Pashtuns,also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans,are an Eastern Iranian ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s,after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Shoaib Mansoor,is a Pakistani television and film director,writer,producer,lyricist and musician of Muhajir origin.
Khuda Kay Liye is a 2007 Pakistani drama film directed by Shoaib Mansoor,produced by Brigadier Syed Mujtaba Tirmizi from ISPR and stars Shaan Shahid,Fawad Khan and Iman Ali in pivotal roles,with a cameo appearance by Naseeruddin Shah. The film follows Mansoor and Sarmad,two singers whose lives change after the events of 9/11 attacks in America and misinterpreted teachings of Jihad.
Nawab Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi,sometimes I. A. K. Pataudi,was an Indian prince and cricket player.
Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan also known as The Victor of Maiwand or The Afghan Prince Charlie was,for a while,the governor of Herat Province in the Emirate of Afghanistan. He was Emir of Afghanistan from 12 October,1879 to 31 May,1880. He also led the Afghan troops during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and defeated the British Indian Army at the Battle of Maiwand. Following his defeat at the Battle of Kandahar,Ayub Khan was deposed and exiled to British India. However,Ayub Khan fled to Persia. After negotiations in 1888 with Sir Mortimer Durand,the ambassador at Tehran,Ayub Khan became a pensioner of the British Raj and traveled to British India in 1888,where he lived until his death in 1914 in Lahore,Punjab. He was buried in Peshawar and had eleven wives,fifteen sons,and ten daughters. Two of his grandsons,Sardar Hissam Mahmud el-Effendi and Sardar Muhammad Ismail Khan,served as brigadiers in the Pakistan Army.
Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan NI(M),HI(M),TI(M),SBt,was a Pakistani senior army general who served as the 5th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan Armed Forces from 1987 to 1988 and as also served as the 7th Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence from 1979 to 1987. As DG ISI,General Akhtar collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency and masterminded the resistance network of the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union,eventually managing to force the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Due to his close friendship with President of Pakistan General Zia-ul-Haq,General Akhtar was widely considered to be the second most powerful man in the country during General Zia's eleven-year military dictatorship. He died in the plane crash which also killed General Zia and the US Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel. After his death,his sons Humayun Akhtar Khan and Haroon Akhtar Khan joined politics and have been elected as Members of Parliament and headed key ministerial portfolios several times.
Bilateral relations exist between Austria and Pakistan. Pakistan maintains an embassy in Vienna,where the current Ambassador of Pakistan to Austria is Mansoor Ahmad Khan,as well as an Honorary Consulate in Innsbruck. Austria also has an embassy in Islamabad,where the current Ambassador of Austria to Pakistan and Afghanistan is Axel Wech. There are Honorary Consulates in Karachi and Lahore as well.
Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the Indian cricket team.
Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan;was the longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan. He served in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and National Assembly of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999 and was the longest serving member. The first direct elections held in Pakistan after independence were for the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab between 10–20 March 1951. He was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly in 1951. He was again elected in the 1962 and 1964 Provincial Assembly elections in Pakistan.
General Musa Khan Akbarzada is a politician in Afghanistan,serves as the governor of Ghazni province from 2010 to 2015. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Ahmadzai tribe. His former careers include Consul General in Afghan consulate general in Peshawar,Pakistan,during the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani in early 1990s,after this he was appointed as Afghan Ambassador to Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Arshad Sami Khan was a Pakistani diplomat,civil servant and fighter pilot who at peak of his career attained the highest rank of Federal Secretary. He started his career as a Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot and later served three presidents of Pakistan as their aide-de-camp (ADC) and later went on to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served three presidents and four prime ministers as chief of protocol. He was later appointed as a diplomatic ambassador of Pakistan to 14 countries. This was followed by his appointment as the first commissioner general of Pakistan. He was also Federal Secretary of Culture and retired as a top BPS-22 grade bureaucratic officer. He was also the father of singer and music composer Adnan Sami.
Shan Masood is a Pakistani international cricketer. He plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club,and the Multan Sultans in domestic cricket. He is a left-handed batter and an occasional right-arm medium-fast bowler.
Mansoor Aslam Khan Niazi,known professionally as Sami Khan,is a Pakistani actor and model who appears in films and television dramas. He started his career with the film Salakhain and then moved to television.
On 20 January 2016,four terrorists opened fire at Bacha Khan University near Charsadda,Pakistan. It is located in the Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least 22 people were killed and over 20 others were wounded. Over 200 students were rescued from the premises,while the terrorists were killed by security forces. The Tariq Geedar Afridi faction of the Tehrik-i-Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid is an Afghan commander and cleric who is the second deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting defense minister. He has been a deputy leader of the Taliban since 2016,and was additionally appointed to his ministerial role after the Taliban's victory over Western-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war. He has been the Taliban's military chief since 2020.
The Pataudi family is an Indian show business family,primarily working India's Hindi film industry,commonly known as 'Bollywood'.
Mansoor Alam was a Pakistani diplomat who served as his country's ambassador to four countries and as an accredited ambassador to fifteen countries.
Pathans in India are citizens or residents of India who are of ethnic Pashtun ancestry. "Pathan" is the local Hindi-Urdu term for an individual who belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group,or descends from it. The term additionally finds mention among Western sources,mainly in the colonial-era literature of British India. Historically,the term "Afghan" was also synonymous with the Pathans. The Pathans originate from the Pashtunistan region that straddles Afghanistan and North West Pakistan.
Asad Majeed Khan is a Pakistani diplomat and Grade 22 officer. Dr. Asad Majeed Khan is a career Pakistan Foreign Service Officer.
