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Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali 1944 - 2020 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan

Amin Ahsan Islahi 1904 - 1997 Author of Tadabbur-i-Quran

Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari 1892 - 1961 Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam

Riazuddin 1930 - 2013 Theoretical physicist and director of TPG

Asma Jahangir 1952 - 2018 Human rights lawyer and social activist

Ashfaq Ahmed 1925 - 2004 Writer, playwright and broadcaster

Raja Muhammad Sarwar 1910 - 1948 Captain in Pakistan Army

Zara Abid 1992 - 2020 Model and actress

Arthur Nayyar 1950 - 2016 Playback singer, ghazal singer

Firdous Begum 1947 - 2020 Film actress and producer

Hanif Mohammad 1934 - 2016 Opening batsman

Syed Saleem Shahzad 1970 - 2011 Investigative journalist and author

Naseem Begum 1936 - 1971 Film playback singer

Maqbool Ahmed Sabri 1945 - 2011 Qawwali singer, member of the Sabri Brothers

Noor Jehan 1926 - 2000 Playback singer and actress

Khalid Masud 1935 - 2003 Muslim scholar of Pakistan

Mirza Adeeb 1914 - 1999 Dramatist and short story writer

Inayat Hussain Bhatti 1928 - 1999 Film playback singer, film actor, producer

Akhtar Hameed Khan 1914 - 1999 Comilla Model and Orangi Pilot Project

Jack Britto 1926 - 2013 Cricketer

Saif Ali Janjua 1922 - 1948 Soldier of the Azad Kashmir Regiment

Pathanay Khan 1926 - 2000 Folk singer

Afra Bukhari 1938 - 2022 Writer, columnist and journalist

Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui 1938 - 2017 Chief Justice of Pakistan

Annie Ali Khan 1980 - 2018 Journalist and author

Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed 1914 - 1958 Recipient of Nishan-e-Haider

Samina Raja 1970 - 2021 Urban planner, food systems researcher

Rubina Qureshi 1940 - 2022 Singer, songwriter and folk icon of Sindhi

Qazi Ashfaq 1967 - 2001 Footballer

Shabbir Mirza 1946 - 2023 Actor and comedian

Rahimullah Yusufzai 1954 - 2021 Journalist, political and security analyst

Musarrat Hussain 1951 - 2008 Surgeon General of Pakistan Army

Datuk Rahman Anwar Syed 1932 - 2009 Organic chemist and natural product researcher

Khawar Rizvi 1938 - 1981 Poet and scholar of Urdu and Persian

Janullah Hashimzada 1969 - 2009 Bureau Chief

Amjad Islam Amjad 1944 - 2023 Urdu poet, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist

Anwar Pirzada 1939 - 2007 Journalist, columnist, writer

Mohammad Ali Jinnah 1876 - 1948 Founder and first governor-general of Pakistan

Alamgir Khan Tareen 1959 - 2023 Businessman and founder of Multan Sultans

Rizwan Wasti 1937 - 2011 Television actor, banker, and newscaster

Abdul Hafeez Pirzada 1935 - 2015 Minister of Law and Finance

Waheeda Naseem 1927 - 1996 Novelist, poet, short story writer, fiction writer

Askari Mian Irani 1940 - 2004 Painter and art activist

Zahid Malik 1937 - 2016 Journalist, writer, editor-in-chief

Bashir Mirza 1941 - 2000 Painter and artist

Sartaj Aziz 1929 - 2023 Foreign minister and national security advisor

Abdus Salam 1926 - 1996 Theoretical physicist and professor

Khawaja Nazimuddin 1894 - 1964 Second Governor-General and Prime Minister

Rasul Bux Palejo 1930 - 2018 Founder and leader of Awami Tahreek

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto 1928 - 1979 President and prime minister of Pakistan

Bano Qudsia 1928 - 2017 Writer, playwright and intellectual

Lubna Agha 1949 - 2012 Painter and art activist

Malik Ishaq 1959 - 2015 Senior commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan

