
MOHAMMED ADIL
Adil Group of Companies
The Ghauri brothers, Naeem, Najeeb
and Salim founded NetSol in 1996.
From its inception, their vision was to
establish NetSol as a global business,
competing with large, established
multi national IT Companies like SAP
and Oracle.
NetSol went public via a successful
IPO in 1999 and started trading on
Nasdaq. The Company still holds the
distinction of the only Company ever
from Pakistan to have done an IPO
and is listed on Nasdaq. Within a year
of listing on Nasdaq, it achieved a
market cap of $1Billion, during the
dot com boom. Since then, through
many corrections in the financial
markets, NetSol has continued to be a
resilient player in a very competetive
landscape.
NetSol now operates in 7 countries
and has customers in over 40
countries and large clients such as
Mercedes Benz Finance and Toyota
Financila Services, spend multi-
million dollar budgets in licensing the
Mohammed Adil, born in Gujjar Khan, Pakistan,
came to the UK as a teenager in 1963 and became a
millionaire before the age of 40. He started his
career as a bus driver; however in 1969 became the
first Asian Franchisee of the fast food chain, his first
branch being in Willesden. He also created his own
brand Burger Delight. He progressed to acquire
more restaurants, which he converted to Burger
King Franchise over time. He is now a proud
franchisee of the Wimpy, Burger King, KFC, and
Costa brands, and has in excess of 80 restaurants in
the UK, employing around 2000 people throughout
the group.
He climbed onto the property ladder at an early
age, unlike other Asian colleagues, who acquired
corner shops. Currently Mr Adil holds a huge
commercial and residential property portfolio in
and around London along with the two successfully
operating hotels.
Mr Adil contributes to the Asian community
through donations to reputable charities. He has
been awarded many prestigious honorary awards.
Respected for his contribution to the community,
he associates well with high calibre people of the
UK and Pakistan.
His two sons follow in his footsteps: Raja Jameel
Adil, a qualified and highly successful solicitor
manages the KFC restaurants whilst Zahir Adil the
Burger King restaurants and other businesses.
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Aamna Taseer serves as the
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of First Capital Securities
Corporation Limited. She has
been the Chief Executive Officer
of Pace Pakistan Limited since May
2, 2011 and has been the
Chairman of the Board at Media
Times Limited since June 29,
2011.
She is one of the main promoters
who established First Capital
Securities Corporation Limited
(FCSC) in Pakistan in 1994, a
full service brokerage house with
equity participation by Smith
Barney Inc USA and HG Asia
Hong Kong.
FCSC ser the tone for investment
banking services and together with
the help of international banks,
Amina Taseer successfully laid the
background for important advisory
and corporate finance transactions.
Since then she has been actively
involved in establishing other
companies in the financial sectors.
As a Director of Pace Pakistan Ltd,
with a listing in Pakistan and
convertible bond listing in
Singapore, the Pace brand is
recognized not only in Pakistan
but by international fund managers
across the globe.
As a Director of Pace
Pakistan Ltd, with a
listing in Pakistan and
convertible bond
listing in Singapore,
she has ensured the
Pace brand is
recognized not only
in Pakistan but by
international fund
managers across
the globe.
AAMINA TASEER
First Capital Securities Corporation Limited
Today the group has 6 operational
shopping malls in different cities
and around eight projects under
various phases of development.
First Capital Group also took the
lead by introducing the first
English news channel in Pakistan
Business Plus which was followed
by the first exclusive kids channel,
Zaiqa Channel, Media Times
Limited, a First Capital Group
Company is one of the fastest
growing English newspaper, The
Daily Times and an Urdu daily by
the name of Aaj Kal
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MEDIA, FASHION & MUSIC
THE POWER 100
THE POWER BROKERS
Aaqil Ahmed BBC
Abida Parween Singer
Amber Haroon Dawn Group
Arif Nizami Pakistan Today
Art Malik Actor
Hameed Haroon Dawn Group
Hassan Sheheryar Yasin HSY
Imran Aslam GEO
Mansoor Shaikh JWT
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Singer
Salman Ahmad Junoon
Salman Iqbal ARY
Sehyr Saigol Libas
Shakil ur Rahman Jang Group
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Filmaker
Shoaib Mansoor Director
Abida Parween
Singer
Abida Perveen is one of the most
well known names in the Music
industry, both nationally and
internationally. She is of Sindhi
descent and started receiving
musical training from her father
at an early age. She started her
professional career in 1973 and is
now one of the most sought after
singers of this country. Her
genres include the Ghazal, Kafi
and Qawwali, and she sings in
multiple languages including
Urdu, Sindhi and Persian. She has
had numerous international
performances which have led to
an avid international fan
following.
Rizvan Beyg
Fashion
One of the sparkling names in the
list of Pakistani fashion designers
is Rizwan Beyg. He is no doubt
one of the top class designers of
the Pakistani fashion industry.
Fashion designer Beyg is
establishing and creating latest
and unique designs on the fabrics
since 1986.
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Aaqil Ahmed
BBC
Aaqil Ahmed is the first Head of
Religion and Ethics and
Commissioning Editor of
Religion at the BBC. He runs the
In-house Department making
Radio and TV shows such as
Thought for the Day and Songs of
Praise. He also commissions
content from across the BBC and
Independent Producers. Prior to
this position, Aaqil spent six years
at Channel 4 as Commissioning
Editor of Religion and the Head
of Multicultural Programming.
He commissioned award winning
projects such as Inside The Mind
of The Suicide Bomber.
Art Malik
Actor
Art Malik achieved international
fame in the 1980s through his
starring and subsidiary roles in
assorted British and Merchant-
Ivory television serials and films.
He is especially remembered as
the doomed Hari Kumar in The
Jewel in the Crown at the outset
of his career. The success of these
ventures brought Malik to
Hollywood, where he was an
Afghan rebel leader who teams
with James Bond (Timothy
Dalton) in The Living Daylights
(1987). In Roland Joffes City of
Joy (1992), Malik portrayed a
brutal gangster who demands
graft from the local inhabitants of
the area.
Arif Nizami
Nawa-i-Waqa
Founder of Nawa-i-Waqat, Arif
Nizami is the son of a renowned
journalist Hamid Nizami. After
being terminated from his fathers
company by his own uncle,
Pakistan Today was born. Pakistan
Today uplholds a liberal and
moderate editorial policy through
its editorial and contents.
Pakistan Today has among other
personalities of high net worth,
the financial support and backing
of the best-known corporate
entity in the country . Post-
modern and contemporary in its
outlook, Pakistan Today espouses
core values of independence,
authenticity and credibility.
Mansoor Karim Shaikh
JWT
Currently as Group CEO for
JWT, Contract advertising and
T-Media, Mansoor leads a team of
200 plus people in Karachi and
Lahore. An optimist to the core,
he believes that for Pakistan the
best is yet to come. With
Communication being such a
powerful platform to showcase
Pakistans potential, Mansoor was
also nominated as Vice Chairman
the Advertising Association of
Pakistan (AAP) in 2011. The AAP
serves as the voice of the industry
and represents nearly 200
agencies at various forums and
platforms.
Mir Shakil ur Rahman
Jang Group
Mir Shakil ur Rahman is the part
owner of the Independent Media
Corporation and Group Chief
Executive and Group Editor in
Chief of Jang Group of
Companies in Pakistan. This
media group publishes a number
of newspapers and magazines in
Urdu and English. Today, around
10 top newspapers and the multi-
billion-rupee GEO TV project
are being run by Mir Shakeel-ur-
Rehman. Independent Media
Corporation (IMC) also owns the
GEO TV network. Business Week
magazine selected Mir Shakil ur
Rahman in its list of 25 Stars of
Asia.
Shoaib Mansoor
Film maker
Shoaib Mansoor is among the
most influential and famous
figures in the Pakistan showbiz
scene. He has written, produced
and directed hit TV shows such as
Ankahi and Fifty Fifty. He has
also been a successful songwriter
and music composer and, in the
1980s, introduced the then-pop
sensation Vital Signs to the
mainstream. In 2009, he began
directing a big budget film Bol
which had Atif Aslam, Mahira
Khan, Humaima Abbassi and
Iman Ali playing lead roles.
Amber Haroon
Dawn media group
Amber Haroon is the
Chairperson of Dawn Group.
Dawn is one of the widest read
English newspapers of Pakistan,
with a daily circulation of over
30,000 copies. The Dawn Media
Group is the trading name of
Pakistan Herald Publications
(Pvt.) Ltd. The Karachi based
group is owned by the powerful
Haroon and Saigol families. Its
CEO is Hameed Haroon, and its
chairman is Amber Haroon
Saigol, daughter of the previous
chairman Mahmoud Haroon and
the 11th richest individual in
Pakistan in 1993.
Imran Aslam
GEO
Imran Aslam is a journalist and
media personality from Pakistan.
Imran Aslam graduated from
Government College Lahore, He
began his journalistic career as
the editor of The Star in the
1980s. In the 1990s he was editor
of The News, a Karachi English
daily. He is currently the
president of GEO Television, a
subsidiary of the Jang Group.
