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People From Quetta
This is the list of notable people who were born, lived or grew up in Quetta (the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan) and Quetta District. List is ordered by the professions of people. Civil and military officers * Abdul Qadir Baloch * Yazdan Khan * Musa Khan (general), Musa Khan * Chris Keeble * George Philip Bradley Roberts * Ian Jacob * Gul Hassan Khan * James Cassels (British Army officer), James Cassels * Patrick Hore-Ruthven * Sharbat Ali Changezi Film, radio and television people * Abid Ali (actor), Abid Ali * Abid Ali Nazish * Avice Landone * Ayub Khoso Actor * Hameed Sheikh Actor * Jamal Shah Actor * Merle Tottenham * Neil North * Suresh Oberoi * Veena (actress), Veena * Zeba Bakhtiar Journalists, poets and writers * Agha Sadiq * Ali Baba Taj * Alison Plowden * Mohsin Changezi * Muneer Ahmed Badini * * Russi Karanjia * Siddiq Baloch * Wajahat Saeed Khan * Zafar Mairaj Musicians * Dawood Sarkhosh * Faiz Mohammad Faizok * Rabi Peerzada Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quetta City Flag
Quetta is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan. It is the ninth List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. It is situated in the south-west of the country, lying in a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. Quetta is at an average elevation of above sea level, making it Pakistan's highest altitude major city. The city is known as the ''"Fruit Garden of Pakistan,"'' due to the numerous fruit orchards in and around it and the large variety of fresh and dried fruits produced there. Located in northern Balochistan near the Durand line, Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the road across to Kandahar, Quetta is a trade and communication centre between the two countries. The city is near the Bolan Pass, which was on a major gateway from Central Asia to South Asia. Etymology The name ''Quetta'' is a variation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hameed Sheikh
Hameed Sheikh () is a Pakistani film and television actor, director, producer, and professional language translator. In film and TV, he is best known for '' Khuda Kay Liye'', '' Operation O21'' and '' Moor'' Since 2022 Hameed Sheikh has performed as on-set language and cultural consultant for the US series '' The Old Man'', starring Jeff Bridges. Hameed Sheikh has worked for years to bring his native Pashtun, Pakistani, and Middle Eastern society into better focus via film and television, while lamenting the lack of government support within these cultures. Personal life Hameed Sheikh has lived in Los Angeles since 2021. He is from Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan, Pakistan. Sheikh is fluent in Urdu, Brahui, Sindhi, Punjabi, Dari, Persian, Seraiki, Balochi and Hindko. Hameed sheikh is great teacher and Father of three he is very knowledgeable, intelligent in the Field of Arts/Movies his line of work has credibility from his past endeavours with many different cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddiq Baloch
Siddiq Baloch (alternatively Siddiq Balouch or Siddique Baloch) (10 February 1940 5 February 2018) was a Pakistani journalist, and senior political economist. He was Editor-in-chief of the English daily ''Balochistan Express'' (Quetta), an Urdu daily ''Azadi'', and the ''English Weekly Express'', (Quetta). He also regularly contributed columns to ''Dawn'' newspaper for nearly 29 years, and was an authority on Balochistan's social, political and economic matters. Personal life Siddiq Balouch was born in the suburb of Chakiwara near Lyari, in Pakistan's 'business capital' Karachi, but migrated to Quetta, Balochistan in 1990. He advocated for 'freedom of expression' and, over the years, has spoken openly against dictatorship and bans on the media. When the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance was amended in November 2007 by President Pervez Musharraf, placing curbs on the media, Balouch told ''Weekly Pulse'': PEMRA ordinance is a bid to muffle the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russi Karanjia
Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia (15 September 1912 – 1 February 2008) was an Indian journalist and editor. He typically signed his reports as "R. K. Karanjia". He founded the '' Blitz'', a weekly tabloid with focus on investigative journalism in 1941, and ran it for the next four decades. He also founded The Daily, a daily tabloid which was run by his daughter. Early life and background Karanjia was born to a Parsi family in Quetta, now in Balochistan in the Northern part of Pakistan. Career Karanjia began writing while still in college,. and during the 1930s Karanjia was employed an assistant editor at ''The Times of India''... He left ''The Times of India'' in 1941 to launch '' Blitz (newspaper)'', a weekly tabloid with a focus on investigative journalism. It was one of the few Indian newspapers to have carried out interviews with the high and mighty, including the likes of Fidel Castro and Zhou Enlai. The Daily and The Blitz were also incubators for the likes of R.K. Laxman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muneer Ahmed Badini
Munir Ahmed Badini ( Balochi:منير احمد بادینی ) born in 1953) is a Pakistani novelist and writer. The recipient of the Pride of Performance, he primarily writes in Balochi and English languages. Biography He lives in Quetta and is serving as Secretary for Sports, Environment and Youth Affairs for the government of Balochistan. 'Clean Air Quality Monitoring Initiative Meeting in Quetta', Quetta Times Education Badini studied in his village schools and upon completion of the local Boys' High School, completed his degree in Arts at the Degree College in Quetta< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsin Changezi
Mohsin Changazi, () (born 3 September 1979), is a Pakistani Urdu poet of Hazara descent. He has participated in several ''Mushaira ''Mushaira'' () is a poetic symposium. It is an event (called '' mehfil'', mushairi) where poets gather to perform their works. A mushaira is part of the Culture of North India, Pakistan and the Deccan, particularly among the Hyderabadi Muslim ...'' (poetic symposiums) in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. He has also received awards including the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2010. Awards *'' Tamgha-e-Imtiaz'' in 2010. *''Nashan-i-ghazal Award'' * ''Star of the Night'' * ''Gold Medal and Shield''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Changezi, Mohsin Pakistani people of Hazara descent Hazara poets Pakistani poets Urdu-language poets from Pakistan 1979 births Living people People from Quetta Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Plowden
