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  Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak :: Khyber.ORG
Aslam Khan Khattak, the eldest son of Khan Bahadur Muhammad Quli Khan, was born in Chitral on 5th.
Aslam Khattak avoids confrontation; always looking for a compromise to the status quo.Winning again in the 1970 elections as an Independent candidate, he formed the `United Front' and was elected the Speaker of the N.W.F.P. Assembly.
In 1974 Mr.Bhutto appointed Khattak as the Ambassador to Iran.
www.khyber.org /people/pol/MuhammadAslamKhanKhattak.shtml   (2734 words)

  
  Khattak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khattak or Khatak (Urdu: خٹک) is a Pashtun tribe.
Khattak tribe is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
A warrior poet by the name of Khushal Khan Khattak (1613-1690) belonged to this tribe, and his contributions to Pushto literature are considered as classic texts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khattak   (149 words)

  
 Pakistan Prepares Final Push In South Waziristan
General Khattak spoke from the windy escarpment of Karwana Manzai -- a strategic position in South Waziristan that was seized from militants in September.
Khattak says his troops now control three-fourths of South Waziristan and are preparing operations aimed at flushing out militants from the remainder of the region.
Khattak said troops recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the "den" of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abdullah Mahsud, who is also said to have masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan last month.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1279853/posts   (1695 words)

  
 Bleak prospects for human rights
Khattak rejects the referendum as unconstitutional (he gave the interview before the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the legality of the process).
But now, as Khattak apprehends, the system is set to be used to undermine the future Prime Minister and the Parliament that he or she would lead, from the bottom.
Born in the district of Kohat, south of Peshawar, Khattak was a student leader.
www.flonnet.com /fl1910/19100510.htm   (1346 words)

  
 Pakistan Link
Afrasiab Khattak is that rare breed of Pukhtun intellectuals who having come from a feudal background, has transcended cultural, religious and social barriers to become a liberal crusader for the rights of women and minorities in Pakistan.
During the turbulent 70’s Khattak was a student leader on the campus of the University of Peshawar where he studied English literature and law.
Khattak is following the path that was trail blazed by Asma Jahangir his predecessors as president of the Human rights Commission of Pakistan (HRC).
www.pakistanlink.com /sah/06-30-2000.html   (734 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khushal Khan Khattak (1613 - 1689)(Pashto: خوشحال خان خټک) was a famous Pashtun (Afghan) warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe.
Khushhal Khan Khattak was the son of Shahbaz Khan and was born in 1613.
The Mazar of Khushal Khan Khattak is situated near the Railway Station of Akora Khattak in Nowshera district.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khushal_Khan_Khattak   (721 words)

  
 akk.html
Khattak was recalled and appointed as Registrar Co-operative Societies with the additional portfolio of Director Industries and Post-War Reconstruction Officer.
Aslam Khattak avoids confrontation; always looking for a compromise to the status quo.Winning again in the 1970 elections as an Independent candidate, he formed the `United Front' and was elected the Speaker of the N.W.F.P. Assembly.
In 1974 Mr.Bhutto appointed Khattak as the Ambassador to Iran.
zeejah.tripod.com /akk.html   (2707 words)

  
 FindLaw | Cases and Codes
On September 13, 1994, defendant Gul Khan Khattak, a resident of Pakistan, was charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to import eight kilograms of heroin from Pakistan into the United States.
But Khattak contends that waiver-of-appeals provisions are void as contrary to public policy, because defendants cannot ever knowingly and voluntarily waive their rights to appeal future errors.
Khattak asks us to void the waiver-of-appeals provision of his plea agreement and reach the merits of his appeal (the denial of a minor-role adjustment), or in the alternative, vacate his guilty plea.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=3rd&navby=case&no=004169   (2138 words)

