Mohammad Azhar Shafiq (born 31 December 1978 in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani former cricketer. [1] [2] He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He has played 131 first-class and 60 List A matches for various teams in Pakistan. He represented Pakistan at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
The Pakistan Muslim League Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ق); Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf), Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League" is a political party in Pakistan. As of the 2024 parliamentary election, it has a representation of 5 seats. It previously served as an ally of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's government, and led a joint election campaign in 2013 alongside Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Punjab and Balochistan provinces against its rival Pakistan Muslim League (N), a fiscally conservative and centre-right force.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistan-based Deobandi Jihadist terrorist group active in Kashmir. The group's primary motive is to separate Kashmir from India and merge it into Pakistan.
The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) is the national governing body of association football in Pakistan. It is a member of FIFA, the international governing body of football and affiliated to the Asian Football Confederation and South Asian Football Federation. The federation was founded in 1947, it also manages the futsal and beach soccer national teams.
Azhar Lodhi is a Pakistani former newscaster and commentator who worked at the Pakistan Television primarily during 1966–1988.
Lieutenant General Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan was the chairman of the high-powered committee of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and a former governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies. The elections were held under the military government of Pervez Musharraf. The two mainstream parties, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) had several restrictions imposed on them and their leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif were in exile. In order to address the restrictions, PPP created the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) under the leadership of Ameen Faheem, to contest the elections on its behalf. The PML-N meanwhile, suffering from the party's division into two factions: one that remained loyal to Sharif and were contesting the elections under the leadership of Javed Hashmi, and the other which had broken away to form the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) under the leadership of Mian Muhammad Azhar. The emergence of the PML-Q marked the beginning of multi-party politics in the country, bringing an end to the decade-long two-party system between the PPP and PML-N.
Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin is a former Pakistani Senator and banker who served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2010 in the Gillani cabinet also and worked with the help of the Pakistan People’s Party's cabinet members.
Mazhar Abbas is a Pakistani journalist currently working with Geo News as Senior Analyst and columnist for Daily Jang. Previously he was the deputy director of ARY News Television, the bilingual news channel in Pakistan, and the secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He is the brother of Zaffar Abbas, the editor of Dawn, and Azhar Abbas (journalist), the managing director of Geo News.
The Sindh Hari Committee was a leftist and Sindhi nationalist political organization in Sindh, Pakistan that sought to promote the interests of the Haris of Sindh. It was founded in 1930 by G. M. Syed. In 1947, Hyder Bux Jatoi took over as president of the committee until his death in 1970. In 1957, it became a constituent party of the National Awami Party.
Azhar Ali (Urdu: اظہر علی; born 19 February 1985) is a Pakistani former international cricketer. He is former captain of ODI and test side of Pakistan national team.
Azhar Hussain is a wrestler from Pakistan. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won his country's first and second medals, a silver, and a gold, respectively. His second medal gave Pakistan a Commonwealth wrestling gold medal after 40 years. He is part of 42 Baloch Regiment (MIB), Pakistan Army.
Mian Muhammad Azhar is a Pakistani politician and a businessman representing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He is currently member of the national assembly. He is from an Arain family of Lahore, He is a former governor of Punjab (1990-1993) and the founder of PML-Q, of which he was also president. He is one of the largest steel manufacturers of Pakistan and is the CEO of Afco Steel Industries. He was also the mayor of Lahore between 1987 and 1991.
Aslam Azhar was a Pakistan Television executive, considered to be the "founding father of Pakistan Television".
Azhar Abbas is a senior Pakistani journalist and the current managing director of Geo News.
Arieb Azhar is a Pakistani musician known for his renderings of traditional Sufi poetry and folk songs.
Muhammad Hammad Azhar is a Pakistani politician from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He was elected from NA-126 (Lahore-IV) in 2018 Pakistani general election and remained a member of National Assembly of Pakistan between August 2018 to January 2023. He served in various ministerial positions in Imran Khan ministry between 2018 and April 2022. He served as Energy Minister of Pakistan and Finance Minister of Pakistan between 16 April 2021 to 3 April 2022 and 29 March 2021 to 16 April 2021 respectively.
Gul-e-Rana is a Pakistani actress and politician, active in the television industry. She is the mother of musician and singer, Asim Azhar. She later joined politics and contested in General Elections 2018.
Anwar Sajjad, more commonly known as Enver Sajjad was a Pakistani playwright and fiction writer. Because he was a novelist, playwright, actor, director, producer, voice-over artist, columnist, painter, dancer and physician, he has been described as a polymath.
Asim Azhar is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, musician and an actor. He started his career as a singer on YouTube, covering contemporary Western songs before he became a public figure.
Meray Dost Meray Yaar is a 2019 Pakistan web television series premiered on Geo Entertainment and YouTube on 26 October 2019. It is co-produced by GroupM ESP and LU Pakistan It has Asim Azhar, Syra Shehroz and Haroon Shahid in starring roles. The series is about college students and their love triangles. Its second season premiered on 18 October 2020 with a total of 7 episodes.