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  1. Benazir Bhutto

    She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world, and the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country.

  2. Pervez Musharraf

    Pervez Musharraf (born August 11 , 1943 , Delhi , India ) became ruler (head of state/chief executive) of Pakistan on October 12 , 1999 following a bloodless coup d'AAtat . He assumed the office of President of Pakistan on June 20 , 2001 . In order to legitimize and legalize his rule, he held a referendum on April 30 , 2002 thereby elected as President of Pakistan for duration of five years.

  3. Nawaz Sharif

    Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was born on December 25, 1949 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

  4. Shaukat Aziz

    Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan.... ... Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan....

  5. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. One of Pakistan's most suave leaders, Bhutto received education at University of California, Berkeley and Oxford. He was the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which is one of the largest and most influential political parties of Pakistan.

  6. Asif Ali Zardari

    President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday offered peace talks to militants in Pakistan's troubled northwest even as security forces claimed to have killed more than 50 rebels in an operation in the tribal belt. ... Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said Thursday that Pakistan would continue to pursue a resolution of the Kashmir dispute based on the wishes of the Kashmiri people.

  7. Liaquat Ali Khan

    Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan (Urdu/Pashto: لیا قت علی خان was a Pakistani politician who became the first prime minister of Pakistan. Liaquat rose to political prominence as a member of the All India Muslim League. He played an influential role in the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. In 1947, he became the prime minister of Pakistan, a position that he held until his assassination in October 1951.

  8. Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq

    General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (b. August 12 1924-August 17 1988) was the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from July 1977 to August 1988. Appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976, General Zia-ul-Haq came to power after he overthrew ruling Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a bloodless (save the execution of Bhutto) military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 and became the state's third ruler to impose martial law.

  9. Shahbaz Sharif

    Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif also known as Shahbaz Sharif is a well known Pakistani politician and President of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He served as the Chief Minister of Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan and as a Member of Pakistan's National Assembly. Shahbaz Sharif is the first Pakistani politician to admit having hair transplantation.

  10. Zafarullah Khan Jamali

    Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali an-Naqshbandi http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=14&no=354536&rel_no=1 (Urdu/Baloch: میر ظفراللہ خان جمالی) (born January 1, 1944) is a former Prime Minister of Pakistan and current Chairman of the Pakistan Hockey Federation

  11. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

    Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy(September 8, 1892 - December 5, 1963) was a politician from Bengal in undivided India, and later in East Pakistan, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 until 1957. He is also known for his controversial role in the Direct Action Day of August 16, 1946. Following riots in Bengal during the last days of India's freedom struggle, he was considered a favourite of Muhammad Ali Jinnah who spoke well of him.

  12. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

    Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (born 1946) is a politician from Pakistan who was the Prime Minister of that country from June 30, 2004 until August 28 2004. He hails from the province of the Punjab where his cousin Chaudhry Pervez Elahi is serving as Chief Minister. Though he suffers from poor health and has at times been described as politically inarticulate, Chaudhry Shujaat has nevertheless proven himself a master at the art of "realpolitik".

  13. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

    Bilawal Zardari (born 21 September 1988) is the son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and Pakistani political figure Asif Ali Zardari

  14. Abdul Qayyum

    Lieutenant General Abdul Qayyum is a former Pakistani general officer who is noted for the turnaround of Pakistan Steel Mills, where he presided for three years. He was commissioned in artillery division of Pakistan Army in 1968 and is a war veteran. His important assignments during service were instructor at the National Defence College, unit commander in Royal Saudi Land Forces and military secretary with two Prime Ministers.

  15. Fatima Bhutto

    Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her articles appear in the LA Times, CounterPunch and other newspapers and journals. Her latest book about the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan is "8.50 A.M. 8 October 2005."

  16. Shah Nawaz Bhutto

    Shah Nawaz Bhutto was a well known feudal lord and politician hailing from Larkana in Sindh province of Pakistan. Before the independence, he was the Dewan (minister) of Junagadh state. He with G. M. Sayed founded Sindh Peoples Pary for the first time in the decade of 1940's. Besides he was the father of the 1st elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who achieved the political recognition much after his fathers death.

  17. Khawaja Nazimuddin

    Khawaja Nazimuddin was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan as well.

  18. Muhammad Khan Junejo

    Muhammad Khan Junejo was the eleventh Prime Minister of Pakistan.

  19. Feroz Khan Noon

    Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970) was a politician from Pakistan.

  20. Malik Meraj Khalid

    Malik Meraj Khalid (20 September 1916 - 13 June 2003) the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan from November 1996 till February 1997 was born in a small village near Lahore. A lawyer by profession he began his practice in 1948. For the first time he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan in 1965. He joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) soon after its inception in 1968 and was appointed President of Lahore chapter.

  21. Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

    Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (Urdu: غلام مصطفیٰ جتوئی is a Pakistani politician, and was Prime Minister of Pakistan for 3 months, from August 6, 1990 to November 6, 1990.

  22. Muhammad Ali Bogra

    Muhammad Ali Bogra (محمد علی بوگرہ Urdu) was a Pakistani statesman of Bengali origin, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955.

  23. Nurul Amin

    Nurul Amin (Bengali: নূরুল আমীন, Urdu: نورالامین, 15 July, 1893 - 2 October, 1974) was a prominent Bengali leader of the Pakistan's Muslim League, and served as Chief Minister of East Pakistan and both Prime Minister and Vice President of Pakistan.

