Abdul Sattar (Arabic: عبد الستار ‎) is a male Muslim given name, built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Sattar. The name means "servant of the Veiler (of sins)".^[1][2]

Because the letter s is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is usually assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written with letters corresponding to Abd al-Sattar, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd as-Sattar. Alternative transliterations include Abdus Sattar, Abd al-Sattar and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation. It may refer to:

• Abdus Sattar (president) (1906–1985), Bangladeshi jurist and politician who served as president of Bangladesh
• Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi (1915–2001), Pakistani religious and political leader
• Abdul Sattar Edhi (born 1928), Pakistani philanthropist
• Abdul Sattar Afghani (1930–2006), Pakistani politician
• Abdul Satar Sirat (born 1937), Afghan politician
• Abdus Suttar Khan (1941–2008), Bangladeshi aerospace researcher
• Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-American professor of English
• Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad (1956–2010), chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces before the 2003 invasion
• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (1972–2007), Iraqi Sunni tribal leader and ally of the U.S.
• Abdel Sattar Sabry (born 1974), Egyptian footballer
• Abdul Sattar (Guantanamo detainee 10) (born 1981), Pakistani prisoner in Guantanamo

• Abdul Sattar Bhagat (active 1970), Pakistani cricketer
• Abdul Sattar (diplomat), Foreign Minister of Pakistan
• Abdus Sattar (West Bengal politician)
• Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib, director of military intelligence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion
• Abdel-Sattar Abdel-Jabbar, Iraqi political activist
• Abdussattar Shaikh, FBI informant
• Abdul-Satar al-Bahadli, Iraqi Shi'a cleric
• Abdul Sattar Murad, Afghan politician

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Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Born	(1928-01-01)January 1, 1928 Bantva, British India
Citizenship	Pakistani
Occupation	Humanitarian
Religion	Muslim
Spouse	Bilquis Edhi
Website
http://www.edhi.org

Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی, Gujarati: અબ્દુલ સત્તાર ઇદી), or Maulana Edhi, is a Pakistani philanthropist known for international humanitarian work. He is the founder and head of Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. In 2006, Institute of Business Administration Pakistan conferred a honoris causa degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire.

Early life[link]

Edhi was born in 1928 in Bantva in the Gujarat, British India.^[1]

When he was eleven, his mother became paralyzed and later grew mentally ill and died when he was 19. His personal experiences caused him to develop a system of services for old, mentally ill and challenged people.

Edhi and his family migrated to Pakistan in 1947. He initially started as a pedlar, later became a commission agent selling cloth in the wholesale market in Karachi. After a few years, he established a free dispensary with the help from his community. He later established a welfare trust, "Edhi Trust".^[2]

Abdul Sattar Edhi was married in 1965 to Bilquis, a nurse who worked at the Edhi dispensary. The couple have four children, two daughters and two sons. Bilquis runs the free maternity home at the headquarter in Karachi and organizes the adoption of illegitimate and abandoned babies.

Charity Work[link]

Edhi Foundation runs the world's largest ambulance service and operates free old people's homes, orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centers for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals.^[3] It has run relief operations in Africa, Middle East, the Caucasus region, eastern Europe and US where it provided aid following the New Orleans hurricane of 2005.

In November 2011, Edhi was recommended for a Nobel Peace prize by the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.^[4]

Travel issues[link]

In the early 1980s he was arrested by Israeli troops while entering Lebanon. In 2006, he was detained in Toronto, Canada for 16 hours. In January 2008, US immigration officials interrogated Edhi at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York for over eight hours, and seized his passport and other documents. When asked about the frequent detention, Edhi said "The only explanation I can think of is my beard and my dress." ^[5] In January 2009, Edhi was refused entry to Gaza by Egyptian authorities.^[6]

Honors and awards[link]

International awards[link]

• Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service (1986)^[7]
• Lenin Peace Prize (1988)^[8]
• Paul Harris Fellow from Rotatory International Foundation, (1993) ^[8]
• Largest Voluntary Ambulance Organization of the World - Guinness Book of World Records (2000) ^[8]
• Hamdan Award for volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services (2000) UAE ^[8]
• International Balzan Prize (2000) for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood, Italy ^[8]
• Honorary Doctorate degree from the Institute of Business Administration Karachi (2006).^[1]
• UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize (2009)^[9][10]
• Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize (2010)^[11]