Mujeeb Alam 1948 - 2004 Film playback singer

Khan Roshan Khan 1914 - 1988 Civil servant, historian, biographer, author

Nurul Amin 1893 - 1974 Prime Minister of Pakistan

Mehdi Hassan 1927 - 2012 Ghazal singer and playback singer

Allama Muhammad Iqbal 1877 - 1938 Poet, philosopher, and politician

Naveed Alam 1973 - 2021 Field hockey player and coach

Saneeya Hussain 1954 - 2005 Journalist, environmentalist, and editor

Ali Sadpara 1976 - 2021 Mountaineer and adventurer

Yaqoob Atif 1945 - 2023 Singer and actor

Zafar Muhammad Khan 1942 - 1971 Naval captain and commanding officer

Israr Ahmed 1932 - 2010 Founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami and Quranic scholar

Parveen Shakir 1952 - 1994 Poet ,civil servant who brought a feminine voice

Ganga Ram 1851 - 1927 Civil engineer and architect

Liaquat Ali Khan 1895 - 1951 First prime minister of Pakistan

Nasir Durrani 1957 - 2021 Police officer and former Inspector General

Majid Jahangir 1949 - 2023 Comic actor

General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan 1917 - 1980 Third President ,Chief Martial Law Administrator

Uzra Butt 1917 - 2010 Film actress, director and producer

Shahlyla Baloch 1996 - 2016 Pakistan national women's team

Nazia Hassan 1965 - 2000 Pop singer and songwriter

Asim Jamil 1990 - 2023 Director of AJW Industry

Mumtaz Rashidi 1934 - 2004 Social worker and writer

Asad Abbas 1985 - 2023 Singer and winner of Pakistan Sangeet Icon

Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi 1966 - 2020 Founder and leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik

Razia Butt 1924 - 2012 Novelist, playwright, and drama writer

Fariha Razzaq Haroon 1956 - 2018 Journalist, academic, and script-writer

Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi 1930 - 1984 Founder of Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat

Shahida Qazi 1944 - 2023 Journalist, academic, and script-writer

Ghazala Javed 1988 - 2012 Pashto playback singer

Massoud Nawabi 1954 - 2010 Poet, Writer, Director, Cultural Personality

Anwarul Haq 1917 - 1995 Chief Justice of Pakistan and member

Umer Shareef 1955 - 2021 Comedian, actor, director, producer, writer

Nisar Qadri 1940 - 2023 Radio, stage, and television actor

Dorab Patel 1917 - 1995 Chief Justice of Pakistan and member

Iskander Mirza 1899 - 1969 First president and last governor-general

Abdul Rahim Sarban 1930 - 1993 Singer

Fatima Jinnah 1893 - 1967 Dental surgeon, writer, stateswoman

Fatima Shah 1914 - 2002 Physician, social worker, and advocate

Salma Mumtaz 1926 - 2012 Film actress, director and producer

Abdul Jamil Khan 1930 - 2021 Minister of Railways and Health

Asim Butt 1978 - 2010 Painter and sculptor

Aijaz Ahmad 1941 - 2022 Civil servant, historian, biographer, author

Afsar Madad Naqvi 1933 - 1997 Sculpture, painting, murals

Field Marshal Ayub Khan 1907 - 1974 Second President and Chief Martial Law

Shaikh Ayaz 1923 - 1997 Short story writer

Ismail Gulgee 1926 - 2007 Painter and sculptor

Ghulam Muhammad Qasir 1944 - 1999 Poet, linguist and scholar

Ather Shah Khan Jaidi 1943 - 2020 Comedian, writer and poet

Ghulam Ishaq Khan 1915 - 2006 Seventh president of Pakistan

Sheikh Muhammad Ikram 1908 - 1973 Civil servant, historian, biographer, author

Abdur Rahman Chughtai 1897 - 1975 Painter and artist

Ali Sufiyan Afaqi 1933 - 2015 Journalist, film producer, director, writer

Ahmed Parvez 1926 - 1979 Painter

Nazar ul Islam 1939 - 1994 Film director and filmmaker

Suraiya Shahab 1945 - 2019 Journalist, poet, and script-writer

Safwat Ghayur 1959 - 2010 Police officer and commandant

Waheed Murad 1938 - 1983 Actor, producer and script writer

Haziqul Khairi 1931 - 2023 Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui 1897 - 1994 Organic chemist and natural product researcher

