Hamid Khan

Hamid Khan is a prominent Pakistani lawyer and advocate, well known for his expertise in constitutional law and his significant contributions to the legal profession in Pakistan. He has represented high-profile cases and has been an active member of Pakistan's legal community for many years. Khan is particularly recognized for his advocacy in human rights, rule of law, and judicial independence.

He has played a critical role in Pakistan’s judicial activism, particularly in the movement for the restoration of the judiciary during the Lawyers' Movement in the late 2000s, which led to the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in 2009. Khan is also a founding member of the Supreme Court Bar Association and has held leadership positions in several legal organizations.

Apart from his legal career, Hamid Khan is an influential public figure and has written extensively on law and politics. His deep commitment to justice, fairness, and upholding constitutional principles has made him a respected figure in Pakistan’s legal circles.

Faisal Sultan

Faisal Sultan  is a Pakistani infectious diseases physician and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Pakistan from 2003 to 2020. He was appointed as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services in Pakistan in August 2020.

Sultan studied at the Cadet College Hasanabdal in Pakistan. He graduated from the King Edward Medical College in Pakistan and subsequently trained in the United States in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut (1989-92) and in infectious disease at Washington University School of Medicine (1992-1995). He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, UK in 2007 and a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Pakistan (Infectious Diseases) in 2010.

Sultan was appointed as a Consultant Physician in Infectious Disease at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in 1995 and served as the Medical Director of the Hospital in 2000 to 2002 and as the Chief Executive Officer from 2003 until August 2020. After onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Sultan was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Focal Person on COVID-19 in Pakistan and later as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services in Pakistan in August 2020.

He has been a trainer and examiner in Infectious Diseases for College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan as well as member of technical advisory committees for the National AIDS Control Program, Pakistan Medical Research Council, Pakistan Science Foundation, University of Health Science of Pakistan and the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, the Punjab Healthcare Commission and on Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Advisory Committee [HVAC], WHO and has authored multiple scientific publications. He was part of the Core Group for setting, Pakistan’s National Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, Ministry of Health

He has served on the Prime Minister’s task force on health and as chairman of board of governors, Medical Teaching Institute Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar as well as on the steering committee for Punjab Health Strategic Plan.

MONEEZA HASHMI

Moneeza Hashmi retired from PTV after a 40 year association in the production side. She joined as an Assistant Producer in 1967 and retired as Director Programmes, the first female to be appointed to that post. She also served as General Manger PTV Lahore for 5 years from 1998 to 2003, the longest serving General Manager ever at any PTV centre. She was also the first female appointed to head a PTV centre at the time.

Ms. Hashmi has a Master in Primary Education from University of Hawaii USA which she completed in 1982.

She has worked as a consultant with several international donors in her capacity as an Education expert as well as a Gender trainer.

She has represented Pakistan on many national and international forums, conferences and seminars.

Ms.Hashmi was elected as President Commonwealth Broadcasting CBA for 3 tenures of 2 years each where again she was the first Pakistani and female to be appointed to that post. CBA covers more than 60 countries in the world. During her tenure as CBA President, she visited many Commonwealth countries for several networking meetings and networking.

She describes herself as a “public servant of the women of Pakistan” and leaves so opportunity to speak and project their plight whenever she can.

Her programmes for PTV are remembered for their “gender sensitive” content and her constant struggle to ensure a better representation for the 50% of the population of Pakistan through the media who are girls and women.

She has written a book titled “Who am I” (available on Amazon) featuring interviews of 20 female game changers of Pakistan including Benazir Bhutto former female Prime Minister.

@Awards

PTV National Award for KHWATEEN TIME 1999-2000

Excellence Award (MWPJO) Media Women Publishers & Journalists Organization 2001-2002

President of Pakistan’s Pride of Performance Award 2002

Graduate Awards for excellence 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-20001

President of NHK Award Tokyo, Japan 2015

US Aid Recognition of Excellence 2018, Islamabad: Project Pathways to Success

Lifetime Achievement Award SDPI 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ramiz Raja

Ramiz Raja is a 1992 World Cup winner and Pakistan’s 18th Test and 12th ODI captain. An alumni of the prestigious Aitchison College and Government College University, Lahore, and an MBA by qualification, he represented Pakistan in 57 Tests and 198 One-Day Internationals from 1984 to 1997. 

He has previously served as the Chief Executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board from 2003-2004. 

