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Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India. He was appointed to his position in 2014 and was based at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. [2] Previously, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Germany from May 2012 to March 2014. [2]
Therefore, the Pakistani ambassadors to the US were not only the top officers of the Pakistani civil service, but also political appointees of respective governments of the time. Some former ambassadors later rose to command positions in the Pakistani government, with one of them, Muhammad Ali Bogra , becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan .
Abdul Basit finished learning the Quran at age of 10 and then requested his grandfather and father to continue his education with the Qira’at (recitations). They both agreed and sent him to the city of Tanta (Lower Egypt) to study the Quranic recitations (‘ulum al-Quran wa al-Qira’at) under the tutelage of Sheikh Muhammad Salim, a well known teacher of recitaion of that time.
The first ambassador, Paul H. Alling, was appointed on September 20, 1947. Anne W. Patterson was nominated as United States Ambassador to Pakistan in May 2007, replacing Ryan C. Crocker who was appointed United States Ambassador to Iraq after completing three years of service in Pakistan. In 2010, her post was succeeded by Cameron Munter.
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Arabic: رمزي أحمد يوسف, romanized: Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf; born 27 April 1968) is a convicted Pakistani terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators and the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing [4] [5] and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434; he was also a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.
Ahmed Ali, Pioneer of Urdu short stories; Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi (soazkhuwan) Abdul Haq, Moulvi (father of modern Urdu) Abul Khair Kashfi, Prof. Dr. (critic, linguist, author, scholar) Abul Lais Siddiqui, Prof. Dr. (critic, linguist, author, scholar) Altaf Fatima (novelist, author) Anwar Maqsood (drama writer, anchor, actor)
Trump previously discussed his “rough call” with “the leader of the Taliban, Abdul,” during an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity in 2022. “I said, ‘Don’t do it ...
Abdul Jeelani – American professional basketball player; Adnan Virk [48] [49] – Canadian sports anchor; Waseem Ahmed [50] [51] [52] - Pakistani field hockey player and ex-captain of Pakistan hockey team; Naseer Malik – Pakistani fast bowler (cricket), bowled the first ball for Pakistan in the first-ever Cricket World Cup