Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890 - January 20, 1988) (Pashto: خان عبدالغفار خان, Hindi: ख़ान अब्दुल ग़फ़्फ़ार ख़ान) was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition to British rule in India. A peaceful life, a devout Muslim and a close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, who was also known as Badshah Khan (also Bacha Khan, Pashto:. The "King Khan") and Sarhaddi Gandhi (Urdu, Hindi lit "Frontier. Gandhi").

It was initially encouraged by her family to join the British Indian army, but the treatment of a British Raj in the sense of a native insulted, and a family decision for him to study in England after it was mother's intervention.

To have witnessed the repeated failure of the revolt against the British Raj, he decided to social activism and reform would be more beneficial for the Pashtuns. This eventually led to the formation of Khudai Khidmatgars movement (servants of God). The success of the movement triggered a severe proceed against him and his disciples, and he was sent into exile. It was at this point in the 1920s, he formed an alliance with Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. This alliance lasted until the 1947 partition of India.

Ghaffar Khan strongly opposed the demand of the Muslim League for the partition of the Indian National Congress India.When accepted the partition plan, he said, "You have thrown to the wolves."

After the partition, Ghaffar Khan was arrested in Pakistan's government is often in part because of its unique Indian and opposed the authoritarian government's moves. She spent most of 1960 and 1970, in prison or in exile.

In 1985 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1987, he became the first person who does not have Indian citizenship can be granted, Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. After his death in 1988, was buried in Jalalabad, in spite of heavy fighting, the war in Afghanistan, both sides declared a cease-fire for his burial.

Fatima Ali Jinnah

Fatima Ali Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah (Urdu: فاطمہ جناح, July 31, 1893 - July 9, 1967) was the youngest sister of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in the movement for independence from the British Empire. It is widely known in Pakistan as Khatun-e Pakistan (Urdu: - "Lady of Pakistan") and Mader-e Millat (". Mother of the Nation") She was born in Karachi (Sindh province in British India, which later became part of Pakistan). She was an instrumental figure in the movement of Pakistan and the main organizer of the All India Students Federation of Muslim Women. After the formation of Pakistan and the death of her brother, she remained an active member of the country's politics. She continued to work for the good of the people of Pakistan in Karachi until his death July 9, 1967.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Gujarati: મુહંમદ અલી જિન્નાહ, Urdu: محمد علی جناح, Sindhi: محمد علي جناح  December 25, 1876 - September 11, 1948) was a 20th century jurist, politician, statesman and founder of Pakistan. And 'officially and popularly known in Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam (urdu: قائد اعظم - "Great Leader") and Baba-e-qaum (بابائے قوم) ("Father of the Nation").

Jinnah served as leader of the League All India Muslim from 1913 until the independence of Pakistan, August 14, 1947, and that Pakistan was the first governor general of August 15, 1947 until his death on 11 September 1948 . Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress first present the ideas of unity between Hindus and Muslims, and help shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, also became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. He proposed a fourteen-point plan for constitutional reform to protect the political rights of Muslims in India, a self-administration.

Jinnah then went into the two-nation theory includes the objective of creating an independent Muslim state in accordance with resolution of Lahore. The League won most Muslim seats in elections in 1946. After the British and the Congress withdrew from the Cabinet Mission Plan Jinnah called for a day of direct action to achieve the formation of Pakistan. This direct action by the Muslim League and its Volunteer Corps has caused massive riots in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus.As the Indian National Congress and Muslim League failed to form a power-sharing in India USA, she prompted both parties and the British to accept the independence of Pakistan and India. As the first governor general of Pakistan, Jinnah led efforts to lay the foundations for the new state of Pakistan to formulate a national policy and the rehabilitation of millions of Muslim refugees who migrated from India.

Jinnah also assumed the role and the title "General protection of the Hindu minority" during the riots between Hindus and Muslims after the 1947th

Jinnah died at age 71 in September 1948, just a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was the great political and ideological leader of India in the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience - a philosophy firmly based on ahimsa or total non-violence - Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom through world.Gandhi often called Mahatma ([TMA məɦa ː ː] Sanskrit. महात्मा Mahatma or "great soul", an award first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) In India, it is also known as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ, Bapu or "Father") and officially honored as the father of the nation. His birthday October 2, remembers India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and the rest of the world as the International Day of Nonviolence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as a foreign lawyer in South Africa, the struggle of the Indian community resident for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915 he began to organize the peasants, farmers and urban workers in protest against the excessive property tax and discrimination. Assuming that the leaders of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to alleviate poverty, increase women's rights, building religious and ethnic friendship, ending untouchability, increased economic autonomy, but also to achieve Swaraj - the independence of India from foreign domination. Famous Gandhi led Indians to protest against British salt tax imposed on 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in the call to the British to leave India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi tried to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with the son she had woven by hand on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of two self-purification and social protest.