He presently sits on the MCC World Cricket Committee, having previously served on the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee. Post-retirement, he turned as a successful broadcaster with world’s leading cricket channels and is regarded as the voice of Pakistan cricket.

Najam Aziz Sethi

Najam Aziz Sethi is an alumnus of Government College University, Lahore, and Cambridge University, UK. (MA Economics). He was Alumnus of the Year and Eric Lane Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, in 2011.

He is a Founder-Editor in Chief of The Friday Times, Daily Times (and Daily Aajkal (2008-2009). He was Pakistan Correspondent of The Economist, UK, from 1990-2009 and of Economist Intelligence Unit from 1997-2007.

As South Asia’s most decorated independent journalist, Mr Sethi has three international press freedom awards, the Courage in Journalism from Committee to Protect Journalists, New York; Freedom in Journalism Award from Amnesty International; and Golden Pen for Freedom from the World Association of Newspapers in 2009. In addition to the above, he was interim Federal Minister for Accountability in 1996-97 and interim Chief Minister of Punjab province in 2013.

Most recently Mr. Sethi remained the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which saw under his leadership the inauguration of the lucrative Pakistan Super League and return of international cricket to Pakistan.

Almas Hyder

Mr. Almas Hyder is an Engineering graduate from University of Engineering & Technology, a Certified Trainer of Entrepreneurship and has completed his OPM (Owner/President Management Program) from Harvard Business School. 

He is currently a member of the Institute of Engineers in Pakistan, Institute of Material in London and Vice President of the Harvard Club of Pakistan. Mr. Hyder also serves at senior positions for many organizations. His current engagements include: 

 President Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industries 

 Director, SPEL Technology Support (Private) Limited 

 CEO, Entrepreneurship Development and Advisory Services (Private) Limited 

 CEO, AJ Power (Private) Limited 

 CEO, RT Power (Private) Limited 

 CEO, MST Power (Private) Limited 

To his credit is also the writing of the ‘Engineering Vision 2012 of Pakistan’. He established TUSDEC (Technology Up-gradation and Skills Development Company), where he was the Founder Chairman, under the Ministry of Industries, Production and Special Initiatives. 

Mr. Hyder was the first President of the Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate Board, set up Punjab Industrial Estate Development and Management Company of the Government of Punjab in an effort to manage and upgrade the infrastructure of Kot Lakhpat Industrial Estate in Lahore. Through his hard work and effective leadership, Mr. Hyder has had an everlasting positive impact in both the plastic industry and the entrepreneurship circles of Pakistan.

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Hina Pervaiz Butt

The Most Beautiful MPA of Pakistan from Punjab Assembely Hina Pervaiz Butt is Memeber of Punjab Assembely from Pakistan Muslim Leauge(N) and she additionally a Fashion Designer.

Hina Butt’s LUMS diploma as well as eager company knowledge helps the woman’s in order to shepherd the woman’s tag in to probably the most lucrative style endeavors in order to arise within the last one year. Managing a range of scintillating fashion lines, she’s the actual developer to look at within the style business. She’s usually pushed the boundaries and will remain a source of inspiration to all young designers who want to make a career on their own within the style business.

Dr. Mujahid Kamran

Dr. Mujahid Kamran is the Vice Chancellor of Punjab University, Lahore, where he has been teaching physics since 1972. He was a Fullbright Fellow at University of Georgia, USA, druing 1988-89 and professor of physics at King Saud University, Riyadh, from 2001 to 2004.

Kamran has won numerous awards, including the Abdus Salam Prize (1985), the President's Pride of Performance Award (1999), International Einstein Award for Scientific Achievement (2010), for his outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and popularization of science. His book Jadeed Tabiyat Kay Bani won the National Book Council award in 2000.

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Fakir Syed Aijazuddin

Mr Fakir Syed Aijazuddin, OBE, FCA, was born in 1942. He was educated at Aitchison College (Lahore), and at Berkhamsted School (Herts.), UK., and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1965.

His wife Shahnaz is a well-known author, and they have three children – Momina, Mubarika and Komail.

His professional assignments in Pakistan have included the planning and establishing the engine manufacturing facility at Bela (Balochistan) in 1971-3, the progressive manufacturing programme for Massey Ferguson tractors in 1973-4, and the establishment of the National Fertiliser Corporation of Pakistan (NFC), following the reorganisation of the public sector in 1974. As its Director Finance & Planning, he was responsible for the financial management of three fertilizer units at Daudkhel, Faisalabad and at Jaranwala, and the execution of three major fertilizer complexes at Multan, Mirpur Mathelo and Haripur Hazara. As Head of Personnel, he rationalized the orderly transfer of PIDC employees to the successor corporation/units and developed the pay-scales applicable to all public sector corporations under the control of the then Ministry of Production. 