Tariq Jameel Paracha 1950 - 2023 Film, television and stage producer, actor

Ahmed Rushdi 1934 - 1983 Folk singer and musician

Khawaja Khurshid Anwar 1912 - 1984 Filmmaker, writer, director and music composer

Khalid Saeed Butt 1948 - 2023 Painter and miniaturist

Chaudhry Aslam Khan 1967 - 2014 Police officer and head of the Anti-Extremist

Fazal Mahmood 1927 - 2005 Leg spin bowler

Farman Fatehpuri 1926 - 2013 Linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar

Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar 1899 - 1958 Member of the Working Committee

Javed Iqbal 1961 - 2001 Serial killer and pederast

Anjuman Shehzadi 1987 - 2011 Stage and film actress

Mehnaz Begum 1955 - 2013 TV, radio, and film singer

Zeenat Abdullah Channa 1919 - 1974 Writer, educationist, and editor

Faisal Masud 1958 - 2021 Director of Exemplar Care

Qasim Mehdi 1941 - 2016 Molecular biologist and professor

Muhammad Mehmood Alam 1935 - 2013 Flying ace and war hero

Obaidullah Akhund 1968 - 2010 Defence Minister

Mamnoon Hussain 1941 - 2021 12th President of Pakistan

Junaid Jamshed 1964 - 2016 Qawwali singer and music director

Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla 1902 - 1953 Composer of the national anthem of Pakistan

Ayub Ommaya 1930 - 2008 Inventor of the Ommaya reservoir

Iqbal Bano 1928 - 2009 Ghazal singer

Chaudhry Mohammad Ali 1905 - 1980 Fourth Prime Minister of Pakistan

Malika Pukhraj 1912 - 2004 Ghazal singer and folk singer

Pervez Musharraf 1943 - 2023 Chief of Army Staff and 10th President

Najma Sadeque 1943 - 2015 Journalist, activist, and writer

Sarfraz Rafiqui 1935 - 1965 Flying ace and war hero

Rashid Sabir 1945 - 2012 Writer, dramatist, teacher

Abdul Ghafoor Majna 1938 - 2012 Footballer

Fahmida Hussain 1948 - 2020 Writer, feminist, and linguist

Haseena Moin 1941 - 2021 Screenwriter and playwright of social

Afzal Tauseef 1936 - 2014 Writer and columnist

Sara Suleri Goodyear 1953 - 2022 Author, professor of English

Anwar Shemza 1928 - 1985 Painter and writer

Farhad Humayun 1978 - 2021 Founder and lead vocalist of Overload

Sadequain 1930 - 1987 Painter and poet

Khalilullah Khalili 1907 - 1987 Poet, Historian

Harichand Megha Dalaya 1921 - 2004 Inventor of spray-drying buffalo milk

Pappu Sain 1925 - 2021 Sufi dhol player

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1. Ahmad Mallah, Haji

Died: 1969 A.D
Slogan: Quran is the word of God, the light of guidance,the source of wisdom, and the fountain of knowledge.
Ahmad Mallah, Haji was a Sindhi poet and translator of the Quran. He was born in a village called Kundi in Badin District, Sindh, in 1877. His father was Nangio Mallah, a farmer and a religious scholar. Ahmad Mallah received his early education from his father and then from various teachers in Sindh. He learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English languages. He also studied Islamic sciences and literature. He was a moderate Islamic scholar and a follower of the Chishti Sufi order. He wrote poetry in Sindhi and Urdu languages, and also translated some Persian and Arabic works into Sindhi. His most famous and remarkable work is his poetic translation of the Quran in Sindhi language, which he completed in 1958. He named it Noor-ul-Quran (The Light of the Quran). It is considered to be the first and the best poetic translation of the Quran in Sindhi language. It is also a masterpiece of Sindhi poetry and literature. He also wrote a commentary on his translation, explaining the meanings and interpretations of the Quranic verses. He died in 1969 and was buried in Badin.

