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Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi
Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi (1896–1970) was one of the few physicians in Sind Province when Sindh was created as a province in British India in 1936. Family He was born in 1896 and was a nephew of the great intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi and his illustrious wife Elsa Kazi. His father, Sharafuddin Kazi died when he was still quite young. Career Dr A. S. Kazi played a pioneering role initially in creating the Liaquat Medical College now the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences from the existing medical school at Hyderabad. Subsequently he directed his attention to the strengthening and consolidation of the Dow Medical College at Karachi. He was appointed as the first Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Karachi An introduction to Civil Hospital Karachi in 1949. Subsequently in 1952, he was appointed Director resently Director GeneralHealth Services for the Sindh province. He retired from service in 1955. Life after retirement He devoted his time to writing books o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Hussain A Kazi
Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi Tamgha-e-Pakistan (Medal of Pakistan) Award (15 August 1920 – 7 January 2007) was a civil servant of Pakistan and senior advocate of the Pakistan Supreme Court, who shaped the internal revenue, economic and industrialization policies during the 1970s. Family and Education Kazi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh then part of the Bombay Presidency of British India on 15 August 1920. He finished his basic education (Matriculation examination) in 1936 and secured the Sir Jairajbhoy Peerbhoy scholarship of the University of Bombay for securing first position amongst the Muslim candidates. In 1938, Kazi annexed the Sir Frank Souter scholarship in his intermediate examinations. In 1940, he received a degree in Mathematics and English language. In 1942, Kazi graduated a second time with a LL.B degree in Law and Justice from the Bombay University. His ancestors belonged to Paat village in Dadu District and he was the only surviving child of Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi, one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhi People
Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Sikhs migrated to the newly independent Dominion of India and other parts of the world. Pakistani Sindhis are predominantly Muslim with a smaller Sikh and Hindu minority, whereas Indian Sindhis are predominantly Hindu with a Sikh, Jain and Muslim minority. Sindhi people have been native to Sindh throughout history, apart from that their historical region has always came from the South-eastern side of Balochistan, the Bahawalpur region of Punjab and the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. The Sindhi diaspora is growing around the world, especially in the Middle East, owing to better employment opportunities. Etymology The name Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit ''Sindhu'' which translates as river or seabod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Deaths
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the first spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutawakkil Kazi
Mutawakkil Kazi was a Pakistani civil servant who served in Grade 22, BPS-22 grade as the Planning and Development Secretary of Pakistan and Chief Secretary Sindh. He also served as Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan for a very brief period as his tenure was cut short after the 1999 coup and he was transferred by General Pervez Musharraf. Education He gained his masters degree in economics from the Williams College, USA in 1974, and his doctorate in economics from the Boston University in 1985. Career He remained in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat during the tenures of prime ministers Moeen Qureshi and Benazir Bhutto. Subsequently he was appointed as Member Planning Commission (Pakistan), Planning Commission and Chairman Planning and Development Board Punjab. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary by Prime Minister Mian Muhammmad Nawaz Sharif just a few days before he was ousted from power in 1999. He remained Secretary Ministry of Planning and Development from 2000 till 2003. Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashir Ghulam Nabi Kazi
Justice Bashir Ahmed Ghulam Nabi Kazi better known as Justice B G N Kazi (1921–1986) was the younger son of Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi a veteran educationist of British India, and a renowned jurist of Pakistan. Family Justice Kazi's elder brother A G N Kazi remained at the helm of economic ministries of the Government of Pakistan for several decades. He was a nephew of intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi and German writer Elsa Kazi. Career Justice B G N Kazi entered the judicial service and after his initial posting as a civil judge, he was appointed Deputy Secretary and subsequently Solicitor in the Law department of the Government of West Pakistan. In 1970 after the re-creation of Sindh as a province, he was appointed as Secretary in the Law Department of the Government of Sindh. Subsequently he worked as Registrar of the High Court of Sindh and District and Sessions Judge of Karachi. In 1978 he was appointed as a Member of the Federal Services Tribunal and subsequently as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushtak Ali Kazi
Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi (21 December 1917 – 5 February 2002), was a Pakistani jurist and writer, who served as a Judge of the High Court of Sindh and Balochistan. Birth and family Kazi was born in Sindh, then part of the Bombay Presidency of British India, on 21 December 1917. He was a distinguished alumnus of the University of Bombay. His father, Ali Muhammad Kazi, joined the Indian Police and rose to the position of District Superintendent of Police, a position normally reserved for the British. His elder brother, Mumtaz A Kazi, had a distinguished career in the civil service and served as Member of the Sindh Public Service Commission. He married Razia Effendi, grand daughter of Khan Bahadur Hassanally Effendi - founder of the Sindh Madressah and one of the pioneers of the Pakistan movement. He was a nephew of the scholar Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi and his German wife Elsa Kazi. He had two sisters, one of them was married to the late Mr A R Kazi, Joint Secretary Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Hussain A
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the verb (''ḥameda'', "to thank or to praise"), non-past participle (). Lexicology As an Arabic name, it has its origins in a Quranic prophecy attributed to Jesus in the Quran which most Islamic scholars concede is about Muhammad. It also shares the same roots as Mahmud, Muhammad and Hamed. In its transliteration, the name has one of the highest number of spelling variations in the world. Though Islamic scholars attribute the name Ahmed to Muhammed, the verse itself is about a Messenger named Ahmed, whilst Muhammed was a Messenger-Prophet. Some Islamic traditions view the name Ahmad as another given name of Muhammad at birth by his mother, considered by Muslims to be the more esoteric name of Muhammad and central to understanding his nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE (b: 1884 Naushero Feroze, British India – 1955) was an educator in Sindh, which is one of the four provinces of what is now Pakistan. He rose to the position of first Director of Public Instruction, Sindh after remaining Educational Inspector, Sindh in the Bombay Presidency during the British Empire. Family His father, Din Mohamed Kazi, was a highly notable personality of the area. He was closely related to the renowned intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi. Kazi was severely shocked when his wife Maryam was diagnosed as having cancer in 1942 by his cousin Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi and her death devastated him. He died in 1955 and was survived by two sons A G N Kazi and Justice Bashir Ghulam Nabi Kazi, two daughters Khaki and Ayesha, married to Mumtaz Kazi and Ahmed Hussain A Kazi, respectively. Career Kazi started his career as Principal of the Naushero Feroze Madressah. High schools during those days were called madressahs to dispel the im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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