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People From Quetta
This is the list of notable people who were born, lived or grew up in Quetta (the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan) and Quetta District. List is ordered by the professions of people. Civil and military officers * Abdul Qadir Baloch Retd Pakistan Army officer * Yazdan Khan * Musa Khan * Chris Keeble * George Philip Bradley Roberts * Ian Jacob * James Cassels * Patrick Hore-Ruthven * Samad Ali Changezi * Sharbat Ali Changezi Retd officer Pakistan Air Force Film, radio and television people * Abid Ali * Abid Ali Nazish * Avice Landone * Ayub Khoso Actor * Dur Mohammad Kassi TV Producer and Director * Hameed Sheikh Actor * Humaima Malick * Jamal Shah Actor * Merle Tottenham * Nadia Afghan * Neil North * Suresh Oberoi * Veena * Zeba Bakhtiar Journalists, poets and writers * Agha Sadiq * Ali Baba Taj * Alison Plowden * Mohsin Changezi * Muneer Ahmed Badini * Russi Karanjia * Siddiq Baloch * Wajahat Saeed Khan * Zafar Mairaj * Hasrat Mithrvi Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quetta
Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه) is the tenth List of cities in Pakistan by population, most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in Geography of Pakistan, south-west of the country close to the Durand line, International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan where it is the largest city. Quetta is at an average elevation of above sea level, making it Pakistan's only high-altitude major city. The city is known as the ''"Fruit Garden of Pakistan"'' due to the numerous fruit orchards in and around it, and the large variety of fruits and dried fruit products produced there. Located in northern Balochistan near the Durand line, Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the road across to Kandahar, Quetta is a trade and communication centre between the two countries. The city is near the Bolan Pass route which was once one of the major gateways from Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hameed Sheikh
Hameed Sheikh ( ur, حمید شیخ) is an actor and producer from Pakistan who is known for roles in ''Khuda Kay Liye'', '' Operation O21'' and ''Moor''. Personal life Residing in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan, Pakistan, Sheikh is fluent in Urdu, Brahui, Sindhi, Punjabi, Dari, Persian, Seraiki, Balochi and Hindko. Career Kandhar Break In 2008, Sheikh produced ''Kandhar Break'', a political thriller set in 1999 which tells the story of an Englishman who must escape the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. While filming a night scene in the desert, a group associated with the Taliban attacked the Pakistani members of the film crew. Four crew members were shot while leaving the compound and arriving at the set; they all survived. Much like the lead character of the movie, director David Whitney and his crew were forced to leave Pakistan with the help of local security forces. Only 75% of the shoot was completed by then. Later, Sheikh arranged funding for the remaining pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muneer Ahmed Badini
Munir Ahmed Badini ( Balochi:منير احمد بادینی ) born in 1953) is a Pakistani novelist and writer. The receipent of the Pride of Performance, he primarily writes in Balochi and English languages. Biography He lives in Quetta and is serving as Secretary for Sports, Environment and Youth Affairs for the government of Balochistan. 'Clean Air Quality Monitoring Initiative Meeting in Quetta', Quetta Times Education Badini studied in his village schools and upon completion of the local Boys' High School, completed his degree in Arts at the Degree College in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsin Changezi
Mohsin Changazi, ( haz, محسن چنگیزی ) (born 3 September 1979), is a Pakistani Urdu poet of Hazara descent. He has participated several poetry gatherings in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. He has also received awards including the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2010. Awards *''Tamgha-e-Imtiaz Tamgha-e-Imtiaz () also spelled as Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, is a state-organised honour of Pakistan. It is given to any civilian in Pakistan based on their achievements. While it is a civilian/military award, it can be bestowed upon officers of the P ...'' in 2010. *''Nashan-i-ghazal Award'' * ''Star of the Night'' * ''Gold Medal and Shield''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Changezi, Mohsin Pakistani people of Hazara descent Hazara poets Pakistani poets Urdu-language poets from Pakistan 1979 births Living people People from Quetta Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Plowden
Alison Margaret Chichele Plowden (18 December 1931 – 17 August 2007) was an England, English historian and biographer well known for her popular non-fiction about the Tudor dynasty, Tudor period. Biography She was born at Quetta in India, a descendant of Edmund Plowden and, collaterally, of Henry Chichele. Privately educated, she worked for the BBC as a script editor. She wrote the script for the television series ''Mistress of Hardwick'' (about Bess of Hardwick), which won her a Writers' Guild Award for the best educational television series, and several television plays, including ''Sweet England's Pride'' and ''The Case of Eliza Armstrong''. She later recalled: "A secretary writing scripts was a little like a performing monkey at the BBC - there was a sort of 'Fancy, what a clever little girl' attitude." In 1970 she decided to leave the BBC to go freelance. Her first book, ''The Young Elizabeth''(1972), was followed by ''Danger to Elizabeth'' (1973), ''Marriage With M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Baba Taj
