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Parvin Etesami

Birth:1907

Death:1941

A modern Iranian poetess who wrote mainly on the exploitation of the poor and downtrodden.

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin

Parvin Shakir

Birth:1952

Death:1994

Pakistani Urdu poet. Parvin, a Fulbright scholar, has left behind four collections of Urdu poetry. Parvin Shakir was born in Karachi and she died of a car crash in Islamabad.

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin

Paula Abdul

Birth:1962

Death:

A famous American singer and choreographer and did choreography for Jackson's singing group and others.

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin

Perween Warsi

Birth:1956

Death:

Bussinesswoman Perween set up a tiny business supplying ready made meals in Derby in 1986. The business grew rapidly and last knowning annually reporting to turnover of £70 million and employing 600 people. Perween the UK's richest Asian woman was awarded an MBE in 1997. Perween Warsi was born ...

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan

Pir Muhammad Karam Shah

Birth:1918

Death:1998

Pir Muhammad was the Principal, for forty years, of the famous college, Muhammadia Ghousia, in Bhera, Pakistan. He was one of the greatest authorities on Islam, known popularly as Zia-ul Ummat (luminary of the Ummah). He was the head of the great Chisti tariqah with ...

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Piri Reis

Birth:1470

Death:1547

Ottoman admiral and cartographer whose major text Kitab-I-Bahriya is a collection of navigational charts and sailing instructions.

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin

Pasha Al Mallah

Birth:1856

Death:1930

Syrian politician and Statesman Al Mallah held several appointments in Aleppo under the Turks including president of the Mixed Commercial Court and Mudir al-Awqaf. He represented Aleppo in the Ottoman Parliament of 1908. Pasha Al Mallah was elected deputy speaker of the Syrian Congress (1919 - 1920), and ...

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Amr Al Mallah

Pir Sadruddin

Birth:15th century

Death:

The founder of the Khoja sect in India.

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin

Parvin Paidar

Birth:1949

Death:2005

Iranian writer and campaigner intent on combining feminism with Islam After 1979 Iranian revolution Parvin became a founder member, in London, of the influential feminist Persian language journal 'Nimeyeh Digar' - a voice to women both in the West and in Iran. She demanded that feminism ...

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Pervez Shahidi

Birth:1910

Death:1968

Urdu poet devoted to progressive writings. In his collection of verses 'Taslees-I-Hayat', Pervez Shahidi, who has almost been forgotten by the readers of Urdu, shows excellence of his brilliance. A sought after poet Pervez Shahidi frequently visited the length and breath of South Asia in ...

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Pervez Musharraf

Birth:1944

Death:

Pakistan's former president who alienated huge sections of his own population in pursuit of Washington's approval and friendship. Gen Musharraf who seized power in bloodless coup, in 1999, was head of Pakistan's armed forces when he forced the country's elected prime minister, Nawab Sharif, disgraced with ...

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Perihan Magden

Birth:1960

Death:

Turkey's wittiest and most controversial female columnist Turkey's columnists, like Perihan Magden, whose fiery outbursts, her combative independence and her steely conscience, are as important in shaping of public opinion as its news editors. Her writings have earned her a long string of public and ...

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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan