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Arif Ali Shah Bukhari
Chairman KASB Foundation
Arif is the Chairman of KASB
Foundation in Karachi, Pakistan, which is a not-for-profit-charitable
organization that offers social services inclusive of education, health, relief
and grants aid for the betterment of the deprived section of the Pakistani
community. Arif is the Chairman of Board of Governors and is the Chancellor of
KASBIT, which is among the highest rated Institutes, chartered by the
Government of Sindh, Pakistan and recognized by the Higher Education Commission
as well as the Chairman of KASB Developers, a leading construction and real
estate developer company and among others, 24/7 Media Network, which operates a
TV channel and is involved in the media developments of Pakistan. He is the
Chairman of Trade and Investment Committee of International Chamber of Commerce
Pakistan and also a Member of the Karachi Cotton Exchange. Arif is a Member
Board of YPO MENA (Middle East & North African Region) and has the honor of
being amongst the founder members of YPO Pakistan Chapter of which he is also
the Chapter Chair. Arif is a Member Board of Young President Organization (YPO)
Middle East and North African Region. He is Chapter Chair of YPO Pakistan and
also the Founder of YPO Indus chapter and Mentor of WPO Pakistan Chapter. YPO’s
main mission is to develop “Better Leaders through Education and Idea
Exchange”.
amir khan
Marital status: Married to Reena Dutta
(1986–2002) and to Kiran Rao (2005–present); Aamir has a son, Junaid, and a
daughter, Ira, from his first marriage, and son Azad with Kiran.
Awards: Padma Bhushan, India’s
third highest civilian honour from the Government of India; 3 National Film
Awards; Filmfare Best Male Debut Award, 2 Filmfare Best Actor Awards, 2
Filmfare Best Movie Awards, Filmfare Best Director Award, Filmfare Critics
Award for Best Performance.
Trivia: Aamir Khan has a reputation
for shunning award ceremonies and not accepting any Indian awards.
He turned down Madame Tussaud’s offer to immortalize him in a wax
statue.
Was state tennis champion for the state of Maharashtra.
Aamir Khan Biography
With his penchant for perfection and professionalism, Aamir Khan is one
of the few method actors in Bollywood, who has taken acting to a whole new
level. An actor, director, producer, playback singer, a state tennis champion,
and mentor to his nephew (Imran Khan) – he’s all that and more.
Aamir was born in Mumbai to a Muslim family that has been actively
involved in the Indian motion picture industry for several decades. His father,
Tahir Hussain, was a film producer while his uncle, Nasir Hussain, was a film
producer, as well as a director and an actor. Aamir has three siblings Faisal,
Farhat, and Nikhat. His cousin Mansoor Khan is a director.
Aamir Khan was first introduced as a child artiste in the 1970′s hit Yaadon
Ki Baaraat (1973). He made his adult acting debut in a role that went
quite unnoticed in Ketan Mehta’s Holi (1984). His first notable
leading role came in 1988 in the film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which was
directed by his cousin Mansoor Khan. This film was a breakthrough commercial
success, effectively launching Khan’s career as a leading actor. Having the
typical ‘chocolate hero’ looks, he was publicised as a teen idol. He also
starred in critically acclaimed film Raakh (1989). Aamir went on
to appear in several other films in the late ’80s and early ’90s: Dil
(1990), which became the highest grossing film of the year,Dil Hai Ke Manta
Nahin (1991), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Hum Hain Rahi
Pyar Ke (1993) (for which he also wrote the screenplay), and Rangeela
(1995). Most of these films were commercially successful and critically
acclaimed. Aamir’s other successes include Andaz Apna Apna: the movie
was reviewed unfavourably by critics, but has, over the years, gained a cult
status.
