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Yusuf Raza Gilani
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Early life and education
Yusuf Raza Gilani was born on 9 June 1952, in Multan, Punjab, West-Pakistan, to a Saraiki family of SufiSayyids. He later moved to Lahore. Gilani attended Government College University and obtained his B.A. in journalism in 1970, and followed by an MA in Political journalism from the University of the Punjab in 1976. In an interview given to Vasatolah Khan of BBC Urdu, Gilani maintained that "if he had not pursued his career in the national politics, he would have been a civil engineer."