Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee

Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (Urdu: شان الحق حقی‎), Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam, was a notable Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer of Pakistan.

Born in Delhi, Haqqee acquired his BA from Aligarh Muslim University. He obtained a Master’s in English literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.^{[citation needed]} His father, Ehtashamuddin Haqqee, wrote short stories, a study of Hafez, Tarjuman-ul-Ghaib, a translation of Diwan-i-Hafiz in verse and compiled a dictionary.^{[citation needed]}

Haqqee recited his first ghazal at an annual poetic gathering of St. Stephen’s College

Haqqee published two anthologies of poems, Tar-i-Pairahan (1957) and Harf-i-Dilras (1979). He also published ghazals under the title, Dil ki Zaban.

His other publications include:

• Naqd-o-Nigarish (a work of literary criticism)
• Maqalaat-e-Mumtaz
• Shaakhsaanay (Short Stories)
• Maqam-e-Ghazal (edited work of Hafiz Hoshiarpuri)
• Nashid-i-Hurriyat
• Nukta-e-Raz
• Bhagvad Gita (Urdu translation)
• Darpan Darpan (translated poetry from various languages)
• Intikhab-e-Kalam-e-Zafar
• Qitaat-e-Tareekh-e-Wafat-e-Ahle-Qalam-wa-Mutaliqeen-e-Ahle-Qalam
• Lisani Masail-o-Lataif
• Nazr-e-Khusro Pahelian Keh Mukarniyan
• Aaeena-e-Afkar-e-Ghalib
• Nok Jhonk
• Suhaanay Taraanay
• Phool Khilay Hain Rung Birnagay
• Anjaan Rahi (translation of Jack Shaffer’s novel Shane)
• Teesri Duniya (translation of essays on politics and economy)
• Soor-i-Israfeel (translation of Bengali poet Qazi Nazrul Islam)
• Khayabaan-e-Pak (anthology of Pakistan’s folk poetry of about 40 poets)

His autobiography was serialized in the Urdu journal Afkaar. He also translated Shakespeare‘s Antony and Cleopatra and Chanakya Kautilya’s Arthashastra.

He also wrote other genres of poetry, such as Peheylian, Kehmukarnian, and Qitat-i-Tareekhi.

As a lexicographer

In addition to his regular professional duties, he remained associated with the Urdu Dictionary Board for 17 years from 1958 to 1975, compiling a 22-volume dictionary.^{[citation needed]} He compiled two other dictionaries. Farhang-e-Talaffuz is a pronouncing dictionary of Urdu published by the National Language Authority. The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary is a translation of the eighth and ninth editions of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to libraries in South Asia, some of Haqqee’s books are found in the Library of Congress and the University of Toronto Library.^{[citation needed]}

Death

He died from complications of lung cancer in Mississauga, Canada on October 11, 2005.^{[citation needed]} He was 87. Haqqee left five sons and one daughter. Like his wife, teacher Salma Haqqee, who died exactly two years earlier, he was buried in Toronto, Canada.^{[citation needed]}.^{[citation ne}

Munir Hussain

Munir Hussain (November 29, 1929 – July 29, 2013) was an Pakistani cricketer who played for Kalat. He was born in Amritsar, British Raj, present day India. He was the founder of the first Urdu cricket magazine, Akhbar-e-Watan.^[1]

Hussain made a single first-class appearance, during the 1969-70 Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, against Quetta — captaining the side. From the middle order, he scored 10 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and two runs in the second, in a match which Kalat lost by an innings margin.

Death

Hussain died on July 29, 2013 of a cardiac arrest in Karachi, Pakistan.^[2] Acting chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Najam Sethi said, “He was an informed, easygoing and affable personality; his death will be widely mourned by the journalist and broadcast community as well as the cricketing fraternity across the country”.^[2]

Civil Hospital Karachi

Civil Hospital Karachi is a 1900-bed tertiary care public hospital that imparts both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the Dow Medical College^[1] now the Dow University of Health Sciences. Civil Hospital Karachi is arguably the largest teaching hospital of Pakistan, catering not only to all areas of the province of Sindh but also the neighboring province of Balochistan as well.

