# List of University of Karachi alumni

This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar
* Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher
* Rukhsana Ahmad – writer, playwright, and translator
* Afaq Ahmed – leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan
* Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure
* Riaz Ahsan – professor and former president of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association
* Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford
* Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations
* Ahmed Ali – co-founder of Progressive Writers Movement & Association; novelist; short story writer; critic; translator; diplomat; scholar
* Sohail Aman – Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force
* Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies
* Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
* Shakil Auj – Scholar of Islamic Studies and founder of Al-Tafseer Welfare Trust
* Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan; former Citibank executive officer

## B

* Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist
* Maula Bakhsh – captain of Pakistan national football team
* Anmol Baloch – television actress and model
* Sanam Baloch – television actress
* Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist

## D

* Noon Meem Danish – poet
* Joseph R. D'Cruz – professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management
* Quentin D'Silva – former chairman and chief executive, Shell Pakistan Limited

## F

* Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster
* Tarek Fateh – writer, novelist, columnist, author
* Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics

## G

* Khalida Ghous – scholar of international relations and human rights; activist

## H

* Husain Haqqani – Pakistan's ambassador to the United States
* Hussain Haroon – Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations
* Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert
* Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan
* Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
* Nehal Hashmi – Senator, General secretary PML-N Sindh
* Mehwish Hayat – model
* Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet
* Abdul Rasheed Hussain – Maldivian politician and public figure
* Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement

## I

* Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer

## J

* Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature
* Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi; MQM leader
* Sana Javed – actress and model, best known for blockbuster drama Khaani

## K

* Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
* Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan; exchange student in the early 1970s
* Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects
* Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan

## L

* Anthony Theodore Lobo – Roman Catholic bishop

## M

* Rehman Malik – senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan
* A. C. Matin – microbiologist and immunologist
* Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
* Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
* Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer
* Gholam Mujtaba – politician and Pakistani American
* Waheed Murad – film actor

## N

* Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister
* Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist
* Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England
* Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer

## P

* Zinia Pinto – principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963 to 1999

## Q

* Muhammad Ahmed Qadri – Islamic scholar and political scientist, founder of Islamic Educational and Cultural Research Center
* Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi

## R

* Raza Rabbani – senator
* Atta ur Rahman – chairman of HEC; director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
* Raheel Raza – author
* Nisha Rao – lawyer and activist

## S

* Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist
* Faisal Sabzwari – deputy parliamentary leader of MQM
* Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News
* Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
* Rashid Minhas Shaheed – PAF Officer; received Nishan-e-Haider
* Parveen Shakir – Urdu poet, teacher, civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
* Bina Shaheen Siddiqui
* Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic
* Naweed Syed - inventor of the neurochip
* Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
* Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
* Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
* Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960 to 1962

## T

* Atif Tauqeer – journalist, poet, writer and vlogger

## U

* Muhammad Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar; served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

## W

* Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party
* Raees Warsi – poet; author; founder and president of Urdu Markaz New York

## Z

* Muhammad Ziauddin – Pakistani journalist, economist and historian