Aamir’s only release in 1996 was the Dharmesh Darshan directed
commercial blockbuster Raja Hindustani. In 1997, he co-starred with
Ajay Devgan and was paired opposite Juhi Chawla in the film, Ishq,
which did well at the box office. In 1998, Khan appeared in the moderately
successful Ghulam, for which he sang the hit song, Aati Kya
Khandala. John Mathew Matthan’s Sarfarosh and Deepa Mehta’s Earth
1947 were Khan’s releases in 1999. His first release for the new
millennium, Mela, in which he acted alongside his real-life brother
Faisal Khan, failed at the box office.
In 2001 he appeared in Lagaan, which was also his first home
production. The film was a major critical and commercial success, and received
a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards. The
success of Lagaan was followed by the Farhan Akhtar directed, Dil
Chahta Hai.
Khan then took a four year break citing personal problems, and returned
in 2005 with Ketan Mehta’s Mangal Pandey: The Rising. The film didn’t
fare well at the box office. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s award-winning Rang
De Basanti was Khan’s first release in 2006. His role was critically
acclaimed. Fanaa was his second release in 2006, where he starred
opposite Kajol.
In 2007, Aamir took on the role of director for his second home
production, Taare Zameen Par. In 2008, Khan appeared in the movie Ghajini
that broke many box-office records. In the same year, Khan
launched his nephew Imran Khan in another film from his production house, Jaane
Tu Ya Jaane Na.
In 2009, Khan appeared in the commercially and critically acclaimed
film, 3 Idiots, as Ranchodas Chanchad. The Rajkumar Hirani directed
film went on to become Bollywood’s highest grossing film.
In 2010, Aamir released, under his banner, the critically acclaimed
film, Peepli Live, that was based in a rural setting. Aamir returned
to big screen with his fourth production Dhobi Ghat, written
and directed by his wife, Kiran Rao, in 2011. His fifth home production, Delhi
Belly, starring his nephew Imran Khan released in July 2011. The film was
a commercial and as well as a critical success.
Aamir Khan will be seen in Reema Kagti’s Talaash next. The
film, in which Aamir plays the role of a cop, is set to release on 1 June 2012.
He will be playing a negative character in Yash Raj Films’ Dhoom: 3
opposite Katrina Kaif.
Monday, 3 March 2014
Waja Muhammad Talpur
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Balochistan,
the largest province in Pakistan, has been marred by multiple conflicts that
have left the province in a state of terminal chaos. While the state of
Pakistan, the parliament and the provincial government are accused of
neglecting the province, the military and intelligence agencies have been
continuously blamed for brutalities, especially the abduction and extrajudicial
killing of Baloch. According to Voice for Missing Baloch Persons, about 18,000
Baloch have been abducted from Balochistan since the 1970s. Government and NGO
figures vary dramatically.
The Diplomat’s Kiran Nazish spoke recently with Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur,
who has been one of the very few to have written on the issue in Pakistan. For
speaking out on Baloch rights in Pakistan, Talpur has been challenged and
attacked repeatedly. An edited version of the interview follows.
What are your thoughts about the coverage of Balochistan?
Unfortunately the mainstream media has studiously avoided
the issue of Baloch missing persons and restricted itself to mostly reporting
court proceedings or to the news of the tortured and mutilated bodies of Baloch
activists being discovered in various places. There have been rare exceptions
though, but now there seems to be a concerted and systematic approach to
bringing non-conformist papers in line with the official policy and depriving
the public of the counter to the state narrative of the Baloch struggle, which
is wrongfully accused of being funded and inspired from abroad.
The media in general unhesitatingly represents the state
objectives for Balochistan. For them those fighting in Kashmir are freedom
fighters, but Baloch are always branded as separatists.
The media identifies itself with the establishment’s
interests so closely that in its anxiety to pursue that line it even forgets
the human tragedy of the missing persons and the regular appearance of brutally
tortured bodies of Baloch activists. Usually the bodies are mutilated beyond
recognition, so the perpetrators tag the bodies with slips carrying the
persons’ name.
Even the human tragedy like that befell the people of
Awaran due to the 7.6 magnitude earthquake on September 24 doesn’t stir
the media into varying from the official line.