Historical background

The Civil Hospital Karachi was founded in 1898 in the wake of a third pandemic of Bubonic Plague on the one hand, and the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria on the other. The pandemic would kill at least an estimated 10 million people in India alone over a period of 20 years. It is important to mention the status of Karachi at that time. Being the port city, Karachi was the business, military and nerve center of Sindh right from the start. Towards the close of the nineteenth century, Karachi emerged as the cleanest city towards this side of the Suez Canal, with an estimated population of 105,000 which continued to grow in view of its strategic importance. Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India visited Civil Hospital Karachi in 1900 and unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria. The plaque is placed in the same spot, which was initially a nursing school and subsequently transformed into a state-of-the-art Burns Center in what is known till today as the Victoria Block or the Jubilee Block, while the entire building is heritage-protected by the provincial Department of Culture allowing for repairs and renovation but eschewing any structural change in its original design. The Civil Hospital Karachi continued to function efficiently until independence as the principal hospital of Karachi and received tremendous impetus after 1945 when the then Governor of Sindh Sir Hugh Dow transferred the medical school provisionally recognized by the Bombay University from Hyderabad to Karachi and laid the foundation of the Dow Medical College in its present location on 10th December 1945, with the Civil Hospital Karachi attached to it as a teaching hospital. The creation of a new state of Pakistan brought with it the need for a massive relief and rehabilitation efforts for hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring in from India and addressing all their basic needs including health needs through a largely inadequate and unprepared system. A visitor’s book maintained during the late fifties and early sixties indicates that the Civil Hospital Karachi was frequented by several dignitaries such as government ministers, ambassadors and eminent personalities visiting Pakistan. A 1961 entry by Lady Bird Johnson then spouse of the Vice President of the USA is particularly revealing: It reads: “This has been a visit both heart-breaking and rewarding. My hat is off to you women doctors!” ^[2] This indicates that health care professionals have been up against tremendous odds over the last few decades.

Organization and management

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Karachi became the capital of the new state, both the medical college and its teaching hospital came under the jurisdiction of the provincial government of Sindh (or West Pakistan from 1955–1970). Initially after independence, Col Aziz K M Khan, Principal of Dow Medical College was made administrator of the Civil Hospital Karachi. However in 1949, the post was bifurcated in view of its growing workload, and Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi was named as the first Medical Superintendent of the hospital. He established a system of good governance in the hospital and was assisted by a team of senior academicians and hospital administrators prior to his posting as Director Health Services Sindh a few years later. Over the years a few other administrators such as Prof Mahmud Ali Shah and Prof S H Rahimtoola were assigned both the positions of Principal Dow Medical College and Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Karachi in an effort to better coordinate the functions on the campus. However after the upgradation of the Dow Medical College into the Dow University of Health Sciences a few years ago, there is a clear cut demarcation between the hospital’s academic and administrative responsibilities. Prof M Saeed Quraishy is the current Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Karachi.

Services

Initially established in 1898 with 250 beds to provide basic health facilities, the hospital has expanded considerably and has been totally transformed over the years. Its 1900 beds are located in 34 department, with over a dozen major operation theaters and a huge out patient attendance. Greater stress is being laid on public-private partnerships and preventive work notably in the Paediatrics department to avert unnecessary infant and child deaths due to pneumonia, malnutrition, diarrhea or vaccine-preventable illnesses. Measures are also in place to prevent and control major communicable diseases such as Tuberculosis, Malaria, viral Hepatitis B & C and HIV/AIDS, in addition to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancers having a huge burden in Pakistan. Today as Karachi is a sprawling mega-city with a population estimated at 14 million divided into 18 major towns, the Civil Hospital Karachi lives on to tell two tales in the same city. The services of this tertiary care institution has kept in line with the latest technological advances as far as that is compatible with the situation in a low-income developing country. Sophisticated laboratory and radiographical procedures, investigations and examinations are performed totally free to benefit the poor patients attending the hospital. An average of two million out-patients report to the hospital annually; 95% of which are non-affording patients entailing a huge cost on medicines, laboratory facilities and other logistics.

Departments

The clinical departments of the hospital include Internal Medicine, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Cardiac Surgery, Oncology, Radiology, General Surgery, Neuro Surgery and Laboratory Civil Hospital is proving all the services and facilities in one premise. The first state-of-the-art Burns unit has also been established in this hospital. The department of surgery comprises six general surgical units besides the specialties of neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology, vascular surgery, maxillo-facial surgery and plastic surgery. The department of medicine comprises five general medicine units, 60 beds each. Other specialties includes Cardiology, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Neurology and Nephrology. The Department of Paediatrics has three units with a DTU (Diarrhea Treatment Unit). The Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics is divided into three units, having facilities of labour room and Operation Theatre. The Emergency department has several sections including an Operation Theatre and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, which are functional around the clock for use in case of mass disasters.^[3] All the units function independently.

The Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases

The Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD), is located in Karachi, became functional on June 3, 2005. It is the second cardiac care facility of the metropolis after the National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD). The institute, having 120 beds, would initially have an outpatient department (OPD), besides three laboratories and several diagnostic equipment for Electro-Cardio Gram (ECG), X-Rays, Exercise Tolerance Test (ETT), Echo Doppler studies, angiography, cardiac catheterization and angioplasty.

 

As compared to the other hospitals of the city, the KIHD will be charging considerably less for the facilities provided and the tests carried out there. For instance, a patient having angiography at the new institute would be charged only PKR 3,000, as compared to about PKR 10,000 at the NICVD and PKR 25,000 at the private ones.

Similarly, those having angioplasty at the KIHD would be charged PKR 35,000 in case of one stent and PKR 50,000 for double stents. A patient is charged at least PKR 125,000 for single-stent angioplasty in other hospitals.

 

As far as OPD charges are concerned it would be only PKR 100 (with ECG), while echo-cardiography and ETT tests would be conducted for PKR 300 each. Already, one angioplasty and three angiography cases have been performed at the institute.

Spread out over an area of 3.6 acres (15,000 m²), the KIHD is located on the old campus of Karachi Medical and Dental College in Federal B Area’s block 16. It is the same place where a maternity home was inaugurated by Begum Nusrat Bhutto in 1974. The maternity home was later turned into an educational institution.

The institute, which would shortly be equipped with a thallium scanning unit, would be providing teaching/training facilities to the under- and postgraduate trainees, for which it would be affiliated with Karachi University as well as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK), had spent about PKR 800 million on the project, adding that the amount was used for renovation of the old building and purchase of the required equipment.

Javed Miandad

Mohammad Javed Miandad (Urdu: محمد جاوید میانداد) (born 12 June 1957), popularly known as Javed Miandad (Urdu: جاوید میانداد), is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1975 and 1996. He is Pakistan’s leading run scorer in Test cricket. ESPNcricinfo described him as “the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced”.^[1] He has served as a captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He is widely known for – his historic last ball big sixer against India in 1986, when 4 runs were required to win – winning an international game in that fashion for the first time.^[2] After his playing career, he has remained the coach of Pakistan cricket team at various occasions, as well as held positions in the Pakistan Cricket Board. He had three coaching stints with the Pakistan national team

Early life

Javed Miandad was born on 12 June 1957 in Karachi.^[4] His parents moved from Palanpur, Gujarat, India.^{[citation needed]} Javed Miandad is a Tyagi (Muslim).^[5] Cricket was his family game.^[4] He had three brothers play first-class cricket in Pakistan: Anwar Miandad, Sohail Miandad and Bashir Miandad.^[6][7][8] His nephew, Faisal Iqbal, is also a Test cricketer.^[9]

International career

Test career

Miandad made his Test debut against New Zealand at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on 9 October 1976. He scored 163 in this match, to become the youngest player at the time to do so at an age of 19 years and 119 days.^[10] In the same series he scored a double century, and on his way broke George Headley’s 47-year record, to become the youngest player to achieve the feat.^[11]

Pakistan first Test captain, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, when saw the young batsman during 70s, famously predicted Miandad “the find of the decade”.^[1] His inclusion in the Pakistan team was itself an achievement. A formidable batting line-up of Majid Khan, Sadiq Muhammad, Zaheer Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Mushtaq Muhammad and Wasim Raja was hard to break into, but Miandad’s raw talent made it possible and he become an integral part of Pakistan’s strong batting line.

