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Nazir (name)
Nazir or Nazeer is both a given name and a surname. Occurrences of the name include: Given name: * Nazeer Abbasi (died 1989), Sindhi political activist * Nazeer Akbarabadi, 18th-century Urdu poet * Nazeer Allie (born 1985), South African footballer * Nazeer Naji, Pakistani journalist * Nazir Ahmed (other) * Nazir Afzal, (born 1962), British solicitor * Nazir Jairazbhoy (1927–2009), professor of music at UCLA * Nazir Sabir, Pakistani mountaineer * Nazir Dekhaiya (1921-1988), Gujarati poet from India Surname: * Imran Nazir (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer * Maulvi Nazir (1975–2013), Pakistani Taliban leader * Prem Nazir (1926–1989), Malayali Indian film actor * Shaied Nazir (born 1980), convicted of the racially motivated murder of Ross Parker Ross Andrew Parker (17 August 198421 September 2001), from Peterborough, England, was a seventeen-year-old white English male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He bled to death after being stabbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazeer Abbasi
Nazeer Abbasi () (b. April 10, 1953 — d. August 9, 1980) was the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was tortured to death on August 9, 1980 in government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq while in the custody of FIU Field Intelligence Unit of Pakistan Army. His family has accused former ISI operative Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed Billa of torturing and killing Abbasi while in his custody, and Billa has admitted this in a TV interview. Early life Abbasi was born to Jan Muhammad Abbasi and Qamar-ul-Nisa in Tando Allahyar, Sindh, Pakistan on April 10, 1953. After completing his intermediate education, he Started working at Municipal Committee Tando Allahyar and Organized a Union of Municipal Workers. He went on to study at the Sindh University where he got B.Sc. in Political science. He married Hameeda Ghanghro on 4 February 1978 and had a daughter, Zarqa Abbasi. Political career He started politics during student life. He was first arrested as a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazeer Akbarabadi
Nazeer Akbarabadi (born Wali Muhammad; 1735 – 1830) was an 18th-century Indian poet known as "Father of Nazm", who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under the pen name (takhallus) "Nazeer", most remembered for his poems like '' Banjaranama'' (Chronicle of the Nomad), a satire. Birth, early years and migration to Akbarabad His father was Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was the governor of Agra Fort. Agra, the Indian city, was known as Akbarabad after Mughal emperor Akbar at that time. He used simple, everyday language in his poems. Nazeer's date of birth is not certain but most of his biographers believe that he was born in Delhi (then called "Dihli") in 1735 AD. The period of his birth coincided with the decline of the Mughal empire in India. In 1739, Nazeer was still a child when Nadir Shah attacked Delhi and the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (also known as "Muhammad Shah Rangila") was arrested. He was later released but countless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazeer Allie
Nazeer Allie (born 23 May 1985) is a South African soccer player who plays as a defender for Premier Soccer League club Cape Town Spurs and the South African national team South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' .... External links * * 1985 births Living people Soccer players from Cape Town South African people of Malay descent South African soccer players Cape Town Spurs F.C. players Bidvest Wits F.C. players Maritzburg United F.C. players South African Premier Division players Association football defenders South Africa international soccer players {{SouthAfrica-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazeer Naji
Nazir Naji ( ur, نذیر ناجی) (b. 15 August 1937 is a Pakistani senior journalist and Urdu columnist. He served 27 years for ''Daily Jang'' as a senior Urdu columnist. Career Nazir Naji was formerly a chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Letters. In 2012, Naji left Jang Group and joined ''Daily Dunya'' as a Group Editor. He has been honored by Hilal-i-Imtiaz for his services in journalism. Awards and recognition *Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) in 2012 by the President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Ahmed (other)
Nazir Ahmed (also transliterated Nazir Ahmad or Nazeer Ahmed) may refer to: * Chaudhry Nazeer Ahmad (born 1958), Pakistani businessman and politician *Khwaja Nazir Ahmad (1897–1970), Pakistani Ahmadiyya writer *Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (1836–1912), Indian Urdu writer and social and religious reformer *Nazir Ahmed (physicist) (1898–1973), Pakistani physicist, first chairman of PAEC *Nazir Ahmed Khan (1910–1983), Pakistani film actor, director and producer * Nazir Ahmad Khan (Indian politician) * Nazir Ahmad Khan (Pakistani politician) * Nazir Ahmed (scholar) (1915–2008), Indian scholar of Persian language and Padma Shri award winner *Nazir Ahmed (filmmaker) (1925–1990), Bengali filmmaker in Pakistan * Rank Nazeer Ahmed (born 1939), Indian Muslim scholar, Qur'an translator, and scientist * Nazeer Ahmed Baghio (born 1955), British-Pakistani politician *Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed (born 1957), British former politician and peer * Nazir Ahmad Laway (born 1963), Indian politician * Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Afzal
Nazir Afzal (born October 1962, Birmingham) is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service. Afzal spent most of his career in the Crown Prosecution Service, rising to be Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England in 2011, a role he held until leaving the CPS in 2015. In April 2016 he was appointed chief executive of the Association of Police and crime commissioners; he resigned immediately after the May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing so that he could comment freely on the attack. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2022, succeeding Lemn Sissay on August 1. Since October 2017, he has been a member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Complaints Committee. In 2018, he became the Chair of the Corporation Board at Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. He is a Muslim, with conventional views in favour of women's rights and against forced marriage, female genital mutilation and so-cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Jairazbhoy
