Shakeeb Hamdard

Shakeeb Hamdard

Shekeb Hamdard was born as Ahmad Shekeb, is a well-known singer of Afghanistan. He is of ethnic Hazara and currently continues his music career from United States. He is the first winner of Afghan Star, a TV reality show in Afghanistan.

Early life

He migrated to Pakistan at the early age due to the civil war. After the September 11 attacks, under new Afghan government, he returned and joined Habibia High School of Kabul.

Career

Hamdard's musical career started after he won the first ever musical reality TV show in 2005. The Afghan Star is the Afghan version of American Idol which is broadcast by Tolo TV with financial support of Roshan Telecommunications. After the show a super hit single Gul Dana Dana was in market by Shakeeb Hamdard. Later, he signed up with Bardburd Music which released his first album Mashallah.

Personal life

He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. His father has died. He has always appreciated the support and loyalty from his supporters from all around the world. He has always been proud where he belongs to which is Dara e Turkman, a valley in parwan province which the people are called Turkmani, but they are considered Hazaras in general

General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara

General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara  (1908–1991), was the fourth Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army (1958–1966). He succeeded Field Marshal Ayub Khan, who took over the Presidency of Pakistan in the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état. After retirement from the Pakistan Army, he served as fourth Governor of the erstwhile West Pakistan Province (1966 to 1969) and the tenth Governor of Balochistan Province (1985 to 1991). He died in office as Governor of Balochistan in 1991.

Early life and military career

He was the eldest son of Sardar Yazdan Khan, born in a Muslim, Hazara family hailing from Quetta, Pakistan. Khan was from the Sardar family of the Hazara tribe. Musa Khan was initially recruited to the British Indian Army as a 'Jawan' or Sepoy at the age of 18 in 1926. He was a "Naik" (junior non-commissioned officer) in the 4th Hazara Pioneers when he was selected to train at the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun as a cadet in October 1932. He was commissioned with the first batch of the cadets as a Second Lieutenant (Indian Commissioned Officer) on 1 February 1935. He was posted to the 6th Royal Battalion of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles as a Platoon Commander in 1936. He took part in the Waziristan Operations in 1936–1938 and in World War II. He was assigned to lead the 'D' Company. He was mentioned in dispatches for "distinguished services in the Middle East during the period February to July 1941" in the London Gazette 30 December 1941 as a Lieutenant & acting Major. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) in the London Gazette 16 April 1942 for "gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period July to October 1941". He was then serving as a Captain and temporary Major. He was serving with the Machine Gun battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles by October 1942. Following the partition of India, he opted for the Pakistan Army in 1947.

Senior appointments

He served with distinction in the Pakistani Army and rose to the rank of the commander in chief of Pakistani Armed Forces during President Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan's regime (1958–1969). His promotion to commander-in-chief (he succeeded Field Marshal Ayub Khan) saw suppression of seniors: Major General Sher Ali Khan Pataudi, Major General Latif Khan and Major General Adam, all Sandhurst graduates of 1933.

Political career

After General Musa retired from the army, President Ayub Khan appointed him as the Governor of West Pakistan from 1967 to 1969. After serving for a few years, he retired and settled in Karachi. In 1985, appointed as the Governor of Balochistan by the then President General Zia-ul-Haq. In 1988 Governor General Musa dissolved the provincial assembly on the then Chief Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali's advice. However, the Balochistan High Court restored the assembly amid public condemnation of Governor's move. The step towards dissolving the assembly was believed to have been taken with the consent of the President and Prime.

Career with Pakistan Army

General Mohammed Musa commanded the Army in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and had overall responsibility for operations throughout the conflict. As Army Chief, he was criticised for not anticipating an assault across the international border. However he was given credit for blunting the Indian offensive towards Sialkot during the Battle of Chawinda. He has narrated the events and experiences of the war in his book "My Version". In the book he has given accounts of the secret war that was going on in Kashmir between the two countries, long before the real war actually began.

General Muhammad Musa is the author of his autobiography, Jawan to General in which he describes his lifetime experiences from a simple foot-soldier rising to become a general.

Dr: Sima Samar

Sima Samar was (born 3 February 1957) is a well-known woman’s and human rights advocate, activist and a social worker within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003. She is currently the Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and, since 2005, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan. In 2011, she was part of the newly founded Justice party 

Early life and education

Samar was born in Jaghori, in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan, on 3 February 1957. She belongs to the ethnic Hazara. She obtained her degree in medicine in February 1982 Kabul University. She practiced medicine at a government hospital in Kabul, but after a few months was forced to flee for her safety to her native Jaghori, where she provided medical treatment to patients throughout the remote areas of central Afghanistan. She was an active member Hazara group under the leadership of Baba ghts in Afghanistan; she is head of human rights commission in Afghanistan. Baba Mazari was a remarkable supporter of Women Rights.

Career

In 1984, the communist regime arrested her husband, and Samar and her young son fled to neighboring Pakistan. She then worked as a doctor at the refugee branch of the Mission Hospital. Distressed by the total lack of health care facilities for refugee women, she established in 1989 the Shuhada Organization and Shuhada Clinic in Quetta, Pakistan. The Shuhada Organization was dedicated to the provision of health care to Afghan women and girls, training of medical staff and to education. In the following years further branches of the clinic/hospital were opened throughout Afghanistan.

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hazara people

Hazara people make up the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, where they mainly inhabit the Hazarajat region, as well as parts of Pakistani Balochistan. The Hazaras in abroad are counted as Afghan nationals by the Government of Pakistan and the UNHCR, and some are living in these countries on temporary bases as refugees. In addition, other number of Hazaras have immigrated to Iran, Australia, Europe, and North in the last several decades also as part of these two intertwined diasporean groupings, as part of the Hazara and wider Afghan diaspora. Below is the list of some notable Hazara people.