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Chief Minister Of Sindh
The chief minister of Sindh (, —), is the elected head of government of Sindh and serves alongside the Chief Secretary. Murad Ali Shah is the current Chief Minister of Sindh, serving since 26 February 2024. The chief minister is the head of the provincial government alongside the Chief Secretary. The Chief Minister of Sindh is elected by the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and is the leader of the provincial Legislature. The office of Chief Minister is located in Karachi, the capital of the Sindh province and is known as the ''CM Secretariat''. Eligibility The Constitution of Pakistan sets the principle of qualifications which one must meet to be eligible to the office of the Chief Minister. A Chief Minister must be: * a citizen of Pakistan * should be a member of the provincial legislature. The Chief Minister is elected by a majority in the provincial legislative assembly. This is procedurally established by the vote of confidence in the legislative assembly, as suggested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murad Ali Shah
Sayyid, Syed Murad Ali Shah (; born 8 November 1962) is a Pakistani politician and structural engineer who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Sindh province of Pakistan and a member of the Sindh Assembly. It is his third term as Chief minister. Shah earlier held portfolios such as Minister of Irrigation of Sindh and Finance Minister of Sindh. Early life and education Shah was born in Karachi, West Pakistan, to a Sindhis, Sindhi Muslims, Muslim Lakyari Sayyid, Syed family. His father, Syed Abdullah Ali Shah also served as the chief minister of Sindh. Murad Ali Shah is the descendent of Sufi saint of Shah Sadaruddin Lakyari (Lakhi Shah Sadar) near Sehwan Sharif. Shah matriculation, matriculated from Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, Saint Patrick's High School, did intermediate study at D. J. Sindh Government Science College in Karachi, and was admitted to the engineering programme at the NED University of Engineering and Technology. He graduated with a Bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pir Ilahi Bux
Pir Ilahi Bux or Pir Ilahi Buksh (; Urdu: پیر الٰہی بخش) was a Pakistani politician and activist who was a prominent member of the Pakistan Movement and served as the Chief Minister of Sindh from 1948 to 1949. Biography Early life Bux was born at Pir Jo Goth near Bhansyedabad on 9 July 1890 in a spiritual family of Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan. He was only 9 years of age when his father Pir Nawaz Ali Shah died. He was brought up by his maternal uncle Pir Lal Muhammad. His family is the descendant of Makhdoom Moosa, 5th son of Makhdoom Sarwar Nooh. Education Bux received his primary education from Government Primary School Bhansyedabad and did his matriculation from Naz High School, Khairpur (Mirs). Thereafter, he went to Aligarh Muslim University for higher education. He was the first member of his family who received higher education. Deeply moved by the Khilafat Movement, led by Maulana Mohammad Ali Jouhar, he soon left Aligarh Muslim University and joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahimuddin Khan
Rahimuddin Khan (21 July 1926 – 22 August 2022) was a four-star rank Pakistani general who briefly served as the 16th Governor of Sindh in 1988. Previously, he had served as the fourth Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1984 to 1987 and the seventh Governor of Balochistan from 1978 to 1984. He was a member of a secret five-person committee, which consisted of General's Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Fazle Haq, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan), Foreign Minister Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, that determined the allocation of weapons among competing Afghan rebel factions during the Soviet–Afghan War. After the Partition of British India, Rahimuddin enrolled as the first cadet of the Pakistan Military Academy. As a captain, Rahimmuddin was part of the martial law administration which took over during the 1953 Lahore riots. He later commanded 111th Infantry Brigade (Pakistan), 111 Brigade in Rawalpindi and II Corps (Pakistan), II Corps in Multan. As Chairman Joint Chiefs, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islami Jamhoori Ittehad
The Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI) was a right-wing conservative alliance formed in September 1988 to oppose the democratic socialist Pakistan Peoples Party in elections that year. The alliance comprised nine parties, of which the major components were the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), National Peoples Party (NPP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), with PML accounting for 80% of the IJI's electoral candidates. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, under director Hamid Gul, had a major role in forming the right-of-centre political alliance. Care had been taken to ensure that the alliance comprised nine parties to generate comparison with the nine-party Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) that had campaigned against PPP in 1977. The IJI was considered a Zia ul-Haq loyalist alliance. The head of the party was Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, but its most resourceful leader was Nawaz Sharif, a young industrialist whom Zia ul-Haq had appointed chief minister of Punjab. Sharif was vying for co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhtar Ali Ghulam Qazi
Akhtar () (Pashto: اختر) means "star" in Persian and is used in Pashto for Nowruz and Eid Day. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Given name Akhtar * Akhtar Ali (1939–2021), Indian tennis player * Akhtar Ayub (born 1987), Pakistani cricketer * Akhtar Hussain Badshah, Pakistani politician * Akhtar Chaudhry (born 1961), Pakistani-Norwegian politician * Akhtar Hassan Khan Gorchani (born 1958), Pakistani diplomat, politician, and intelligence official * Akhtar Husain (1912–1992), Pakistani scholar, journalist, and lexicographer * Akhtar Hussain (1900–1974), Pakistani vocalist and musician * Akhtar Hussain (1926–1987), Pakistani field hockey player * Akhtar Hussain (born 1946), Pakistani lawyer, judge, and politician * Akhtar Hussain (born 1959), Pakistani sarangi player * Akhtar Hussain (died 1973), Pakistani cricket umpire * Akhtar Imam (1917–2009), Bangladeshi educationist, femi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Muslim League