Ahmad Mallah, Haji Profile
2. General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan

Died: 1980 A.D
Slogan: Pakistan is my country and I will defend it.
General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. He was born in Peshawar in 1917 to a wealthy family of landowners. He graduated from the Indian Military Academy and was commissioned to the British Indian Army in 1939. He fought in the Second World War in the Mediterranean theatre against the Axis powers and rose to major military positions in the British infantry division. Following the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was promoted to several ranks in the Pakistan Army. In 1951, he became the commander-in-chief, succeeding General Douglas Gracey. From 1954 to 1958, he served in the civilian government as Defence and Home Minister and supported president Iskandar Ali Mirza's decision to impose martial law against prime minister Feroze Khan's administration on 7 October 1958. Soon after, Yahya had himself declared president, and Mirza was exiled. Yahya reorganized the administration and acted to restore the economy through agrarian reforms and stimulation of industry. Foreign investment was also encouraged. Yahya introduced the system of "basic democracies" in 1960. It consisted of a network of local self-governing bodies to provide a link between the government and the people. A national referendum among all those elected confirmed Yahya as president. He was reelected under this system in 1965, against a strong challenge from an opposition united behind Fatima Jinnah, the sister of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. When the United States began to rearm India after China's invasion of northern India in 1962, Yahya established close relations with China and received substantial military aid from it. In the meantime, Pakistan's dispute with India over Jammu and Kashmir worsened, culminating in the outbreak of war in 1965. After the Tashkent Declaration ended hostilities, he fell out with Khan and was sacked from government, and in December 1967 he founded the PPP. Bhutto denounced the Yahya Khan regime as a dictatorship and was subsequently imprisoned (1968–69). After the overthrow of the Ayub Khan regime by Gen. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, national elections were held in 1970. Although Bhutto and his party won a sweeping electoral victory in West Pakistan, the biggest election winner was the Awami League, an East Pakistan-based party that had campaigned for full autonomy for East Pakistan. Bhutto refused to form a government with this separatist party, causing a nullification of the election. The widespread rioting that followed degenerated into civil war, after which East Pakistan, with the help of India, emerged as the independent state of Bangladesh. Yahya resigned from his office in 1971 and was replaced by his foreign minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who put him under house arrest. He died of heart failure in 1980. [1]

General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan Profile
3. Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Died: 1984 A.D
Slogan: Speak, for your lips are free
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. He was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time and his works and ideas remain widely influential today in Pakistan and beyond. He was also a teacher, military officer, trade unionist, and broadcaster. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962 and the Nishan-e-Imtiaz in 1990. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. He was involved in the Progressive Writers' Movement and the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case, for which he was imprisoned for four years. He wrote several collections of poetry, such as Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Dast-e-Saba, Zindan-nama, and Nuskha-hai-Wafa. His poems expressed his love for humanity, his longing for freedom, his critique of oppression, and his hope for a better future. He also translated works of other poets, such as Mirza Ghalib, Pablo Neruda, and Bertolt Brecht. He died of a heart attack in Lahore in 1984.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz Profile
4. Prince Ali Khan

Died: 1960 A.D
Slogan: Live and let live
Prince Ali Khan, also known as Aly Khan, was a Pakistani socialite, racehorse owner and jockey, who was the son of Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV, the current leader. He was born in Turin, Italy, and educated by private tutors in India and France. He joined the French Foreign Legion and the British Army during World War II and was awarded several medals for his service. He was also a prominent figure in the international racing circuit and owned several successful horses. He was married twice, first to Joan Yarde-Buller, an English aristocrat, and later to Rita Hayworth, a famous Hollywood actress. He had three children, one of whom, Prince Karim, succeeded his grandfather as Aga Khan IV in 1957. He was also involved in various philanthropic and diplomatic activities, and served as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations from 1958 to 1960. He died in a car accident near Paris in 1960, at the age of 48. He was buried in Salamiyah, Syria, where his grandfather had established a religious center.

