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St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi
St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for girls located in Saddar Town, Karachi, Pakistan. History In 1861, Monsignor Steins, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay passing through Belgium, called Mother Marie Therese, Superior General and founder of the Daughters of the Cross, and asked for several of her sisters to work in the Indian mission field. Canon Habets, co-founder, advised the Sisters to offer themselves for the mission. The school was founded in 1862 by the planning of Monsignor Steins, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay of that time and five Sisters of the Cross. On 27 January 1862, the journey began. Five Sisters set off and arrived on 16 February in Bombay, where they received a hearty welcome from Bishop Steins. There the Sisters heard for the first time that they were to work in Karachi, and that he would travel along with them very shortly. Thus, on 13 March 1862, five Daughters of the Cross first set foot on the sandy soil of Sindh, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karachi
Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the Geography of Pakistan, southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast and formerly served as the Federal Capital Territory (Karachi), country's capital from 1947 to 1959. Ranked as a Global city, beta-global city, it is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of over $200 billion (Purchasing power parity, PPP) . Karachi is a metropolitan city and is considered Pakistan's most cosmopolitan city, and among the country's most linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse regions, as well as one of the country's most progressive and socially liberal cities. The region has been inhabited for millennia, but the city was formally founded as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehreen Jabbar
Mehreen Jabbar (Urdu: مﮩرين جبار ) (born on 29 December 1971, is a Pakistani film and television director and producer based in New York City. She is a daughter of the Pakistani media-person Javed Jabbar.https://tribune.com.pk/story/483415/with-coke-kahani-mehreen-jabbar-highlights-the-lives-of-pakistanis/, Interview with Mehreen Jabbar on The Express Tribune newspaper, 23 December 2012, Retrieved 19 March 2017 She is also the niece of Beo Zafar. Mehreen Jabbar is first cousin of the famous Pakistani-British singer, actor and director, Yasir Akhtar. Active since 1994, Jabbar established herself as one of the prolific directors of the television. Her work for 2008 TV series '' Doraha'' earned her Lux Style Award for Best TV Director. Early life Born in Karachi, Jabbar grew up around Pakistan's show business. Her father, Javed Jabbar has been a filmmaker, and a very successful ad man apart from being a former Pakistani senator and a cabinet minister. After re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciscan Missionaries Of Christ The King
The Franciscan Missionaries of Christ the King (F.M.C.K.) is a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women that originated in what is now Pakistan and founded schools, orphanages, homes for the aged and disabled and hospitals throughout the country. They are distinct from the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King in the United States. History The congregation was founded in 1937 by Bridget Sequeira (a native of Saligao, North Goa, then part of Portuguese India) in Karachi,which was a part of British India. Bridget Sequeira founded this congregation in collaboration with Salesius Lemmens who was a native from Holland. The congregation chose a white sari with a border of three red lines printed along the edge. The three border lines represented the three vows of chastity, poverty and obedience that the religious sisters make. A prospectus of the congregation was published by the Rotti Press in 1948. The congregation celebrated its platinum jubilee on July 28, 2012, when Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Sequeira
Bridget Sequeira, FMCK, was a Pakistani-Indian religious sister who founded the Franciscan Missionaries of Christ the King, a missionary religious congregation for women, in Karachi, Pakistan, then India. It is currently headquartered in Goa, India. Early life Sequeira was born in Bushehr, Persia, on 12 December 1905. Her parents were Joao Felipe Sequeira and Matilda de Melo from the Sonarbhatt section of Saligao, in the District of North Goa, then part of Portuguese India, now part of the Republic of India.Sister Ursula, FMCK ''Foot Prints on the Sands of Time''. Lourdes Convent, Saligao, North Goa, India In 1913 she was sent to Karachi, then still part of the British Raj, where she studied at St Joseph's Convent School and passed the Senior Cambridge examination in 1921. She then joined the staff of St Joseph’s School. She later passed the Secondary Teachers' Certificate Examination and went on to a teaching job at St Joseph's Convent School in the same city. Religiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadia Rashid
Sadia Rashid (born 1946) is a Pakistani educationist who is the current president of Hamdard Pakistan, chancellor of the Hamdard University and president of the Pakistan-Japan Cultural Association (PJCA). Early life She was born in 1946 in Sitaram Bazar, Old Delhi, India to Hakim Said (Shaheed) and Naimat Begum. Her ancestors came from Kashgar (now Kashi, Xinjiang, China) to the Indian subcontinent, in the reign of the Mughal emperor, Shah Alam. They first stayed at Peshawar for about eighteen years, then moved to Multan and lastly settled down at Delhi. In January 1948, her family migrated to Karachi after the establishment of Pakistan. She received her education from St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi and St Joseph's College, Karachi. Then she completed her Masters of Arts in Sociology from Karachi University. Personal life In 1970, she married a barrister, Rashid Munir Ahmad with whom she has three daughters, MaheNeemah (known as Maham), Amena Mian and Fatema Zahra Muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diplomat (magazine)
