Ali Suleman Habib (b. 1956):

Shahid Jalal (b. 1948):

Painter Shahid Jalal had graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA). In his middle years, he went on to become one of Lahore’s best-known artists. Shahid had an effervescent, kind, straight talking and humble personality.

Shamim Akhtar  (b. 1927):

She was the wife of industrialist Mian Muhammad Sharif and mother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and Abbas Sharif. She passed away in London and was buried in Lahore.

Siraj Kassam Teli (b. 1953):

He was the president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the head of the chamber’s leading group. He had graduated from Government College of Commerce and Economics, Karachi, in 1974.

Sherbaz Khan Mazari  (b. 1930):

Mazari entered politics in support of Ms Fatima Jinnah’s bid for presidency in 1965. In 1970, he was elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate. He was a signatory to the 1973 Constitution.

Jam Madad Ali (b. 1962):

Jam Madad Ali was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh. He was elected as leader of the opposition in Provincial Assembly of Sindh in 2008 and served in that capacity until 2011.

Arshad Malik (b. 1973):

Accountability court judge Arshad Malik had convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al Azizia reference in 2018. In 2020, the Lahore High Court (LHC) administration committee removed him from service on charges of misconduct.

Saleem Asmi (b. 1934):

Besides being the Dawn editor, the veteran journalist had served as a news editor for Khaleej Times. He had also served as president of the Karachi Press Club (KPC).

Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi (b. 1944):

Orator, scholar, critic, researcher, poet, author and linguist, he was known popularly as Bhaiyya (elder brother), Naqvi had deep roots in the cultures of Lucknow and Karachi. He was one of the finest exponents of the Lucknawi culture.

Munir Khan Orakzai   (b. 1960):

He hailed from Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2018. He was affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema-i- Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

Asif Farrukhi (b. 1959):

Best remembered as a writer, translator, and literary critic active in both Urdu and English, he was also a public health expert. He translated several books from English into Urdu, as well as from Sindhi to Urdu and English.

Pranab Mukherjee  (b. 1935):

He served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee occupied several ministerial portfolios in the government of India.

Qaboos bin Said (b. 1940):

He was the sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death. He was the longest-serving leader in the Middle East and Arab world at the time of his death. He is remembered for his fundamental role in the modernisation and industrialisation of the Sultanate of Oman.

Sabah  Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (b. 1929):

He was the 15th ruler of Kuwait and the 6th emir of the state, serving from 2006 until his death. He was the fourth son of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Ruth Ginsburg (b. 1933):

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death on September 18. She was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder.

George Floyd (b. 1973):

He was an African American man killed during an arrest in Minneapolis. One of the four police officers who had arrived on the scene knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes. After his death, protests against police brutality, especially toward black people, quickly spread across the United States.

Hosni Mubarak  (b. 1928):

The fourth president of Egypt served from 1981 to 2011. Earlier, he was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He also served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973. He assumed the presidency after Anwar Sadat’s assassination in 1981.

Qasem Soleimani  (b. 1957):

He was an Iranian general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and, from 1998 until his assassination in 2020, commander of its Quds Force.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi  (b. 1958):

A brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an academic physicist and a senior official in Iran’s nuclear programme, he was assassinated in a road ambush.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar  (b. 1920):

The Peruvian diplomat and politician served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991.

SP Balasubrahmanyam (b. 1946):

The veteran Indian musician, playback singer, television anchor, music director, actor, dubbing artist, and film producer, worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam films.

Saeb Erekat (b. 1955):

The Palestinian politician and diplomat was the secretary general of the Executive Committee of the PLO.

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (b. 1926):

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (b. 1944):

Born in Rojhan Jamali, he received his education from Lawrence College, Murree; Aitchison College, Lahore and Government College, Lahore. He stepped into politics in 1977 and thrice served as the Balochistan chief minister. In 2002, he was elected prime minster, the first from Balochistan, and served in that capacity till 2004.

Mir Hasil Bizenjo (b. 1958):

The veteran politician from Balochistan, served as a senator, a member of the National Assembly and as a federal minister. He was the president of the National Party of Pakistan.

Syed Munawar Hasan (b. 1941):

Born in Delhi, his family settled in Karachi after independence. He started his political career in 1977 after having been affiliated with the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba for several years. He was the Jamaat-i-Islami emir from 2009 to 2014.

Fakhruddin G Ebrahim (b. 1928):

The renowned jurist was appointed as the attorney general by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1971. He served as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1981, caretaker law minister in 1993 and caretaker minister for justice in 1996-97. He also served as the 24th chief election commissioner of Pakistan from 2012 to 2013 and in that capacity oversaw the 2013 general election.

Naeem ul Haque (b. 1949):

He had a long association with Imran Khan and was a co-founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). He served as PTI’s central information secretary and Sindh president. When the PTI came into power, he was appointed as special assistant to the prime minister on political affairs.

Tariq Aziz (b. 1936):

The iconic TV show host became a household name in Pakistan after his game show was launched in 1974 on the state-run PTV. He was also an accomplished radio voice and a film actor. He was also a writer and a published poet.

Amanullah (b. 1946):

The legendary comedian popularised commercial theatre and was known as the ‘King of Comedy’. Hailing from Gujranwala, he moved to Lahore where he remained associated with theatre for the rest of his life. He also worked in TV plays and movies.

Allama Talib Jauhari (b. 1939):

Born in 1938 in Patna, Bihar, in the then British India, he migrated to Pakistan with his father in 1949. He studied Islamic theology for 10 years in Najaf, Iraq, under the guidance of Ayatullah-al-Uzma Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. He preached inter-faith harmony and tolerance.

Mufti Muhammad Naeem (b. 1958):

Mufti Muhammad Naeem served as the chancellor of Jamia Binoria. He supported the Paigham-i-Pakistan – a fatwa against terrorism issued in February 2016.

Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi (b. 1966):

He rose to prominence as founding leader of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan. In the 2018 elections, his party won three National Assembly seats. Rizvi and his supporters were best known for organizing street protests against blasphemy.

Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth (b. 1961):

Justice Seth served as chief justice of Peshawar High Court from 2018 to 2020. He also presided over the special court which heard the high treason case against Gen Pervez Musharraf (retired).Industrialist and politician.

Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar (b. 1946):

Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar was a former federal minister. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1993.

Malik Ata Muhammad Khan (b. 1941):

Renowned tent-pegger, politician and feudal lord, Ata Muhammad belonged to Kot Fateh Khan in Attock district. His father, Nawabzada Malik Yar Muhammad Khan, was a nephew of Malik Ameer Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of Kalabagh.

Naimatullah Khan (b. 1930):

The Jamaat-i-Islami leader was the city nazim of Karachi from 2001 to 2005. He is remembered for his efforts to improve the infrastructure. He also served as chairman of the Al-Khidmat Foundation.

Dr Mubashir Hassan (b. 1922):

An engineer by training, he was a founding member of the Pakistan Peoples Party along with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and JA Rahim. He served as finance minister in ZA Bhutto’s cabinet and was the architect of the nationalization policy of his government.

Syed Ali Mardan Shah (b. 1957):

Hailing from Umerkot district, he was first elected as member of the Sindh Assembly in 1988. He was affiliated with the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Lal Khan (b. 1956):

Activist and ideologue, he was also editor of The Struggle newspaper and wrote regular articles for an English and Urdu language newspapers. He was author of several books.

Muhammad Jadam Mangrio (b. 1957):

Mangrio twice served as adviser to Sindh chief minister. He was elected to the National Assembly as a Pakistan Muslim League-Functional candidate from Sanghar in 2008 general elections.

Group Captain Saiful Azam (b. 1941):