Alison Margaret Chichele Plowden (18 December 1931 – 17 August 2007) was an English historian and biographer well known for her popular non-fiction about the Tudor period. Biography She was born at Quetta in India, a descendant of Edmund Plowden and, collaterally, of Henry Chichele. Privately educated, she worked for the BBC as a script editor. She wrote the script for the television series ''Mistress of Hardwick'' (about Bess of Hardwick), which won her a Writers' Guild Award for the best educational television series, and several television plays, including ''Sweet England's Pride'' and ''The Case of Eliza Armstrong''. She later recalled: "A secretary writing scripts was a little like a performing monkey at the BBC - there was a sort of 'Fancy, what a clever little girl' attitude." In 1970 she decided to leave the BBC to go freelance. Her first book, ''The Young Elizabeth''(1972), was followed by ''Danger to Elizabeth'' (1973), ''Marriage With My Kingdom'' (1977), ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Baba Taj
Ali Baba Taj () is an Urdu, Dari and Hazaragi poet, based in Quetta, Pakistan. He is known for his use of nazm style in Urdu poetry. He received his master's degree in Persian language and literature from the University of Balochistan, Quetta, in 2003. He has written several articles in Urdu and Persian regarding poetry and literature. World Poetry Festival Taj represented Pakistan in the World Poetry Festival held in Kolkata, India, in 2008. He also attended the second Daryanagar poetry fair at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh in 2010. Visits for cultural and peace mission Taj has visited India several times for academic and literary purposes. His aim on these visits has been to foster love and peace in humankind, especially between the people of Pakistan and India. He has met with scholars, poets, writers and other social and peace activists during these peace missions. Books * ''Muthi mein kuch saansain'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agha Sadiq
Syed Agha Sadiq Hussien Naqvi (25 September 1909–1977) was a Pakistani writer and poet, based in Quetta, Pakistan, from 1943 up to his death in July 1977. History He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, in 1909 as the Son of Syed Khair Ali Shah and grandson of Syed Ahmed Ali Shah from one of the great houses of the area. Mostly self-educated and schooled in the family compound, he began to take up posts in the education establishment as the British withdrew from India. Works He was responsible for 40 works through his lifetime, in four different languages, dominated by Urdu but including Arabic, Persian and Middle-Persian. His work is distinctive if in its balance, elegance and depth of thought and is modelled clearly on his great hero Iqbal. He acknowledges his debt in his extensive analysis of Iqbal's poetry "Iqbal Shinaasi". Through collections such as "Parishaan" and the sufistic/religiously inspired "Chasm-e- Kauthar" demonstrate that he had a style and voice uniquely his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeba Bakhtiar
Zeba Bakhtiar (; born 5 November 1962) is a Pakistani film/TV actress and a television director. She is known for her TV drama ''Anarkali'' (1988), the Bollywood romantic drama ''Henna'' (1991), and the Lollywood movie, '' Sargam'' (1995). She produced and directed a movie ''Babu'' in 2001. Zeba won the best actress Nigar Award for the movie ''Sargam'' in 1995. Early life and family Zeba is the daughter of Yahya Bakhtiar, a lawyer, politician and pre-independence Muslim League activist who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan, and also played a key role in framing Pakistan's current constitution. Her father belonged to Quetta, while her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an English woman born to Hungarian parents. Her father died in 2003, and her mother died in 2011. Her parents met in the UK in the early 1940s and married, with her mother eventually settling in Pakistan in 1949 after graduating from the University College London. Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veena (actress)
Veena (née Tajour Sultana; 4 July 1926 – 14 November 2004), also known as Veena Kumari, was an Indian actress. Early life and background Veena was born as Tajour Sultana on 4 July 1926 in Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, British India. Later, her family moved to Lahore and they lived there for an extended period of time. She married actor-hero Al Nasir in 1947 in Junagadh and had two children with him. Al Nasir was from a royal family in Bhopal and had already been married, first to actress Meena Shorey and then to Manorama. They both worked together in a few films but their films flopped at the box-office. Al Nasir died in 1957 due to tetanus. Career Veena started out playing heroine roles in pre-partition films. She made her debut with ''Garib'' and ''Gawandhi'' (1942) at around sixteen years of age. ''Garib'' was made in Urdu and ''Gawandhi'' was made in Punjabi and directed by Mehboob Khan. In ''Garib'', she played the role of Lata and in ''Gawandhi'' she played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresh Oberoi
Suresh Oberoi (born 17 December 1946) is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving to Bollywood, making him a popular character actor in the 1980s and much of the 1990s. He is the father of actor Vivek Oberoi. Early life Oberoi was born to Anand Sarup Oberoi and Kartar Devi on 17 December 1946 in Quetta, then Baluchistan Province of British Raj (currently Balochistan, Pakistan). His father ran a real-estate business but would lose everything as a result of the 1947 partition. Within a year due to fall of British Raj, the family along with four brothers and four sisters moved to India, and later relocated to Hyderabad where his family established a chain of medical stores. Oberoi was active in sports. He was a tennis and swimming champion, later winning the President's Award as a Boy Scout. After his father's death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
