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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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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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