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy ( hi, नज़ीर अली जैराज़भाई; October 31, 1927 – June 20, 2009) was a professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology. He was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1975, and retired in 1994. He was president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Life Although born in England to Indian parents, he was educated in India. He began sitar studies as a child in Bombay from Madhav Lal. In 1967, credited as "Soma", he played sitar on the Incredible String Band's album ''The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion''.Adrian Whittaker (ed.), ''Be Glad: The Incredible String Band Compendium'', 2003, After graduation from the Doon School and the University of Washington. He was a student of Dr. Arnold Adriaan Bake at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, receivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Sabir
Nazir Sabir (Urdu: نذیر صابر ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8035m, Broad Peak 8050m in 1982, and Gasherbrum I ( Hidden Peak) 8068m in 1992. He became the first from Pakistan to have climbed Everest on 17 May 2000 as a team member on the Mountain Madness Everest Expedition led by Christine Boskoff from the United States that also included famed Everest climber Peter Habeler of Austria and eight Canadians. Climbing career Sabir began his Himalayan climbing career with a Japanese expedition to the 7284m Passu Peak in Hunza in 1974. In 1975 he was part of a German Expedition as a trainee that attempted Nanga Parbat (8125m) and only went to 6700m up the south west ridge. On 17 July 1976 he made the first ascent of 6660m virgin Paiyu followed by Colonel Manzoor Hussain and Major Bashir with the first P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Dekhaiya
Noor Mohammad Allah Rakha Dekhaiya ( gu, નૂરમહંમદ અલારખ દેખૈયા), better known by his takhallus Nazir Dekhaiya ( gu, નાઝિર દેખૈયા), was a Gujarati ghazal poet from Gujarat, India. His ghazal collections include ''Tushar'' (1962), ''Nazirni Ghazalo'' (part 1-2) and ''Soona Sadan'' (2006). Biography He was born on 13 February 1921 in Bhavnagar to Allah Rakha Bhai and his second wife Dhan Bai. His father was a Bandmaster. He lost his parents during his childhood. He studied until 4th standard. He learned Clarinet and started to work in family-owned ''India Abhu Band'' as a bandmaster. His brothers died soon after and he became responsible for the rest of his family. In order to strengthen his finances, he joined the District Panchayat Board, Bhavnagar in 1956 as a peon where he served until retirement. He died after contracting Pneumonia, bronchopneumonia on 16 March 1988 in Bhavnagar. Works He used to participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imran Nazir (cricketer)
Imran Nazir ( pa, ) (born 16 December 1981) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played for the Pakistan national cricket team between 1999 and 2012 primarily a hard hitting opening batsman. Domestic career In 2008, Nazir signed for the Indian Cricket League and played for the Lahore Badshahs. He scored 111 runs not out, off just 44 deliveries, against the Hyderabad Heroes in the third of the best of three finals of the tournament and helped his team achieve victory. After signing up for the Indian Cricket League, his chances of ever playing again for Pakistan looked slim. However, on 2 February 2009, a Pakistani court suspended the ban on Indian Cricket League players, which paved the way for Nazir to make a return to the One Day International and Twenty20 squad during their tour of Sri Lanka in August 2009. Since then, he has played two National T20 cups. He was selected for the Hong Kong Sixes tournament 2010 in Hong Kong as a member of the Pakistani squad. The final match, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maulvi Nazir
Maulvi Nazir (also Maulvi Nazir Wazir; 1975 – ) was a leading militant of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan. Nazir's operations were based in Wana. He was opposed to foreigners exercising influence in Waziristan, including Americans and Uzbek jihadists. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike on 2 January 2013. The drone strike also killed his deputy Ratta Khan, and two commanders named Kochai and Chewantee. Background According to The Jamestown Foundation, Nazir was a member of the Kakakhel tribe, part of the Ahmedzai Waziris. With an estimated birth year of 1975, he was a dual citizen of both Afghanistan and Pakistan and until 2010 owned property in Kandahar. He controlled large portions of South Waziristan and maintained influence in southwestern Afghan provinces of Paktika, Zabul, Helmand and into Kandahar. Early activities Prior to the creation of the Taliban he was affiliated with the Hezbe Islami Gulbuddin, an older conservative group supported by Pakistan's Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prem Nazir
Prem Nazir (born Abdul Khader; 7 April 1926 – 16 January 1989) was an Indian actor known as one of Malayalam cinema's definitive leading man, leading men of his generation. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors in the history of Cinema of India, Indian cinema. A popular cultural icon of Kerala, Nazir is often referred to as ''Nithyaharitha Nayakan'' ("Evergreen Hero"). Nazir began his career as a stage actor and made his film debut with the 1952 film ''Marumakal''. He took on the stage name Prem Nazir on the sets of his second film, ''Visappinte Vili'' (1952). Nazir is noted for his performances in films such as ''Murappennu'' (1965), ''Udhyogastha'' (1967), ''Iruttinte Athmavu'' (1967), ''Kallichellamma'' (1969), ''Virunnukari'' (1969), ''Nadhi (1969 film), Nadhi'' (1969), ''C.I.D. Nazir'' (1971), ''Anubhavangal Paalichakal'' (1971), ''Taxi Car'' (1972), ''Azhakulla Saleena'' (1973), ''Nellu (1974 film), Nellu'' (1974), ''Ariyappedatha Rahasyam'' (1981), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
