Brief Profile: A Aziz Rehmatullah

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A Aziz Rehmatullah has been acclaimed as one of the doyens of cricket statisticians in Pakistan. He appears to have set a record of sorts by authoring as many as a dozen books on cricket, understood to be the highest in the country so far.

His first book titled ‘26 Years of Pakistan Cricket’ was published in 1979, which were followed by World Cricket Annual (1980), Cricket Close Up (1981), Pakistan Test Cricketers (1981), Masters of Cricket (1982), Who’s Who in Test Cricket (1984), An Eye on Test Cricket (1986), 35 Years of Pakistan Cricket (1987), The Book of One-day Internationals (1989), Pakistan in One-day Internationals (1996), Who’s Who in One-day Internationals (2001) and Calendar Year’s Kings (2002).

He was editor of Cricket World Quarterly, launched in 1978. It was a widely respected magazine with contributions from leading statisticians and journalists from all over the world. It was instrumental in grooming some of the budding cricket writers.

He brought out another magazine by the name of Cricket Herald in 1986, whose subsequent Urdu edition also became quite popular in the following years.

**A Aziz Rehmatullah has reviewed Cricket Milestones

Brief Profile: Abdul Hamid

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Abdul Hamid is a professional trainer in the field of management, accounting and finance. He is the Chief Executive Officer of his recently founded Business Research and Management Group (BRMG), having interests in diversified fields.

After graduating in commerce he did CA (Intermediate) and MBA in Finance and Accounting besides undertaking various other senior level certificate course to enhance his skills and knowledge.

Based in Karachi, he has been engaged in the project management, companies establishment projects, feasibilities studies of projects, budgeting and projections. He has conducted training to the officers of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

He has been an active Rotarian since 2004, having been elected as the President of the Rotary Club of Karachi Airport for 2011-2012. He happens to be a charter member of the Rotary Club of Karachi Darakhshan as well as the Rotary Club of Karachi Airport.

He was a Coordinator of the Rotary International's Committee for Promotion of Literacy in 2005-06.

**Abdul Hamid has reviewed Fiasco

Brief Profile: Bashir Ahmad Khan

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Bashir Ahmad Khan has been acclaimed as the pioneer of cricket commentary in Urdu. He was one of the integral members of the select band of the famed Pakistan cricket commentators whose voice had the charisma and charm to keep the listeners glued to their transistors sets for hours.

He has also been hailed one of the gurus of Advertising in Pakistan. His advertising agency, Manhattan International, has remained market leader and trend-setter for a very long time. He has authored popular books like Over to Bashir Khan, Glorious Years of Pakistan Cricket, Play Better Golf and Al Islam.

Besides being the Chairman and Managing Director of Manhattan/BBDO Worldwide Pakistan, he is the President of the Delhi Anglo Arabic College & Schools Association and a member of the Board of Regents, Faculty & Staff, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.

Having been an enthusiastic former cricketer, he remains an active golfer being a member of the Karachi Golf Club for a number of years.

**Bashir Ahmad Khan has reviewed Cricket Fever

Brief Profile: Prof Syed Zulfiqar Ali

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Prof Syed Zulfiqar Ali has been associated with education as well as social sector for over two decades now. Presently he is Head of the Department, Commerce, at Defence Authority Degree College, Karachi.

He had passed his matriculation from St Cathedral High School, Lahore, while he pursued later education at Government College of Commerce and Economics. He has been a guest speaker in various sessions of different levels. He used to be a brilliant student from his early days and passed his various examinations with flying colours.

Education and social work have remained his forte and the areas of his prime interest from the outset. He has been working in particular educating the youth in their career guidance.

Having been an integral part of running The Young Champs, which was one of the most proactive youth clubs in Karachi 1980s, he has recently launched Taleem-o-Agahi Welfare Organization, being its Founder President.

**Prof Syed Zulfiqar Ali has reviewed Mission Caribbean

Brief Profile: Anwar Jabeen Qureshi

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Anwar Jabeen Qureshi is a known personality in the media and business circles. He is presently the Chief Executive Officer of A J Communications, a Karachi-based company, having interests in diversified fields.

Having done Masters in International Relations, Political Science and Mass Communications, L.L.B. and short courses of MBA, he served the country’s leading bank Habib Bank, as General Manager, Publicity & Public Relations Division, having had the opportunity to work with as many eight Presidents of the bank directly including the former Financial Adviser to the Prime Minister, Shaukat Tareen. He played a pivotal role in promoting the image of Habib Bank.

He has had an illustrious career in the field Public Relations, Marketing, Mass Media and Event Management. He is a famed speaker, having delivered lectures at various forums locally and abroad. He has conducted a lot of programmes, having had long stints with radio and television.

He has had a very actice social life as well. Having been associated with quite organizations he was one of the charter members of the Rotary Club of Karachi Airport of which he has been the President since July 2009.

**Anwar Jabeen Qureshi has reviewed Top of the Charts

Brief Profile: Prof Dr Nasim Fatima

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Prof Dr Nasim Fatima served as the Chairperson of the Library & Information Science department of University of Karachi until 2004. Since then she has been working as the Principal Research Investigator at the Sindh Archives in Karachi.

She has won numerous awards in her career, having authored and co-authored more than 30 books, the majority of whom are classified as worthy reference books all over the world.

Prof Dr Nasim Fatima holds the distinction of being the first lady lecturer to be appointed in the Library & Information Science department of University of Karachi besides being the first lady to earn the doctorate degree in her field from any university of Pakistan.

A 480-paged book with the majority of the pages in Urdu titled ‘Professor Doctor Nasim Fatima: Shakhsiat aur Kaam’ and compiled by Huma Mannan Butt, a Research Assistant at Sindh Archives, was published in 2010. The book covers in detail the monumental contribution made by her in an illustrious career.

**Prof Dr Nasim Fatima has reviewed Spotlight on World Cup 2003

Jumbo Publishing joins hands with Kitabain.com

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Jumbo Publishing, the market leaders in sports publishing in the region, have recently joined hands with Kitabain.com, an online books marketplace, having made great strides in a rather short span of time.

Kitabain.com has been founded by two highly talented young engineers, Usman Siddiqui and Jawad Yousuf, with a mission to connect booksellers/bookstores all over Pakistan with book lovers across the country.

Usman has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with highest distinction, from Purdue University, Indiana, USA, while Jawad has a degree in Actuarial Sciences from Purdue University and a Masters degree in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Kitabain.com is a centralized platform where individual sellers or bookstores can instantly make their inventory available online using our automated system and where buyers can browse for and purchase books put up by numerous booksellers all in one place.

Their overriding goal is to make access to books easier for readers across Pakistan. They have reckoned that the prices of new books are generally on the higher side, access to old books is limited since there are a limited number of old bookstores which are not always accessible to everyone and the old books that are available at these bookstores or weekly bazaars are poorly catalogued and hence difficult to find.

They have come up with the solution in the shape of www.kitabain.com where properly catalogued and searchable database of thousands of used/new books at deeply discounted prices are showcased, providing an opportunity for small bookstores/book sellers to make their inventory available to a potentially much larger audience than the traffic at their stores and anyone in Pakistan can be their customer.