Aslam has written political
satirical plays for television, and
for the Gripps Theatre, with
translations of Dario Fos plays
for children, localised for
Pakistani audiences.
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Inheriting a passion for excellence and
enterprise from the family, Salman
have been able to become one of the
most dynamic and effective members
of ARY Group. Within a span of
seventeen years, today Salman is the
head of Pakistans Largest Private
Satellite Network comprising of a
brilliant team of more than a 2600
professionals across the globe. In
addition to his enthusiasm for success
in business, Salman strives to be a
humble and beneficial human being
and give back to society at large and to
his country to the best of his ability.
Salman took over the business of ARY
Digital Network with the acquisition
of The Pakistani Channel in London in
early 2000. Within less than 3 years of
the takeover, Salman had turned the
12 hour channel from UK to a global
network of 11 channels
broadcasting into Pakistan, India,
North America, UK/ Europe and the
Middle East.
Salman has simply pioneered the
emergence of the Private Media in
Pakistan. He has been responsible for
quite a few firsts. He launched the
first Pakistani, Global news and
current affairs channel - ARY News
which introduced to Pakistan, free
news, that had been limited till then
to the information provided by the
State owned channel. Since its
inception ARY News has set many
path breaking trends such as the First
Pakistani channel, to cover the
situation in Afghanistan and Afghan
Elections in depth. Has extensive
team, covering the Tribal areas of
Pakistan. ARY News, was the first
channel from the region to cover the
Iraq war from within Iraq, the first
and only channel to cover the Israeli /
Lebanon war from the war zone itself,
including the first ever channel to
broadcast the Israeli prerogative as
well to a predominantly Muslim
Population of viewers, which was a
risky move by Salman, well received
in Pakistan.
He has also been credited with placing
Pakistan on the map in the world of
entertainment. He engineered and
orchestrated strategic partnerships
with global media organizations such
as HBO and Viacom, Endemol,
Celador to introduce them to the
country and expand their business
interests and as well representing
them Pakistan. Salman has organised
the first and only mega concert by a
western POP star, Bryan Adams in
2006 with proceeds donated to a
childrens charity in Pakistan.
SALMAN IQBAL
ARY Digital Network
RAHAT FATEH
ALI KHAN
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a Pakistani singer,
primary singing in the genre Qawwali, a
devotional music of the Muslim Sufis. He also
performs ghazals and other light music. He is
popular as a Bollywood playback singer.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has created his own space in
the music market today from assisting his uncle
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, collaborating an album
with the famous American rock band Pearl Jam.
He has also contributed to the soundtrack of the
1995 Hollywood film Dead Man Walking, the
2002 soundtrack of Four Feathers in
collaboration with American composer of
orchestral and film music, James Horner. His
recent Hollywood contribution is in Mel
Gibsons Apocalypto in 2006.
He has won awards for Best Male Playback
Singer; Filmfare Awards 2011, Best Male
Playback; Screen Awards 2011 and 2010 and the
Best International Act; UK Asian Music Awards
2010.
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Salman Ahmad, one of South Asias most
influential cultural figures, is a musician,
physician and United Nations goodwill
ambassador. With his wife, Samina, he
launched an NGO called the Salman &
Samina Global Wellness Initiative, focused
on interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue,
global health and wellness, and music
education.
Ahmad popularized a blend of Western
rock music and Eastern/Islamic music that
has been called Sufi rock and that has
been hailed as a cultural bridge within
South Asia and between the East and West.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Ahmad spent his
teenage years in New York before
returning to Lahore to train as a medical
doctor.
Turning then to his true passion of music,
Ahmad founded South Asias biggest rock
band, Junoon, in 1990. The band faced
death threats and harassment from
religious extremists and government
forces in its early years, but Junoons
sweeping melodies, bhangra rock rhythms
and driving guitars led it to become known
as the U2 of South Asia.
Junoon has sold over 25 million albums
worldwide and has shared the stage with
artists such as Melissa Etheridge, Alicia
Keys, Sting, Earth Wind and Fire, and
Wyclef Jean. Ahmad has recently co-
written and recorded a song with academy
award winning artist Melissa Etheridge
called Ring the Bells.
Ahmad led Junoon in a 2001 performance
at the U.N. General Assembly Hall, the
first such rock performance in that hall. In
2007 Junoon performed at the Nobel
Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. The group
defied death threats from militants to
perform in 2008 in the valley of Kashmir,
the first rock concert to be held in
Srinagar.
Hollywood actress
Susan Sarandon also
presented a
documentary on
Junoon for VH1
titled, Islamabad:
Rock City.
SALMAN AHMAD
Music and UN Goodwill Ambassador
Jon Pareles of the New York Times has
described Junoon as South Asias answer
to Santana, and the Wall Street Journal
called Junoons eclectic music a powerful
combination of Led Zeppelin and
traditional South Asian percussion like
tabla and dholak.
Ahmad has written a memoir for Simon
and Schuster titled Rock and Roll Jihad
(scheduled for publication in early 2010)
and has written commentaries for the
Washington Posts On Faith website. He
is also a member of the Brookings
institutes US-Islamic arts & culture panel
for public diplomacy.
Ahmad has appeared on major television
networks such as CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC,
AL-Jazeera and AL-Arabiya and has been
the subject of two documentary films:
The Rockstar and the Mullahs and Its
My Country Too for PBS/Wide Angle
and the BBC.
Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon also
presented a documentary on Junoon for
VH1 titled, Islamabad: Rock City.
Ahmad is also a professor at Queens
college (CUNY) where he teaches music
and poetry from Muslim culture.
He received an honorary doctorate from
the Claremont Graduate University in
2009.
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A young Pakistani fashion designer Hassan
Sheheryar Yasin started his career as a fashion
choreographer in 1994. After his success in
choreography, he stepped in to the world of
fashion designing. He mostly made bridal
and formal wear at the beginning of his
fashion designing career. Due to his
remarkable work, he achieved an emerging
south Asian fashion label HSY in 2000. His
early fashion designing success made him to
plan mens line in 2006 and to introduce the
jewelry line in 2007. He also introduced
different collection of home furniture,
interior accessories and soft furnishing.
He started his bridal and formal wear Cot
Our House in the most traditional city of
Pakistan, Lahore. He owns fourteen display
centers at international level including UK,
Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA and Pakistan. He has
six stores internationally with the
collaboration of flagship studio in Lahore. He
has been planning more furniture show
rooms in Toronto and New York. But he has
also organized various fashion shows at
international fashion scenes including Dubai,
London, New York city and Toronto.
Recently, he has displayed both his latest
mens and womens wear collection for
winters in PFDC Sunsilk fashion week 2012
Karachi. He is working on traditional Formal
Line, Made-To-Order Line, Ready to Wear
Line and Studio Line these days.
HASSAN SHEHERYAR YASIN
Fashion Designer
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Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy had ambition to
do something for her country; she started
by writing columns in newspapers about
the forlorn and unfortunate events
happening in Pakistan. Later, she entered
the film making industry just so she could
convey her message to the public.
Her career in documentary filmmaking
began when she examined the plight of
Arghan refugee children in Pakistan for an
article. Their situation was so ominous,
and their stories so compelling, that
Sharmeen decided to return to Pakistan
and create a film about them. She
petitioned Smith College and New York
Times Television production division for
the funds that would allow her to
accomplish her goals. Intrigued and
interested by her story, both organizations
gave her the finances as well as production
equipment and training.
Obaid began her calling with New York
Times Television in 2002 where she
produced Terrors Children, a film
about Afghan refugee children, which won
her the Overseas Press Club Award, the
American Women and Radio and
Television Award, and the South Asian
Journalist Association Award. Since then,
she has produced and reported on more
than twelve films around the world.
Obaid produced and accounted on four
multi-award winning documentary films
for New York Times Television. In
2003, reinventing the Taliban was awarded
the Special Jury Award at the BANFF TV
festival in Canada, the CINE Golden Eagle
Award, the American Women in Radio and
Television award, and the Livingston
Award. In 2005, her film Women of the
Holy Kingdom, which provided an inside
look at the womens movement in Saudi
Arabia, won the South Asian Journalist
Association Award.
Known for
documentaries
focusing on life in
the Muslim world,
Obaid-Chinoy
became the first
non-American
to win the
Livingston Award.
SHARMEEN OBAID CHINOY
Director
In 2005, Obaid began working with
Channel 4 in the United Kingdom
reporting on four films for their
Unreported World series. Pakistans
Double Game looked at sectarian violence
in Pakistan, City of Guilt explored the
Catholic Churchs pro-life movement in
the Philippines, The New
Apartheid looked into growing
xenophobia in South Africa, and Birth of a
Nation delved into the politics of East
Timor. In 2007, Obaid was named
journalist of the year by the One World
Media awards for her work in the series.
In 2007, Obaid travelled to Afghanistan
and reported for Channel 4 and CNN.
