Mohammed Ajeeb

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Mohammed Ajeeb CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, and was the first Asian Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Biography

Mohammed Ajeeb was born in Mirpur (now in Pakistan) in 1938. He attended Dadyal High School, and then Karachi University. He came to Britain in 1957, and settled in Nottingham, where he did various manual jobs before moving into community work as a housing officer with the District Community Relations Committee.

He moved to Bradford in 1973, when he was invited to become deputy director of SHARE (Shelter Housing and Reneval Experiment). He became the director in 1977.

He joined the Labour Party in 1974, was elected to the local Council in 1979, and was Lord Mayor in 1985-86.

In 2001 he was award the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

[edit] Controversy

He has been criticized for having sacked headmaster Ray Honeyford who in 1984 wrote an article in The Salisbury Review arguing that multiculturism was damaging the Pakistani children whom he taught. [1]