  
 Headlines: More salt may mean less ice on city roads this winter | salt, khattak, city : Gazette.com
Khattak is manager of the city’s street division, the guy responsible for overseeing the plowing and sanding of city streets after it snows.
Khattak said he received an additional $200,000 in his budget, in part, to buy a sanding mix that contains 20 percent salt, a significant increase from the 6 percent salt mix the city has been using for years.
Khattak is obviously hoping his crews don’t have to spread the superduper salt and gravel mix very often this winter.
www.gazette.com /articles/salt_28164___article.html/khattak_city.html   (641 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Pakistani commander claims al-Qaeda militants eliminated from tribal region   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Niaz Khattak, who is leading the hunt for militants in South Waziristan, said as many as 600 militants were in the region last year.
In a briefing at the army post, Khattak said the mountain was at the center of several months of fighting.
Khattak said Abdullah Mehsud, a former prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was still alive and hiding in the tribal region.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-28-pakistan-alqaeda_x.htm?csp=15   (592 words)

  
 World Sindhi Institute
Khattak, still a student, joined Pakhtoon Students’ Federation, a nationalist student body, and organized youth movements against the oppressive regime.
Khattak opposed the unconstitutional dissolution of the provincial government in Balochistan in 1973, and was forefront in the struggle for national rights of the Baloch and Pakhtoon people.
Khattak is a strong promoter of peace between Pakistan and India and is a member of Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, an NGO organization that works in both Pakistan and India.
www.worldsindhi.org /pastevents/2006/afrasiabkhattak06.html   (296 words)

  
 Tehreek-e-Pakistan Key Mujahid - Mohammad Yousaf Khan Khattak
Mohammad Yousaf Khan Khattak was born in 1917 in a renowned Khattak family of Karak.
Yousaf Khattak was a part of a number of delegations which represented Pakistan abroad such as Member of Delegation to UN in 1951-52, Iraq in 1962, Commonwealth Conference in 1963, Simia in 1971-72, Iran and China in 1974.
Yousaf Khattak was elected as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan in 1971 and was inducted in the Federal Cabinet as Federal Minister for Fuel, Power and National Resources in 1974.
www.pakpost.gov.pk /philately/stamps2003/mohammad_yousaf_khan_khattak.html   (427 words)

  
 khoschal khan khattak 1
Of his concept which rather is as a concept so that one can speak about his philosophy is out watch, that, on young people, a scheduled and aim full action is important to demand intellectually, moral and physical and train to responsibility conscious and strong-minded personalities her with all her abilities and strengths.
Khoschal Khan Khattak hasn't seen the individual education and the social education as a contrast but was of the opinion that all individual education happens in the social room and all social education focuses on the single personality.
Khoschal Khan Khattak is the first Afghan mentor who presents his theories for the unity of the afghan, resistance against the foreign parts and the creation of a nation-state.
www.beepworld.de /members4/wolas/khoschalkhankhatta.htm   (1519 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak
He was buried, accordingly, at a place named I-surraey, a small hamlet in the Khattak mountains, where his tomb may still be seen; and, according to his dying request, his last resting-place was kept concealed, till all danger of insult from the Mughals had passed away.
Khushal Khan was the father of fifty-seven sons, besides several daughters; but, with the exception of four or five of the former, they do not appear to have been particularly worthy of their parent’s affection.
Up to the time of Khushal’s chieftainship, the bounds of the Khattak country were not well defined; that is to say, each family of the tribe had no fixed lands allotted to them.
www.pakhtun.com /KhushalKhanKhattak.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Akora Khattak camp   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Of the Total camp population of 4,958 families as of December 2000, only 3,520 of the new arrival refugees at the Akora Khattak camps are registered with the UNHCR.
The remaining families have yet to be provided proper housing and are presently either living in tents supplied by the UNHCR and or SNI, or in temporary makeshift accommodation, comprising of plastic sheets, blankets and sticks.
As a result of this evaluation, it was agreed by the management team of SNI to continue operating the project at the level of 1,000 families utilizing the $11,857 still on hand in our account for this project.
www.rope.org.uk /akorakcamp.html   (3473 words)

