Important Personalities

Maulana Tariq Jameel

maulanaMaulana Tariq Jameel (born in October, 1953) is a Pakistani Islamic television preacher, religious writer, scholar. His sermons incorporate a wide range of issues of Islam and social concerns. He especially emphasizes on self-rectification, self-accountability, honesty in social life, avoidance of violence, observance of Allah’s commands, and the following of the teachings and the model of life as suggested by the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

Ghulam Haider Wayen

haider Ghulam Haider Wayen (born in 1940) was a well-known politician of Pakistan. He was former Chief Minister of Punjab (1990 - 1993). He was brutally murdered near Mian Channu while doing the rounds of his election campaign in 1993.

Tasawar Hayat

tasawur Tasawar Hayat (born in January, 1969) is a Pakistani mathematician who has made pioneering research contributions to the area of mathematical fluid mechanics. He is considered one of the leading mathematicians working in Pakistan and currently is a Professor of Mathematics at the Quaid-i-Azam University. Born in Khanewal, Hayat received his early education from there. He is an alumnus of University of Islamabad, better known as Quaid-i-Azam University, where he received BSc in mathematics in 1988. With his bachelor's degree, he secured a silver medal, awarded by the university's board of graduation.

Har Gobind Khorana

har Har Gobind Khorana was born to Krishna Devi Khorana and Ganpat Rai Khorana, in Raipur, a village in Khanewal, Punjab. Indian-American biochemist who won Nobel Prize for his research in RNA. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.