Syed Dildar Ali (Urdu: سید دلدار علی) commonly known as Prof. Dr. Farman Fatehpuri, SI, (Urdu: فرمان فتح پوری) (b. 1926) is the eminent Urdu linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar of Pakistan. He is widely regarded as the supreme living authority on life and work of Ghalib - the greatest ever Urdu poet. He has the credit of penning more than 300 scholarly articles, 600 book reviews, and 400 editorials to Nigar.

Farman Fatehpuri was born Syed Dildar Ali on January 26, 1926 in the Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father died in 1933 while he was still a child. He attained his matriculation from Fatehpur,and his intermediate education from Allahabad in 1948 and graduated from Agra University in 1950. Farman migrated to Pakistan in 1950 and settled in Karachi. He attained degrees in M.A., LLB, and B.T. from Karachi University.In 1965 he obtained a Ph.D. He holds the honour of being first Pakistani with a D.Litt in Urdu in 1974. He remained associated with Karachi University for nearly 30 years and produced many Ph.D.'s and researchers. He was later appointed chief editor and secretary of the Urdu Dictionary Board in 1985. In the same year, he was awarded the Sitar-e-Imtiaz medal by the government of Pakistan.

Altaf Hussain (Urdu: الطاف حسین) (born 17 September 1953 in Karachi) is the founder and leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). The MQM emerged as the third largest political party in the national assembly of Pakistan during 1988 and 1990 elections. The MQM secured representation in the parliamentary elections held in the northern areas of Pakistan comprising Kashmir & Gilgit-Baltistan. Since 1992 he has lived in the United Kingdom in self exile after surviving an assassination attempt in Pakistan.

Altaf Hussain was born to Nazir Hussain and Khursheed Begum on 17 September 1953 in Karachi.His parents belonged to religious families from Agra, India. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, his parents migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. Hussain’s grand-father, Mufti Mohammad Ramazan, was Grand Mufti of the town of Agra, UP, India and his maternal grand-father Haji Hafiz Raheem Bhux was a reputed religious scholar in India.

Altaf Hussain got his early education from Govt Comprehensive School, Azizabad No. 8 Karachi. He then completed his matriculation in 1969 from Government Boys Secondary School. He attended National College Karachi during First Year of his Intermediate Education (Pre-Medical/Science) but switched to City College Karachi during Second Year of Intermediate from where he completed Intermediate.After that he went on to complete his Bachelors of Science from Islamia Science College (Karachi) in 1974 apart from completing his Bachelor of Pharmacy by 1979 from the University of Karachi. After completion of his Bachelor of Pharmacy he later enrolled for his Master’s degree.

Meraj Muhammad Khan (Urdu: معراج محمد خان) (born 20 October 1938) is a political leader in Pakistan. A founding member of the Pakistan Peoples Party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto he served as Federal Minister for Manpower in the first PPP government (1972–1977), falling out with Bhutto in 1975 he was arrested and imprisoned in solitary confinement till his release in 1977. He later became leader of the Movement for Restoration of Democracy and was a prominent democratic activist and leftist leader in the 1980s.

Meraj Muhammad Khan joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf headed by Imran Khan in 1998, becoming secretary-general, but resigned from the party in 2003 citing differences with Khan. He then joined Mazdoor Kissan Party which later merged with Communist Party of Pakistan to form Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party.