What are your thoughts on the missing persons issue? In
the rare cases when victims are released, they have some horrific details of torture
to tell. You have been close to some victims, can you explain what they do with
people who are kidnapped?
Contrary to prevailing belief, [the missing persons
issue] is not a recent phenomenon. However it is more systematic now and is the
main tactic of the “dirty war” that is being conducted against Baloch people.
At present, among the missing is my friend Ali Khan Marri, who went missing on
September 20, 2010. My former students Abdul Rahman, Umar, Jaan Ali and
Hussain Mohammad, all Marris of Badani clan, went missing on June 1, 2008 from
the Marri area. Dr. Akbar Marri has been missing for the last three years.
One of the few to be released was Rafiq Khoso, who was
picked up in Jacobabad in April 2007, tortured and then released. He agreed to
tell where he was kept, what he underwent and who was responsible, but the
Supreme Court has yet to call him. Speaking at a seminar by the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan, Hyderabad chapter on July 31, 2013, he said he had been
given different kinds of drugs mixed in his food during the captivity due to
which he had hallucinations.
Dr Allah Nazar, the leader of BLF, was released in June
2006. He was near death after brutal torture following his arrest in March
2005. Once he was healthy enough he went to the mountains in Awaran. He now
valiantly leads his Sarmachars (army of separatists) in their
struggle to gain independence. He is the only leader seeking independence at
the moment.
Since 2009, more than 700 bodies of missing Baloch
activists have been found dumped in [different parts of] Balochistan and
Karachi. Their bodies are invariably mutilated beyond recognition and the
perpetrators tag the bodies with slips carrying the persons’ name for the
relatives to recognize. The badly mutilated body of Haji Abdul Razzaq
Baloch, a sub-editor of Tawar, an outspoken Balochi newspaper, who had gone
missing on March 24, 2013, was found on August 21. The body was so badly
mutilated that his sister had to look for old marks on his hands to be sure it
was him.
Sangat Sana, a member of the central committee of the
Baloch Republican Party (BRP) formerly chairman of the Baloch Student
Organization (BSO-Azad), who was whisked away from the Kolpur area in Bolan on
December 8, 2008, was found on February 13, 2012 from Murgab, Turbat. Apart
from torture he had 28 bullets wounds to his chest and head. They had emptied
an entire AK-47 magazine on him.
There is very little hope left for those still missing.
Whenever the army or FC suffers casualties in attacks by Sarmachars, bodies start
appearing. The indications are that the Pakistani state, like Iran, indulges in
reprisal killings. Iran recently hanged 16 Baloch prisoners in retaliation for
the killing of 14 of their soldiers by a Baloch group. The death toll here in
Pakistan keeps rising, as does the number of missing. The enforced
disappearances in cities get noticed and recorded, but disappearances from
remote areas go unreported.
Who are the prime suspects in these abductions?
The relatives of the Baloch are unanimous in their view
that the intelligence agencies, the army, the Frontier Corps and their proxies
are responsible for the enforced disappearances and the mutilated bodies of
Baloch activists. The evidence available doesn’t leave even a shadow of doubt
that this is the case and it is the establishment that is conducting and waging
a systematically organized dirty war against the Baloch people, targeting
Baloch activists from all walks of life.
A video was screened recently, showing Frontier Corps
personnel picking up a boy and speeding away in a vehicle. The Corps, however,
denied the charge, saying that there existed the possibility that their
uniforms were being misused by unknown people. This, even though there are some
1,500 Frontier Corps checkpoints in Balochistan and hundreds in Quetta. Quite
ridiculous.
The PPP Balochistan president Sadiq Umrani made a
stunning disclosure in the Balochistan Assembly on February 6, 2012, when he
noted he and two other ministers, Yunis Mullazai and Zafar Zehri, in November
2011 saw Frontier Corps personnel holding two blindfolded and handcuffed men at
the roadside on a highway near Mangochar. He said that the FC men gunned them
down and their bodies were found from the area the next day. This simply
confirms that the army and Frontier Corps are responsible for the
disappearances and killings
There is chronic censorship of journalism in Balochistan.
