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Akhtar Karimi Zand
Akhtar ( fa, links=no, ) means "star" in Persian. It is a unisex name. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Given name Akhtar * Akhtar Aly Kureshy Pakistani lawyer and professor * Akhtar ul Iman (1915–1996), Indian Urdu poet and screenwriter * Akhtar Mengal, Pakistani politician * Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani development practitioner and social scientist * Akhtar Khan, British television and radio presenter for the BBC * Akhtar Chaudhry, Pakistani-Norwegian politician * Akhtar Hussain Malik, general of the Pakistan Army Akhter * Akhter Husain (1902–1983), Pakistani politician Aktar * Aktar Islam, British-Bangladeshi restaurateur Surname Akhtar * Ayad Akhtar, American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter * Farhan Akhtar, Indian film director * Gulraiz Akhtar, Pakistani field hockey player * Jan Nisar Akhtar, Indian poet * Javed Akhtar, film writer and poet from India * Najma Akhtar, British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saleem Akhtar
Raja Saleem Akhtar ( Punjabi, Urdu: ) (8 September 1930 – 22 April 2004) was a former Pakistani cricketer who played for Multan and Sargodha. His sons Wasim Raja and Rameez Raja played for the Pakistan cricket team, while Zaeem Raja played first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia .... Early life and career He was a retired civil servant and former cricketer. References External links * 1930 births Pakistani cricketers People from Gujranwala Multan cricketers Sargodha cricketers 2004 deaths Pakistani civil servants {{Pakistan-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Unisex Given Names
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhtar (magazine)
The Persian periodical ''Akhtar'' ( fa, اختر, meaning ''Star'' in English) was published in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, in the period 1876–1896. History and profile ''Akhtar'' was launched in 1876 following the suggestion of the Persian ambassador in Constantinople at that time, and was published until 1896. Editor and director was Agha Mohammed Taher Tabrizi, and the editor in chief Mirza Mehdi Tabrizi (1839-1907) was the founder of the Khorshid Publishing House in Constantinople who later edited another magazine entitled '' Hekmat'' (1892-1912) in Cairo. Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Kashani, founded the periodical '' Sorayya'' (1898-1900) which was later published in Cairo, also briefly worked for the journal. ''Akhtar'' was the first Persian magazine to be published outside Iran. At the beginning, ''Akhtar'' - the first non-official press medium - was published almost daily, later twice - and eventually once a week. The distribution of this journal extended from many citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Aktar
Mohammad Aktar (born 2 August 1962) is an Afghan Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ... former wrestler, who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the light-flyweight event. References External links * Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Afghan male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Afghanistan 1962 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Afghan people {{Afghanistan-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cengiz Aktar
Cengiz Aktar (born 1955 in Istanbul) is a Turkish political scientist, essayist and columnist. He has published numerous books on the European Union and its relations with Turkey. He was a director at the UNHCR and worked extensively with the European Commission. He initiated a campaign calling for an apology of the Turkish citizens towards the Armenians for the Armenian genocide. Biography Born in Istanbul in 1955, Cengiz Aktar studied in the Lycée de Galatasaray then went on to study in the Sorbonne in Paris where he obtained a PhD in Economic Epistemology in 1982. He is a professor of political science presently invited at the University of Athens KPA He is a former director at the United Nations, specializing in asylum policies. He is known to be one of the leading advocates of Turkey's integration into the EU. He was the Chair of European Studies at Bahçeşehir University. In 1999, he initiated a civil initiative for Istanbul's candidacy for the title of European Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salma Akhter
Moushumi Akhter Salma (known as Salma Akhter) is a Bangladeshi folk singer. She rose to fame in 2006 after winning the second season of ''"Closeup 1 Tomakei Khujchhey Bangladesh"'', a television series broadcast on NTV. Early life She was born in the village of Gangarampur, Daulatpur Upazila, Kushtia District, Khulna Division. Music career Salma started learning singing from her Guruji Baul Shafi Mandal at the age of four . She got the lesson of classical music along with folk from her Guruji. Her turning point started at the age of twelve when she attended the musical Reality show " Closeup One" (season 2) organized by NTV in 2006. She became the champion among 1 Lac contestants. Her first single Baniya Bondhu struck the market along with another song Chailam Jarey while she was in the competition. At the same time, her song got popularity named Amar Ek Noyon. Salma is specially considered for singing Lalon geeti along with all other Bengali folk songs. She also performs s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moin Akhter
Moin Akhter (also: "معین اختر" Moin Akhtar), (24 December 1950 – 22 April 2011) was a Pakistani television, film and stage artist, humorist, comedian, impersonator, host, writer, singer, director and producer who rose to fame in the era of Radio Pakistan along with his co-actors Anwar Maqsood and Bushra Ansari. He became an icon through his screen persona "Rozi" and is considered to be a one-of-a-kind parodist and the king of Urdu comedy. His career spanned more than 45 years, from childhood in the Radio Pakistan era of modern film making until a year before his death in 2011. Early life Akhter was born in Karachi, Pakistan. His father, Muhammad Ibrahim Mehboob, who died a few months after Akhtar died, at the age of 92, was born in Muradabad, in the modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and settled in Karachi as a result of the Partition, "passed his life in his own printing press and as a contractor in the garments business." Akhter was fluent in several l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doli Akhter
Doli Akhter, born 15 January 1986, is an Olympic swimmer from Bangladesh. She has swum for Bangladesh at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. On all three occasions, she attended thanks to a wild card qualification. She competed in the 100m breaststroke in Sydney (2000), where she was disqualified. In Athens (2004), she competed in the 50m freestyle. She won her heat with a time of 30.72, which was not sufficient for her to advance to the next round. Akhter won a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke event at the South Asian Games in Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital T ... in 2004. She is Bangladesh's sole athlete at the 2009 World Championships (July 2009). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahfuza Akhter
Mahfuza Akhter Kiron ( bn, মাহফুজা আক্তার কিরণ; born 12 February 1967) is a Bangladeshi football administrator and a member of the FIFA Council. In May 2017, Akhter won the election for the seat on the FIFA Council reserved for Asian women, beating the incumbent Australian Moya Dodd, who had held the seat from 2013–16, by 27 votes to 17. Akhter was "heavily criticised" following an interview by the BBC World Service, when she struggled to name the current women's world champions, replying "Korea", then "Japan", and then the correct answer, the US. In March 2019, she was arrested for allegedly defaming the Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2 .... In a televised interview, Akhter had claimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoya Akhtar
Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. After completing a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before becoming a writer and director herself. Akhtar is the recipient of several accolades, including five Filmfare Awards. Zoya, along with Reema Kagti founded Tiger Baby Films, a film and web studio, in October 2015. She has directed movies such as '' Luck by Chance'' (2009), ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (2011) and ''Sheila Ki Jawani'', a segment of ''Bombay Talkies'' (2013). She has co-written '' Talaash'' (2012) alongside Reema Kagti. She then went on to direct ''Dil Dhadakne Do'' (2015) and ''Gully Boy'' (2019). Personal life Zoya Akhtar was born to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani. Akhtar's stepmother is actress Shabana Azmi. Her younger brother, Farhan Akhtar, is an actor and director. She attended M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