Her film, Afghanistan Unveiled/Lifting
the Veil, focuses on stalled reconstruction
and the repression of women in the
country.In 2010, she won an Emmy
Award for her documentary, Pakistan:
Children of the Taliban, which explores
Taliban recruitment strategies, their effect
on the youth and their methods to
radicalize the countrys young and often
dejected populace. Children of the Taliban
premiered FiLums (2011) - the largest
film festival in Pakistan held annually at
the Lahore University of Management
Sciences.
On February 26, 2012, Obaid became the
first Pakistani woman to win an Oscar for
the co-directed documentary Saving Face,
which she made with Daniel Junge (who
started the film and titled it before she
came aboard as co-director) and which
chronicles the lives of acid attack
survivors in Pakistan. The film also follows
British-Pakistani plastic surgeon
Mohammad Ali Jawad who performs
reconstructive surgeries on survivors of
such terrible attacks. The film was co-
directed by American filmmaker Daniel
Junge.
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SOCIAL & COMMUNITY
THE POWER 100
THE POWER BROKERS
Abdul Sattar Edhi Welfare
Asma Jahngir AGHS
Bilquis Edhi Bilquis Edhi Foundation
Farrokh Captain LRBT
Imran Khan Shaukat Khanum Hospital
Imam Qasim Al Khair
Mukhtar Mai Human Rights Fighter
Nigar Ahmed Aurat Foundation
Roshaneh Zafar Kashf Foundation
Seema Aziz Care Foundation
Shoaib Sultan Khan Rural Support Program
Souriya Anwar SOS Villages
Shoaib Sultan Khan
Rural Support
Programmes (RSPs)
Shoaib Sultan Khan (SSK) is
widely renowned as one of the
pioneers of rural
development programmes in
Pakistan. He served for 59 years
in a range of development
organizations including Aga Khan
Foundation, UNICEF, UNDP, and
Rural Support Programmes
Network. As a CSP Officer, he
worked with the Government
of Pakistan for 25 years, later on
he served Geneva-based Aga
Khan Foundation for 12 years
and UNICEF and UNDP for 14
years. Since his retirement, he has
been involved with the Rural
Support Programmes (RSPs)
of Pakistan full-time, on
voluntary basis.
Nigar Ahmed
Aurat Foundation
An academic and social activist,
the founder of Aurat Foundation,
Nigar Ahmad is one of the 1000
women who were proposed for
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
While pursuing a career in
academia she taught economics
for 16 years at the faculty of the
Quaid-e-Azam University in
Islamabad and was drawn into the
struggle of Pakistani women
against the anti-women policies
of the military dictatorship
headed by Zia-ul-Haq. It is at this
point in time where she founded
the Aurat Foundation with the
help of other likeminded women
friends. From then on, under her
leadership, the Aurat Foundation
has taken up provocative issues,
from mobilizing women
candidates for local government
elections to generating
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Farrok Captian
LRBT
In 1978 Farrokh K Captain lead a
major US-Pakistan joint venture
chemical manufacturing business
in Pakistan, namely Captain-PQ
Chemical Industries (Private)
Limited. He is also a
distinguished member of the
Board of the American Business
Council. Mr. Captain now
devotes much of his time in the
field of social work. He is a
Trustee of the Layton Rehmatulla
Benevolent Trust and has served
as Chairman of the Pakistan
Human Development Fund. He is
currently serving his eighth
three-year term as Director of
Shell Pakistan Ltd.
Seema Aziz
Care Foundation
Seema Aziz is an entrepreneur
and social activist who has been
working for the cause of
education in Pakistan since 1988.
In 1985, she started a business, to
prove that Pakistan could produce
embroidered fabric equal in
quality and design to the best in
world. Today, 26 years on,
Bareeze is a symbol of pride for
Pakistan. After the flood of
1988, which devastated a large
part of the Punjab, Seema
founded CARE Foundation,
which is currently the largest
non-governmental organization in
Pakistan, and perhaps the largest
school system in the world.
Bilquis Edhi
Bilquis Edhi Foundation
Bilquis Edhi is one of the most
well known names in the field of
public service. She heads the
Bilquis Edhi Foundation, a
nonprofit organization that
provides 24 hour emergency
services across the country.
Bilquis Edhi married her husband
Abdul Sattar Edhi at an early age
and since then the two have been
of invaluable service to the
people of Pakistan. The
BilquisEdhi Foundation, better
known as Edhi Foundation,
provides shelter and free medical
care for the poor, rehabilitation
for drug addicts, relief efforts in
times of national crises.
Asma Jahangir
AGHS
Asma Jahangir is currently the
President of the Supreme Court
Bar Association of Pakistan and
has been twice elected as
Chairperson of the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan. She is
also a Director of the AGHS
Legal Aid Cell, which provides
free legal assistance to the needy.
Jahangir was instrumental in the
formation of the Punjab Women
Lawyers Association in 1980 and
the Women Action Forum in
1985. Jahangir has authored two
books and five papers. She has
been the recipient of a number of
international and national awards,
Magsaysay Award in 1995.
Imam Qasim
Al-Khair
Imam Qasim founded Al-Khair in
2003, Since its establishment, the
Foundation has been meticulously
engaged in charitable work
assisting those who are less
fortunate than others. Al-Khair
has established overseas schools
for orphans and shelters for
widows and vulnerable women.
The Foundation also constructs
water-wells making fresh, clean
drinking water accessible to
remote communities.
Roshaneh Zafar
Kashf Foundation
Roshaneh Zafar is the Founder
and Managing Director of Kashf
Foundation, Chair Kashf Holdings
and Founder Kashf Microfinance
Bank Limited based in Pakistan.
She founded the Kashf
Foundation the first specialized
microfinance organization in
Pakistan in 1996. Today, one of
the fastest growing MFIs in the
country, Kashf Foundation was
the first microfinance institute in
Pakistan to achieve financial self
sufficiency and demonstrated the
business case for investing in
womens economic
empowerment.
Souriya Anwar
SOS Villages
Souriya Anwar became President
of the International Womens
Club, she turned the socialising
club into a service oriented
group, which it steadfastly
remains, to date. Along the road
there have been other projects,
each bringing its own brand of
responsibility like office bearing
for the Muscular Dystrophy
Welfare Association, the Fatima
Memorial Hospital, the
Committee for Crimes Against
Women, the Prison Reforms
Commission, the Divisional
Social Welfare Council, to a five-
year tenure as a Justice of the
Peace!
Mukhtar Mai
Activist
In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai was
the victim of a gang rape.
Although custom would expect
her to commit suicide after being
raped, Mukhtaran spoke up, and
pursued the case, which was
picked up by both domestic and
international media. She started
the Mukhtar Mai Womens
Welfare Organization to help
support and educate Pakistani
women and girls. In April 2007,
Mukhtar Mai won the North-
South Prize from the Council of
Europe.
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Seema Aziz is an entrepreneur and social activist who
has been working for the cause of education in Pakistan
since 1988.
In 1985, she started a business, to prove that Pakistan
could produce embroidered fabric equal in quality and
design to the best in world. Today, 26 years on, Bareeze
is a symbol of pride for Pakistan and the most
recognizable Pakistani brand both within the country
and abroad. The Bareeze group, which now has 7
brands, sells through over 400 points of sale worldwide
and is Pakistans largest fashion retailer.
After the flood of 1988, which devastated a large part
of the Punjab, Seema founded CARE Foundation,
which is currently the largest non-governmental
organization in Pakistan, and perhaps the largest school
system in the world. CARE educates more than
150,000 students through 225 schools providing them
with a quality marketable education which sets them
at par with some of the best schools in the country.
CAREs mission is to have 1 million children enrolled
in its schools within the next 5 years.
SEEMA AZIZ
Care Foundation
Roshaneh Zafar is the Founder and Managing Director of Kashf
Foundation, Chair Kashf Holdings and Founder Kashf Microfinance
Bank Limited based in Pakistan. She founded the Kashf Foundation
the first specialized microfinance organization in Pakistan in 1996
after a chance meeting with Professor Muhammad Yunus of the
Grameen Bank. Today, one of the fastest growing MFIs in the country,
Kashf Foundation was the first microfinance institute in Pakistan to
achieve financial self sufficiency and demonstrated the business case for
investing in womens economic empowerment. In 2002, Kashf
Foundation was awarded the Microfinance Excellence Award by the
Grameen Foundation-USA for its groundbreaking innovations in the
field of microfinance in Pakistan, while in 2005 it won the AGFUND
International Prize for Microcredit 2005 out of 98 countries. In 2008,
Forbes ranked Kashf Foundation 34th in its top 50 MFIs of the World.
Ms Zafar has also spearheaded and led the team to establish the Kashf
Microfinance Bank, the first MFB in Pakistan to mobilize deposits from
low income households especially women which received its license in
October 2008.
Prior to starting Kashf, she worked with the World Bank in Islamabad
in the Water and Sanitation department for several years. Ms. Zafar was
one of the first Ashoka Fellows in Pakistan and was also selected as a
Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation in 2002 and the Skoll
Foundation in 2007. She represented the Social Entrepreneurs at the
World Economic Forum in January 2004 and spoke at the Opening
Plenary of the WEF along with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, President
Obasanjo of Nigeria, Carly Fiorina of Hewlett Packard and Mr.