Anyone with a voice gets abducted, tortured and killed, whether it is an
activist, a journalist or a civilian victim.
There is chronic censorship not only in Balochistan but
all over Pakistan on anything that may be seen as a support for the Baloch
narrative. The fight, in fact, is about the narrative supremacy; the state with
its unlimited instruments of oppression, laws and resources controls the
narrative. The mainstream media is compliant because of the revenue it gets
from advertisements if they quietly toe the state narrative. The state also
uses money to make journalists amenable to persuasion.
Baloch nationalists want their narrative to be presented
but they do not have the wherewithal that the state has, so when they demand
that journalists present their side of the story too it is called intimidation
and a threat to freedom of press, as if the state’s buying of journalists and
keeping mainstream media in line through various devices is not.
In January 2012, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) compiled
a list of the world’s ten most dangerous places for the media. It included
Khuzdar, Balochistan. The report noted, “For the second year running, Pakistan
was the single deadliest country with a total of 10 journalists killed, most of
them murdered. Five of the journalists killed were gunned down in
targeted attacks. Four of those who were targeted worked in Balochistan.”
In 2009, the Frontier Corps laid siege to the offices of
three newspapers in Quetta: Daily
Asaap, Azadi andBalochistan Express. Asaap’s owner-publisher, Jan Muhammad Dashti,
was repeatedly threatened but he refused to be cowed. Consequently, Frontier
Corps personnel were posted on the street outside the newspaper’s offices,
eventually forcing Asaap to stop publication. On February 24,
2009, when Dashti was on his way to his office, unknown gunmen intercepted his
vehicle near Sariab Road, Quetta and opened indiscriminate fire. Dashit and his
driver were seriously wounded, but luckily survived.
Others have not been so lucky. Lala Hameed Baloch worked
for the Daily Intikhab. On
November 18, 2010, his bullet-riddled body was found outside Turbat. He had
disappeared on October 25 while travelling to his home in Gwadar;
local journalists said he was seized by the Pakistani security officials. Javed
Naseer Rind, an editor and columnist with the Urdu-language Daily Tawar, was kidnapped in
his hometown of Hub in southern Balochistan on September 11, 2011. His
corpse was found in Khuzdar on November 5. He had been shot multiple times
in the head and chest and his body showed signs of severe torture.
You have written about Baloch education system and the
discrepancies in the standards when compared with that of Punjab. What is the
impact of this disparity?
The real problem is not the neglect of education in
Balochistan but the willful and systematically organized discrimination.
Balochistan faces serious challenges to providing even primary education. It
has the highest percentage of children at primary school entry age out of
school: 56 percent children aged 6-11 are not attending school. About six
percent of schools in Balochistan do not have buildings, nine percent do not
have electricity, 12 percent are without potable water, and 11 percent are
without proper toilets. Balochistan’s literacy rate is 34 per cent, compared to
the national literacy rate of 56 per cent.
What are your thoughts on the response by the UN and
international community?
The United Nations and the international community in
general have been lethargic in response to the atrocities that Baloch have been
suffering. Baloch sufferings seem too remote even to the so called civil
society here. Last year when the United Nations Working Group on Enforced
Disappearances visited Pakistan, there was stonewalling by the government and
even an uproar in the National Assembly. The establishment tries its best to
make such visits unpleasant, so that international bodies may not be enthusiastic
about pursuing the cause of rights of people.
Balochistan is represented at the Unrepresented Nations
and Peoples Organization (UNPO) by Mehran Baloch. Here at least the Baloch get
a limited opportunity to put their point of view and perspective across.
The international community should not dither in
condemning the human rights abuses against Baloch. The silence that we saw in
Latin America in the past leads to human rights violations of unparalleled
severity. The world needs to accept responsibility.
Waja Atta Shad
Ata Shad, renowned Balochi and
Urdu poet,
playwright and researcher, was born in Singani Sar,
Kech (Turbat) in November1939.