Ali Baba Taj ( ur, علی بابا تاج) is an Urdu, Persian and Hazaragi poet, based in Quetta, Pakistan. He is known for his use of nazm style in Urdu poetry. He received his Master's Degree in Persian language and literature from the University of Balochistan, Quetta in 2003. He has written several articles in Urdu and Persian regarding poetry and literature. World Poetry Festival Ali Baba Taj represented Pakistan in the World Poetry Festival held in Kolkata, India in 2008. He also attended the second Daryanagar poetry fair at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh in 2010. Visits for Cultural and Peace mission Ali Baba Taj has visited India several times for academic and literary purposes. His aim on these visits is to foster love and peace in humankind, especially between the people of Pakistan and India. He has met with scholars, poets, writers and other social and peace activists during these peace missions. Books * ''muthee mein kuch saansain'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agha Sadiq
Syed Agha Sadiq Hussien Naqvi (25 September 1909–1977) was a prolific writer and poet, based in Quetta, Pakistan, from 1943 till his death in July 1977. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, in 1909 as the Son of Syed Khair Ali Shah and grandson of Syed Ahmed Ali Shah from one of the great houses of the area. Mostly self-educated and schooled in the family compound, he began to take up posts in the education establishment as the British withdrew from India. He was saved from the anti-Muslim programs during the independence of Pakistan in 1947 because of his transfer to Quetta in 1943 but lost all his ancestral land in Dieran Syedan and was never able to return. He was responsible for 40 works through his lifetime, in four different languages, dominated by Urdu but including Arabic, Persian and Middle-Persian. His work is distinctive if in its balance, elegance and depth of thought and is modelled clearly on his great hero Iqbal. He acknowledges his debt in his extensive analysi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeba Bakhtiar
Zeba Bakhtiar ( ur, ; born 5 November 1962) is a Pakistani film/TV actress and a television director. She is known for her TV drama ''Anarkali'' (1988), the Bollywood romantic drama ''Henna'' (1991), and the Lollywood movie, '' Sargam'' (1995). She produced and directed a movie ''Babu'' in 2001. Zeba won the best actress Nigar Award for the movie ''Sargam'' in 1995. Early life and family Zeba is the daughter of Yahya Bakhtiar, a lawyer, politician and pre-independence Muslim League activist who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan, and also played a key role in framing Pakistan's current constitution. Her father belonged to Quetta, while her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an English woman born to Hungarian parents. Her father died in 2003, and her mother died in 2011. Her parents met in the UK in the early 1940s and married, with her mother eventually settling in Pakistan in 1949 after graduating from the University College London. Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veena (actress)
Veena (4 July 1926 – 14 November 2004), also known as Veena Kumari, real name Tajour Sultana, was an Indian actress. Early life and background Veena was born as Tajour Sultana on 4 July 1926 in Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, British India.Veena (actress) profile on Indian Cinema Heritage Foundation website Retrieved 23 January 2022Remembering the royally graceful actress Veena – Birth anniversary special Cinestaan.com website, Published 4 July 2017, Retrieved 23 January 2022 At some point of time, her family shifted to |
Suresh Oberoi
Suresh Oberoi (born 17 December 1946) is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving to Bollywood, making him a popular character actor in the 1980s and much of the 1990s. He is the father of actor Vivek Oberoi. Early life Oberoi was born to Anand Sarup Oberoi, a Khatri and Kartar Devi on 17 December 1946 in Quetta, then Baluchistan Province of pre-partitioned British India. Within a year due to partition, the family along with four brothers and sisters moved to India, and later relocated to Hyderabad state where his family established a chain of medical stores. Oberoi attended St. George's Grammar School in Hyderabad and was active in sports. He was a Tennis and swimming champion, later winning the President's Award as a Boy Scout. After his father's death when he was just out of high school, Oberoi, along with his broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil North
Neil is a masculine name of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish ''Niall'' which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion".. As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish king and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill and MacNeil kindred. Most authorities cite the meaning of Neil in the context of a surname as meaning "champion". Origins The Gaelic name was adopted by the Vikings and taken to Iceland as ''Njáll'' (see Nigel). From Iceland it went via Norway, Denmark, and Normandy to England. The name also entered Northern England and Yorkshire directly from Ireland, and from Norwegian settlers. ''Neal'' or ''Neall'' is the Middle English form of ''Nigel''. As a first name, during the Middle Ages, the Gaelic name of Irish origins was popular in Ireland and later Scotland. During the 20th century ''Neil'' began to be used in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Afghan
Nadia Afgan is a Pakistani actress who appears in Urdu films and television and films. She is known for her work in theatre and television. Her numerous work in television includes a series of plays in both Urdu and Punjabi. She rose to prominence when she appeared in the hit TV serial ''Family Front'' in 1997. Further success came in 2000 with the PTV Home's most-memorable sitcom '' Shashlik'' which was later re-aired on Geo TV in 2011. Afghan garnered wider appreciation for her comic role in the Hum TV's blockbuster comedy drama '' Suno Chanda'' (2018), and for its sequel '' Suno Chanda 2'', as Shahana Batool the following year. Life and career Nadia started her career as an actress from PTV Lahore Center.Profile: Later she acted in many PTV drama serials and hosted many shows and PTV night time transmission for many years and now she is being seen in different serials on all the public and private channels in Pakistan. Her credited roles are in '' Shashlik'', ''Raju Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