Wolfenson of the World Bank, responding to the theme Partnering for
Security and Prosperity. Ms Zafar has also been awarded the Tamgha-i-
Imtiaz, one of Pakistans highest civilian awards 2005, by the President
of Pakistan for her work in the field of development and womens
empowerment. In 2009 Kashf Foundation under the leadership of
Roshaneh Zafar was awarded the OneWoman Initiative Award by the
US State Department in a ceremony in Islamabad by US Deputy
Secretary of State Mr. Jacob Lew. She has also been awarded the Vital
Voices Economic Empowerment Award 2010.
ROSHANEH ZAFAR
Kashf Foundation
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Edhi established his first welfare centre
and then the Bilqis Edhi Trust with a mere
Rs. 5000. What started as a one-man show
operating from a single room in Karachi is
now the Edhi Foundation, the largest
welfare organization in Pakistan. The
foundation has over 300 centers across the
country, in big cities, small towns and
remote rural areas, providing medical aid,
family planning and emergency assistance.
They own air ambulances, providing quick
access to far-flung areas.
In Karachi alone, the Edhi Foundation runs
8 hospitals providing free medical care, eye
hospitals, diabetic centers, surgical units, a
4- bed cancer hospital and mobile
dispensaries. In addition to these the
Foundation also manages two blood banks
in Karachi.
Edhi is to Karachi what Mother Teresa was
to the poor of Calcutta. Edhi and wife
Bilquees have spent a lifetime working for
people and their welfare work to date
remains unparalleled in Pakistan. They are
both very private people who shun
publicity. They have had little formal
education, and are totally committed to
the cause of helping the poor and needy.
Born in 1928 in Bantwa , Gujarat, India ,
Edhis family belonged to the industrious
Memon community. From a young age his
mother taught Edhi to be kind towards
others and to help the poor. In 1947 the
family migrated to Pakistan and settled in
Karachi. That was a time of great
emotional trauma and social and political
upheaval. Edhi became involved in social
work and began working with welfare
organisations and soon started his own
Edhi and Bilquis have
spent a lifetime
working for the poor
and their welfare
work to date
remains
unparalleled
in Pakistan.
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI
Edhi foundation
dispensary, providing medical aid to the
poor. He bought his first ambulance, an
old van which he called the "poor mans
van" and went around the city providing
medical help and burying unclaimed
bodies. His van became his advertisement
and soon he came to be known for his
work with the poor. As a consequence,
donations started pouring in and his
operations expanded, employing
additional nurses and staff. It was here that
Edhi met his wife Bilquees who was a
trainee nurse at the dispensary. They were
married in 1966. Bilquees became the
ideal wife for Edhi, totally committed to
welfare work.
Edhi established his first welfare centre
and then the Edhi Trust with a mere Rs.
5000 [$1000]. The Edhi Foundation grew
as people began to recognize its
humanitarian aims. In 1973 when an old
apartment building collapsed in Karachi,
Edhis ambulances and volunteers were
the first to reach the scene and start
rescue operations. From then, on, through
the troubles in Karachi and all over the
country, Edhis ambulances have been
rescuing and taking the injured to
hospitals and burying unclaimed bodies.
They go to places where even government
agencies hesitate to venture.
The Edhi Foundation is the first of its kind
in South Asia that owns air ambulances,
providing quick access to far-flung areas.
Whether it is a train accident or a bomb
blast, Edhi ambulances are the first to
arrive. The foundation relies on the
support of its 3, 500 workers and
thousands of volunteers who form the
backbone of the organisation
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VIRTUALHOSPITAL.ORG.UK
Using the internet to deliver 21st century
medical care to the worlds poorest people.
Virtual Hospital seeks to ensure that the
benefits of modern medicine are available to
all people and that the poor are not deprived
of medical treatment for want of money, or a
lack of access to effective healthcare.
Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani
politician, statesman and former
cricketer. He has played international
cricket for two decades in the late
twentieth century. After retiring, he
entered politics, besides his political
activism, Khan is also a philanthropist,
cricket commentator, Chancellor of
the University of Bradford and
Founding Chairman Board of
Governors of Shaukat Khanum
Memorial Cancer Hospital &
Research Centre.
He was Pakistans most successful
cricket captain, and played for the
Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to
1992 and served as its captain
intermittently throughout19821992
After retiring from cricket at the end
of the 1987 World Cup, in 1988 due to
popular public demand he was
requested to come back by the
president of Pakistan to lead the team
once again. At 39, Khan led his
teammates to Pakistans first and only
World Cup victory in 1992. He has a
record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets
in Test cricket, making him one of
eight world cricketers to have
achieved an All-rounders Triple in
Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan
was inducted into the ICC Cricket
Hall of Fame.
In April 1996, Khan founded and
became the chairman of a political
party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
(Movement for Justice). He
represented Mianwali as a member of
the National Assembly from Nov
2002 to Oct 2007. Foreign Policy
magazine has described him as
Pakistans Ron Paul. Through
worldwide fundraising, he founded
the Shaukat Khanum Memorial
Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
in 1996 and Mianwalis Namal
College in 2008.
On 13 December 2007, Khan
received the Humanitarian Award at
the Asian Sports Awards in Kuala
Lumpur for his efforts in setting up
the first cancer hospital in Pakistan. In
2009, at International Cricket
Councils centennial year celebration,
Khan was one of fifty-five cricketers
inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
In 2011 he was given Jinnah award.
On 28 July 2012, Imran Khan was
awarded an honorary fellowship by
the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh in recognition of his
services for cancer treatment in
Pakistan, through the Shaukat
Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
and Research Centre.
IMRAN KHAN
Politics & welfare
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ARTS & LITERATURE
THE POWER 100
THE POWER BROKERS
Ahmed Rashid Writer & Journalist
Ameena Saiyid Oxford University Press
Amin Guljee Artist
Hanif Kureishi English playwright
Jamil Naqsh Artist
Maleeha Lodhi Writer
Rashid Rana Artist
Sherry Rehman Journalist
Tariq Ali Historian
Tehmina Durrani Writer
Hanif Kureshi
Playwright
Hanif Kureishi CBE is an English
playwright, screenwriter and
filmmaker, novelist and short
story writer. The themes of his
work have touched on topics of
race, nationalism, immigration,
and sexuality. In 2008, The Times
included Kureishi in their list of
The 50 greatest British writers
since 1945
He wrote My Beautiful
Laundrette in 1985, a screenplay
about a gay Pakistani-British boy
growing up in 1980s London for
a film directed by Stephen Frears.
It won the New York Film Critics
Best Screenplay Award and an
Academy Award nomination for
Best Screenplay.His book The
Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won
the Whitbread Award for the best
first novel, and was also made
into a BBC television series with
a soundtrack by David Bowie.The
next year, 1991, saw the release
of the feature film entitled
London Kills Me; a film written
and directed by Kureishi himself.
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Tariq Ali
Writer
Tariq Ali, is a British Pakistani
military historian,novelist,
journalist, filmmaker, public
intellectual, political
campaigner, activist, and
commentator. He has written
more than two dozen books on
world history and politics and
several novels which have been
translated into over a dozen
languages, as well as scripts for
the stage and screen. He is
currently an editor of the New
Left Review. He is the writer of
several books, including Pakistan:
Military Rule or Peoples Power
(1970), Can Pakistan Survive?
Ameena Saiyid
Oxford University Press
Ameena Saiyid, managing
director, Oxford University Press
Pakistan, is the first woman in
Pakistan to head a multinational,
and to be elected President of the
Overseas Investors Chamber of
Commerce and Industry in its
150 years history. She was
awarded the OBE by the British
Queen for the promotion of
Anglo-Pakistan relations,
democracy, womens rights,
education, and intellectual
property rights. She developed
OUP Pakistans publishing
programme to make it the most
successful publisher in Pakistan.
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani
journalist based in Lahore, who
has covered Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Central Asia for a variety of
publications since 1979. His
books, Taliban and Descent
into Chaos are on course lists at
over 200 universities around the
world. He writes for the
Financial Times, the New York
Times, the New York Review of
Books, El Mundo and BBC
Online and Pakistani publications.
In 2001 he won the The Nisar
Osmani Courage in Journalism
Award, given by the Human
Rights Society of Pakistan.
Tehmina Durrani
Writer
Tehmina Durranis controversial
autobiography My Feudal Lord
was published in 1991. It is now
translated into 39 languages and
is a European Bestseller. The
book was a pioneer in
surmounting the hitherto
unbroken silence of Muslim
women since the 14th century,
reconciling the rights of women
with the paramount principle laid
down for them in Islam and
yet it was a book before its time.
Writing was not enough she
searched for other ways to
express. In 1992 she exhibited
her paintings Catharsis.