Javed Miandad played 124 Test matches, batting in 189 innings. His aggregate of 8,832 Test runs is a Pakistani record. Even though his test career spanned 17 years, he failed to make it into the top-most category of batsmen with test aggregates of over 10,000 runs.^[1][12] Miandad’s 23 centuries and 43 fifties were Pakistani national records, until they were broken by Inzamam-ul-Haq. Miandad’s Test career batting average of 52.57 is currently the highest for Pakistani batsmen. He scored six double centuries which is the most by a Pakistani and 6th overall. He has honour of scoring centuries in both innings in the 100th test match against New Zealand.^[13] He made his highest score of 280 not out against India.Pakistan went on to win that match by an innings and 119 runs.^[14]

Miandad scored a Test century in his first match against India at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, in 1978.^[15] With 154 not out in the match, he completed his first 1,000 Test runs at the age of 21 years and 126 days.^[16] This was his 23rd innings and 14th match. He scored 2,000 Test runs in 42 innings for which he took 24 matches. He also scored centuries in the each innings of a Test match, 104 and 103 not out, against New Zealand at the Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, in November 1984.^[17] He scored six double centuries which are the most by a Pakistan batsman.^[16]

In 1992, during the Pakistan tour to England, he scored 153 not out in the first Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham.^[18] From then to his retirement he scored 578 runs, without scoring a century, at the average of 32.11 in 11 Tests. He made only four half-centuries during that period.^[19]

One Day International career

Miandad made his One Day International debut against the West Indies at Edgbaston, Birmingham in the 1975 Cricket World Cup. Interestingly, his last ODI was also a World Cup match, and Pakistan lost the match. More, he scored 2 fours and 0 sixes and his strike rate was below 100 in both of his, first and last ODI innings.^[20][21] His highest ODI score came against India at the Gaddafi Stadium in a match which Pakistan lost in 1982. He scored 119 not out off 77 balls with a strike rate of 154.54 in the match.^[3][22]

Miandad is famously known for last ball six against India during the final of 1986 Austral-Asia Cup. In a great finale, the last over bowled by Chetan Sharma began with 11 runs required. Two wickets fell during the over with Pakistan needing 4 runs and India one wicket from the last ball. Miandad hit the ball, low full-toss from Sharma, for a six into the crowd.^[23] Pakistan recorded their first win at a major tournament and Miandad finished his innings with 116 not out.^[24][25] This is still considered as one of the most historic moments in the history of ODI cricket and he became a national hero.^[3][26][27]

Javed Miandad is the first (and one of the only two, other being Sachin Tendulkar) player to have played in six World Cups, the first six, from 1975 to 1996.

Captaincy

After the retirement of Asif Iqbal following a loss of a series to India, 22 years old Miandad was made the captain of Pakistan.^[28] The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) preferred him over the senior cricketers like Zaheer Abbas, Sarfraz Nawaz, Majid Khan and Wasim Bari who were still playing. He faced a little opposition but his first two series as captain, in 1981/82, included a win against Australia, and a credible 0–1 loss to the West Indies.^[29][30] After a tough tour of Australia, oppostion to his captaincy gained strength, and his first captaincy period ended during the following home series against Sri Lanka.^[31][32]

Coaching and commentary

As a coach, Javed Miandad guided Pakistan to test victories in the Asian Test Championship and in India during 1998–99 season, when Wasim Akram was captain. Miandad also later assisted with coaching Pakistani batsmen.^[33]

Following this he was offered broadcasting and coaching positions in India.^[34] Also in November 2010 it was being planned to give Miandad a role as a batting coach.^[35] Miandad was again appointed as a batting consultant for the 2012 twenty20 World Cup in SriLanka

Personal life

Javed Miandad married Tahira Saigol in 1980. He has two sons and a daughter.His son Junaid Miandad is married to Mahrukh Ibrahim, daughter of Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian born underworld kingpin who currently resides in Pakistan.Miandad told the press that his son and Ibrahim’s daughter met while studying together in the UK.^[36] In 2011, Miandad recorded Naat for Geo TV; his “Sakoon Paya” was well received by his fans but he did not subsequently read any more Naat.^[37].^[3]

Mohsin Hasan Khan

Mohsin Hasan Khan (Urdu: محسن حسن خان; born 15 March 1955, Karachi, Sindh) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 48 Tests and 75 ODIs from 1977 to 1986 mainly as an opening batsman.

Life and career

Playing in this role for Pakistan against India at Lahore in 1982-83, he scored 101 not out of Pakistan’s second-innings total of 135/1. This is the lowest team score in Test cricket to have included a century.^[1]

 

Mohsin was one of a minority of South Asian players to come to terms with conditions in Australia and England, scoring two consecutive centuries in Australia in 1983/4^[2] and becoming the first Pakistani batsman to score a Test double century at Lord’s, which he did earlier in 1982.^[3] He retired from international cricket to pursue a film career.