Prince Ali Khan Profile
5. Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Died: 1938 A.D
Slogan: Raise your selfhood so high that before every decree,God himself asks you: What is your wish?
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a poet, philosopher, and politician who is widely regarded as the spiritual father of Pakistan. He is also known as the poet of the East and the sage of the Ummah. He wrote poetry in Urdu and Persian, and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the modern era. His poetry is infused with Islamic thought and values, and expresses his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British India. He also wrote several books on philosophy, such as The Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, and The Secrets of the Self. He was a strong advocate of Islamic revivalism and Pan-Islamism, and inspired many Muslim leaders and movements across the world. He was also one of the founding members of the Muslim League, the political party that led the Pakistan Movement. He delivered the famous Allahabad Address in 1930, in which he proposed the idea of a separate Muslim state in northwestern India. He also composed the Tarana-e-Milli (Anthem of the Community), which is the national anthem of Pakistan. He was knighted by the British government in 1922, and was awarded the title of Allama (learned) by his admirers. He died in 1938, after suffering from a throat infection for several months. He was buried in Lahore, where his mausoleum is a national monument.

Allama Muhammad Iqbal Profile
6. Habib Jalib

Died: 1993 A.D
Slogan: Poet can definition inside.
Habib Jalib was a Pakistani poet and activist who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression. He was born as Habib Ahmad on 24 March 1928 in a village near Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British India. He migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India and worked as a proofreader for Daily Imroze of Karachi. He was a progressive writer and soon started to grab the audience with his enthusiastic recitation of poetry. He wrote in plain language, adopted a simple style and addressed common people and issues. He was a member of the Progressive Writers' Movement and a follower of Marxism. He opposed military coups and administrators and was duly jailed several times. He wrote poems that inspired the masses and challenged the dictatorship. He also wrote songs for films and television dramas. He died on 12 March 1993 in Lahore due to a lung infection. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the nation's second highest civilian award, in 2009. He is regarded as the poet of the masses and a national hero.

Habib Jalib Profile
7. Abdus Salam

Died: 1996 A.D
Slogan: Scientific thought is the common heritage of all mankind.
Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a professor of physics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He received his MSc and PhD in physics from Imperial College London under the supervision of Paul Matthews and Abdus Salam. He worked at various institutions, including the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as electroweak theory, grand unified theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. He was also a devout Muslim, who believed that science and religion were compatible and complementary. He quoted the Quran in his Nobel acceptance speech and advocated for the development of science and technology in the Muslim world. He received many awards and honors, including the Smith's Prize, the Adams Prize, the Royal Medal, the Matteucci Medal, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, and the Copley Medal. He died of Parkinson's disease in Oxford, England, on 21 November 1996. He was 70 years old.

Abdus Salam Profile
8. Fahmida Riaz

Died: 2018 A.D
Slogan: I am not that woman.
Fahmida Riaz was a Pakistani poet, writer and feminist who was born in Meerut, British India, in 1946. She was the daughter of Riaz-ud-Din Ahmed, an educationist who was involved in developing the modern education system for Sindh province. She moved to Hyderabad, Sindh, with her family after the partition of India in 1947. She studied at the Government College for Women in Hyderabad, and later at the University of Sindh in Jamshoro. She began writing poetry at a young age, and published her first collection of verses, Patthar ki Zuban, in 1967. She married Zafar Ali Ujan, a leftist political activist, in 1971, and moved to Karachi, where she worked as a newscaster for Radio Pakistan. She also started her own Urdu publication, Awaz, which was known for its liberal and progressive content. She faced censorship and persecution from the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq, who imposed martial law and Islamic laws in Pakistan in 1977. She and her husband were charged with sedition and imprisoned for a year. They fled to India in 1981, where they lived in exile for seven years. During this time, she wrote her second collection of poetry, Badan Dareeda, which was considered controversial and obscene for its erotic and sensual expressions. She also wrote her first novel, Zinda Bahar, which depicted the lives of women in a patriarchal society. She returned to Pakistan in 1988, after the death of Zia-ul-Haq and the restoration of democracy. She continued to write and publish poetry, fiction, and essays, and also translated works from Sindhi, Persian, and English into Urdu. She was influenced by the writings of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Jalaluddin Rumi, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, and Shaikh Ayaz. She was also an avid reader of English literature and translated some works of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich into Urdu. She was a prominent voice of the progressive writers' movement and the women's rights movement in Pakistan. She was also a critic of religious extremism, nationalism, and patriarchy. She received several awards and honors for her literary contributions, including the Pride of Performance in 2010, the Kamal-e-Fun Award in 2013, and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Karachi Literature Festival in 2017. She died of cardiac arrest in Lahore on 21 November 2018, at the age of 72.