Jamil Naqsh
Painter
Jamil Naqsh is a Pakistani painter
deemed the only living Pakistani
modern master artist. He
currently lives a reclusive life in
London. He is best known for his
female nude figures. He was a
student of Shakir Ali and briefly
studied at National College of
Arts but left before obtaining a
degree. His work is very idealized
and sensual. The artist is known
for his palette knife work and
prominent line work on canvas.
Rashid Rana
Artist
Rashid Rana is one of the most
important artists of his
generation in Pakistan. A leading
name among the young-
generation artists on the
contemporary art scene. He is
popular with developing a
conceptually driven, well-
informed art practice, which
consists of a pixilated attention to
formal concerns. His works
revolve around a subtle
simultaneous exploration of
media and identity both bound
by a sharp political edge as he
satirizes pop culture and looks to
reinterpret varied elements of art
and cultural history. .
Maleeha Lodhi
Writer & Diplomat
Maleeha Lodhi, is a journalist,
academic and diplomat from
Pakistan. She was the High
Commissioner of Pakistan to the
United Kingdom and is a former
Pakistani Ambassador to the
United States. In the fall of 2008,
she was a Resident Fellow at the
Institute of Politics, John F.
Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University. She has
also been a member of the
United Nations Secretary-
Generals Advisory Board on
Disarmament.
Amin Gulgee
Artist
Amin Gulgee is an innovator of
tradition. Using metal, his
inspiration is the rich spiritual
history of Pakistan. Well-
established in Pakistan, the artist
has also exhibited extensively in
the USA, Europe and the Middle
East. The artists forty-odd shows
include Open: Prima Esposizione
di Sculture e Installazioni in
Venice, where he showed
alongside Cesar and ten other
international sculptors, and a solo
show at the IMF Gallery in
Washington.
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Among artists from Pakistan, Rashid Rana is the
most significant figure today. The recognition he has
received in international art as well as in the region
is unprecedented for any Pakistani artist. Distinct
for his ideas, imagery and pictorial strategies, his
work has been shown extensively around the world,
especially at some prestigious museums in Europe,
North America, Australia and Asia. He is popular
with developing a conceptually driven, well-
informed art practice, which consists of a pixilated
attention to formal concerns. His work, in the past
decade and a half, portrays dramatically different
modes such as paintings, stainless steel sculptures,
video installations, photo sculptures, and photo
mosaics, each time finding a freshness of purpose
and a surprising inventiveness of visual language.
His works revolve around a subtle simultaneous
exploration of media and identity both bound by
a sharp political edge as he satirizes pop culture and
looks to reinterpret varied elements of art
and cultural history. His new media
projects deal with everyday issues ranging
from tradition to faith and from
urbanization to popular culture. Using
photography and video installations he
depicts his commentary and parody of
both social and political scenarios.
Through the relationship between the
larger image and its constituent elements,
he leads us to meditations about part and
whole, surface and depth, fragment and
meaning.
RASHID RANA
Artist
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Tehmina Durranis controversial
autobiography My Feudal Lord was
published in 1991. It is now translated into
39 languages and is a European Bestseller.
The book was a pioneer in surmounting
the hitherto unbroken silence of Muslim
women since the 14th century, reconciling
the rights of women with the paramount
principle laid down for them in Islam
and yet it was a book before its time.
There is a price that comes with all
rebellions and revolts that break the status
quo. Tehmina has experienced it.
Writing was not enough she searched for
other ways to express. In 1992 she
exhibited her paintings Catharsis.
One of the paintings became the cover of
her third book Blasphemy.
Observing that no political party since
Pakistans inception had raised a voice for
the accountability of corrupt public
representatives, and recognizing that the
silent majority of Pakistan had neither,
voice, influence nor resources to make the
demand on the affluent, in 1993 she
formed an issues oriented movement,
Jihad for Accountability of Public Servants.
She went on a hunger strike for seven days.
Her demand was meant to create public
awareness towards the core issue facing
Pakistans progress and prosperity;
through the self- preservation of criminal
activity and its wide spread acceptance
which had shred the moral fabric of the
new generation. Today accountability is a
household word.
Believing, those who ruled over our
people knew nothing about the core issues
that confronted the oppressed, deprived
and directionless millions in every corner
of the country, she sought out the only
man who had spent a lifetime in the
service of the downtrodden Abdul
Satar Edhi.
Many forms of
expression are
required to break out
of the multiple
confines that imprison
the soul. Writing
and Painting are
just two of them,
says Tehmina.
TEHMINA DURRANI
Writer & Artist
She recorded the thoughts, inspirations,
motives, observations and works of
Pakistans most revered and renowned
social reformer. Its a guide towards
making a personal revolution, which in
time would move the collective spirit
towards humanitarian Islam. In 1994, A
Mirror to the Blind, Mr. Edhis narrated
autobiography, an official document of the
Founder of Edhi Foundation.
Consistent in her attempt to expose
current, social, religious and political
contradictions, in the year 1998, she
published Blasphemy, a novel inspired by a
true story.
As an act of compulsory Universal
Compassion, and oneness with human
community, in 2002, she stood up for the
freedom of Fakhra Yunas, a victim of Acid
Terrorism. Fakhras son is under the
supervision of an Italian family and
Tehmina Durrani.
After a great silence now comes; A Love
Affair, oil and water colour paintings
along with a coffee table book,
symbolizing the freedom of the soul from
the bondage expressed in Catharsis, as she
says.
Happy things in Sorrow times is a novel
with 38 water colour illustrations done at
Afghan refugee camps in Kandahar,
Turkham and Chaman. It is the first part
of a trilogy. A story told from the heart of
a child, Basrabia, in war torn Afghanistan
from the time of the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan to the present US War on
Terror.
A war, not against soldiers and warriors,
but against innocent childrenThey
need another chance in the interest of
world peace.
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PUBLIC SECTOR
THE POWER 100
THE POWER BROKERS
Amjad Hussain Royal Navy
Fehmida Mirza National Assembly
Hina Rabbani Khar Foreign Minister
Huma Mahmood Abedin Aide to Hilary Clinton
Iftikhar M Chaudhry Chief Justice
Kiswer Falkner Baroness House of Lords
Lord Nazir Ahmed House of Lords
Michael Nazir Ali Bishop of Rochester
Mohammad Jawad Surgeon
Mozzam Malik DIFID
Muhammad Tariq Sohail Surgeon
Nafis Sadiq UN Special Envoy
Sadiq Khan Labour MP
Sayeeda Warsi House of Lords
Shamshad Akhtar United Nations
Shirin Tahir Kheli Advisor to Sec of State
Zamir Akram Ambassador to UN
Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry. Chief Justice
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry, is the 18th and the
incumbent Chief Justice of
Pakistan, having been nominated
by former President General
Pervez Musharraf on 30 June
2005, prior to his suspension on 3
November 2007.
Hailing from Quetta, Balochistan
Province of Pakistan, Chaudhry
was educated at the Sindh
University and beginning the
practice as an advocate from the
Sindh High Court in 1976, His
lordship was appointed as Judge
Supreme Court of Pakistan on 4th
February 2000 and as Chief Justice
Pakistan on 30th June 2005.
Shirin Tahir Kheli
Politics
Dr. Prof. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is a
Pakistani-American
Ambassador and political scientist.
In 2008, she was the senior advisor
for womens empowerment to
the United States Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice and was
Senior director for Democracy,
Human Rights and International
Operations at the UN Security
Council from 2003-2005. She has
served 5 Republican presidential
administrations since 1980.
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Kiswer Falkner Baroness
Kishwer Falkner, Baroness
Falkner of Margravine is a British
Liberal Democrat politician and
Life Peer. She is Liberal
Democrat Spokesperson for the
Ministry of Justice in the House
of Lords. Prior to her
entitlement as a Life Peer with
the title Baroness Falkner of
Margravine, Falkner worked in a
variety of jobs for the Liberal
Democrats in the House of
Commons and the party
headquarters including as
Director of International Affairs
and Director of Policy. In
February 2008 she was appointed
as the inaugural chancellor of
The University of Northampton..
Nafis Sadik
Dr. Nafis Sadik served as
Executive Director of the United
Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), with the rank of
Under-Secretary-General, from
1987 through 2000. On her
appointment in 1987, she became
the first woman to head one of
the United Nations major
voluntarily-funded programmes.
In June 1990, the Secretary-
General of the United Nations
appointed Dr. Sadik Secretary-
General of the International
Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD), 1994. Dr.
Sadiks work has brought her
many international awards and
honours.
Huma Abedin
Huma Mahmood Abedin (born
1976) is a deputy chief of staff
and aide to US Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Abedin
began working as an intern for
the White House in 1996 and was
assigned to Hillary Rodham
Clinton. She currently works for
Clinton, now Secretary of State,
at the State Department and is
known as Hillarys shadow. In
2010, Abedin was included in
Times 40 under 40, a list of a
new generation of civic leaders
and rising stars of American
politics.
Fehmida Mirza
Dr. Fehmida Mirza is the current
and 18th Speaker of the National
Assembly, a lower house of
Parliament of State of Pakistan.
