Faizan buzdar biography

Faizan Buzdar - Roll - About - Strategic Product executive and entrepenuer with a proven track record of leadership.
Faizan Buzdar is the former CEO and founder of Convo, a provider of cloud-based digital collaboration workspaces for companies, and their teams.
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Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan

Pakistani politician

Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023. He was also the Official Spokesperson to the Chief Minister of Punjab^[1] and President of the Directorate General Public Relations. He has previously served as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information, Culture, Colonies and Prisons from 27 August 2018 till 30 March 2020.

Early life and education

He was born on 21 May 1970 in Lahore capital of Punjab, Pakistan in a Chohan family of the Gujjar tribe.^[2]

He received the degree of Master's in Economics from the University of Punjab, Lahore, in 1994 and is a software engineer by profession.^[2]

Political career

Associated with the Jamaat-e-Islami,^[3] he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) from PP-14 (Rawalpindi-XIV) in the 2002 Punjab provincial election. He received 13,738 votes and defeated Rashid Naseem Abbasi

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Pakistan's unsung heroes: The silent crusaders

Celebrating unsung Pakistani heroes who have made the country proud.

Celebrating unsung Pakistani heroes who have made the country proud. DESIGN BY SAMRA AAMIR

Unlike their depiction in popular culture, heroes have no fixed templates. They may not always pop out at you with their billowing capes, larger-than-life personalities and overnight revolutions. Instead, you may have to look around carefully if you want to find these undiscovered visionaries.

They are the ones you should listen to attentively as their powerful dreams might often be cloaked in soft-spoken voices. You may rarely see them in the spotlight but the impact of their work is bound to catch your eye. This is a list of 26 such Pakistanis who have been quietly making the country proud but deserve to be in the limelight for their outstanding contributions.

Dr Umar Saif

Dr Umar Saif was named one of the top 35 innovators of the world who are radically transforming technology by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August, 2011. Along with

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Pakistan can take its cue from the world to develop super-clusters of entrepreneurs and startups. Here's how.

Adolph Schwimmer — who preferred ‘Al’ over Adolph — sat next to Shimon Peres, who became Israeli president half a century later. Flying over the Arctic tundra, they were heading for Israel. This was 1953. World War II was over but not yet forgotten.

Having previously smuggled warplanes to Israel for the 1948 War, Schwimmer’s mandate was different this time; he was building an aerospace startup in Israel on invitation by David Ben-Gurion, the ‘founding father of Israel’ and its first prime minister.

Schwimmer had previously floated the idea himself but backed down realising he didn’t want any part of Israel’s socialist economics or crony politics. But Ben-Gurion had culled those fears, promising him a private-styled company and zero government meddling.

Originally from California, Schwimmer agreed and relocated to Israel. The aviation company he founded — the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) — would eventually be valued at $1 billion upon his retirement thirty years