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Dr. Salman Shah (Urdu: سلمان شاہ) was the former caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan. He has also served as an advisor to the Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on finance, economic affairs, statistics and revenues. He is the son-in-law of former Chief of Army Staff General Asif Nawaz Janjua. He has two sons and three daughters.

Dr. Shah, a Lahore based Economist, holds a PhD in Finance and Economics from Indiana University, Bloomington's Kelley School of Business. He has 16 years of teaching experience at institutions such as University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of Toronto, and Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is one of the most highly educated and competent members of Shaukat Aziz's team. During his time as in charge of Pakistan's finance ministry (2004–2008), Pakistan's economy registered an average of 7% GDP growth per annum, one of the highest in the world. Prior to his current appointment as Finance Minister, he has served on following positions:

Dr. Shah was also appointed as a member of the task force on investment by Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh which gave recommendations to the Board of Investment to increase investments in the country. Dr. Shah headed the regional task forces of Karachi and Lahore regions for the BOI under Dr Hafeez Sheikh.

Mohammad Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980) is considered to be the greatest Indian male playback singer of all time. He was awarded the National Film Award, Best Singer Award, six Filmfare Awards and the Best Singer of the Millennium award. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. His singing career spanned about 35 years, and he is noted for his ability to sing songs of different moods and varieties: his songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans. He is best known for romantic and duet songs, which he playback sings with the technique to mould the voice according to characters of the actor on the screen.

Rafi is primarily noted for his songs in Hindi-Urdu, over which he had a strong command. He also sang in other Indian languages including Konkani, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese. He also recorded a few songs in foreign languages such as English, Persian, Spanish and Dutch. From available figures, Rafi sang 4,516 Hindi film songs, 112 non-Hindi film songs, and 328 private (non-film) songs from 1945 to 1980.

Humayun Faridi (Bengali: হুমায়ূন ফরীদি; 1952 – 2012) was a Bangladeshi actor. He worked in television dramas, movies and theatres.

Humayun was born in Dhaka in 29 May 1952 to ATM Nurul Islam and Begaum Farida Islam. In 1968, Humayun passed SSC exam from Islamia Government High School and in 1970 he passed HSC from Chandpur Government College. Same year, he entered into University of Dhaka in Organic Chemistry subject. However, due to Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 study became impossible. Later he admitted into Jahangirnagar University in Economics and during his university life time, he was a close associate of Selim Al-Deen.

Humayun Faridi was one of the principal organizer of 1976 Drama Festival of Jahangirnagar University. Mainly from this moment, he started to be famous. He became a member of Dhaka Theatre during his student life in the university. . Humayun later acted on numerous drama on the country's television. One character 'Kan Kata Ramjan' from the novel 'Shongshoptok' earned Faridi extreme popularity^{[peacock term]} in the country. During 90s, Faridi started acting in Film where he also earned extreme popularity^{[peacock term]} by bringing new concept in the acting. It was said^{[by whom?]} sometimes that, audiences went to watch his films only to see his brilliant^{[peacock term]} acting rather than the film itself.

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bengali: মোস্তফা সরয়ার ফারুকী) was born in (1973) Dhaka, Bangladesh. Variety’s Jay Weissberg wrote, “Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement” .

He is a contemporary Bangladeshi Film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed a number of video fiction for television, ground breaking TV commercials and three full length feature films. His films have been shown in international film festivals like Rotterdam, Busan, Abu Dhabi etc.

He is a young director in Bangladesh who has set a new trend in terms of presentation and direction after the media boom began in Bangladesh in the late 1990s.

His third film Third Person Singular Number was premiered in Pusan International Film Festival (2009). It had its European premier in International Film Festival Rotterdam, It was also in the official competition 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi). His previous two films, which he considers to be an educational effort, were Bachelor (2003) and Made in Bangladesh (2007).