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Baba-e-Gojri, Haji Rana Fazal Hussain

Baba-e-Gojri, Haji Rana Fazal Hussain, born in 1931 in the most turbulent period in the history of Jammu & Kashmir. Rana Fazal Hussain was destined to see two other disturbing periods of 1947 and 1965. In the early 1930s the Dogra rulers had imposed undue taxes on the zamindars, who were in overwhelming majority in Rajori and Poonch. The political movement in the valley had already started and the movement or agitation of 1931 was its second phase. The area people under the leadership of Haji Sakhi Muhammad, Malik Naimatullah, Raja Ata Muhammad, A.R Saghir and Mirza Muhammad Hussain refused to pay the land revenue. This agitation was also supported by writers and Journalists like Mirza Matiullah Ra’ana, Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Isma’eel Zabeeh. It was sort of replay of the famous Punjab movement popularly known as “Paggri Sambhal Jatta”. The Dogra government was forced to declare the bania bankers non-agriculturists who were not entitled to buy agrarian land under any pre...

Qamar Zaman Chaudhry

Qamar Zaman Chaudhry Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 10th October 2013 – Incumbent Born 1950 Major (R) Chaudhry Qamar Zaman is new Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan.NAB, the country’s top anti-graft watchdog, has almost become dysfunctional after the Supreme Court dismissed the then NAB chairman Fasih Bokharithrough its May 28 judgment. Qamar Zaman has held several key posts in his career. Qamar Zaman was criticized in the local media after Supreme Court ordered an investigation of Qamar for his alleged involvement in a major corruption scandal. However, an internal inquiry carried out by his own agency did not lead to any formal charges against him in a court of law. Previous Posts He is a Grade 22 officer and became Interior Secretary of Pakistan in 2009. He has also held the Post of Education Secretary of Pakistan. Commissioner Lahore and Executive Director Higher Education Commission Chairman of Capital Development Authority (CDA). Chief Sec...