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин, IPA: [ʲ im ʲ ʲ im ʲ ɪr vɫɐd vɫɐd ɪtɕ ɪrəv ɪn put ʲ ʲ] (listen), born October 7, 1952) was the second president of the Russian Federation and is current Prime Minister Russia and President United Russia and president Cabinet Union Russia and Belarus. He became acting president 31 December 1999, when President Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprise move. Putin won the presidential elections of 2000 and in 2004 was re-elected for a term lasting until the second May 7, 2008.

Since the term limits constitutional mandate, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term. After the victory of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, the presidential elections in 2008, Putin named Medvedev as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took place May 8, 2008.

Putin is credited with restoring political stability and the rule of law. During his presidency, the Russian economy recovered from the crisis, seeing GDP increase of 72% in PPP (six times in nominal terms), reducing poverty by more than 50% and the average monthly salary increased by $ $ 80 to 640.These achievements are attributed to good macroeconomic management, major reforms in fiscal policy and a confluence of high oil prices, rising capital flows and low-cost access to external finance and have been described as impressive by analysts.

During his presidency, Putin signed a series of fundamental reforms, including an income tax of 13%, a reduction of income tax and the new land and legal codes. At the same time, his conduct in office has been questioned by domestic political opposition, foreign governments and human rights organizations for his strong Russian military leadership to direct the second Chechen war for registration violations of human rights and freedoms as silent force opponents (eg, Mikhail Khodorkovsky) and his alleged intimidation of the former Soviet republics.

Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned those positions in June 2007.

Blair was elected leader of the Labour leadership election in July 1994 after the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party has adopted as "New Labour" and moved away from traditional left his position to the middle. Blair eventually led Labour to a landslide election in 1997. At 43, he became the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the early years of the New Labour Blair government ran a series of 1997 manifesto promises, the introduction of the minimum wage, the Human Rights Act and the Freedom of Information Act, and implementing decentralization, the creation of Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Role of Blair as Prime Minister was particularly evident in foreign policy and security, including in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Since the beginning of the war on terrorism in 2001, Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of President George W. US Bush, including participation in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. The oldest Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair, the only person who directed the work of three consecutive election victories, and the only Labour prime minister to serve consecutive sentences of more than one, there were at least four long years .

He was replaced as leader of the Labour Party 24 June 2007 and as prime minister June 27, 2007 by Gordon Brown. The day he resigned as premier, he was appointed special envoy of the Quartet for the Middle East. In May 2008, Blair launched his Faith Foundation Tony Blair. It was followed in July 2009 at the launch of the Faith and Globalization Initiative at Yale University, the University of Durham in Britain and the National University of Singapore in Asia to offer a graduate program in collaboration with Institute.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin

Sarah Louise Palin ( born Heath, born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. Since the Republican Party named vice president in the presidential election of 2008, it was Alaska first on the national ticket of a major party, and the first Republican woman nominated for vice-president.

It 'was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, Lieutenant Governor after the last success, has been appointed president of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's role is to oversee the state oil and gas fields of safety and efficiency.

The younger woman and the first elected governor of Alaska, Palin in office in December 2006 until his resignation in July 2009. He has since joined the movement itself Tea Party, which supported and fought for several candidates in mid-2010 elections.

His book, Going Rogue has sold over two million copies, and is one of only four political memoirs sold more than one million copies. From January 2010 is also a political commentary on Fox News, and hosted a TV show, Sarah Palin from Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the next episode, record the TLC (TV channel). The documentary, Palin's career undefeated, was released in July 2011.

Sarah Palin is a potential presidential candidate in 2012.

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is a wife of 44 and a well-established in the United States President, Barack Obama, and is the first African American woman before the United States. Raised in Chicago's South Side, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School, before returning to Chicago and work with law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Later, he worked as the staff of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. In 2011, Forbes magazine has chosen Michelle Obama is the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Magazine's Global 100 most powerful women

In 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for the presidential nomination of his party and gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention 2008. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, coach of men's basketball at Oregon State University. As the wife of a senator and later the First Lady, she became a fashion icon and role model for women, awareness and advocate against poverty and healthy eating.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( hɪləri rɒdəm daɪæn klɪntən /, born October 26, 1947) is the 67th U.S. Secretary of State to serve in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a U.S. Senator in New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of 42nd U.S. President, Bill Clinton was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president.