He died in Quetta on February 13 ’1997
playwright and researcher, was born in Singani Sar,
Kech (Turbat) in November1939.
He died in Quetta on February 13 ’1997
CHILDREN:
1. Mahna Shad (daughter)
2. Rushna Shad (daughter)
3. Hammal Shad (son)
2. Rushna Shad (daughter)
3. Hammal Shad (son)
Date of Death: 13 February 1997 (Quetta)
Personal Information:
Original Name: Mohammad Ishaq
Pen Name: Ata Shad
Basic Education: Government High School Turbat
Matric: Government High School Panjgur, 1956
FA: Government College Turbat, 1959
BA: Government College Quetta, 1962
Pen Name: Ata Shad
Basic Education: Government High School Turbat
Matric: Government High School Panjgur, 1956
FA: Government College Turbat, 1959
BA: Government College Quetta, 1962
Fellowship in Media Management:
International
Training Institute Sydney, Australia.
Training Institute Sydney, Australia.
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Rochgir (Collection of
Balochi poetry)
2. Shap Sahar Andem (Collection of Balochi Poetry)
3. Singaab (Collection of Urdu Poetry)
4. Barfaag (Collection of Urdu Poetry)
5. Gichain Shairi ( Collection of selected works of contemporary Balochi poets)
6. Balochi Nama ( Socio-cultural Literature of Balochistan)
7. Dreen (Balochi Folk Songs with Urdu translation)
8. Urdu Balochi Lughat (Dictionary)
9. Balochi Urdu Dictionary
10. Haft Zubani Lughat(Dictionary-Editor of Balochi section
11.Jawansal ( Collection of Balochi sufi poet Ibrahim Jawansal Bugti)
12.Unpublished works both in Balochi and Urdu
13. Author of numerious Radio and TV plays
2. Shap Sahar Andem (Collection of Balochi Poetry)
3. Singaab (Collection of Urdu Poetry)
4. Barfaag (Collection of Urdu Poetry)
5. Gichain Shairi ( Collection of selected works of contemporary Balochi poets)
6. Balochi Nama ( Socio-cultural Literature of Balochistan)
7. Dreen (Balochi Folk Songs with Urdu translation)
8. Urdu Balochi Lughat (Dictionary)
9. Balochi Urdu Dictionary
10. Haft Zubani Lughat(Dictionary-Editor of Balochi section
11.Jawansal ( Collection of Balochi sufi poet Ibrahim Jawansal Bugti)
12.Unpublished works both in Balochi and Urdu
13. Author of numerious Radio and TV plays
AFFILIATION:
1. Balochi Academy Quetta
2. Idara-e-Saqafat-e-Balochistan Quetta
3. Pakistan National Book Council Islamabad
4. National Language Authority, Islamabad
5. Markazi Urdu Board, Lahore
2. Idara-e-Saqafat-e-Balochistan Quetta
3. Pakistan National Book Council Islamabad
4. National Language Authority, Islamabad
5. Markazi Urdu Board, Lahore
GOVERNMENT SERVICE:
1. Director General Archeology
Balochistan 1996-13 Feb 1997
2. Secretary Information Balochistan 1995-Oct 1996
3. Director General Archeology, Balochistan 1993-1995
4. Secretary Information Balochistan 1993
5. Director General Archeology, Balochistan 1990-1993
6. Secretary Information Balochistan 1989-1990
7. Secretary Forest Balochistan 1988-1989
8. Secretary Information Balochistan 1986-1988
9. Director Public Relations Balochistan 1982-1986
10.Executive Director, Idara Saqafat 1973-1983
11.Director Public Relations Balochistan 1972-1973
12.Information Officer, Information Department Government of Pakistan at Dhaka 1969-1972
13.Producer and Playright, Radio Pakistan 1962-1969