National awards[link]

• Silver Jubilee Shield by College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan, (1962–1987) ^[8]
• The Social Worker of Sub-Continent by Government of Sind, Pakistan, (1989) ^[8]
• Nishan-e-Imtiaz, civil decoration from Government of Pakistan (1989) ^[8]
• Recognition of meritorious services to oppressed humanity during eighties by Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Government of Pakistan, (1989) ^[8]
• Pakistan Civic Award from the Pakistan Civic Society (1992) ^[8]
• Shield of Honor by Pakistan Army (E & C) ^[8]
• Khidmat Award by Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences ^[8]
• Human Rights Award by Pakistan Human Rights Society ^[8]

See also[link]

• A Mirror to the Blind, a biography of Abdul Sattar Edhi

References[link]

External links[link]

• Edhi Official Website
• Unofficial Edhi Foundation site
• Short-Documentary featuring Abdul Sattar Edhi expressing his thoughts and ideology - by Ali Kapadia
• Interview of Edhi
• Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation
• Humanitarian to a Nation, Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2004
• Article on Bilquis Edhi
• Blog post about Mr. Edhi after the October 2005 earthquake that hit Pakistan the hardest
• Leadership Profile
• Abdul Sattar Edhi: A Tribute
• Abdul Sattar Edhi for Nobel Peace Prize

Zulfiqar Mirza is a Pakistani politician who is affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party. He hails from the district Badin, Hyderabad. He did his graduation from LMC Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Sindh. He is married to Fahmida Mirza who was elected as the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan on March 19, 2008.^[1] She is also the first female parliamentary speaker in the Muslim world. Zulfiqar Mirza was the Home Minister of Sindh till June 2011.

He was assigned the portfolio of Jails and prisons as well as the portfolio of Senior Minister for Works, Services and Forest in Sindh cabinet. He remained member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh, member of PPP Central Executive Committee and Vice President of PPP (Sindh) till 28, August 2011.^[2] He acquired his secondary education at Cadet College Petaro in the late 1960s.

He is also the member of the board of directors of Mirza Sugar Mills located in District Badin, Sindh.^[3]

Allegations against MQM[link]

On Sunday, 28 August 2011, Zulfiqar Mirza announced his resignation from the government during an press briefing. Mirza waved several documents that he said carried the proof of the people responsible for the wave of violence in Karachi.^[4] He further stated that the MQM does not have a right to 100% mandate in Karachi and Hyderabad, but he would admit that their guns successfully got them (MQM) that mandate. He claimed to have a letter written by Altaf Hussain in 2001 where the MQM chief told then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair that Altaf Hussain would be willing to support the NATO if the British government helped the MQM to disband the ISI and force changes to the constitution . He also claimed to have personally visited the MQM chief at his residence in London, where Altaf Hussain allegedly told him that the MQM was planning on supporting a ‘secret American plot’ to break up Pakistan. He added that he had moved 20 men – ten of whom were facing the death penalty and ten facing life imprisonment – out of prisons in Karachi to prevent them from running criminal networks from behind bars, but that this effort was foiled by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad Khan of the MQM,a party run from the United Kingdom, who brought them back to Karachi . He added that 25 ‘known’ target killers were released from jail ^[5] His press conference was a major event and became major topic of discussion all over Pakistan.

In November 2011, Mirza left for London carrying documents he claimed to to contain evidence against Hussain and the MQM in the murder of Imran Farooq.^[6] Mirza presented the evidence to the Scotland Yard on 17 November 2011.^[7]

Fight against corruption[link]

Zulfiqar Mirza has said that political gathering of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was an indicator of change in Pakistan and thousands of PPP workers, loyal to Benazir Bhutto and ZA Bhutto, along with Shah Mehmood Qureshi would come out on the streets for a change too. Mirza said that he was still a PPP worker and vowed to fight against corrupt ministers and mafias in the party.^[8]

See also[link]

• List of Pakistanis
• Cadet College Petaro

References[link]

External links[link]

• Zulfiqar Mirza's Web Site