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Liaquat Ali Chattha
Liaquat Ali Chattha is a Pakistani civil servant in PMS-20 Grade who recently served as the Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division. Born in Hafizabad, Punjab, he began his civil service career in 1992 as an Executive Magistrate. He held various positions, including deputy secretary at the Chief Minister's Secretariat and deputy commissioner in multiple cities in Punjab. He also served as secretary of various departments in the Punjab Government. Until February 2024, he was the Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division, resigned after admitting involvement in 2024 Pakistani general election. Career Chattha, originally from Hafizabad, Punjab, began his civil service career as an executive magistrate in 1992. During his tenure, he held various positions in Faisalabad, notably as executive district officer finance from 1992 to 2012. He then served as deputy secretary at the Chief Minister's Secretariat during the tenure of former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif. During his tenure at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawalpindi Division
Rawalpindi Division, also known as Pothohar Division, is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Rawalpindi city is the capital of the division. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the total population of division was 10 million. Divisions are the third tier of government below the federal and provincial levels. In 2000, local government reforms abolished administrative divisions and raised the districts to become the new third tier of government. But in 2008, the division system was restored again. Districts It consists of the following districts: History British rule Following the British conquest of the region in 1849, the area around Rawalpindi became a division of the Punjab province of British India, primarily because of the strategic location of the city of Rawalpindi. The Imperial Gazetteer of India describes the division as follows: "North-western Division of the Punjab, lying between 31°35' and 34° 1' N. and 70° 37' and 74°29' E. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Mir
Amir Mir is a veteran Pakistani journalist who is currently CEO of GNN, a digital media project. Earlier until 2019, he was working as chief operational officer of the news channel GNN as well as a founding member since the channel's inception in August 2018. Prior to this, he worked as COO with JAAG TV, as a group editor of ''Daily Dunya'' and deputy editor/editor investigations for the English-language Pakistani daily ''The News International'', based in Lahore. Mir founded and was editor of ''Weekly Independent'', a political weekly magazine. Family Amir Mir's eldest brother, Hamid Mir, is a Pakistani journalist working for a private news channel. An elder brother, Faisal Mir, is an industrialist. The youngest brother, Imran Mir, works for the private media sector. Education and early career Amir Mir graduated from Government College University. In 1993, he became a part of Pakistan's English-language daily ''The News International'' and worked as a team member of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usman Buzdar
Sardar Usman Ahmad Khan Buzdar ( ur, ; born 1 May 1969) is a Pakistani politician and previously served as Chief Minister of The Punjab from 20 August 2018 to 30 April 2022. He has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab since August 2018 and serves as parliamentary leader for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the Provincial Assembly of Punjab. Belonging from a Baloch family, he is the ''Tumandar'' of the Baloch tribe Buzdar, since April 2019. He served as Tehsil Nazim of Tehsil Tribal Area from 2001 to 2008. Early life and education He was born in May 1969 in Dera Ghazi Khan to Sardar Fateh Muhammad Buzdar. He belongs to the Buzdar clan, which is a Baloch tribe settled in southern Punjab. Buzdar received his early education from Government Boys Primary School in Barthi, Punjab. He completed his Intermediate-level education from a Government College in Multan and received a degree of bachelor of laws from the Law College, Multan where he also practiced law at consu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exit Control List
The Exit Control Lists (ECL; ur, ) is a system of border control maintained by the Government of Pakistan under Exit from Pakistan (Control) Ordinance, 1981. The people on the list are prohibited from leaving Pakistan. Priorities 1. Exit from Pakistan (Control) Ordinance, 1981, empowers the Federal Government to prohibit any person from proceeding abroad. Ordinarily, the following categories of persons are placed on ECL:- *(a) Persons involved in mass corruption and misuse of power/authority causing loss to the government funds/property. *(b) Government employees involved in economic crime where large government funds have been embezzled or institutional frauds committed. *(c) Hardened criminals involved in acts of terrorism and conspiracy. *(d) Key directors of firms having tax default / liabilities of Rs. 10 million or more. *(e) Only 2 -3 key directors of firms having more than Rs. 100 million loan default / liabilities. *(f) Names of persons if recommended by the Registrar, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Riaz
Raja Riaz Ahmad (born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously, he was the Punjab Minister for Irrigation and Power and was also the member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab between 1993 and 2013. He has been leader of opposition in National Assembly of Pakistan since May 2022. Early life and education He was born on 26 July 1955 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. He graduated from Government College University and has the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Political career He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency PP-55 (Faisalabad-XIII) in 1993 Pakistani general election. He received 30,655 votes and defeated Qamar Uz Zaman Awan, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N). He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PPP from Constituency PP-55 (Faisalabad-XIII) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imran Khan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidence in the National Assembly. He is the founder and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Born to a Niazi Pashtun family in Lahore, Khan graduated from Keble College, University of Oxford, England, in 1975. He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992,Pakistan Test Captaincy record . '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faiz Hameed