2. Secretary Information Balochistan 1995-Oct 1996
3. Director General Archeology, Balochistan 1993-1995
4. Secretary Information Balochistan 1993
5. Director General Archeology, Balochistan 1990-1993
6. Secretary Information Balochistan 1989-1990
7. Secretary Forest Balochistan 1988-1989
8. Secretary Information Balochistan 1986-1988
9. Director Public Relations Balochistan 1982-1986
10.Executive Director, Idara Saqafat 1973-1983
11.Director Public Relations Balochistan 1972-1973
12.Information Officer, Information Department Government of Pakistan at Dhaka 1969-1972
13.Producer and Playright, Radio Pakistan 1962-1969
COUNTRIES VISITED:
Iran, Saudi Arab, USA,
Australia,
Germany, Thai Land,Italy, China,
England, Denmark, Turkey,
United Arab Emarates, Oman, Singapore
Germany, Thai Land,Italy, China,
England, Denmark, Turkey,
United Arab Emarates, Oman, Singapore
HOUNORS:
1. Presidential Pride of
Performance Award (1983)
2. Sitara-e-Imtiaz Award (1982)
3. Special Award form Ministery of Information and Brroadcasting (Radio)
4. Fellowship: International Traning Institute Sydney, Australia
2. Sitara-e-Imtiaz Award (1982)
3. Special Award form Ministery of Information and Brroadcasting (Radio)
4. Fellowship: International Traning Institute Sydney, Australia
Ata Shad’s Acedamic
Researchers
1. Irfan Ahmed Baig
Ph.D on Atha Shad (Urdu)
from Allama Iqbal Open University,
Islamabad Pk
Ph.D on Atha Shad (Urdu)
from Allama Iqbal Open University,
Islamabad Pk
2. Shoaib Shadab
M.Phil on Ata Shad (Urdu)
from International Islamic University,
Islamabad, Pk
M.Phil on Ata Shad (Urdu)
from International Islamic University,
Islamabad, Pk
Ata Shad’s None
Acedamic Researchers
1. Hakeem Baloch (Quetta)
2. Afzal Murad (Quetta)
1. Hakeem Baloch (Quetta)
2. Afzal Murad (Quetta)
Source:
1.Special Edition of Quarterly
“Dastageer ” (Quetta) on Ata Shad (Urdu)
2.Special Edition of Quarterly “Chammag ” (Nasirabad kech)of Ata Shad (Baloch)
3.Special Edition of Quarterly “Qalam Qabeela” ( Quetta) of Ata Shad (Urdu)
4.Special Edition of Monthly ” Balochi Dunya” (Multan) on Ata Shad (Urdu)
5.Special Edition of Monthly “Balochi” (Quetta) on Ata Shad ( Balochi)
6.Special Edition of Monthly “Balochi Zind” (Noshki) on Ata Shad (Balochi)
7.Special Edition of Monthly “Sangat” (Quetta) on Ata Shad ( Urdu/ Balochi)
2.Special Edition of Quarterly “Chammag ” (Nasirabad kech)of Ata Shad (Baloch)
3.Special Edition of Quarterly “Qalam Qabeela” ( Quetta) of Ata Shad (Urdu)
4.Special Edition of Monthly ” Balochi Dunya” (Multan) on Ata Shad (Urdu)
5.Special Edition of Monthly “Balochi” (Quetta) on Ata Shad ( Balochi)
6.Special Edition of Monthly “Balochi Zind” (Noshki) on Ata Shad (Balochi)
7.Special Edition of Monthly “Sangat” (Quetta) on Ata Shad ( Urdu/ Balochi)
DEDICATED TO HIS
NAME:
1. Ata Shad Degree College,
Turbat
2. Ata Shad Academy Turbat
3. Ata Shad Autitorium, Idara-e-Saqafat-e-Balochistan, Quetta
4. Ata Shad Park, Turbat.
5. Ata Shad English Language Institute, Turbat
2. Ata Shad Academy Turbat
3. Ata Shad Autitorium, Idara-e-Saqafat-e-Balochistan, Quetta
4. Ata Shad Park, Turbat.
5. Ata Shad English Language Institute, Turbat
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