Abdul Rahim Suriya

Mr. Abdul Rahim Suriya is a fellow member of ICAP and a fellow member of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan. He has around 25 years post qualification experience in the field of Accounting, Auditing and Operational Management. He did his audit training with A.F.Ferguson & Co., Chartered Accountants and has served in various national and international reputed organizations on different senior positions including as an Executive Director in a reputed pharmaceutical company.

Mr. Suriya is serving at the Council for the last 12 years. He served the Southern Regional Committee from 1993 to 1996 and elected as its Chairman in the year 1995-96.

He has been the Chief Editor of ICAP’s Journal Pakistan Accountant, and Chairman sub-committee of ICAP and ICMAP for Evaluation of Best Annual Reports.

He represented Pakistan as a member of International Accounting Education Standards Board of International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) from 2002 to 2008. Recently, he has authored a book “A guide to Business Decision Making” for the students of management accounting.

At present he is running his firm under the name and style of A.R Suriya & Co, Chartered Accountants. He is also engaged in providing training in subjects relating to accounting and finance.

Naveen Naqvi

Naveen Naqvi is a Senior Anchor at Pakistan’s first English Language channel, DawnNews. She presents the morning news program, Breakfast at Dawn. It is the only show in Pakistan that incorporates social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter, an innovation in journalism that was brought by Naveen. She is the only Pakistani presenter to tweet live on air, and quips that even if others follow her lead, she’ll still be the first!
In July 2009, Naveen started writing with the blog section of Dawn’s website and soon after for The Huffington Post.
The idea behind converging the two media – new and mainstream – is to give a voice to the liberal, educated and otherwise, unheard Pakistanis. The more selfish reason is that she loves it!

As a journalist, Naveen was invited to the Eurasian Media Forum in April 2009. There she interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and chaired a panel discussion with leading analysts and journalists on media management of Gaza conflict. Some of the better known names are George Galloway and Gideon Levy.
More recently, she was invited on a panel of Pakistan’s top seven journalists to interview the visiting US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
Prior to DawnNews, Naveen worked from 2002 – 05 as Producer Pakistan of NBC News. She started off as a fixer and worked her way up to bureau chief. Here she worked on news stories for Nightly News and Today show, conducted on-camera interviews, reported breaking news for MSNBC, wrote stories for MSNBC.com, and managed the Islamabad bureau. She assisted in the coordination of two interviews with General Pervez Musharraf – one for Tom Brokaw

Naveen has also been (in another life) an entertainment television production manager, television actor and model. As the presenter for Music Channel Charts, she did another first for Pakistani TV when she became the first VJ ever.

Mujahid Barelvi

Mujahid Barelvi is a veteran journalist from Pakistan. He is known for his cut throat questioning skills and journalistic integrity. This man alone is responsible for bringing hope to the masses by taking their live calls in his numerous shows on politics, over the years. Barelvi has proved to be a tough contender for almost all, who have failed to perform in their public duties. He is well versed in both local and international politics and has traveled extensively world wide.

Mujahid is a critic by all means with a strong and pro active analytical approach. His candid and obdurate style, keeps his audience enchanted, which is regularly observed in his current, daily eveninger “Doosra Pehlu” for CNBC Pakistan. This show not only connects him with local viewers but provides access to interviewing guests, globally.

Mujahid was the first Pakistani journalist to enter Kabul in 1979, after the Soviet Invasion. He was also the secretary of the Karachi Press Club for two years from 1987. He is responsible for several prolific articles for political journals and newspapers and has authored six books on Afghanistan and Baluchistan. As a progressive writer and publisher he founded various magazines, weeklies, and monthlies. Sonehra Daur Karachi that he founded in 80's earned him a great opportunity to air the truth from the left groups in Pakistan. Bankari was a monthly that would help a political activist know about the economic and fiscal realities. Mujahid Barevlvi is an Editor who will edit what he had full command upon, to help provide something new to his readership while at the same time keeping his working journalists, reports, and other employees satisfied with respect to earning. Thus he can be termed one of the few industrymen who cares for his workers. Those Karachites in the journalism business would express great respect for Mujahid Barelvi particularly because of his parents who were great scholars.
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Dr. Mirza Shehab Afzal Beg

Consultant Plastic, Cosmetic and Hair Restorative Surgeon

Dr. Mirza Shehab Afzal Beg after acquiring sixth position in the Board of Higher Secondary Education, Karachi, graduated from Dow Medical College, Karachi, in 1985. In 1986 he moved to UK for higher education and training. After completing the requisite training in general surgery and major surgical specialties got the FRCS in 1991

From Feb 1991 he then started specialized training in Plastic Surgery and in the year 1996 managed to get a Certificate of completion of training from The Royal College of Surgeons in England, and in the same year a Diploma in Plastic Surgery from The British Association of Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Beg then trained further in the highly specialized Plastic Surgery Centres in the UK with some of the world renowned surgeons who were of great repute internationally, and acquired the highest degree in Plastic Surgery in 1998 i.e. FRCS Plast, awarded by conjoined board of all the four Royal Colleges in UK and Ireland.