She is the first woman to hold the
office to date, and is widely
regarded as one of the highest
ranking female politicians in the
history of Pakistan. Fehmida
Mirza hails from the influential
Sindhi family, and currently
representing the Badin
Constituency since 1997 and has
continued to be a parliamentarian
since then. She runs several
welfare projects in her
constituency, one of the poorest
districts of Pakistan.
Zamir Akram
Ambassador
As Pakistans Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the
UN and other International
Organizations in Geneva since
2008, Zamir Akram has been
playing a leading role in areas
such as Disarmament, Human
Rights, Refugees, Humanitarian
Affairs, Trade and Development,
Intellectual Property, Labour and
Health among others. He was
instrumental in promoting
consensus on contentious
resolutions regarding religious
intolerance, freedom of religion
and freedom of expression.
Moazzam Malik
DIFID
Moazzam Malik is Director for
Western Asia and Stabilisation at
the UK Department for
International Development
(DFID). He oversees the UK
Governments development
partnerships in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
and stabilisation assistance to
address conflict and insecurity in
developing countries. Moazzam
leads a division comprising over
300 staff and a budget of almost
500m spread across five
departments.
Michael Nazir Ali
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was the
106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15
years, until 1 September 2009.
He is originally from Asia and
was the first non-white Diocesan
Bishop in the Church of England.
He was appointed in 1994.
Before that he was the General
Secretary of CMS from 1989-
1994 and prior to holding this
position was Bishop of Raiwind in
Pakistan. He holds both British
and Pakistani citizenship and from
1999 was a member of the House
of Lords where he was active in a
number of areas of national and
international concern.
Hina Rabbani Khar
Hina Rabbani Khar is the first
female and the youngest person
to ever head Pakistanis Ministry
of Foreign Affairs since July
2011. She graduated with a B.Sc.
in Economics from Lahore
University of Management
Sciences in 1999 and received her
M Sc (Hon) in Business
Management from the University
of Massachusetts Amherst in
2001. She won the elections in
2002 from the platform of PML-
Q and was the Parliamentary
Secretary for Economic Affairs
and Statistics.
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PROF. MUHAMMAD TARIQ SOHAIL
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Prof. Muhammad Tariq Sohail is specialized in Spine,
Trauma & Joint Replacement Surgery. He has keen mind
& had significant research in field of Spine Surgery &
Bone Substitutes. He has more than 100 publications to
his credit & holds six patents for Bone Substitutes, Spinal
Fusion Cages & Vertebral body replacement devices. He
is also known internationally for his innovative Spine
work & Surgery for Hemophiliac Patients. He is on the
faculties of various universities/institutions abroad & he
is regularly invited as guest speaker to various countries.
Prof. Muhammad Tariq Sohail has also contributed
internationally in various books & Journals and has
published more than 40 chapters in various reference
books which are also translated in Persian and Spanish
languages. Hes got more than hundered scientific articles
to his credit. He is also co-authored /edited Mayo
Manual of Fracture Management and orthopedic
management of patients with hemophilia in developing
countries. These contributions has brought laurels to the
country & earned a lot of respect for Pakistan & its
Medical Community.
Prof. Muhammad Tariq Sohail is also very active in
Philanthropic and Charitable work in helping few NGO
s in various ways from providing medical assistance and
help to fund raising. He also facilitated provision of
modern & fully equipped 3 Orthopedics Operation
Theatre in Services Hospital through donation &
charities. These theatres are fully Functional & providing
efficient service to the poor & needy in public sector.
Prof. Muhammad Tariq Sohail facilitated
provision of modern & fully equipped
Orthopedics Operation TheatreS in
Services Hospital for the poor
through donation & charities.
Moazzam Malik is Director for
Western Asia and Stabilisation
at the UK Department for
International Development
(DFID). He oversees the UK
Governments development
partnerships in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
and stabilisation assistance to
address conflict and insecurity
in developing countries.
Moazzam leads a division
comprising over 300 staff and
a budget of almost 500m spread across five
departments: DFID Afghanistan, DFID Pakistan,
DFID Central Asia, the UK Stabilisation Unit, and the
Directors Office in London.
Before taking up responsibilities in this area,
Moazzam was Director for UN, Conflict and
Humanitarian issues. He managed the UKs
relationship with the UN development system and
oversaw major UK humanitarian operations.
Moazzam previously led work on the 2006 White
Paper on international development Making
Governance Work for the Poor. Between 2003 and
2005, Moazzam was Principal Private Secretary to
first Baroness Amos and then the Right Hon Hilary
Benn MP, Secretary of State for International
Development. As Principal Private Secretary,
Moazzam worked with Ministers and colleagues
across Government on a wide range of issues
including the UKs assistance in Africa and South Asia;
migration and trade policy; reform of international
institutions; and the G8 Summit at Gleneagles. Earlier
in his DFID career, Moazzam managed DFIDs
programmes in Pakistan, Iraq and on trade policy.
Moazzam is on the Advisory Board to the UK All
Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict, sits on the
Board of Goodweave UK, and was previously a
member of the UN Secretary Generals Advisory
Group on the Central Emergency Revolving Fund.
Outside Government, Moazzam has worked as a
consultant economist advising large UK corporate
clients and the World Bank amongst others; a
researcher at the London School of Economics and
the Overseas Development Institute; an adviser on
monetary and foreign exchange policy in the Central
Bank of Uganda; an economist in a Pakistani
development bank; and run a production engineering
business and an urban regeneration NGO based in
London.
MOAZZAM MALIK
DFID
Mr Mohammad Jawad, a pioneering reconstructive and
cosmetic surgeon was catapulted to fame in 2009 when a
Channel 4 documentary My Beautiful Face aired. Mr Jawads
work with acid burns victims continued in Pakistan, where he
uses his skills to to treat survivors of radically disfiguring acid
attacks, the majority of whom are women targeted by family
members. In 2011-12 the Oscar winning documentary, Saving
Face chronicled his work there. His work for burns and acid
victims in Pakistan has seen him recognised at Buckingham
Palace.
In 2005 Mr Jawad led a surgical team to offer expertise from the
UK to victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. They established a
clinical facility carrying out reconstructive procedures for limb
salvaging on approximately 25 patients per day for 7 weeks.
Simultaneous training of the Al-Shifa medical staff members was
an added long-term bonus to the country.
He was awarded the Star of Pakistan in 2009, for a project led
by him where a team of plastic surgeons went to Indus Hospital,
Karachi to operate on children with cleft lips and palates and
burns victims, including training of local plastic surgeons.
Mr Jawad qualified from Dow Medical College, Pakistan, before
completing a Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship in London and
further training in the USA, Italy, France, Belgium and Turkey
before launching his career in the UK.
He has held eminent posts throughout the UK, including
extensive work with children, incl. at the Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital in London, as Consultant Plastic,
Reconstructive and Burns Surgeon, and Honorary Clinical
Senior Lecturer at the University of London.
MOHAMMED JAWAD
surgeon
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SADIQ KHAN MP
Nazir Ahmed was born in 1958 and is a member of the House of Lords, having
become the United Kingdoms first Muslim life peer in 1998. Many of his
political activities relate to the Islamic community both in the UK and abroad,
and he has often attracted controversy. He was suspended from the Labour
Party pending investigation of alleged remarks made at a meeting in Haripur,
Pakistan on 13 April 2012.
As a resident of Rotherham, Ahmed has spoken on behalf of the communities
in that region, particularly the families of the former steelworkers of the
1960s, from the Indian subcontinent who are now second or third generation
British. He has expressed that he is anxious to see that these regions continue
to live peacefully amidst the growing move towards the far right across
Europe, and strives to encourage positive integration into society so that
people of all cultures can live together harmoniously.
Born in Pakistan, Ahmed has a personal interest in seeing a peaceful resolve to
the ongoing bloody dispute in Kashmir and seeks international mediation to
achieve this. As well as being an active figure in the Indian Subcontinent, he has
worked on the plight of Muslims around the world ranging from the collapse
of former Yugoslavia, especially to the Bosniaks and Palestinians.
LORD NAZIR AHMED
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Sadiq Khan was elected Member of Parliament for Tooting
(in South London) in 2005. He is the first ever Muslim MP
to be elected in London, to be part of the Privy Council
and the first Asian or Muslim to attend Cabinet. As Shadow
Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, he is the only ever
ethnic minority or Muslim to be elected to the Shadow
Cabinet. From becoming the youngest elected Councillor
in London in 1994 aged 23, he has become the most senior
Muslim in Labours 112 year history.
Sadiq was campaign manager for the leadership bid for Ed
Miliband and currently sits on Labours National Executive
Committee. He is a past Chair of The Fabian Society.
His appointment as a Government Whip made him,
alongside former MP Shahid Malik, the first British Muslim
government Minister. Sadiq has also been a Minister in the
Department for Transport and the Department for
Communities and Local Government. As an initiator in
facilitating debate and dialogue between senior politicians,
opinion formers and British Muslims, Sadiq advises a
number of leading community & Muslim groups in the UK
and charities working to help lives both in the UK and
overseas.
