This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.
A Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar Ghulam Abbas Baloch – player of Pakistan national football team Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher Rukhsana Ahmad – writer, playwright, and translator Afaq Ahmed – leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations Ahmed Ali – co-founder of Progressive Writers Movement & Association; novelist; short story writer; critic; translator; diplomat; scholar Sohail Aman – Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics Shakil Auj – Scholar of Islamic Studies and founder of Al-Tafseer Welfare Trust Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan; former Citibank executive officer Aamir Liaquat Hussain - Pakistani TV Host
B Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist Maula Bakhsh – captain of Pakistan national football team Anmol Baloch – television actress and model Sanam Baloch – television actress Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist
D Noon Meem Danish – poet Joseph R. D'Cruz – professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management
F Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster Tarek Fateh – writer, novelist, columnist, author Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
G Khalida Ghous – scholar of international relations and human rights; activist
H Husain Haqqani – Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Hussain Haroon – Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Nehal Hashmi – Senator, General secretary PML-N Sindh Mehwish Hayat – model Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
I Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer
J Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi; MQM leader Sana Javed – actress and model, best known for blockbuster drama Khaani
K Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan; exchange student in the early 1970s Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
L Anthony Theodore Lobo – Roman Catholic bishop
M Rehman Malik – senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan A. C. Matin – microbiologist and immunologist Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer Gholam Mujtaba – politician and Pakistani American Waheed Murad – film actor Madiha Imam - Pakistani actress
N Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer
P Zinia Pinto – principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963 to 1999The Express Tribune, June 6, 2013
Q Abul Quasem – politician of Council Muslim League and finance minister of East Pakistan in 1971 Muhammad Ahmed Qadri – Islamic scholar and political scientist, founder of Islamic Educational and Cultural Research Center Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi
R Raza Rabbani – senator Atta ur Rahman – chairman of HEC; director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry Raheel Raza – author Nisha Rao – lawyer and activist
S Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist Faisal Sabzwari – deputy parliamentary leader of MQM Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan Rashid Minhas Shaheed – PAF Officer; received Nishan-e-Haider Parveen Shakir – Urdu poet, teacher, civil servant of the Government of Pakistan Bina Shaheen Siddiqui Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic Naweed Syed - inventor of the neurochip Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960 to 1962 Salman F Rahman - Bangladeshi businessman and a former member of the Jatiya Sangsad
T Atif Tauqeer – journalist, poet, writer and vlogger
U Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar; served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
W Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party Raees Warsi – poet; author; founder and president of Urdu Markaz New York
Z Muhammad Ziauddin – Pakistani journalist, economist and historian
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