Rajanpur (Urdu: راجن پور) is a city and the headquarters of Rajanpur District in the far southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan. The district lies entirely west of the Indus River. it is a narrow, 32 kilometres (20 mi) to 64 kilometres (40 mi) wide strip of land sandwiched between the Indus River on the east and the Sulaiman Mountains on the west. The town is approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the west bank of the river. It had a population of 42,986 in 1998.

Rajanpur was named by a warlord Makhdoom Shaikh Rajan in 1772-73.^{[citation needed]} It remained a small and little known village located on the road from Dera Ghazi Khan (Punjab) to Sukkur in (Sindh) until 1862.^{[citation needed]} In that year, Mithankot, a larger and more prosperous town located southeast of Rajanpur and closer to the Indus River, was completely destroyed by floods.^{[citation needed]}The administrative offices of the Assistant District Commissioner of the British government were moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur, because of its location at a safer distance from the river. Many prosperous Hindu Arora merchants and traders also moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur. It became a municipality and the tehsil headquarters in 1873.^{[citation needed]} Now it is a well developed city of south punjab.

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Shireen M. Mazari, PhD, is a Pakistan political scientist and a prominent geostrategist, currently serving as Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Tank (FAT) of the Pakistan Movement of Justice. She is currently working as the editor of the daily The Nation newspaper and as the Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party. She has also served as the Director General of The Institute of Strategic Studies, a think-tank based in Islamabad and was until recently a regular columnist at the daily The News International. She former served as professor of Military Science at the Quaid-e-Azam University.

Mazari was removed from her position as editor of The News after charging that journalists and aid workers were operatives for the US Government and the CIA. She cites American pressure in these episodes, a charge that both the government and The News administration deny.

Mazai attended the London School of Economics and Political Science where she gained a B.Sc. with (Honours), followed by double M.Sc. in Military Science and Political science from the same institution. Mazari then traveled to United States where she attended the Columbia University. At there, she was awarded a Ph.D. in Political Science where her dissertation contained a comprehensive studies on Military history, geostrategic, and the foreign policy of Pakistan.

Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi (Urdu: علامہ سید ساجد علی نقوی) is the head of the largest Shia organization of Pakistan namely Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan (TJP). After a ban by Musharraf regime, it continues to work under the name of Tehrik-e-Islami.

He is often called Numainda-e-Wali-e-Faqih in Pakistan, as he politically represents the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatullah Ali Khamenei.

After the killing of Arif Hussain Hussaini in 1988, he was elected as the Head of Tehreek-e-Jafaria by the Supreme Council of Shia Ulama of Pakistan.

Azhar Hussain is a wrestler from Pakistan. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won his country's first medal, a silver, and its second, a gold. His second medal, gave Pakistan a Commonwealth wrestling gold medal after 40 years.

Azhar Hussain belongs to Tehsil and District Muzaffargarh and is a resident of village near Modka.

He joined Pakistan Army in year 2002 and was recruited in Baloch Regiment.During the initial days of his service, he competed in Unit/ Formation level wrestling competitions and displayed excellent competitive skills of wrestling.

Basing on his talent, he was selected to join Army Camp for further training under qualified Junior Commissioned Officer, Coach Subedar Hashim Ali.

Hussain participated in the 55kg class in both freestyle and Greco-Roman at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India. He won a silver medal in Greco-Roman after he was defeated (11-0) by Rajender Kumar in the final. In the finals of the freestyle event he won the gold, defeating his Nigerian opponent and securing the country's first title since the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. where they won four golds.