  24. Najam Sethi

    Najam Sethi, a Pakistani journalist, editor, and media personality, is the editor-in-chief of "The Friday Times", a Lahore based political weekly, and "The Daily Times" newspaper. Sethi and his publications have been in conflict with Pakistani governments on several occasions. In May 1999 he was imprisoned for four months without trial and released after an international outcry.

  25. Sartaj Aziz

    Sartaj Aziz(1929-)(Urdu: سرتاج عزیز) was as a civil servant in Pakistan, mostly in the Planning Commission where he was joint secretary (1967-71), before starting his UN career in 1971 as FAO’s director of commodities and trade. In 1977 he became assistant president of IFAD, the agency that he helped create as deputy secretary-general of the 1974 World Food Conference.

  26. Ishaq Dar

    Ishaq Dar is political leader of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He succeeded Sartaj Aziz as Finance Minister of Pakistan in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

  27. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

    Chaudhry Muhammad Ali died in 1980.

  28. Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar

    Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar (Urdu: ابراہیم اسماعیل چندریگر was Prime Minister of Pakistan for approximately 2 months from October 17 1957 to December 16 1957.

  29. Balakh Sher Mazari

    Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is the Chieftain (Tumandar) and the Paramount Sardar of the Mazari tribe, which is situated on the tri-border area of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. As the Chief of Mazaris he holds the title of Mir and also goes by the styles of Tumandar and Sardar. Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is the twenty second Sardar and the seventh Mir of Mazaris.

  30. Muhammad Ijaz-Ul-Haq

    Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq (born 1952) is a prominent Pakistani politician and, as of 2004, the current Federal Minister for Religious Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Born in Nowshera, North-West Frontier Province,and recieved a degree in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, in Edwardsville, Illinois. Ijaz-ul-Haq came to political prominence after the death of his father, the President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, …

  31. Saad Akbar

    Syed Akber(? - 16 October, 1951), an Afghan, assassinated the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan. On the 16th of October, 1951, during a public meeting, Saad shot Liaqat twice in a park in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The assassin was killed by police officers seconds later, so it is unknown what his motive or who his backers were. Liaqat also died on the scene.

  32. Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi

    Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, usually referred to as Moeen Qureshi, (born 1930) is a Pakistani economist and political figure. A former Vice President of the World Bank, he was the acting Prime Minister of Pakistan from July 18, 1993 until 19 October, 1993.

  33. Nilofar Bakhtiar

    Nilofar Bakhtiar is a public official in Pakistan. She is the Federal Minister for Tourism. Recently, a fatwa was issued against her after she was photographed hugging a man in public. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has rejected Bakhitar's resignation. Ms Bakhtiar has been shown the door, both as Minister and President PML-Q Women Wing. Previously, she served in the office of Prime Minister as the Advisor for Women's Development matters.

  34. Wahid Kakar

    General Wahid Kakar was Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came into public on the appointment of the Chief of Army staff after the sudden death of General Asif Nawaz in January 1993. Nawaz Sharif wanted to place his own candidate in the vacant position, against the wishes of both the army and the President. Considering Sharif's intentions a direct threat to his political authority, …

  35. Gul Hassan Khan

    Lieutenant General Gul Hassan Khan was the Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan. Lieutenant General Gul Hassan was born in Quetta, was educated at the Royal Indian Military College (now the Rashtriya Indian Military College), Dehradun, India. In 1933 he was commissioned in the Indian Army. After independence, he served the Pakistan Army for 25 years. Following the defeat of Pakistan to the Indian Military and the secession of East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), …

  36. Aziz Ahmed Khan

    Aziz Ahmed Khan is Pakistan's high commissioner to India since June 2003. His term as high commissioner to India was to expire in September 2005 but was extended by Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz by a year in August 2005. Aziz Ahmed Khan has the unique distinction of being Pakistan's Ambassador both to Afghanistan and India. Both the countries are Pakistan's neighbours having significant strategic importance for her.

  37. Nilofer Bakhtiar

    Nilofer Bakhtiar is a public official in Pakistan. She currently serves as the Minister for Tourism. Previously, she served in the office of Prime Minister as the Advisor for Women's Development matters. Her biography on the Government of Pakistan website reads: "Born in Bannu, NWFP Nilofer Bakhtiar is 45 years old. The family has a background of Social Worker and Military Service for over 4 generations.

  38. Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo

    Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo is a Pakistani politician and has been part of the country's political landscape for well over thirty years. He was first elected, in 1985, the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan. Thrice elected for the same office, he secured the office of the Chief Minister in 1993 after a vote of no-confidence in the Punjab legislature against Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)'s serving C.M. Ghulam Haider Wayne.

  39. Jamsheed Marker

    Jamsheed K. A. Marker "Hilal-e-Imtiaz", is a veteran Pakistani diplomat. Reportedly, he is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having been ambassador to more countries than any other person. He speaks English, Urdu, Gujarati, French, German, and Russian and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades and earned the distinction as the world's longest-serving ambassador.

  40. Sardar Bahadur Khan

    Sardar Bahadur Khan (born July 8, 1908) was the 9th Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province. He was a brother of the President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Ayub Khan. He was born at Rehana village of district Haripur. He received his LLB Degree from Aligarh Muslim University. A founding member of the Muslim League in the province, he was elected to the NWFP Legislative Assembly from the Haripur Central constituency at a bye-election in 1938.

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