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Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو, Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, IPA: [beːnəziːɾ bɦʊʈːoː]) (June 21, 1953 – December 27, 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman...

Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرويز مشرف) (IPA: /ˈpəɹ.vɛz muˈʃɑɹ.əf/) NI, HI (born August 11, 1943) is the current and twelveth President of Pakistan. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Pakistan as well as former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan...

Altaf Hussain, founder and leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), was born on September 17, 1953 in the port city of Karachi. His father Nazir Hussain and his mother Khurshid Begum both belonged to a religious family of Aghra, a...

Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر , born 19 January 1977 in Multan, Punjab) is a Pakistani politician and member of parliament who has been Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs since 13 February 2011. Hina Rabbani Khar is the...

Girija Prasad Koirala (Nepali: गिरिजा प्रसाद कोइराला  Listen (help·info); 1925 – 20 March 2010) was a former Nepalese Prime Minister, politician and the President of the Nepali Congress, a major political party. He was Prime Minister of Nepal for four...

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (Bengali: প্রণব কুমার মুখোপাধ্যায় born December 11, 1935, West Bengal, India) is the current Finance Minister of India and leader of the current (15th) Lok Sabha.

Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev (born 30 December 1971) was the heir-apparent to the throne of Nepal from 2001 until the monarchy was abolished by the Interim Constituent Assembly in 2008 following Constituent Assembly elections.

Azam Tariq is a spokesperson for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The TTP chose him as its spokesman after his predecessor, Maulvi Umar, was detained by Pakistani authorities in August 2009.

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (Pashto: أحمد أفتاب خان شرباو) (Urdu: آفتاب احمد خان شیر پائو ) (born August 20, 1944) is the head of Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) and was the 35th Federal Interior Minister of Pakistan. Prior to this...

Dr. Ram Baran Yadav was born in 4 February 1948 and is the current President of Nepal. He was born on 4 February 1948 in the small village of Sapahi in Dhanusha district in south-eastern Nepal and was the fourth...