List of University of Karachi alumni

This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.

A

• Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar of Pakistan
• Abdul Rasheed Hussain – Maldivian politician and public figure
• Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert
• Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
• Afaq Ahmed – Leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan
• Ahmed Ali – novelist, diplomat and scholar
• Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford
• Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
• Anthony Theodore Lobo – Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop
• Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer
• Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster of Pakistan
• Atta ur Rahman – Chairman HEC and Director H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
• Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist

B

• Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist
• Sanam Baloch – television actress
• Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist

D Quentin D’Silva, former Chairman & Chief Executive, Shell Pakistan Limited

F

• Faisal Sabzwari – Deputy parliamentary leader of MQM
• Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
• Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister
• Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics

G

• Gholam Mujtaba – Pakistani politician and Pakistani American

H

• Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer
• Husain Haqqani – Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
• Hussain Haroon – Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations

I

• Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer
• Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure

J

• Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature

K

• Khalida Ghous – scholar of International Relations and Human Rights and activist.
• Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan, exchange student in the early 1970s^[1]
• Rashid Kausar - now a Professor of Knowledge Management

M

• Mehwish Hayat - Pakistani Model*
• Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher
• Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan
• Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
• Moonis Ahmar – eminent scholar of international relations and conflict resolution
• Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic from Pakistan
• Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
• Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations

N

• Nadeem F. Paracha – Journalist, cultural critic and satirist
• Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi & MQM leader
• Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England
• Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News
• Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting
• Noon Meem Danish – poet^[2]

P

• Parveen Shakir – Urdu poetess, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
• Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi
• Tanwir Phool – poet, children's literature author and an officer of the central bank of the Government of Pakistan
• Zinia Pinto - principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963-99.^[3]

Q

• Abdul Qadeer Khan – Pakistani scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder uranium program of country's atomic bomb projects.

R

• Raheel Raza – author
• Raza Rabbani – Senator
• Rashid Minhas Shaheed - PAF Officer, received Nishan-e-Haider
• Rehman Malik – Senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan
• Rana Muhammad Akram Khan, former Chairman Punjab Bar Council.
• Riaz Ahsan – professor and former president of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association
• Raees Warsi – poet, author, founder/president of Urdu Markaz New York

S

• Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist
• Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
• Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Citibank executive officer
• Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960–1962^[4]

T

• Tarek Fateh - writer, novelist, columnist, author
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan who has served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Talat A. Wizarat – scholar of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies

W

• Waheed Murad – Pakistani film actor

Z

• Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies
• Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet

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