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Iqbal (name)
Iqbal;Arabic: اقبال, Punjabi: ਇਕਬਾਲ / اِکبال is a name and surname meaning "good fortune” and “prosperity” but also the Punjabi meaning of “power” “force” and “one who is strong”. It can also be spelled as Eqbal, Ikbal, or Eghbal. It is a common name in Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian countries The last and first name "Iqbal" also refers to jaat people belonging to the Punjab region in India and Pakistan. Given Forename *Iqbal Abdulla (born 1989), Indian cricketer *Iqbal Ahmed (born 1956), British-Bangladeshi entrepreneur *Iqbal Z. Ahmed (born 1946), Pakistani businessman *Iqbal Ahmad Khan (1954-2020), Indian classical vocalist *Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi (born 1944), Indian politician * Iqbal Arshad, American engineer *Iqbal Ashhar (born 1965), Indian poet *Iqbal Athas (born 1944), Sri Lankan journalist *Iqbal Azad, Indian actor * Muhammad Iqbal Bahoo (1944–2012), Pakistani Sufi singer *Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury (born 1940), Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Bano
Iqbal Bano ( ur, ; born 1928 in Delhi – died 21 April 2009 in Lahore) was a ghazal singer from Pakistan. She was known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, but also sang easy-listening numbers in the 1950s films. Iqbal Bano's prominent work includes her singing of ghazals of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In 1974, she became the recipient of the Pride of Performance award. She worn a black saree in Lahore against Zia, for trying to ban saree’s ( The sari had been banned by the country's military dictator, General Zia ul Haq in his efforts at Islamising Pakistani society). Iqbal went against his words and went on stage in Lahore with a black saree and sang "Hum dekhenge". A lot of women started to wear a saree which where Zia got angry. After his death a lot of women started wear saree’s again. Iqbal Bano sings Hum Dekhenge in protest, Iqbal Bano sang it to a full house at Lahore’s Alhamra Arts Council in 1985 at the Faiz Foundation annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eqbal Mehdi
Eqbal Mehdi (1 April 1946, Amroha, British India – 19 May 2008, Karachi, Pakistan) was a Pakistani painter artist. He is famous for his pen drawings. Early life Eqbal Mehdi was born to Syed Mir Ali, in Amroha, then British India (now India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...).Honouring Eqbal Mehdi Dawn (newspaper), Published 13 December 2009, Retrieved 11 July 2019 Mehdi and his brother moved to Pakistan during the late 1950s. Art career Eqbal Mehdi was a self-taught artist. He has taught many people the art of painting in India and Pakistan.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Christian
Christianity (Masihiyt) is the third largest religion in Pakistan, making up about 1.27% of the population according to the 2017 Census. Of these, approximately half are Catholic and half Protestant (primarily Anglican and Presbyterian). A small number of Eastern Orthodox Christians (Masihi) , and Oriental Orthodox Christians (Masihi) also live in Pakistan. Around 75 percent of Pakistan's Christians (Masihi) are rural Punjabi Christians(Masihi) , while some speak Sindhi and Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, English, Pashto, Saraiki with the remainder being the upper and middle class Goan Christians(Masihi) and Anglo-Indians. As Punjabi Christians (Masihi)are mainly Hinduism and Sikhism Christians—descendants of lower-caste Hindus and Sikhism who converted during the colonial era in India—their dire socio-economic conditions facilitate religious discrimination; for example, A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR CURRENT POSITION by Roger Ballard * 1. THE HIST ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih ( pa, اقبال مسیح; 1983 – 16 April 1995) was a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan. He was assassinated on 16 April 1995. On 23 March 2022, he was posthumously awarded with the Sitara-e-Shujaat by the government of Pakistan. Family background and bonded labour Explaining the background behind bonded labourers in Pakistan, American professor C. Christine Fair states that "Large numbers of Christians in the Punjab and Sindh, in particular, are trapped in bonded labour or slavery in work like brick kilns and carpet-weaving. Around 80% of brick kiln workers in some areas are Christians working to pay off family debts long since paid in absolute terms, yet who are illiterate and remain powerless to do anything about their circumstances. The plight of Pakistan's bonded labourers came to international attention briefly with…12-year-old Christian Iqbal Masih". Iqbal Masih was born in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Khan (general)
Mohammad Iqbal Khan ( ur}) was a senior general in the Pakistan Army who served as the third Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from being appointed in 1980 until 1984. Biography Mohammad Iqbal Khan was educated and graduated from the Military College in Jhelum and was commissioned in the British Indian Army in 1944. He joined the Guides Infantry in the 2nd Frontier Force Regiment as 2nd-Lt. and later serving in the first war with India on Kashmir front in 1947.A.H. Amin"Interview with Brig (retd) Shamim Yasin Manto" ''Defence Journal'', February 2002 After participating in second war with India in 1965, Brigadier Iqbal was appointed as the Director-General of the Military Intelligence in 1969, and was politically involved in supporting the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) against the Awami League. Eventually, Brig. Iqbal held the responsibility of Military Intelligence in 1971. In 1971–73, Major-General Iqbal held the command of the 33rd Infantry Division in Quetta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Khan (director)