 

Mohsin later married Bollywood movie star Reena Roy and had a short career as an actor in the Indian film industry. He has since divorced Roy and remarried and lives in Karachi, Pakistan. He has a daughter with Reena Roy, who now lives with her mother in India. He had named his daughter Jannat, but she is now called Sanam.

On 2 March 2010 Mohsin Khan was named Iqbal Qasim‘s successor as chief selector of the Pakistan national cricket team. He accepted the role turned down by fellow one-time opener Saeed Anwar. Mohsin is Pakistan’s fourth chief of selectors in the 12 months of 2009-10.^[4]

Filmography

• 1997 Mahaanta
• 1996 Ghunghat
• 1994 Beta
• 1994 Madam X
• 1993 The Elephant Walk
• 1993 Jannat
• 1992 Laat Saab
• 1991 Saathi
• 1991 Pratikar
• 1991 Gunehgar Kaun
• 1991 Fateh
• 1989 Batwara
• 1992 tyagi

Iqbal Qasim

Mohammad Iqbal Qasim (Urdu: محمد اقبال قاسم‎; born August 6, 1953, Karachi, Sindh) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 50 Tests and 15 ODIs from 1976 to 1988.^[1]

Qasim ended his career with 171 wickets in his 50 Test matches, at approximately 3.5 wickets a match. His accurate bowling saw his economy rate at a low 2.21. He pushed the ball through quicker than normal, not extracting great turn, but deceiving batsmen through variations in pace and trajectory.

 

He is most notable for spinning Pakistan to victory in the 5th Test at Bangalore of the 1987 India-Pakistan series, and thus securing Pakistan’s first series win on Indian soil. He took 9/121, including the key scalp of Sunil Gavaskar for 96 in the last innings of the game.

Iqbal Qasim remained in the shadows of his teammate, leg spinner Abdul Qadir, although his career returns are superior by average and very similar by strike rate.

Saleem Yousuf

Saleem Yousuf (born December 7, 1959) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 32 Tests and 86 ODIs from 1982 to 1990. He was a wicket keeper. He made his highest Test score of 91 not out against England at Edgbaston in 1987. One of his most memorable innings was in a match against the West Indies in the 1987 World Cup, which turned certain defeat into victory for Pakistan.

Post-retirement

After retirement, he served on the Selection Committee for the Pakistan Cricket Board. Now a days he is serving as Principal Appraiser in Pakistan Customs Service.

Saleem Jaffar

Saleem Jaffar (born November 19, 1962) is a retired Pakistani cricketer who played in 14 Tests and 39 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1992. Jaffar was born in Karachi, Sindh.

Jaffar took 5 for 11 on his first-class debut in 1983–84, and in 1985–86 finished the season with 80 wickets at a Bowling average of 19. He made both Test and ODI debuts against West Indies the season of his international call-up. His tour of England in 1987 was ended by injury. Against England at Karachi in 1987–88 he took five wickets and was selected for the tour of the Caribbean that followed. Against New Zealand at Wellington in 1988–89, he took match figures of 8 for 134, including his only Test five-for.

After his test career he played in the British Columbia Mainland Cricket League, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In 2007 he was appointed as a selector for the Pakistan national cricket team.

Tauseef Ahmed

Tauseef Ahmed (born May 10, 1958, Karachi, Sindh) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 34 Tests and 70 ODIs from 1980 to 1993. He sported a trademark afro and moustache for most of his career.

 

Tauseef Ahmed made his debut as a Test player in an unusual manner. He was recommended by a friend to the then Pakistani cricket captain Javed Miandad who invited him to bowl at the nets before the Pakistan-Australia Test match at Karachi in 1980. After Tauseef Ahmed beat Miandad’s bat in the nets he was drafted into the test squad eventually leading to his debut.^[1] Tauseef later admitted that he did not even know the names of the opposing Australian players when he made his debut.^[2]

 

A right arm offbreak bowler he formed an effective partnership with Iqbal Qasim early in his career. When Ahmed made his Test debut, against Australia at Karachi, the two spinners took 18 of the 20 wickets in a 7 wicket win. Ahmed finished with 4/64 and 3/62.

His career best figures of 6 for 45 in the 2nd innings against Sri Lanka at Asgiriya Stadium in 1986. The performance won he the man of the match award. In 1986-87 he played a major role in Pakistan’s 16 run victory over India at Bangalore, taking 9 wickets. The Bangalore test match win marked Pakistan’s first ever test series victory against India in India.