This distinguishes him as the only Plastic Surgeon in Pakistan at present with this prestigious degree.

During this period he attended regularly instructional courses and workshops and has many papers published in internationally recognized journals and has significant number of presentations to his credit.

After completion of training he took up a post of Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital UK, before he finally returned to Pakistan in June 2000.

Since his return he has been working as a Consultant in Plastic Surgery at Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi. He is also part time faculty of Aga Khan Hospital. He has operating rights at OMI hospital and National Medical Centre.

Dr Shehab Beg has gradually over a period of time build up an excellent reputation in Cosmetic, Reconstructive and Hair Restorative surgery. He constantly updates himself by frequently traveling abroad, keeping pace with the recent journals and organizing regular workshops and seminars. His satisfied and happy patients are spread all over the country and abroad.

Dr. Beg is member of Pakistan Association of Plastic Surgeons,
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
Pakistan Association of Head & Neck Society
Pakistan Association Of Hand Society
Permanent registration with General Medical Council (UK)

He is Chairperson of the Academic Council at “Liaquat National Hospital”
Examiner and supervisor for trainees in Plastic Surgery for FCPS exams.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Prime Minister of Pakistan

At the age of 56, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani took oath of the office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan on March 25, 2008 as the country’s 22nd Prime Minister.

Born on June 9, 1952 in Karachi, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani received his early education at St. Mary’s Convent School and La Salle High School, Multan. After completing his higher school he joined Forman Christian College, Lahore from where he completed his intermediate level studies. He graduated from the renowned Government College, Lahore and got his Masters degree in Journalism from the Punjab University.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani began his political career in 1978 as member of Central Working Committee of a leading political party PML. He served as Federal Minister for Housing and Works and later for Railways between 1985 and 1986. In 1988 he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party and became a Minister in the federal cabinet with the portfolios of Tourism and later Housing and Works till 1990. He took oath of the office of Minister for Local Government and Rural Development in 1993 during the interim government. He was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1993 and held this responsibility up to 1997.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani hails from an influential and spiritual family of Multan which enjoyed respect and recognition in the area since 1921. His father Makhudum Alamdar Hussain Gilani was a leading politician of Multan who played a significant role in Pakistan Movement. He was one of the signatories of the Pakistan resolution in 1940. Makhudum Alamdar Hussain Gilani was a member of Feroz Khan Noon’s Cabinet in 1953 in Punjab and 1958 at the Federal level. He was known for his social work and greatly contributed in establishing educational institutions in Multan.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani is known for being polite yet firm in his dealings. It was for the same reason that he remained imprisoned for five years. He was released from Adiala jail on October 7, 2006. During the period of his incarceration he wrote a book titled ‘Chah-e-Yousuf se Sada’ (Cry from the Yousuf’s Well). He has an ear for music, reads poetry and has a desire to serve the have-nots of his motherland.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has widely traveled across the world in various capacities. He led Pakistani delegations to a number of international conferences. As Federal Minister for Tourism, he attended the World Tourism Organization’s meeting held in Paris, France in 1989. He also attended a meeting of Pakistan Association of Travel Agents held in New Delhi, the same year.

As Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani led Pakistani parliamentarians’ delegations to several Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conferences that include; the 91st Conference held in Paris in 1994, the 92nd Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1995, the 94th Conference held in Bucharest, Romania in 1995, the 95th Conference held in Istanbul Turkey in 1996. He addressed the United Nations on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee celebrations arranged by IPU. Earlier in 1987, as a young member of Parliamentary Delegation, he participated in the 87th meeting of the IPU held in Cameron.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani actively participated in the Commonwealth activities. He attended the Conferences of the Speakers/Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth countries held in Papua New Guinea in 1994, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1995, in Bali, Indonesia in 1995 and in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1996. He also visited United Kingdom to participate in the 50 years celebrations of the end of 2nd World War by Commonwealth, where he also had a meeting with the Speaker, House of Commons.

As the leader of parliamentary delegations, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani attended the 1st Conference of SAARC Countries’ Speakers in New Delhi and the 1st PAK-PAC meeting in Las Vegas. In the same capacity, he also visited Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Nepal, Maldives, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Hungary. The other countries where he represented the country include; Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands, Macao, Burma, Thailand, Greece, Japan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and UAE. He participated in Climate - the Change Conference held in Manila, Philippines in 1996. He also undertook a study visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by National Democratic Institute (NDI) on accountability system in 1997.