A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham first attracted national attention in 1969 for his intervention as the first speaker begins a student at Wellesley College. He began his career in law degree from Yale Law School in 1973. The Following stints as a lawyer in Congress, he moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. Rodham co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977 and became the first female president of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Appointed the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, has twice been mentioned as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981 and 1983-1992 with her husband Bill as governor, he successfully led the working group to reform the educational system, Arkansas. He sat on the board of Wal-Mart and several other companies.

In 1994, the first lady of the United States, with a major initiative, Clinton health care plan, failed to obtain approval from the U.S. Congress. However, between 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in favor of the creation of the Program of State Children's Health Insurance, Adoption and Safe Families Act and foster care in the Independence Act. The years of the First Lady has a polarized response to the American public. Only First Lady to have been sued, testified to a federal grand jury in 1996, as the Whitewater controversy, but has never been accused of wrongdoing, or several other investigations during her husband's administration. The state of his marriage has been the subject of much speculation after the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

After moving to upstate New York, Clinton was elected U.S. Senator in 2000. This election marked the first time a U.S. woman had a first public office, Clinton was also the first woman senator representing the state. In the Senate, which initially supported the Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, including a vote for the resolution of the Iraq war. Later he opposed the administration's conduct of the war in Iraq and most domestic issues. Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In the race for the 2008 presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton won the primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton became the first former first lady to serve in the office of a president. It has established the institutional changes that seek to maximize the efficiency of departments and promote the empowerment of women worldwide, and has set records busiest secretary in the office. She has been at the forefront of U.S. response the protests of 2011 in the Middle East, including the promotion of military intervention in Libya.

Barack Hussein Obama

Barack Hussein Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (ː k hu ː bərɑ oʊbɑ seɪn mə ː /, born August 4, 1961) 44 and the current president of the United States. He is the first African American in the office. Obama has already worked as a U.S. senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after winning the 2008 presidential election.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing District 13 in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

After an unsuccessful attempt against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, ran for U.S. Senate, Obama in 2004. More events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his speech at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate from Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007 and after a close campaign for the 2008 primary against the Democratic presidential Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won the nomination of his party. In 2008, the presidential election, he defeated Republican candidate John McCain, and was inaugurated as president January 20, 2009. Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

As president, Barack Obama signed an Economic Recovery Act in the form of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and reduced taxes, unemployment insurance Reauthorization and the Law of job creation in December 2010. Other initiatives include protecting the patient's internal politics and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection, the Do not Ask, Do not tell the Act and the Repeal Act of 2011 budget control . In foreign policy, removed combat troops from Iraq, the surge in Afghanistan, signed the START arms control with Russia, ordered the execution of UN sanctioned U.S. no-fly zone in Libya, issued a direct order from a small group of U.S. military forces to kill al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. In April 2011, Obama has declared his intention to run for another term in presidential elections in 2012.

George Walker Bush

George Walker Bush

George Walker Bush (/ dʒɔrdʒ bʊʃ wɔ kər ː born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001-2009. Before that, he was governor of Texas, 46th, serving from 1995 to 2000.

Bush is the eldest son of President George HW Bush, who served as the 41st President and Barbara Bush, making him one of only two U.S. presidents to be the son of a former president, after John Quincy Adams. It is also the brother Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.

After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked on the oil companies. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully in the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. Later, co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards of Texas in the 1994 election for governor. In a close election and controversial, Bush was elected president in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating Vice President Al Gore in the electoral College.He was once named in 2000 and 2004.

From the beginning, the Bush administration has withdrawn a series of processes of international treaties like the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. A series of terrorist attacks, eight months after Bush's first term as president September 11, 2001. In response, Bush announced a war against terrorism, ordered the invasion of Afghanistan the same year and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In addition to issues of national security, Bush has promoted policies on the reform of economic security, health, education and social development. He signed wide cuts in the tax law, the No Child Left Behind Act, the law banning partial-birth abortion, and prescription drug benefits to Medicare for the elderly. Its mandate has been national debates on immigration, social security, electronic surveillance, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Bush successfully ran for re-election against Democratic Senator John Kerry in 2004, another relatively close to the elections. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the political spectrum. In 2005, the Bush administration is facing widespread criticism on the handling of Hurricane Katrina. This and other conflicts, as well as dissatisfaction with the direction of the war in Iraq and the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 elections.As United States has become the longest recession in its post-war II in December 2007, the Bush administration took more direct control of the economy by adjusting the number of economic programs aimed at maintaining the country's financial system. While Bush was popular in the United States most of his first term, his popularity fell sharply in its second term.He was a very controversial figure at the international level, where public protests are also held during the visits of close allies such as United Kingdom.

After leaving office, Bush returned to Texas and bought a house in a suburb of Dallas. He is currently a lecturer and wrote a book about his life called decision points.

Kashmala Tariq

Kashmala Tariq

Kashmala Tariq (Urdu: کشمالہ طارق) (born January 24, 1972 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a member of the Pakistan National Assembly for the constituency of NA-277 reserves of women in the province of Punjab. It belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) or PML-Q. She is also active in the rights of women.

Kashmala Tariq completed his degree in sciences SM College for Women, Lahore. She is enrolled in the Bachelor of Law at the University of Punjab, where she became a member of the Student Federation of the people (PSF) and began his political life as a student activist. She has also worked with the renowned lawyer SM Zafar eight years.She received his law degree in 1996. She received the degree of Master of Laws from the London School of Economics 1999.Around same time she was also chief organizer of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf in the UK.

He was a member of the Pakistan People's Party and was elected to parliament in 2001. She is also involved in women's rights and much of his work in politics have focused on this issue. She introduced two bills relating to women in parliament, in honor killings and the amendments to the Hudood Ordinance, respectively. One of the critics of the Hudood Ordinance and the problems of legitimacy in Islamic theology says proponents.She identified as the laws on sexual discrimination, sexual harassment scandal and domestic violence among his key priorities and the feudal mentality, with a culture dominated by men as progress and laws that prevent these areas.

In March 2005, when the bill sponsored by Tariq in karo-kari (honor killings) was rejected by voice vote in the National Assembly, criticized the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), calling its leaders self-proclaimed "experts on Islam, saying they were exploiting Islam and the Constitution and have used verses from the Koran according to their points view.Tariq proposed three amendments on the issue of Wali (male guardian) and remission compoundability worthwhile, but the opposition is, Wasi Zafar MMA and Minister of Justice opposed the bill he called "un-Islamic." In August 2006, as a member of the NA Select Committee bill to protect women, Tariq suggested that the husband, who had sex with his wife without her consent, be tried on charges of rape. Because of outright corruption and nepotism, his party tried to get his expulsion from the party. It is argued that driving forces of his adversaries is a woman-spirit and the fight against corruption in politics.

Marvi Memon

Marvi Memon

Marvi Memon (born July 1972), Sindhi: ماروي ميمڻ; (Urdu: ماروی میمن) is a politician from Karachi. She is a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Marvi Memon father, Nisar Memon, is an eminent politician and senator in Pakistan. She received her B. Sc (Econ) specializes in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1994. She was married to Abdul Ghaffar wala model and has a son.

He began his career as a banker, Citibank, where he specialized in marketing and quality management. After that, Pakistan has launched the first satellite tracking fleet management problem, which was founded by entrepreneur and the youngest female CEO at the time.

His next move took him to defend the country's President Pervez Musharraf and his policies in the media. He strongly supported Musharraf Women Protection Bill. He then worked in public relations expert in Pakistan Board of Investment. He was politically linked to the Pakistan Muslim League (Q).

Hina Rabbani Khar

Hina Rabbani Khar

Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر, born November 19, 1977 in Multan) is a Pakistani politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs since July 20, 2011. She is the youngest and first female foreign minister in Pakistan.

Hina Rabbani Khar was born November 19, 1977 in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. She is the daughter of a politician Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and nephew Ghulam Mustafa Khar. Business woman by profession, has its roots in a family Hina Khar Gharbi are village in Kot Addu, Muzaffargarh tehsil in the district of Punjab. Khar family has many areas of the earth: real estate, which includes fisheries, mango, and sugar cane fields. He is a graduate degree (Hons) from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1999 and received his M. Sc in Hospitality Management at the University of Massachusetts in 2001.

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம், born October 15, 1931) commonly referred to APJ Abdul Kalam, is an aerospace engineer, professor and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), which served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.During his tenure as President, he was popularly known as the people President.He was awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor.