Fahmida Riaz Profile
9. Anna Molka Ahmed

Died: 1994 A.D
Slogan: Daylight after night. Spring when birds sing. Sunshine after rain. So with life's pain.
Anna Molka Ahmed was a Pakistani artist and poet who lived in Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has been exhibited in art museums and galleries in Pakistan and the United States, as well as Britain, Japan, Jordan, and Switzerland. Her paintings are part of the permanent collections at the Tate, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, and others. She was also an accomplished writer, having written hundreds of rubaiyat in the style of Omar Khayyam and Sarmad Kashani. She was part of a broader Islamic art movement that emerged independently across North Africa and parts of Asia in the 1950s and known as the Hurufiyya movement. She rejected Western art concepts, and instead searched for a new visual language that reflected her own culture and heritage. She transformed calligraphy into a modern aesthetic, which was both contemporary and indigenous. She painted classical literature from the poetic verses of Ghalib, Iqbal, and Faiz. She received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) in 1963 and the Pride of Performance Award in 1969 by the President of Pakistan. She was born Molly Bridger to Jewish parents, in London, England on 13 August 1917. Her mother was Polish and father was Russian. She converted to Islam at the age of 18 in 1935, before marrying Sheikh Ahmed in October 1939, who was then studying in London. She studied painting, sculpture and design at St. Martin School of Arts in London, and received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Art. She moved to Lahore in 1940 and, besides painting, taught fine art at the University of the Punjab. She divorced her husband in 1951, but remained in Pakistan with her two daughters until her death on 20 April 1994. She was 76 years old.

Anna Molka Ahmed Profile
10. Aitzaz Hasan

Died: 2014 A.D
Slogan: I am always ready for my country.
Aitzaz Hasan was a Pakistani student who died on 6 January 2014 while preventing a suicide bomber from entering a school at Hangu village. More than 2,000 students were attending classes at the time of the incident. The institute was later renamed to Aitzaz Hasan Shaheed High School. His death anniversary is observed annually throughout Pakistan on 6 January. Aitzaz was outside the school gate of his Government High School, Ibrahimzai, in Hangu, with two other schoolmates. Aitzaz had not been allowed to attend the morning assembly due to his tardiness that day. A 20-to-25-year-old man approached the gate and stated he was there to "take admission". One of the students noticed a detonator on the man's vest, whereupon Aitzaz's schoolmates ran inside, possibly to raise the alarm, while Aitzaz confronted the suicide bomber, who then detonated his vest. Aitzaz died at the scene. No other students were harmed. Aitzaz's story led to an outpouring of emotion on television and on social media, where the hashtag onemillionaitzazs trended on Twitter. A Facebook page was set up in tribute to his act. Aitzaz's father said that his son made a sacrifice to save the lives of others: "My son made his mother cry but saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children." Scores of people attended his funeral to pay their respects. A floral wreath was laid on the grave of Aitzaz Hasan on behalf of the Pakistani Army chief. Aitzaz was hailed as a national hero and a martyr by the Pakistani government, media, and public. He was posthumously awarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat (Star of Bravery), the highest civilian award for bravery in Pakistan. He was also named as the Herald 's Person of the Year for 2014. He received tributes from various national and international figures, including Malala Yousafzai, who called him "brave and courageous". A biographical film, Salute, was released in 2016, based on his life and sacrifice.

Aitzaz Hasan Profile

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Rattanbai Jinnah

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Died: PK
#first_lady #stateswoman #economist

Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

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#social_media_celebrity #model #actress #singer

Qandeel Baloch

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Died: PK
#journalist #investigative_reporter

Arshad Sharif

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Died: KE
#journalist #writer

Mumtaz Hamid Rao

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Died: PK
#journalist #writer

Zahid Malik

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Died: PK
#journalist #satirist

Haleem Brohi

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Died: PK
#journalist #film_producer

Ali Sufiyan Afaqi

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Died: PK
#politician #prime_minister

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali

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Died: PK
#politician #prime_minister

Muhammad Khan Junejo

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Died: PK
#politician #prime_minister

Nurul Amin

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Died: PK