As part of the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s entourage, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani visited several countries, which include Peoples Republic of China, India, Turkmenistan and Turkey. He represented Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in the annual International Convention of Social Democratic Party in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1990, and later the same year in Italy. He also hosted and presided over the first ever international Conference of Women Parliamentarians, held in Islamabad in 1995.

Jamiluddin Aali - Poet Columnist

Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan better known as Jamiluddin Aali PP, HI, (born January 20, 1926 in Delhi) is a noted Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar of Pakistan. He is best known for the famous national song, Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan.

Aali hails from a literary family of Delhi. His grandfather, Nawab Allauddin Ahmed Khan, was a friend and student of Ghalib. His father Sir Ameeruddin Ahmed Khan was also a poet, and his mother Syeda Jamila Baigum belonged to a family of Mir Dard. Aali earned a BA in Economics from Anglo Arabic College, Delhi. In September 30, 1944, Jamil married Tayaba Bano. They have five children (three sons and two daughters). His son, Raju Jamil, is a Television actor. In 1947, after the partition of India, his family migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. He joined the Civil Services of Pakistan in 1951. In 1971 he obtained an FEL and LLB from Karachi University. In 1966, he joined the National Bank, and served there till his retirement (1988) as senior executive vice president and member executive board.
Aali was former member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and also contested the general elections in March 7, 1977 from NA-191, but lost. In 1997, he was elected as member of the Senate for a six year term with support of (MQM) Muttahida Qaumi Movement. (souce:wikipedia)

A. Rehman Malik, Interior Minister

A. Rehman Malik (born December 12, 1951) is Senator from Sindh and Federal Interior Minister of Pakistan, started his civil service career in 1973 and worked in various capacities in Bureau of Emigration, Government of Pakistan, where he was responsible to implement Emigration Ordinance 1979 and Rules there under. This gave good exposure to effectively implement and enforce the relevant laws and rules at various levels.

He was posted as In charge of FIA/Interpol and Deputy Director Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 1987 for dealing with white collar crimes and their monitoring worldwide and interaction with worldwide police establishments and intelligence agencies.

Malik was also posted as Deputy Secretary in Ministry of Interior in 1989 where he held the post of Chairman/Secretary of Key Points of entire Pakistan for one year.

He was later posted as Director FIA Headquarters and Principal Staff Officer to the DG/FIA in 1989 as well as Director/Coordination in FIA with the Prime Minister office.

In this capacity, he dealt with the inquiries, criminal cases under Official Secret Act, drugs and Narcotics laws etc and made number of visits abroad for the purpose.

He was also posted as Director/Head of FIA Frontier province/FATA and Northern Areas in 1992 where he remained posted for one year. During this period, he underwent NIPA course and acted as chairman of his group.

While posted as Head of FIA Frontier province, he busted the gangs involved in counterfeiting of Pakistani rupee 1000 currency notes and US dollar.

In recognition of his professional and fearless services and investigation of cases of international ramifications, the Government of Pakistan awarded and decorated him with Sitara-e-Shujaat Gallantry in 1995.

In 1993, he was posted as Director FIA, Immigration and Anti-Smuggling at FIA Headquarters and earned international recognitions for curbing illegal emigration from Pakistan to Europe and USA. He has the distinction of computerizing the immigration data.

Later he was elevated to the post of Additional Director General of FIA in 1995 where he was responsible for administration and monitoring of the working of Immigration and Anti Smuggling and White Collar crimes.

He was also responsible for Anti-Terrorism operations in Pakistan. All the operations are now a matter of public record. He also officiated as Director General, FIA.

He arrested a number of Afro-Arab militants from Pakistan including Abdul Rehman Khaddar etc., and took legal action. Operations under his command were conducted which resulted in the arrest of Yousaf Ramzi and other terrorists like Khalid Sheikh, Zahid Al-Sheikh and Aymen Zawahari were identified.

His investigative and operational achievements have been reported in various national and international journals.

While in UK since 1998, he run a number of companies in the field of security, telecommunication, food and oil business.

He established and successfully run a Security consultancy firm in UK namely SHAFFAF LIMITED, duly registered in UK, to provide consultancy in the field of security, anti-terrorism, Aviation security, bank frauds, money laundering and assets tracing worldwide which attained international recognition.

He provided consultancy to number of multinational companies, banks and financial institutions for due diligence and security related matters and advised them on criminal matters which has further enhanced his experience in the field of security at the international level.