The Pakistan Muslim League (; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the centre-right platform in the country. The ''Muslim League'' (the original successor of the All-India Muslim League) was the party of Pakistan's founders. However, it faced multiple fractures soon after Pakistan gained independence in 1947. It vanished in the 1970s. Its revival began in the mid-1980s and today several parties in Pakistan are named Muslim League. History First phase (1962–1969) The first "Pakistan" Muslim League was founded by President Ayub Khan in 1962 as a successor to the original Muslim League. Just a short period after its foundation, the party broke into two factions: Convention Muslim League that supported the President and the new Constitution, and the Council Muslim League, that opposed the new Constitution, denouncing it as undemocratic that made the Presidency an autocratic position. Following President Ayub's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghous Ali Shah
Sayyid, Syed Ghous Ali Shah (Urdu: سید غوث علی شاہ; born 1 January 1934) is a Pakistani people, Pakistani politician and jurist. He was Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan from 1985 to 1988. He has also remained the Defence Minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993 and the Education Minister of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999. He has been elected the Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from his native Constituency NA-215 Khairpur as a result of the 2013 Pakistani general election. Education Ghous Ali Shah was born in 1934. He received his secondary education in Naz High School, Khairpur, Pakistan, Khairpur. In the 1950s the School had qualified teachers from all over the country and was one of the most reputed institutions of Sindh. His name is engraved on a plaque and hung up on the "Distinguished Students" board. He graduated from the Sindh Muslim College of the University of Karachi, Pakistan. He did his LLB from the Sindh Muslim Law College of the University of Karac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer and statesman who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until Death of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He also served as the second Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan), chief of the army staff of the Pakistan Army from 1976 until his death. The country's longest-serving ''de facto'' head of state and chief of the army staff, Zia's political ideology is known as Ziaism. Zia was born in Jalandhar and trained at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. He served in the British Indian Army in the Second World War, and following the partition of India in 1947, joined the Pakistan Army and stationed in the Frontier Force Regiment. During Black September, he played a prominent role in defending the Jordanian Armed Forces against the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 1976, Zia was elevated to the rank of General (Pakistan), General and was appointed as ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (; ) (14 August 1931 – 20 November 2009) was a Pakistani politician who served as the Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan for three months, from 6 August 1990 to 6 November 1990. Early life Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was born in New Jatoi, Naushehro Feroze District, Sindh. He was the eldest of four brothers, and his grandfather, Khan Bahadur Imam Bux Khan Jatoi, was a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1923, 1927 and 1931. At the time there were only four members representing the entire present Province of Sindh. His father Ghulam Rasool Jatoi was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Sindh Legislative Assembly twice in 1946 and again 1952, after which one unit was imposed in West Pakistan. Jatoi was educated at Karachi Grammar School and passed his senior Cambridge. In 1952, he went to England for his bar at law, but had to return home within one year due to his father's serious illness. Mr Jatoi was an active leader in politics. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Peoples Party
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Centre-left politics, centre-left political position, it is currently the largest party in the federal Senate of Pakistan, Senate, and second-largest in the National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly; and is in government in Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan. The party was founded in 1967 in Lahore, when a number of prominent Socialism in Pakistan, left-wing politicians in the country joined hands against the rule of Ayub Khan, under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It is affiliated with the Socialist International. The PPP's platform was formerly Democratic socialism, socialist, and its stated priorities continue to include transforming Pakistan into a Social democracy, social-democratic state, promoting egalitarian valu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto (, ) (28 November 1933 – 18 July 2021), was a Pakistani politician who served as 8th Governor of Sindh and later the 13th Chief Minister of Sindh. He was also the first cousin of late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. Personal life Mumtaz Ali Bhutto was born on 28 November 1933 in the village of Pir Bux Bhutto, Larkana District, Sindh, British Raj. Before the Partition of India, partition his father Nawab Nabi Bux Khan Bhutto was a member of the legislative assembly and had a strong political background. Bhutto attended St. George's College, Mussoorie, St George's College in Mussoorie and then Lawrence College, Murree, after the Partition of India, independence of Pakistan. He earned his barrister degree from Lincoln's Inn, and undergraduate and master's degrees in 1959 from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He had four children including politician Ameer Bux Bhutto, journalist Ali Haider Bhutto, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (4 February 191710 August 1980) was a Pakistani army officer who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the fifth Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. A Pathans of Punjab, Pathan of Punjab, Khan was commissioned into the British Indian Army in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II, Mediterranean theatre. Following the Partition of British India, he joined the Pakistan Army and organized the Staff College, Quetta. In 1965, he played a vital role in executing Operation Grand Slam in Indian-administered Kashmir during the Second India–Pakistan War and was assigned to assume the army command in October 1966 by President Ayub Khan. In the wake of the 1968–1969 Pakistani protests, Ayub Khan resigned and transferred his authority to Yahya Khan. Khan's presidency oversaw Martial law in Pakistan, martial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
