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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.
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]
The Pakistan Ambassador to the United States is in charge of the Pakistan Embassy, Washington, D.C., and Pakistan's diplomatic mission to the United States. The official title is Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States of America.
The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States of America was the official diplomatic representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States. The ambassador and the embassy staff at large worked at the Afghan Embassy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988), Egyptian Qari (reciter of the Qur-an) Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (1952–2012), Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing; Abdulbaset Sieda (born 1956), Kurdish-Syrian academic and politician; Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab, known as Amr Diab (born 1961), Egyptian singer
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said "Pakistan is taking stock of the revelations concerning Pakistan". [12] A statement issued by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office on his meeting with U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter made two references to "vikilikes" , describing it as "misleading" and "malicious". [13]
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.
South Korean Ambassador to Burma Rangoon Burma: October 9, 1983: North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan: Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak: Emirati Ambassador to France Paris United Arab Emirates: February 8, 1984: Abu Nidal Organization Salih Mahdi Ammash: Iraqi Ambassador to Finland ...