Prior to becoming an MP, Sadiq was one of the countrys
leading Human Rights lawyers and a founding partner of a
leading solicitors firm. He acted in a number of landmark
cases in all major Courts and Tribunals. He was also Chair
of Liberty.
He has won many awards including Newcomer of the Year
by the Spectator Magazine Parliamentarian awards 2005. In
2012, he received the inaugural Achievement and
Inspiration award from the FOSIS (Federation of Student
Islamic Societies).
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A lawyer, a businesswoman, a campaigner
and a cabinet minister, Sayeeda Warsi has
had many roles, but she is best known for
being the first Muslim to serve in a British
cabinet and the foremost Muslim politician
in the Western world.
One of five girls born to immigrants of
Pakistani origin in Dewsbury, West
Yorkshire, Sayeeda studied law at Leeds
University, going on to work for the
Crown Prosecution Service before setting
up her own legal practice.
Her father, a former millworker and bus
driver who set up his own business,
instilled in her values of freedom,
responsibility and aspiration. These are the
values that inspired her to get involved in
the Conservative Party and it was there
that she became Vice Chairman and advisor
to the leader, Michael Howard, in 2004.
She unsuccessfully stood as a
Parliamentary candidate in her home town
the following year. In 2007 she was
elevated to the House of Lords aged 36,
making her the youngest peer in
Parliament. Later that year she travelled to
Sudan and famously helped to secure the
release of the British teacher Gillian
Gibbons who was on trial for blasphemy.
A racial justice campaigner for many years,
instrumental in the launch of Operation
Black Vote and serving six years at the
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust,
Sayeeda was chosen to take on Nick Griffin
on Question Time in 2009. It was the first
time the British National Party leader
appeared on a flagship BBC political show.
Her performance singled her out as sharp,
articulate, unhysterical and warmly
engaging (Observer).
In 2010 she was appointed by Prime
Minister David Cameron as Minister
without Portfolio, becoming the first
Muslim to serve in a British Cabinet. The
iconic image of her on the steps of No 10
Downing Street in a shalwar kameez (a
traditional ethnic outfit) were beamed
In 2012 she led the
UKs largest ever
ministerial delegation
to the Vatican,
gaining global
coverage for a
speech which
called on Europe
to strengthen its
Christian
identity.
BARONESS WARSI
House of Lord
around the world. She was also appointed
as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party
the first Asian to chair a major British
political party. In 2012, Sayeeda was made
Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office and Minister for
Faith and Communities.
In government she has devoted herself to
making the case for faith, declaring in a
2010 address to the Anglican Bishops
Conference that governments should do
God. In 2011 she provoked support and
controversy when she famously declared
that Islamophobia had passed the dinner
table test. In 2012 she led the UKs
largest ever ministerial delegation to the
Vatican, gaining global coverage for a
speech which called on Europe to
strengthen its Christian identity.
Outspoken and challenging on the issues
that many people seek to avoid, she has
become an interesting and distinct voice
on topics previously considered taboo. She
led the governments campaign to
criminalise forced marriage and spoke out
on the sexual grooming of children by
gangs.
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Amjad Hussain was born in a village in
Pakistan, came to the UK at the age of 5 and
was raised in London. Keen to travel, develop
as an engineer and avoid an office job, he
surprised by joining the Royal Navy, an odd
choice for an 18 year old Muslim first
generation immigrant. He has sought variety
in his subsequent career. Sea jobs have ranged
from inspecting fishing catches in UK waters to
operations in an aircraft carrier in the Gulf,
whilst postings ashore have included training,
buying missile systems and Whitehall
strategy/finance positions.
More recently he was the Naval Base
Commander Portsmouth and then the
Director General Weapons, responsible for all
UK missiles, ammunition and artillery. This
was followed by 3 years as Controller of the
Navy, an executive member of the Main Board
of the Royal Navy and responsible for planning
all future warships, submarines, combat jets and
missile systems. He was made a Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath in the New Years Honours
List of 2011 and awarded an
honorary doctorate by Durham
University the same year.
With more challenges to explore,
he left the Navy this Summer and is
currently an executive director of a
technical services company and
about to take up two non-executive
chair roles in small technology
start-ups. He also aims to develop
further his charitable interests and,
with his wife, keep up with an
active family that enjoys activities
ranging from equestrian to
alpineso the golf clubs continue
to gather dust.
AMJAD HUSSAIN
Royal Navy
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Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was the
106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15
years, until 1 September 2009.
He is originally from Asia and was the
first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the
Church of England. He was appointed
in 1994. Before that he was the
General Secretary of CMS from 1989-
1994 and prior to holding this position
was Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He
holds both British and Pakistani
citizenship and from 1999 was a
member of the House of Lords where
he was active in a number of areas of
national and international concern. He
has both a Christian and a Muslim
family background and is now
President of the Oxford Centre for
Training, Research, Advocacy and
Dialogue (OXTRAD).
Michaels secondary education was in
Pakistan. He read Economics,
Sociology and Islamic History at the
University of Karachi, and Theology at
Fitzwilliam College and Ridley Hall,
Cambridge.
His interests have led him to research
and study in several fields, including
comparative literature, comparative
philosophy of religion and theology at
the Universities of Cambridge,
Oxford, and elsewhere. He has taught
at colleges and universities in the
United Kingdom and Pakistan. He is
an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund
He has both a
Christian and a
Muslim family
background and
is now President
of the Oxford
Centre for
Training,
Research,
Advocacy and
Dialogue
MICHAEL NAZIR ALI
Hall, Oxford and Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge. He is Visiting
Professor of Theology and Religious
Studies in the University of
Greenwich and on the Faculty of the
London School of Theology (LST)
affiliated to the Universities of Brunel
and Middlesex.
Michael has been a visiting lecturer in
a number of universities and colleges
in the UK, Canada, the USA and
Australia. He has travelled widely in
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North
and South America. He is the author
of ten books and of numerous articles
on Mission, Ecumenism, the Anglican
Communion, and relations with
people of other faiths (particularly
Islam).
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Shahid Azeem
Arcom IT
Shahid is an award winning
British-Pakistani entrepreneur
and philanthropist, and one of
Surreys best known business
leaders. In addition to a string of
successful businesses, he has been
named one of the Top 100 most
influential Muslims in the UK by
Royal Bank of Scotland. Shahid
was Asian Entrepreneur of the
Year in 2006/07, is Chairman of
The Woking Asian Business
Forum, former chairman of
Woking Football Club and
currently Director at Aldershot
Football club .
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi
AKD Group
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, son of
(late) Haji Abdul Karim Dhedhi,
is the Chairman of the AKD
Group. He has built the AKD
Group as a leading and vibrant
set of business enterprises
operating in key sectors of
Pakistan's economy, ranging from
stocks and shares, media, textile,
real estate and Oil and Gas
exploration. Aqeel Karim
Dhedhi is a highly regarded
member of the Karachi Stock
Exchange KSE with over thirty
years of mainstream experience
in stock-broking.
CORPORATE & FINANCE
THE POWER 100
THE POWER BROKERS
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi AKD Group
Arif Navqi Abraaj Capital
Atif Bajwa Abu Dhabi Group
Ehsan Malik Unilever Pakistan
Fred Hasan Bausch & Lomb
Irfan Mustafa Yum Group
Izzat Majid Alyph
Jahangir Siddiqui J&S Group
Javed Ahmed Tate & Lyle
Musharaf Hai LOreal
Naeem Zamindar Wateen
Salman Amin PepsiCo
Sarfaraz Alam Texpo
Shahid Azeem Arcom IT
Shahid Khan Flexngate
Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi KPMG Taseer Hadi
Zakir Mahmood Habib Bank Limited
Zouhair A Khaliq Telecoms Consultant
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Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi
KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co
Mr. Naqvi is a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Pakistan and is
the Senior Partner of KPMG
Taseer Hadi & Co. He is
currently Board Member of
KPMG MESA sub region which
comprises of 15 countries in
South Asia and Middle East and
has the Board Oversight
responsibility for Risk
Management. Mr. Naqvi also
served as the Chairman of the
sub region during 2009-10. Mr.
Naqvi was also a Director of the
Karachi Stock Exchange.
Arif Naqvi
Abraaj Capital
Arif Naqvi is the founder and
Group Chief Executive of Abraaj
Capital, based in Dubai. Abraaj
Capital is the largest private
equity firm in the Middle East,
North Africa and South Asia
(MENASA) and was voted one of
the 50 most admired companies
in the Gulf in 2007. Mr.Naqvi
was a member of the Young
Presidents Organisation, where
he was the Emirates Chapter
Chairman. He was designated a
New Asian Leader by the World
Economic Forum (WEF).
Musharaf Hai
LOreal
Musharaf Hai is the first woman
who was appointed as the head of
a multinational company in
Pakistan, LOreal. She is Ex-chair
and chief executive officer of
Unilever Pakistan , former Head
of Consumer banking, Citi Bank,
Pakistan . She currently is
engaged in establishing LOreal
brand in Pakistan.