During the nine years (1980-89) that he spent as Group Controller of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in Abu Dhabi, he developed the corporate and financial management policy applicable to all its ten constituent Directorates (including the Business Lines of Oil / Gas Exploration & Production, Hydrocarbon Processing and Marketing). He represented ADNOC on the Boards of most of its 22 subsidiary companies. 

Since returning to Pakistan in 1989, he has been Chairman and CEO of International General Insurance (IGI) and CEO of First International Investment Bank Ltd., both companies in the Packages Group. He has also served on the Boards of the Lahore Stock Exchange, Oil & Gas Development Company Ltd., and Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation Ltd. (PTCL), of National transmission & Distribution Company Ltd. (a WAPDA company), Bata Pakistan Ltd, and STEDEC. 

He has taught in Financial Accounting and Management Communications at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and Financial Accounting at FCC University, Lahore. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a member of the Academic Council at the National School of Public Policy, Lahore, and as Directing Staff Faculty responsible for teaching International Relations.

He served as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Environment in the interim Punjab Cabinet from November 2007 to April 2008. Currently he is Principal, Aitchison College, Lahore.

Since 1994, he has been the Honorary British Consul for the United Kingdom at Lahore, in recognition of which he was awarded the OBE in 1997. 

He was also the Chairman, Executive Committee of the Lahore Museum, an International Councillor of the Asia Society (New York) and the Country Representative for Asia House, London, and a Fellow of the National College of Arts, Lahore.

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Fouzia Saeed

Dr. Fouzia Saeed, a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Minnesota, is the author of "Taboo! The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area," based on 8 years of field research among prostitutes in Pakistan. 

Dr. Saeed is well known in the activist circles of Pakistan's social movement, having worked for decades on women’s issues especially those linked to violence against women, prostitution, women in the entertainment business, women’s mobility and sexual harassment. Her work on violence against women spans over 20 years and includes founding the first women’s crisis center in Pakistan in 1991. Her earlier work with the Folk and Traditional Heritage Institute (Lok Virsa) led to the book, Women in Folk Theater. 

During her career she has headed the UN Gender Program in Pakistan, served as Pakistan Country Director for Action Aid and currently is an international consultant in the field of Gender and Development. As a consultant, over the years, she has worked in Pakistan, USA, Bahamas, Philippines, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Afghanistan, Fiji and several other Pacific Island countries. 

Her current activist work includes being the Director of Mehergarh, an institute committed to transform the youth of this country, an active member of AASHA, an alliance against sexual harassment at the workplace and an active member of a campaign against bonded labor. In addition, the urgency to work on anti talibanization has moved her to be a part of a nationwide movement against this vicious process. Her main identity remains as a human rights and women’s activist in Pakistan.

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Imtinan Shahid

Imtinan Shahid Editor Daily Khabrain and Daily Naya Akhbar, Managing Editor Daily The Post and Daily Khabroon holds Master Degree in Mass Communication and has 10 years experience in this field. He served as a Columnist, Writer and Reporter for Daily Pakistan and presently working as Editor of Daily Khabrain and Daily Naya Akhbar. He was Vice President of the APNS for the year 2008-09. he served as member of the Executive Committee for the year 2010-2011.

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Aftab Ahmad Vohra

Aftab Ahmad Vohra belongs to a reputed family of Chiniotee Sheikhs. He is the Chairman of M/s.VOHRA GROUP OF COMPANIES which deals in the Import of INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS mainly Rubber, PVC, Paint & Adhesive Industries as well as in the export of Hand Carved Wooden Handicrafts & Industrial Chemicals. The group is one of the leading distributors of various world renowned Chemicals giants like LANXESS, LGCHEM, ACIDCHEM, etc.

