PTI leaders have
an edge that they are international figure. Almost all the major
members have foreign links and many has served in foreign companies.
A lot of them got their education abroad. The party members share a
common thing that they have done jobs abroad or were educated abroad.
Here is a brief description of a few members.
The
Chairman Imran Khan
Khan
was born in Lahore on
5 October 1952. Some
reports suggest he was born 25 November 1952.[15]The
only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his wife
Shaukat Khanum.Long
settled in Mianwali in
northwestern Punjab,
his paternal family are of Pashtun ethnicity
and belong to the Niazi tribe.
A
quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four sisters in
relatively affluent (upper middle-class) circumstances[23] and
received a privileged education. He was educated at Aitchison
College in
Lahore and the Royal
Grammar School Worcester in
England, where he excelled at cricket.
In 1972 he enrolled in Keble
College, Oxford where
he studied Philosophy,
Politics and Economics,
graduating with honours in 1975.[24] On
16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima
Goldsmith,
in a two-minute ceremony conducted in Urdu in
Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil
ceremony at
the Richmond registry
office in England. Jemima converted to Islam. The couple have two
sons, Sulaiman Isa and Kasim.
Asad
Omer
He
joined Exxon
Chemical Pakistan in 1985[5] as
a business analyst and was based in Canada.
He was the only Pakistani employee of the company.[6]
In
1997 was appointed the first CEO of Engro Polymer and Chemicals, the
petrochemical company of the group.[6]
Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi
Kundi
had been active in community politics for over a decade. He became a
member of the constitutional review committee of the Pakistan
Association of Greater Houston (PAGH). He was actively involved in
the election campaign of MJ Khan to become elected member of city
council of Houston, which is the fifth largest city in the US. He has
written speeches and advised politicians on their election campaigns.
Abid
Hassan Minto
Abid
Hassan Minto aka Abid Minto (Urdu: عابد
حسن منٹو)
(born 3 February 1932) is a constitutional expert and senior lawyer
of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and president of the Awami
Workers Party.
He is also a literary critic and a leftwing civic and political
leader. His legal career spans over 50 years during which he was
elected member of the Pakistan
Bar Council from
1966 up to 1983; President, Lahore High Court Bar Association
(1982);[1] Chairman,
National Coordination Committee of Lawyers (1981 to 1985) and
President, Supreme
Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBA)
(1997 to 1999).[2] Minto
has also been affiliated with the International Association of
Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in which he was elected vice-president at
its Barcelona Congress
(1990) and Bureau Member at its Cape
Town Congress
(1995). He was professor of law at the Law College of the Punjab
University (Punjab
University Law College)
1963 to 1983.
Fauzia
Kasuri
Fauzia
Kasuri was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She studied at the Karachi
American School and St
Joseph's College,
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of Karachi.
She later joined the MBA program at the University
of North Carolina,
studying economics and statistics.
Firdous
Shamim Naqvi
Naqvi
holds Masters in Highway Design and Materials and Masters in
Construction Management from University
of Michigan and
Bachelor in Civil Engineering from NED
University of Engineering and Technology.
He has served for four times on the Central Executive Committee of
Association of Builders and Developers.
Chaudhry
Mohammad Sarwar
Chaudhry
Mohammad Sarwar (Urdu: محمد
سرور;
born 18 August 1952) is a Pakistani and formerly British politician
who served as Governor
of Punjab,
from 2 August 2013 until his resignation on 29 January 2015.[1]Sarwar
is currently affiliated with Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf.[2] and
now is PTI's Punjab Organiser. He previously served as a member of
the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Born
in Faisalabad,
Sarwar moved to Scotland in the early 1970s where he emerged as a
successful businessman operating a chain of cash and carry stores
which helped him build an estimated personal worth of £16
million.[3] Sarwar
served as Labour Member
of Parliament for Glasgow
Central from
1997 to 2010 and retired from British politics in 2010. During his
time at Westminster he
served on the Scottish
Affairs Select Committee,
while his son Anas
Sarwar served
as MP for the same seat.
Shireen
Mehrunnisa Mazari
Shireen
Mehrunnisa Mazari (Urdu: شیرین
مہرالنساء مزاری)
is a Pakistani politician who is currently a member of the National
Assembly of Pakistan and
serves as a chief whip for Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Mazari
studied at the London
School of Economics and
later received her PhD from Columbia
University in
political science. Mazari joined Quaid-e-Azam
University as
an associate professor and later moved to head the university's
strategic studies department. Mazari became the head of the
government-funded The
Institute of Strategic Studies and
remained until she was sacked in 2008. In 2009, Mazari became the
editor of the The
Nation.
Ali
Asghar Khan
Ali
Asghar Khan was born in Karachi,
the second son of Air
MarshalAsghar
Khan and
Amina Shamsie. His father was recognised as man of principles in
Pakistani politics.[1][2] His
brother Omar
Asghar Khan[3] was
also a politician, social activist and development
practitioner.[4][5]
Khan
received his early education from Habib Public School Karachi
and Abbottabad
Public School.
An architect by trade,[6] he
got his professional education from the Royal
Institute of British Architects, U.K.
Andleeb
Abbas
Andleeb
is a Certified FranklinCovey Master
Trainer and also the first Pakistani to become a certified Results
Coaching Systems (RCS) Coach which is accredited by International
Coaching Federation, the largest worldwide resource for professional
coaches. She was also a certified trainer for British
Council and
American Management Association as well as Management Association of
Pakistan. In 2002 she participated and facilitated the strategic
planning workshop of the social development division of the World
Bank.
She was the only Pakistani to be declared as one of the top 30
Strategic Thinkers in the world by the World Bank[7] Washington
DC social development department, and consequently was invited to
assist the World Bank in preparing their next 10 year strategic plan.
Andleeb
has consulted with top development sector institutions. She was HR
capacity building consultant to UNDP Pakistan,
Institutional analysis and training consultant for World
Bank project
on institutional reforms in the irrigation and power department of
Punjab province, World Bank consultant to Pakistan poverty
alleviation project, Asian
Development Bank capacity
building and training consultant, project management assessment
consultant to DFID,
European commission consultant on teacher training for madrassas in
Pakistan, capacity building consultant to UNDP and World Bank PMSP
Punjab middle schooling project – institutional assessment
consultant.
Ashraf
Jehangir Qaz
Ashraf
Jehangir Qazi (born
1942) is a politician from Pakistan.
He was selected as a spokesman of Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf in
2013. He has also served several national and international jobs.
In
2007, Qazi was appointed as a special representative of UN
Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon in
Sudan. He completed his tenure in Sudan in 2010. Between 2004 and
2007, he was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in
charge of the United
Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq.[1]
Between
2002 and 2004, Qazi was Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.
Before that he was Pakistan's High Commissioner to India since 1997
and ambassador to Syria (1986–88), East Germany (1990–91), Russia
(1991–94), and later to China (1994–97).[2] While
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, he served as
director of East Asia (1975–1978), director-general for Policy
Planning and Afghanistan (1982–1986) and Additional Foreign
Secretary for Policy Planning, Afghanistan, Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe (1988–1990). He also has had diplomatic assignments
in Copenhagen,
Tokyo, Cairo, Tripoli and
London. He is half Irish. His mother, Jennifer
Musa,
was from County
Kerry in
Ireland. She lived until her death in Pishin, Balochistan,
Pakistan. His father's name is Qazi Musa.
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