Faiz Hameed ( Punjabi & ur, ) is a retired three-star general in the Pakistani Army. He last served as Commander of the XXXI Corps. He was commissioned in the Baloch Regiment having served as the 24th Director General of the ISI and as GOC 16th Infantry Division Pano Akil. Personal life Faiz was born in Sardar. His family is from Latifal, Chakwal Chakwal (Punjabi and ur, ) is a city in Rawalpindi Division, Punjab province, Pakistan. It is the 66th largest city of Pakistan by population. Chakwal is located 90 kilometres south-west of the federal capital, Islamabad and 270 kilomet .... Effective dates of promotion Awards and decorations Foreign decorations References External linksPakistan's ISI chief Faiz Hameed visits Kabul for meeting with Taliban(Business Standard, Sept. 5, 2021) ISI Chief Gen Faiz Hameed meets Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Taliban leaders in Kabul(Geo News, Sept. 5, 2021)'Don't worry, everything will be okay': ISI chief during Kabul visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inter-Services Intelligence
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; ur, , bayn khadamatiy mukhabarati) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant to Pakistan's national security. As one of the principal members of the Pakistani Intelligence Community, Pakistani intelligence community, the ISI reports to Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence, its Director-General and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the government of Pakistan, Pakistani government. The ISI primarily consists of serving Officer (armed forces), military officers drawn on secondment from the three service branches of the Pakistan Armed Forces (i.e. the Pakistan Army, Pakistan Navy, and Pakistan Air Force), hence the name "Inter-Services"; however, the agency also recruits many civilians. Since 1971, it has been formally headed by a serving Three-star rank, three-star general of the Pakistan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umar Cheema
Umar Cheema ( ur, ) is an investigative reporter for the Pakistani newspaper '' The News''. In 2008, he won a Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship, becoming the first Pearl fellow to work at ''The New York Times''. He also attended London School of Economics as a Chevening Scholar (Chevening Scholarship) doing M.Sc. in Comparative Politics (Conflict studies). Kidnapping On September 4, 2010, he was abducted, beaten, flogged and sexually assaulted by a group of assailants. They also shaved his head, eyebrows, and mustache. Cheema reported that his attackers asked him if he was trying to discredit the government with his reporting, leading him to believe that they were from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Aftermath Following the incident, ''The New York Times'' issued an editorial calling on the Pakistani government to find out who abducted Mr. Cheema and bring them to justice." The Committee to Protect Journalists echoed the call, describing the attack as "a message s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divisions Of Pakistan
The Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces, capital territory and two autonomous territories of Pakistan are subdivided into 38 administrative "divisions", which are further subdivided into Districts of Pakistan, districts, tehsils and finally Union councils of Pakistan, union councils. These divisions were abolished in 2000, but restored in 2008. The divisions do not include the Islamabad Capital Territory or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which were counted at the same level as provinces, but in 2018, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas were subsumed into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and allocated to neighbouring divisions therein. History Administrative divisions had formed an integral tier of government from colonial times. The Governor's provinces of British India were subdivided into divisions, which were themselves subdivided into districts. At independence in 1947, the new nation of Pakistan comprised two wings – eastern and western, separated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Peoples' Party
The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded in 1967 in Lahore, when a number of prominent left-wing politicians in the country joined hands against the military dictatorship of President Ayub Khan, under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Affiliated with Socialist International, the PPP's platform has formerly been socialist, and its stated priorities continue to include transforming Pakistan into a social-democratic state, promoting secular and egalitarian values, establishing social justice, and maintaining a strong military. The party, alongside the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, is one of the 3 largest political parties of Pakistan. Since its foundation in 1967, it has been a major centre-left force in the country and the party's leadership ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election. With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country's largest political party by primary membership as well as one of the largest political parties in the world. Despite Khan's popular persona in Pakistan, the PTI had limited initial success: it failed to win, as a collective, a single seat in the 1997 general election and the 2002 general election; only Khan himself was able to win a seat. Throughout the 2000s, the PTI remained in opposition to the presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