Mr. Aftab A. Vohra

is a former Vice President of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI).

is the Life Member of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI).

is Founder Convener of Pak India Business Promotion Committee of LCCI.

is a member of FBR’s “Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee”.

has remained an Executive Committee Member of India-Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (IPCCI) under the patronage of FPCCI & FICCI.

had been represented Lahore Chamber in many Government’s Advisory Committees / Advisory Committees like Pakistan Railway Advisory Committee, Airport advisory Committee etc.

had served as Convener / Chairman of various Committees at FPCCI and LCCI.

had served LCCI as Executive Committee Member for two times earlier i.e. 1997-2000 & 2004-2007.

had served FPCCI as Member Managing Committee in 2000-2002.

is a member of the Lahore Gymkhana Club and the Defence Club.

had served as Joint Secretary of Chiniot Sheikh Association, Lahore

had served as Joint Secretary of Chiniot Cooperative Housing Society Ltd.

has traveled extensively to Germany, Sweden, UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand. China, S. Arabia, Kenya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Maldives, Sri Lanka, UAE and India.

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Munaza Hussain

Munaza Hussain MNA from Pakistan Tehreek Insaf , who studied at Queen Mary School and Kinniard College, was inspired to enter politics by her father, Sheikh Hamid Mehmood. She joined the PTI in 1996 and, from there, there was no looking back. She served as Imran’s chief polling agent at NA-95 in 1997 and considers her party “a party of transition”.

Currently, she is busy running PTI’s campaign in Lahore.  She recently replaced Dr Fauzia Kasuri in the intra-party elections.

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Junaid Saleem

Junaid Saleem's career in the field of journalism spans more than 2 decades. Mr Saleem did his Master's in Mass Communication from Punjab University and has worked with the renowned media groups in the country. He also has had the honour to work abroad for an Urdu Daily of the Arab News Group. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Insaaf. He belongs to Okara.

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Umar Saif

Dr. Umar Saif received his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. He did his BSc (Hons) from LUMS (1998), PhD from University of Cambridge (2001) and Postdoctorate from MIT (2002), all in Computer Science. Dr. Saif worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a research scientist for four years, where he was part of the group (O2S) that developed system technologies for project Oxygen -- a US$28 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense (DARPA) and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies including Nokia, HP, Compaq, NTT DoCommo, Phillips, Acer and Delta.

While at MIT, Dr. Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of hightech British companies.

Dr. Saif's research interests broadly span areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Network Protocols and Architectures and ICT for developing world countries. Dr. Saif has authored several influential publications and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Dr. Saif's research has been featured in popular media, including BBC, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Distributed Systems Online, and Dawn News. His research has received grants from Microsoft Research (MSR), Oxygen Consortium at MIT, Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), US State Department/USAID, HEC and PITB.

Dr. Saif was selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2010. Dr. Saif received the MIT Technovator Award in 2008, Mark Weiser Award at IEEE Percom'08, Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research in 2006 and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award in 2008. During his doctorate studies, Dr .Saif was a Trinity College Overseas Scholar and Commonwealth Scholar at University of Cambridge.

Dr. Saif has (co-)founded four technology startups: BumpIn.com (contextual chatting), SeeNreport.com (citizen journalism), ChOpaal.pk (SMS social networking) and TicketMy.com (event tickets). Dr. Saif is the founder of one of the first startup incubators in Lahore, Pakistan, called SCI. 

Shaheen Atiq-ur-Rehman

Shaheen Atiq-ur-Rehman is a social worker and politician. She was born in April 1948 at Sialkot.
She obtained the degree of M.A (Administrative Sciences) in 1971 and that of LL.B. in 1975 from University of the Punjab, Lahore.
She also remained  Member, Punjab Assembly during 1985-88 and also functioned as Minister for Social Welfare & Women’s Development during 1985-87. She has returned to Punjab Assembly for the second term in General Elections 2002 against one of the seats reserved for women.
Shaeen atiq ur Rehman was awarded Communes Medal in 1998, by UNESCO in Paris for getting international recognition for her work in literacy.

Ahmer Bilal Soofi

Mr. Ahmer Bilal Soofi did his graduation from Government College Lahore and his LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1988. He was enrolled as an Advocate of High Court in 1988 and as an Advocate of Supreme Court in 2000.

 

His areas of expertise include High Courts and Supreme Court litigation and also transactional work. Mr. Soofi has appeared in several cases before the Supreme Court of Pakistan having national importance. He has also advised Government of Pakistan on several important legal issues.

Allama Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer

Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer was born on 19 August `1971 and he is son of renowned scholar Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer who was founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistan. Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer got his primary education from Cresescent Model School and passed his matriculation from there .He than entered Government college Lahore and Passed his pre engineering college exams from there.He than entered famous Engineering university of Lahore.During his graduation he memorised the Holy Quran and after graduating from Engineering university he did masters in 11 subjects which is a record in academic history of Pakistan