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Masood Ul-Mulk
Masood ul-Mulk TI () is a Pakistani expert on humanitarian aid and a development practitioner. He is the CEO of SRSP the largest NGO working to alleviate poverty in North-West Pakistan. Background and education Masood is from Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He is the son of Shahzada Khush Ahmed ul-Mulk and the grandson of His Highness Sir Shuja ul-Mulk, the former Mehtar (Ruler) of the Princely State of Chitral. Masood is the son in law of veteran politician Shahzada Mohiuddin. Masood pursued academic studies and professional courses from Lawrence College, Wye College, University of York, American University, University of Colorado Boulder the World Bank and IMF, Washington. He has also been a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, US. In 1996 a letters patent was issued by the Governor of Texas George W. Bush declaring Masood an Honorary Texan. Career Masood has served in the development field for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani
Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis). Ethnic subgroups Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Pakistan by land area and the third-largest province by population. It is bordered by Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan to the south; Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Islamabad Capital Territory, and Azad Kashmir to the east; and Gilgit-Baltistan to the north and northeast. It shares an Durand Line, international border with Afghanistan to the west. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has a varied geography of rugged mountain ranges, valleys, rolling foothills, and dense agricultural farms. While it is the third-largest Pakistani province in terms of both its population and Economy of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, its economy, it is geographically the smallest. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's share of Pakistan's GDP has historically com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndon B
Lyndon may refer to: Places * Lyndon, Alberta, Canada * Lyndon, Rutland, East Midlands, England * Lyndon, Solihull, West Midlands, England United States * Lyndon, Illinois * Lyndon, Kansas * Lyndon, Kentucky * Lyndon, New York * Lyndon, Ohio * Lyndon, Pennsylvania * Lyndon, Vermont * Lyndon, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, a town * Lyndon, Juneau County, Wisconsin, a town Other uses * Lyndon State College, a public college located in Lyndonville, Vermont People * Lyndon (name), given name and surname See also * Lyndon School (other) * Lyndon Township (other) * * Lydon (other) * Lynden (other) * Lindon (other) * Linden (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978. As a senator, he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. In 1943, he became a professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. He helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in 1944; the next year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis, serving until 1948 and co-founding the left-wing non-communist gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start, its first loan was to France in 1947. In its early years, it primarily focused on rebuilding Europe. Over time, it focused on providing loans to developing world countries. In the 1970s, the World Bank re-conceptualized its mission of facilitating development as being oriented around poverty reduction. For the last 30 years, it has included NGOs and environmental groups in its loan portfolio. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Colorado Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. CU Boulder is a member of the Association of American Universities, considered a Public Ivy and is classified among R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity. The university consists of nine colleges and schools and offers over 150 academic programs, enrolling more than 35,000 students as of January 2022. In 2021, the university attracted the support of over $634 million for research and spent $536 million on research and development according to the National Science Foundation, ranking it 50th in the nation. It receives the most NASA astrophysics technology grants of all academic institutions and is the only university in the world that has sent instruments to all planets in the Solar System. The Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spring Valley (Washington, D.C.), Spring Valley and Tenleytown neighborhoods of Northwest (Washington, D.C.), Northwest D.C. American was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodism, Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that promoted public service, Internationalism (politics), internationalism, and pragmatic idealism. AU broke ground in 1902, opened as a graduate education institution in 1914, and admitted its first undergraduates in 1925. The university was founded by the General Conference (Methodism), General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a United Methodist Church higher education, national Methodist institution. It remains affiliated with the United Methodist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of York
The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects. South-east of the city of York, the university campus is about in size. The original campus, Campus West, incorporates the York Science Park and the Science Learning Centres, National Science Learning Centre, and its wildlife, campus lakes and greenery are prominent. In May 2007 the university was granted permission to build an extension to its main campus, on arable land just east of the nearby village of Heslington. The second campus, Campus East, opened in 2009 and now hosts five colleges and three departments as well as conference spaces, a sports village and a business startup company, start-up 'incubator'. The institution also leases King's Manor in York city centre. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wye College
The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye, Kent. In 1447, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal John Kempe founded his chantry there which also educated local children. , it still includes a rare, complete example of medieval chantry college buildings. After Chantry#Abolition of Chantries Acts, 1545 and 1547, abolition in 1545, parts of the premises were variously occupied as mansion, grammar school, charity school, infant school and National school (England and Wales), national school, before purchase by Kent County Council, Kent and Surrey County Councils to provide men's technical education. For over a hundred years Wye became the school, then college, of London University most concerned with rural subjects, including agricultural sciences; business management; agriculture; horticulture, and agricultural economics. Chemist and Actonian Prize winner, Ralph Louis Wain, Louis Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence College Ghora Gali
Lawrence College Ghora Gali is a school situated in Murree Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan. The college is located in the foothills of the Himalayas and Pir Panjal at a height of about 1950 metres (6395 feet) above sea level, covering an area of . It is 4 km from Murree and 57 km from Rawalpindi/Islamabad. History The college was founded in 1860 for the orphans of British soldiers and was named after Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence. Notable alumni * Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Prime Minister of Pakistan * Ayaz Amir * Mumtaz Bhutto * Sarfraz Bugti * Reginald Dyer * Ismail Gulgee * Usman Ali Isani, educationist * Jamal Nazrul Islam * Zafarullah Khan Jamali, former Prime Minister Of Pakistan * Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao * Bilal Abbas Khan, actor * Lt. Gen. Imran Ullah Khan * Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan, former President of Azad Kashmir * Gen. Shamim Alam Khan * Ikram Sehgal * V/Adm. Kaleem Shaukat See also *Army Burn Hall College *Lawrence Military Asylums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahzada Mohiuddin
Shahzada Mohiuddin (; 5 August 1938 – 27 April 2022) was a Pakistani politician, a Federal and Provincial Minister, and Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He served as Minister of State for Tourism and Chairman National Assembly Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas. He was the grandson of Sir Shuja ul-Mulk. His eldest son Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin was elected as the MNA from Chitral in 2013. Background Shahzada Mohiuddin was born into the ruling family of Chitral on 5 August 1938. He is the grandson of Sir Shuja ul-Mulk, the Mehtar of Chitral. His family's reign extended from 1571 to 1969, when the Princely State of Chitral was incorporated completely into Pakistan. He completed his Master of Economics from the University of Peshawar in 1963. During his time at University, he was the Captain of East and West Pakistan combined Universities football team. He is the nephew of former Senator Burhan-ud-Din and the father-in-law of Shahzada M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