''The Diplomat'' is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region. It is based in Washington, D.C. It was originally an Australian bi-monthly print magazine, founded by Minh Bui Jones, David Llewellyn-Smith and Sung Lee in 2001, but due to financial reasons it was converted into an online magazine in 2009 and moved to Japan and later Washington, D.C. In 2020, ''The Diplomat'' has a monthly unique visitor count of 2 million. The magazine is currently owned by MHT Corporation. History ''The Diplomat'' was originally an Australian bi-monthly print magazine, founded by Minh Bui Jones, David Llewellyn-Smith and Sung Lee in 2001. The first edition was published in April 2002, with Bui Jones as the founding editor and Llewellyn-Smith the founding publisher. The magazine was acquired by James Pach through his company Trans-Asia Inc. in December 2007. Pach assumed the role of executive publisher and hired former '' Pent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran Nazish
Kiran Nazish is a Pakistani journalist. She has worked as a foreign correspondent around the world, including the Middle East and South Asia. Nazish founded and is the director of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, a worldwide support organization for female journalists. Career In the early 2000s, Nazish began her career in print journalism and went on to work in other media, including radio and television. Nazish has won awards for her work and has extensively covered conflict, peace and security in South Asia and the Middle East. Pakistan's tribal regions Her work included stories from Pakistan's tribal regions. She wrote, "I wanted to learn how journalists work in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a semiautonomous, conflict-ridden region made up of seven tribal 'agencies' along the Afghan border known as the 'war zone.' Twelve journalists have been killed there since the terrorist attacks in the US on 9/11. If Pakistan is the worst place to be a journalist, Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zubeida Mustafa
Zubeida Mustafa (born 1941) is a freelance journalist from Pakistan. She became one of the first woman to work in the country's mainstream media, when she joined the Dawn newspaper in 1975. Early life Born in British India, Zubeida Mustafa moved to Pakistan with her family after independence of Pakistan. She is married and has two daughters. Education Zubeida Mustafa completed her BA and then her MA in International Relations from the University of Karachi. She also studied at the London School of Economics under a Commonwealth Scholarship. Career Zubeida Mustafa joined the ''Dawn'' newspaper's staff, Pakistan's leading English language daily in July 1975 as assistant editor. She was the only woman at ''Dawn'' at a senior level position who also was the first woman writer in the mainstream media in Pakistan. During that time, she used her gender to her advantage and covered women's issues stories concerning health and human rights. She used her perspective as a woman to wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Pakistan
The National Assembly of Pakistan, also referred to as ''Aiwān-ē-Zairīñ'', is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the upper house being the Senate of Pakistan, Senate. As of 2023, the National Assembly has a maximum membership of 336, of which 266 are directly elected by an adult universal suffrage and a First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system to represent their respective List of constituencies of Pakistan, constituencies, while 60 are elected on reserved seats for women and religious minorities from all over the country. Members hold their seats for five years or until the house is dissolved by the President of Pakistan, President on the advice of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister. The house convenes at the Parliament House, Islamabad, Parliament House, Red Zone (Islamabad), Red Zone, Islamabad. Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvi Memon
Marvi Memon (; born 21 July 1972) is a Pakistani politician who recently served as Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme, from February 2015 until June 2018. She had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2011 and again from June 2013 to May 2018. Early life and education Memon was born in July 1972 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan to Nisar Memon in a Sindhi Memon family. Memon studied in Karachi, Kuwait City and Paris, She then enrolled in the London School of Economics from where she completed her BSc (Econ.) Honors in International Relations in 1993. Professional career Prior to joining politics, Memon worked as an intern at DAWN, Newsline, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, International Union for Conservation of Nature and the United States embassy in Islamabad. After graduating from the London School of Economics, Memon worked as a banker at Citibank where she specialized in Marketing and Quality Management be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maliha Lodhi
Maleeha Lodhi (; born 15 November 1952) is a Pakistani diplomat, political scientist, and a former Pakistan's Representative to the United Nations. She was the first woman to hold the position. Previously, she served as Pakistan's envoy to the Court of St James' and twice as its ambassador to the United States. Born in Lahore to an upper-middle-class family, Lodhi studied political science at the London School of Economics and after receiving her doctorate from the school in 1980, she remained there as a member of the Department of Government teaching political sociology. She returned to Pakistan in 1986 to become the editor of ''The Muslim'', making her the first woman to edit a national newspaper in Asia. In 1990, she moved to become the founding editor of ''The News International.'' In 1994, she was appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan's envoy to the United States, a position she retained until 1997. She was once again appointed to the same position in 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamida Khuhro
Hamida Khuhro (13 August 1936 – 12 February 2017) was a Pakistani politician and historian who twice served as Sindh's Minister for Education and also served as a professor of history at the University of Sindh. Early life and education Hamida Khuhro was born on 13 August 1936 at Larkana, Sindh, British India. Khuhro was the daughter of Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, a former chief minister of Sindh. She had a PhD in South Asian History from the University of London and also attended the Universities of Karachi, Cambridge and Oxford. Career As an academic historian, Khuhro taught at Karachi and Oxford universities before becoming a professor at Sindh University. In 1971, when military action was launched in East Pakistan, she was a student at Oxford University. She was one of the few Pakistanis who openly condemned it, saying: "I am ashamed to be a Pakistani." A section of the press in West Pakistan denounced her for condemning the military action. She left Sindh University to conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