Before his tenure as President of India, worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. It is popularly known as human missiles of India for his work on the development of ballistic missiles and rockets played a fundamental policy technology.Kalam organizational, technical and India Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test India in 1974.

He is currently Chancellor Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Professor Anna University (Chennai), a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Indore, and in addition to / visiting faculty, many universities and research institutes in throughout India.

In May 2011, Dr. Kalam took his young nation called What I can give Movement.Dr. Kalam better known as a scientist, is also particularly interested in art than writing poems in Tamil language, and even played a musical instrument Veena.

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi (nee Antonia Albina Maino, Hedwig is December 9, 1946 the President of Indian National Congress, one of the main political parties in India. Born in Italy, is a widow of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. After his assassination in 1991, called the Indian Congress Party to take on Gandhi, the Congress, but he refused, and remained out of public policy at the center of constant stress from Congress. Eventually, he agreed to join politics in 1997 and 1998 was elected leader of the Congress.

Since that time, Gandhi was president of Indian National Congress Party. She served as president of the United Progressive Alliance to power in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest current chairman of the history of 125 years Congress party.Her birth abroad has been the subject of much debate and controversy. Although Sonia is actually the fifth foreign-born person to be leader of the Congress Party, she was the first since independence in 1947.

Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: ਮਨਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: मनमोहन सिंह, born September 26, 1932) is the current prime minister of India 13. He is the only prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as the return to power after serving a full five years. A Sikh, was the first non-Hindu to hold the position. Singh is prime minister belonging to the seventh of the Indian National Congress.

Singh, formerly carried out economic reforms in India in 1991, during his time as finance minister under the leadership of PV Narasimha Rao FRA 1991 and 1996. These reforms have led to the end of the licensing system Raj, helping to open the Indian economy to international trade and investment more.

In 2010, Newsweek magazine recognized as a world leader who is respected by the other heads of state, describing it as "another leader leaders love." The article cited, Mohamed ElBaradei, who noted that Mr. Singh is "a model of what a political leader should be." Singh is number 18 on the Forbes list of 2010-the most powerful people in the world. Forbes magazine described Singh as "universally acclaimed as the best Indian prime minister since Nehru '.

Altaf Hussain

Altaf Hussain

Altaf Hussain (Urdu: الطاف حسین) (born September 17, 1953 in Karachi) is the founder and leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the MQM has emerged as the third largest political party in the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1988 and 1990 elections. . The representation of the MQM secured parliamentary elections in the northern regions of Pakistan Kashmir and Gilgit up-Baltistan.Since 1992, he lived in Britain in exile from itself, after surviving an assassination attempt in Pakistan.

Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرویز مشرف, born August 11, 1943) was the leader of the Pakistan army and the President 10. He led a military government administration from October 1999 to August 2007. He ruled in Pakistan as a chief director in 1999-2001 and as president 2001-08 Given the impeachment, he resigned Aug. 18, 2008.

After years of military service, rose to fame when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed army chief in October 1998. He was the brains behind the strategic Kargil infiltration no. After months of contentious relations, which took power in a coup democratically elected Sharif government.

Since the head of the State of Pakistan, he was an ally of the United States in the war against terrorism. He was credited with developing Pakistan's economy during the early years of his reign. Its low popularity suffered after his suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice and the siege of Lal Masjid. His attempt to impose martial law has failed as calls for his dismissal degenerated. The return of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif into exile accelerate the nation to parliamentary democracy ends the reign of Musharraf.

In February 2011, a Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant on him because of his alleged involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. In June 2011, he lived in voluntary exile in London, but promised to return in the next election.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, leader known in Pakistan (Urdu: چودھری شجاعت حسین) (p. 27 January 1946) is a politician of Pakistan who was prime minister of the country's June 30, 2004 until August 28, 2004. He comes from the Punjab province, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, where his cousin was prime minister from 2002-2007.

After the government of Nawaz Sharif was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf, October 12, 1999, several dissident PML-N form a group under the leadership of Mian Muhammad Azhar. Earlier, Chaudhry Shujaat not joined any group, but after the exile Nawaz Sharif for the sake of the restoration, also joined Mian Azhar and democracy form the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in March 2001. In the general elections of October 2002, Chaudhry Shujaat was elected to the National Assembly. He was also elected unanimously for three consecutive years as president of the PML (Q), which was the party in power in Pakistan from 2006 to 2008.