Iqbal Khan is a theatre director. He is associate director at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Associate Artist of Box Clever Theatre Company. Education and influences Khan is British Pakistani, and one of five brothers. Khan began his studies at University of Cambridge in math and physics, but he became involved in theatre. His first show was a university production of ''Twelfth Night'' in which he played the priest, so he "spent a lot of time in a rehearsal room listening and observing other people". He started his own company, Liberal Tongue Productions, and later earned an MA with Distinction from Middlesex University in Theatre Directing. He held a RYTDS bursary for young directors, and in 2002, he directed a production of ''Othello'' at Leicester Haymarket Theatre as part of the bursary. He had a Japanese Fellowship for Young Directors in 2005–6. Khan cites music and the sound and rhythm of words as key influences in his work with Shakespeare and other playwrights. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi (Urdu:اقبال حسين قریشی) 27 September 1937 – 8 December 2012) , best known as I.H. Qureshi, was a Pakistani Nuclear chemistry, nuclear chemist and an :wikt:Emeritus, Emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Qureshi was the principal contributor of scientific understanding of various chemical elements: bismuth, Cobalt-60, cobalt, strontium-90, strontium, Isotopes of thallium, thallium, tritium, iron, rubidium, and zinc. His career was mostly spent with the Government of Pakistan after leaving his research work at the national laboratories, and advising the government on nuclear policy issues. He pushed his influential role at the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. He spent many years as an educator and research scientist at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Engineering and Applied Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Hussain
Mohamed Iqbal bin Hamid Hussain (born 6 June 1993) is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Singapore Premier League side Balestier Khalsa FC. Club career Gombak United Iqbal started his career at Gombak United where he scored 2 goals in 7 league games. LionsXII He joined Malaysia Super League club LionsXII after Gombak United withdrew from the S.League at the end of the 2012 season. Young Lions Restricted to one league appearance in the 2013 season and in need for match experience leading to the Southeast Asian Games, he was de-registered in April 2013 and joined under-23 developmental side Courts Young Lions in the S.League. He scored a total of 8 goals in 44 games during his 3 years stint with the club. Hougang United In 2016, he joined Hougang United FC. Although he did not have much playing time due to his National Service, Iqbal worked hard and impressed when he got to play and he even got a recall to the national team in 2016. In to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku
Iqbal Hasan Mahmud ( bn, ইকবাল হাসান মাহমুদ), also known as Tuku ( bn, টুকু), is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former state minister of power and agriculture during 2001–2006. Early life and background Mahmud was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Taluqdars in the village of Koyelgati in Sheyalkol Union, Sirajganj which was formerly in Pabna District, Pakistan. His father was Abdullah al Mahmood, a noted politician and former minister in East Pakistan, and his grandfather was Derazuddin Taluqdar. Career Mahmud served as the State Minister of Power in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government from 2001 to 2006. Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission on 21 March 2007 filed a case, accusing him of accumulating 25 million taka through illegal means. On 15 November 2007, he was sentenced by a special court to nine years in jail in the case. He filed an appeal against the verdict in December 2007. On 16 June 2011, he was ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Kazmi
Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi is a human rights activist (Correspondent of Human Rights Commission South Asia) and journalist (Chief Editor Weekly Special Report) and is based out of city of Karachi. He is known to have registered cases against Karachi Electricity Supply Company, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Government of Sindh and IDPs, Mobille Courts, Special courts, Sindh High Court moved for judicial inquiry into Ashura blast, and Targate killing in Karachi. Kazmi moved in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) challenging the eligibility of the beneficiaries. Kidnapping Amnesty international reported that Iqbal Kazmi was abducted on 6 June 2007. He was reportedly tortured and he later regained consciousness the following day in a park in the Clifton area of Karachi. His kidnappers told him that he would be killed unless he left the city by 12 June 2007. On August 1, 2007, the wife of Iqbal Kazmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Durrani
Iqbal Durrani is an Indian writer, director, actor and producer of Hindi films. Career 1988. ''Kaal Chakra'' 1st film of Iqbal Durrani dialogues of this movie was smash hit. It completed silver jubilee and audio cassette of dialogues were released. 1988. Mera Shikaar . Dimple Kapadia. Completed 100 days. 1989 ''Khoj'' completed 100 days. 1989. Majboor. Jitendra & Sunny Deol. Silver Jubilee. audi cassette of dialogues was released. 1989. Shiva. Nagarjun &Aamla. His first Hindi film. Silver Jubilee. Audio cassette of dialogues released. 1990. Shandaar. Mithun chakraborty. Completed 100 days. 1991. Izzat. Jackie Shroff & Silver Jubilee. Sangita Bijlani. Audio Cassette of dialogues were released. 1991. Muqadar Ka Badshah. Vinod Khanna & Shabana Azmi. Completed 100 days. Audio Cassette of Dialogues Released. 1991. Benaam Badshah. Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla. Completed 100 days. Audio cassette of dialogues were released. 1991. Insaniyat Ke Devta. Rajkumar, 100 Days. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