Ehsan Malik
Unilever Pakistan
Ehsan joined the Board on
September 01, 2006. He is the
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Unilever Pakistan
Limited and is also the chairman
of Unilever Pakistan Food
Limited. Prior to this, Ehsan was
Chairman and CEO of Unilever
Sri Lanka Limited. His earlier
international appointments
covered Unilevers regional
business in Egypt, Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria, Sudan as well as
Unilevers Head Office in UK.
These preceded senior
commercial and financial roles at
Unilever Pakistan.
Atif Bajwa
Abu Dhabi Grou
Atif Bajwa was appointed as
President of Abu Dhabi Group in
Pakistan in 2011. He is President
& Chief Executive Officer of
Bank Alfalah, which is a
progressive, full service banking
institution, majority owned and
operated by Abu Dhabi Group.
Mr. Bajwa manages a network of
407 branches spanning 158 cities.
As part of his role with Abu
Dhabi Group, he oversees the
interests and investments in
Pakistan worth over USD 10
billion in assets.
Jahangir Siddiqui
JS Group
Jahangir Siddiqui founded JS
Group in 1970 and led the group
to become one of the largest and
most profitable business houses in
Pakistan with over 20,000
employees.He retired from
executive duties at JS Group in
1999 but remains an Advisor in
which capacity the Group is able
to call on him to seek guidance
on strategic matters. He also
serves as Chairman of JS Bank
Limited. He serves on the boards
of a number of Pakistans largest
companies and dedicates time to
two charitable foundations.
Izzat Majeed
Alyph Limited
Dynamic and multi-faceted, Izzat
Majeeds success as one of
Pakistans most prominent
investors is just one aspect of his
diverse career. Based in London
as the CEO of Alyph Limited, a
leading investment company, Izzat
Majeed is widely acknowledged
for his philanthropic initiatives
and his patronage of Pakistani
music and culture. He is famed
for his landmark investments in
Pakistan, most notably the
purchase of Union Bank which
was transformed into one of the
top seven banks of the country.
Irfan Mustafa
Yum Restaurants
Irfan Mustafa is Managing
Director - Middle East, North
Africa, Pakistan & Turkey for
Yum! Restaurants International,
the largest restaurant company in
the world based out of Louisville,
Kentucky. His responsibility
comprises 14 countries with a
network of 1400 restaurants and
US$ 1.5 Billion turnover.
His previous assignments include
6 years with PepsiCo and 14
years with UniLever in Marketing
and General Management in
Pakistan, West Asia, Egypt and
U.S.A.
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maintaining stable EBITDA and market
leadership in a 5 player market. He
oversaw the deployment of US$2.5 billion
in cellular infrastructure, a nationwide
fiber optic backbone and Wi-max
operations transforming Mobilink into the
leading Telecom Solutions Provider in the
country. In 2006-2007 Mobilink was rated
amongst the 5 fastest growing companies
in the Asian region alongside China
Mobile, NTT DoCoMo and Bharti
Telecom. Mobilink is still rated as the
largest private sector company in
Pakistan.
Zouhair successfully helped raise over US$
1.1 Billion dollars of debt working with
European Export Credit Agencies and
local and international banks and the
Ministry of Finance including the first ever
US$ 250 million private sector Bond in
the countrys history. He played a pivotal
strategic role, in helping to shape and
formulate the Mobile Cellular Policy of
the Government of Pakistan, working
extensively with the Ministry of
Communications and lobbying the
Government at all levels.
As Group COO at Orascom Telecom in
Egypt in early 2003, he revamped the
Board Governance structure and
Operational Strategy of the Group,
restructured the management of the
Algerian operations and helped launch the
Tunisian cellular operations and planned
the launch of the Iraq operations thus
contributing to the Groups subsequent
rapid expansion. Earlier in 2002 as Group
CFO at Orascom Telecom he successfully
led the restructuring of the Groups US$
1.8 billion debt with Egyptian and
international banks and major equipment
suppliers.
While at Motorola during 1997-2001 he
exercised a key Board role in helping to
successfully build Mobinil, a US$ 4 billion
quoted cellular company, to a position of
dominant market leadership in the
Egyptian market with 1.2 million
subscribers in 2 years. He also exercised a
key Board role in helping establish market
leadership and subscriber growth of 6.5
times in 3 years in Fastlink, Jordan.
ZOUHAIR A. KHALIQ
Independent Telecom Advisor
SARFARAZ ALAM
TEXPO
Zouhair is a UK based Board level Senior
Executive with a successful track record in
building, growing and turning around
companies in the Telecom and Technology
space. He has over 28 years of experience
in Board and senior leadership positions
with expertise in finance, marketing,
corporate strategy, business development,
human resource development and
relationship management.
Zouhair is currently working with Dhabi
Holdings of the UAE leading the
restructuring of its Telecom assets and
serves on the Boards of Warid Telecom
Limited and Wateen Telecom Limited.
Zouhair is also actively involved with
advising and investing in young start up
entrepreneurs in the Telecom and
Technology space particularly relating to
mobile broadband and mobile financial
services and is currently on the Advisory
Board of MyBiz.com which is designed to
mentor and support young entrepreneurs.
Prior to this while based in Egypt in
2009/10 he led the Orascom Telecom
Group initiative in Mobile Financial
Services and Banking for the unbanked and
was involved with the setting up of a
Microfinance Bank. He also led Group
Strategy on infrastructure sharing with
several projects in different countries. He
oversaw the planning and strategy for a
potential US$1 billion Tower Sharing Joint
Venture.
During 2003 - 2008 as Chief Executive
Officer of Mobilink in Pakistan, he led the
growth of the customer base from 1
million to 31 million over 5 years, growing
revenues 15 times to US$ 1.25 billion,
Dr Sarfaraz Alam is the President & Chief
Executive Officer of TEXPO and the main
visionary behind this multinational organization,
a leading I.T business and one of the very
successful businesses in the G.C.C region. Today
TEXPO is one of the leading I.T companies in
the Middle East where its clientel ranges from
Government through to private businesses.
Under Sarfarazs leadership TEXPO engineers
have helped Astrium UK Ltd., a fully owned
EADS company, to build the ground satellite
control and communication station for Yahsats
satellites Y1A and Y1B or worth $ 1.6bn and a
first for the UAE. It stands as a unique showcase
for a communications networks controlled
completely by IT and networking systems.
TEXPO was an integral part of this build out, as
the exclusive solution and IT services partner for
Astrium. Moreover Sarfraz led the team of
network engineers who designed the complete
passive corporate network of the same ground
station for YAHSAT; a MUBADALA company.
TEXPO is now offers its services from Dubai,
Houston, Ontario, Riyadh, Karachi, and Ras-Al-
Khaimah where the company is mainly focusing
on development of advanced network
infrastructures for telecom and satellite ground
communication stations.
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Zakir Mahmood is the President &
CEO, HBL. He is a graduate of the
University of Karachi in Engineering
and subsequently obtained a Masters
in Engineering and an MBA in Finance
from the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA).
He began his professional career with
Bank of America in 1977. During his
14 years there, he held senior
management assignments in BoAs
operations in Europe and the Middle
East where he headed the Gulf
operations as Regional Manager. In
1991, Mr. Mahmood joined Credit
Agricole Indosuez Bank as General
Manager for the UAE. He returned to
Pakistan in 1995, to head the country
operations of Credit Agricole
Indosuez. In 2000, Mr. Mahmood was
appointed President and CEO of
Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) by the
Government of Pakistan and was
tasked with restructuring the bank to
facilitate its privatization. After four
years of comprehensive restructuring,
the Bank was successfully privatized in
December 2003 with the Aga Khan
Fund for Economic Development
(AKFED) acquiring a majority share
holding.
Mr. Mahmood chairs the boards of
several organizations including Habib
Allied International Bank Plc, UK and
Mr. Mahmood
has received
civilian awards
from the
governments
of Pakistan
and France.
ZAKIR MAHMOOD
Habib Bank Limited
Habib Finance International Limited,
Hong Kong. He is also on the Board of
Directors of Khushhali Bank Limited
and has held directorships in large
Pakistani corporations like Pakistan
International Airlines, Pakistan Steel
Mills, the Karachi Stock Exchange
and the National Investment Trust. He
has also been a member of several
prominent government commissions,
including the Pay and Pension
Commission for Government
Employees and the Armed Forces,
and the Private Sector Development
Task Force. He was also Chair of the
commission established by the State
Bank of Pakistan that successfully
developed a National Crop Loan
Insurance Program.
Mr. Mahmood represents HBL at the
World Economic Forum and has
served as a panelist at the Forums
meetings in Davos and in China. He
also represents HBL at the Institute of
International Finance meetings in
Washington DC.
Mr. Mahmood has received civilian
awards from the governments of
Pakistan and France; the Sitara-i-
Imtiaz by the Government of
Pakistan in 2005 and the Chevalier de
LOrdre National du Merite awarded
by the Government of France in
2001.
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