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Agha Sikandar
Agha Sikandar was a Pakistani television and film actor. He appeared in classic dramas '' Waris'' and '' Dehleez''. He also appeared in Urdu and Punjabi films '' Mian Biwi Razi'', ''Faslay'' and '' Jatt Te Dogar''. Early life Agha was born on 1954 in Lahore, Pakistan and he completed his studies from University of Lahore. Agha's father Agha Saleem Raza (d. 1965) was an actor in Urdu and Punjabi cinema, mainly known for his roles as villain during the 30s and the 40s. Career Agha was interest in acting and made his debut as an actor in late 1970s on PTV dramas and he did a number of roles in dramas in the late 1970s. He appeared in drama '' Waris'' written by Amjad Islam Amjad he portrayed as Farrukh an emotional son of a widow which was a massive hit. Agha then appeared in philosophical telefilm written by Ashfaq Ahmed called ''Cinderella Aur Sakina'' with Saba Hameed. Then in 1981 he appeared in drama '' Dehleez'' as Abid Khan a villain role which was also written by Amjad Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs. It has been the historic capital and cultural center of the wider Punjab region, and is one of Pakistan's most Social liberalism, socially liberal, Progressivism, progressive, and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities. Origins of Lahore, Lahore's origin dates back to antiquity. The city has been inhabited for around two millennia, although it rose to prominence in the late 10th century with the establishment of the Walled City of Lahore, Walled City, its fortified interior. Lahore served as the capital of several empires during the medieval era, including the Hindu Shahis, Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashfaq Ahmed
Ashfaq Ahmed (; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan. He is the recipient of Presidential Pride of Performance and Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) awards for his everlasting services in the field of broadcasting and literary heritage of Pakistan.ISLAMABAD: Tributes paid to Ashfaq Ahmed Dawn (newspaper), Published 1 November 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2019 Early life Ashfaq Ahmed was born on 22 August 1925 in Muktsar, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab, British India, in an ethnic Pashtun people, Pashtun family of the Mohmand tribe.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Births
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Television Corporation
Pakistan Television Corporation (; reporting name: PTV); also known as ''Pakistan Television'', is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster founded by the Government of Pakistan, operating under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It was established on 26 November 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. History Background The idea of establishing a media and television industry was conceived in late 1956 and created by the privately set up national education commission with the support of President Ayub Khan in 1960. In 1961, the private sector media mogul and industrialist Syed Wajid Ali launched a television industrial development project, bringing the role of Ubaidur Rahman, an electrical engineer in the Engineering Division of Radio Pakistan, as the project director of the first television station in Lahore. Ali reached a milestone in 1961 after establishing a private television broadcasting company with the cooperation of Nippon Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mominpura Graveyard
The Mominpura Graveyard is a Shia cemetery in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest graveyards in Lahore, and contains over 10,000 burials according to its records. Many graves are hundreds of years old. Established by the Qizilbash family, the cemetery is situated near the Lakshmi Chowk, opposite Empire Cinema. History On 11 January 1998 (8.15am PST), unidentified gunmen stormed the graveyard and opened fire on a congregation of people offering prayers. The attack, believed to be motivated by sectarianism, resulted in 22 deaths and 51 injuries. Sunni militants were blamed for the massacre. The shooting was condemned by Punjab's chief minister Shahbaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between Ap ... as a "most heinous and inhuman act of terrorism." Notable buria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahar Begum
Bahar Begum (born Kishwar Begum; ) is an actress best known for many Pakistani movies since 1956. She was first introduced to the Pakistani film industry by the renowned film director Anwar Kamal Pasha in the film Chann Mahi (1956). Anwar Kamal Pasha is the one that gave her the professional film world name Bahar Begum. She later acted both in Punjabi, Pashto and Urdu language Pakistani films and had a very active career from 1956 till 2000s. She has more than 600 films to her credit. Early life and education Bahar Begum studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Lahore, Pakistan. Career Having grown up in Lahore, Pakistan, her career has centered on the Punjabi film industry, initially playing heroines and then "emotionally strong mothers", usually ending-up playing 'mother' to a popular lead actor of Punjabi films Sultan Rahi Sultan Rahi (; June 24, 1938 – January 9, 1996) was a Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter. He established himself as one of the leadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeeb
Muzaffar Adeeb (1926 – 26 May 2006), known mononymously as Adeeb, was a Pakistani film actor. He appeared in 38 Indian films from 1940 to 1962, although he did not start performing in films very actively until the 1950s. In 1962, he shifted from Bombay (now Mumbai), India, to Lahore, Pakistan and resumed his film career that lasted until his death with over 500 films to his credit. Early life and career Adeeb was born in Bombay in a conservative Pashtuns of Kashmir, Pathan family from Kashmir. His family moved to Bombay before independence of Pakistan in 1947 and that is where the actor in him emerged, after the completion of his Master's Degree in Urdu literature from Bombay University, Maharashtra. Unlike his contemporaries, scriptwriting was the first love of Adeeb, who worked in the scriptwriting department with Raj Kapoor's father, Prithviraj Kapoor, in Prithvi Theatre and later with Indian National Theatre as assistant director. It is during this time in India that he l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Qureshi
Mustafa Qureshi (born 11 May 1938) is a Pakistani film and television actor. He has acted in more than 600 movies, in Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi languages. He is best remembered for playing the antagonist Noori Natt in '' Maula Jatt'' (1979). He was born into a Sindhi family despite his later work mainly in Punjabi cinema. Qureshi won Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Lal Aandhi'' (1979). He then won his first Nigar Award for Best Actor for 1981 film '' Sher Khan''. He won his third Nigar Award and second in best actor category for his role in '' Rustam Te Khan'' (1983). He was awarded Pride of Performance in 1988. He has voiced Germander in the '' Commander Safeguard'' animated series. Early life and career Qureshi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, on 11 May 1938, and received primary education in Hyderabad, combining both modern and religious studies, later on gaining a Master of Arts degree in Islamic history from Sindh University, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultan Rahi
Sultan Rahi (; June 24, 1938 – January 9, 1996) was a Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter. He established himself as one of the leading and most successful actors of Pakistani and Punjabi cinema, and received a reputation as Pakistan's "Clint Eastwood". During a career spanning 40 years, he acted in some 703 Lollywood, Punjabi films and 100 Urdu cinema, Urdu films, winning around 160 awards. His first film was the Urdu-language Baghi (1956 film), ''Baghi'' in 1956. He was 18 years old in this film. This was the first Cinema of Pakistan, Pakistani film to be screen in China Rahi acted with many heroines but he was known for his duo with Anjuman (actress), Anjuman; ''Khoon da Hisab'' (1995) was his last film with Anjuman. Rahi earned two Nigar Awards for his work in ''Babul'' (1971) and ''Basheera'' (1972). In 1975 he portrayed the character of Maula Jatt in ''Wehshi Jatt'', winning his third Nigar Award. He reprised the role in its sequel ''Maula Jatt'' (1979), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeeta (Pakistani Actress)
Parveen Rizvi, better known as Sangeeta, (; born 14 June 1958) is a Pakistani film actress, filmmaker and director of television drama serials. Early life Parveen Rizvi was born on 14 June 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan. Parveen Rizvi's (or Sangeeta's) mother Mehtab Rizvi also had a career in show business. Additionally, Parveen's younger sister, Nasreen Rizvi (professionally known as Kaveeta) is also associated with Pakistani Film industry, cinema. The British-American actress Jiah Khan was her niece. Career Acting In 1969, Sangeeta appeared on the film ''Koh-e-Noor'' (1969) as a child star; it was directed by Agha Husaini. In 1971, she moved to Lahore from her birthplace of Karachi and started a more serious career in Lollywood movies in Lahore. Her role as a supporting actress in Riaz Shahid's movie ''Yeh Aman'' (1971) was well-liked by the Pakistani public. She went on to act in dozens of other movies before deciding to become a film producer-director with her own film ''Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadeem Baig (actor)
Mirza Nazir Baig (born 19 July 1941), best known by his screen name Nadeem (), is a Pakistani actor, singer, and producer. He has appeared in over two hundred films during his 56-year-long career.He has also been honored with the Pride of Performance award in 1997. He has also won a record 16 Nigar Awards as an actor. Early life Nadeem was born on 19 July 1941 in Vijayawada, which at the time was part of the Madras Presidency in British India. Nadeem migrated to Dhaka, East Pakistan along with his family after the independence of Pakistan, in 1947. He finished high school at Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam and attended some years of college at Government Islamia Science College, Karachi before he entered the Pakistani film industry.Profile: The legend speaks Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 July 2012. Retrieved 26 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahira Naqvi
Tahira Naqvi ( Punjabi, ; 20 August 1956 – 2 June 1982) was a Pakistani actress who began her career in the 1970s and worked until her death at the age of 25. She became popular by appearing in several television series and two films in her career spanning a few years. She was known as the ''Mistress of Emotions'' because she portrayed roles of sentiment, nostalgia, and despondency in dramas. Tahira, along with Uzma Gillani, Khalida Riyasat ,and Roohi Bano dominated Pakistan's television screens during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Tahira Naqvi was born in Daska, Pakistan, on August 20, 1956. Tahira completed her early studies at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore, and later she graduated from Government Girls College. Career She began her career as a television actress. Tahira also worked at Radio Pakistan in 1974, and she worked in fifty television dramas. In 1976, she played a role in a theatre play which was about drug addiction among the young people of Pak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