Rehman Malik also appeared in a number of TV shows and independent programmes as an expert on war on terror after 9/11 and assumed advisory role for various institutions on the security matters.

He attended all political parties of SAARC meeting in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004 which was chaired by Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto as PPP chairperson.

He represented PPP on behalf of Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto in various political seminars and head of states world wide.

He is visiting lecturer in National Defence University, Islamabad. He was elected as Senator unopposed from Sindh Province. He was appointed Adviser/Minister for Interior in March 2008 to oversee the functions of FIA, Immigration and Passports, NADRA, Pakistan Rangers, Frontier Constabulary, Frontier Corps, Islamabad Police, National Police Bureau, National Police Academy, Pakistan Coast Guards, National Crisis Management Cell and other civil armed forces.

He is a senior member of the Central Executive Committee of PPP and had worked for decades with Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto and assisted her as political advisor besides assisting her in various political meetings both abroad and at home. He attended all political parties of SAARC meeting in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004 which was chaired by Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto as PPP chairperson.

Malik represented PPP on behalf of Shaheed Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto in various political seminars and head of states world wide.

A book on his anti-terrorism operations and interrogation stories was written under the name of The New Jackals by Mr. Simon Reeve.

A post 9/11 Hollywood film under the name of Path to 9/11 based on his investigative work was televised both in USA and by BBC, UK. Famous Hollywood actor Art Malik played his role in the film.

There are number of international media reports highlighting his work in the field of anti-terrorism and money-laundering which are available on the internet. There are around 1.43 million internet results on him.

His anti- money laundering operations are reported in various international publications. His investigative work has become leading models in LEAs institutions. He Investigated a number of money laundering related cases against the senior bureaucrats and politicians.

BBC produced a documentary under the title of Pak Lane to Ilford for a famous programme called Corruption, based on his investigation report. Panorama programme of BBC has also done programme on his expertise.

He represented Pakistan either as head of the delegation or a member of the delegation at various international forums. The Interior Adviser also represented Pakistan in SAARC Meeting of Experts on the implementation of the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1990.

He obtained fellowship in the field of International Migration from University of Philippines in 1998 under ILO-UNO Programme. Being President of DM Digital World TV Limited UK, he gained rich experience in the media and telecommunication and resigned after his elevation as Advisor/Minister for Interior.

Dr Shahid Masood, TV Anchor

Dr. Shahid Masood started his career as a journalist from Ilyas Shakir's Daily Quami Akhbar. He was the anchor of the popular show “Meray Mutabiq” on Geo TV. Previously, he had been affiliated with ARY One World, as its senior executive director and was the chief of ARY One World conducting the show Views On News on ARY.

He was also Chairman and Managing Director of Pakistan Television and advisor to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. He subsequently resigned from these posts.

He started his program again on Geo in November 2008.

Mehtab Akbar Rashdi

Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, Director General, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Sindh has the honour of being Assistant Professor, Sindh University. Before joining EPA Mehtab was the Secretary Tourism and Culture, Government of Sindh.

She is also a crusader of Women’s Right. Mehtab is currently in the board of directors of HUM TV and is also the host of the program Muashra aur Hum.

Farooq Hamid Naek, Chairman Senate of Pakistan

Farooq Hamid Naek (also spelled Farooq H. Naik) is the current Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, who replaced Muhammad Mian Soomro on 12 March, 2009.He was appointed to that position by President Asif Ali Zardari of the ruling coalition of PPP, ANP, MQM and JUI-F. As a result of his election, senior PPP leader Raza Rabbani resigned from the position of Leader of the House. Before being appointed Chairman, Naek was the Minister of Law and Justice in the federal government since 31 March, 2008, but will have to let go of the ministry because of the new appointment.

Farooq H. Naek received an MA in Economics from University of Karachi and LLB from Sindh Muslim Law College. He is a career lawyer who served as Assistant Director, Directorate of Labour and Social Welfare, Government of Sindh in 1971. He then was a Civil Judge and First Class Magistrate from 1971 to 1975. He also served as Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan from 1994 to 1996 in the second Benazir Bhutto government.

Naek enrolled as Advocate of local court in 1970, advocate of high court in 1976, and of Supreme Court in 1990. He resigned from the judicial service after serving as civil judge for two years and became an active member of the PPP in the mid-1970's.

Although, Naek was actively associated with the PPP for three decades, he never shot into prominence and earned the limelight only when he fought the corruption and criminal cases against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari during Pervez Musharraf's rule in and out of Pakistan. It was during these extremely difficult years of Mr. Zardari that Naek earned his trust. Before and after becoming the President of Pakistan, Zardari always consulted him on legal matters and other issues.

He later became a Senator from Karachi, Sindh in 2003 for a period of six years.
(Source: Wikipedia)