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List of Pakistanis

The seventh largest nation in the world, there's a quite a few people related to Pakistan that readers might need information on, especially in a post-9/11 world. Below is a list of such people. See Category:Pakistani people for an alphabetical list of Pakistanis mentioned in BambooWeb.

Sportspersons

• Jahangir Khan
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Wasim Akram
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar
• Imran Khan
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Waqar Younis
• Shahbaz Ahmad
• Jansher Khan
• Zaheer Abbas (The Asian BRADMAN)

Diplomats

• Mohammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss
• A. S. Bokhari
• Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
• Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
• Muhammad Sadiq
• Khurshid Kasuri

Journalists

• Eqbal Ahmad
• Mishal Hussain
• Mazhar Ali Khan
• Lady Nadira
• Zamir Niazi
• Hameed Nizami
• Ahmed Rashid
• Najam Sethi

Military

• Mirza Aslam Beg
• Aziz Bhatti (Shaheed)
• Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
• Muhammad Mahfooz (Shaheed)
• Rashid Minhas (Shaheed)
• Sawar Muhammad Hussain (Shaheed)
• Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
• Shabbir Sharif (Shaheed)

Musicians

Main article: List of Pakistani musicians

• Nazia Hasan
• Noor Jehan
• Junoon
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Strings
• Shehzad Roy
• Abrar-ul-Haq
• Jawad Ahmed

Politicians

Heads of state or government

• Muhammed Ali Jinnah
• Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
• Benazir Bhutto
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Pervez Musharraf
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali
• Ayub Khan
• Liaqat Ali Khan
• Yahya Khan
• Iskander Mirza
• Nawaz Sharif
• Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
• Muhammad Zia ul-Haq
• Shaukat Aziz

Other major political figures

Please note that some of these figures are pre-Independence and therefore were technically never "Pakistani". They are however "owned" by Pakistanis are their own. These figures are marked below.

• Choudhary Rahmat Ali (Pre-Independence)
• Allama Mohammad Iqbal (Pre-Independence)
• Fatimah Jinnah

Religious Figures

• Sayid Abul'ala Mawdudi

Scientists

• Abdul Qadeer Khan
• Abdus Salam
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui

Writers

• Ahmed Ali
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Tariq Ali
• Altaf Fatima
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Mohammad Iqbal
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Fazlur Rahman
• Noon Meem Rashed
• Shaukat Siddiqi
• Imtiaz Ali Taj
• Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Hasan Askari Sahar Abidi
• Muhammad Iqbal Naz