  
 Chandra Khattak, Ph.D, To Lead Silicon R&D & Product Development at GT Solar
Khattak carried out pioneering work toward development of low-cost, solar grade silicon, including the upgrading of MG silicon, utilization of silicon scrap and fine powder.
Prior to that assignment, he was a physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where he worked on the development of materials for fusion reactors and adapted a neutron scattering data program for x-ray data analysis to solve structures of complicated materials, which became an industry standard.
Khattak has been an invited speaker at international PV conferences and at solar silicon conferences organized by Photon International.
www.greenjobs.com /Public/newsitems/news00310.aspx   (425 words)

  
 Expert in Crystalline Silicon Joins GT Equipment & GT Solar
Dr. Khattak carried out pioneering work toward development of low-cost, solar grade silicon, including the upgrading of MG silicon, utilization of silicon scrap and fine powder.
Khattak is the former Executive Vice President of Silicon Operations and R&D at Crystal Systems, Inc. in Salem, MA where he spent 29 years.
Prior to that assignment, he was a physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where he worked on the development of materials for fusion reactors and adapted a neutron scattering data program for x-ray data analysis to solve structures of complicated materials, which became an industry standard.
renewableenergyaccess.com /rea/market/business/viewstory?id=44647   (474 words)

  
 Transportation Research Cluster
Khattak has conducted and managed research (totaling three million dollars) on (a) traveler behavior, transportation network performance and the role of Intelligent Transportation Systems, (b) transportation safety and traffic operations and (c) new transportation planning methods for highways, transit, pedestrian, bicycle and air transportation systems.
Khattak has 15 years of research experience and 11 years of teaching experience in the transportation field, after completing his Ph.D. He has authored 55 scholarly journal articles and 42 technical reports.
Khattak is the Editor for the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Taylor and Francis Publishers.
www.eng.odu.edu /transportation/asad-khattak.shtml   (210 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak - The Warrior and the poet
hushal Khan Khattak was born at Akora Khattak district Nowshera in 1613.
Khushal Khan Khattak was later on released and returned to homeland in 1668, but the relations between government and him remained tense.
The Mazar of Khushal Khan Khattak is situated near the Railway Station of Akora Khattak in Nowshera district.
www.zmong-afghanistan.com /khushal.asp   (288 words)

  
 Home Page
Khattak and P. Keesom and S P Faile "Specific heat of the magneli phases (V
G D Khattak, M A Salim and L E Wegner, "X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and magnetization studies of iron sodium borate glasses", J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 244 (1999)128
G D Khattak, M A Salim and L E Wegner, "X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and magnetization studies copper-vanadium phosphate glasses", J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 262 (2000)66
www.kfupm.edu.sa /phys/Faculty/profiles/gkhattak.htm   (132 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner 2001: San Francisco
In this role, Khattak has been one of the most outspoken advocates for the protection of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, challenging government policies and practices aimed at deporting existing refugees and curbing further inflows.
Khattak's work as an activist extends back to previous elected and military governments.
Arrested for his opposition to the martial law regime of General Zia ul-Haq, he was convicted by a military court in 1979 and sentenced to a year of labor in prison.
www.hrw.org /community/dinner/2001/sf.htm   (694 words)

  
 DAWN - Features; August 14, 2002
Khushhal Khan Khattak thought that he was the hero of Ajmer (Rajisthan) and it was he who had presented it to Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan on a gold plate.
Khushhal Khan Khattak’s poetry was eulogized by all and it was easily forgotten that he was not only a poet par excellence but also a scholar of high calibre.
Ajmal Khattak, a well known Pashto poet, is his descendant, but he doesn’t rise as tall as his ancestor.
www.dawn.com /2002/08/14/fea.htm   (1747 words)

  
 Khattak - LoveToKnow 1911
KHATTAK, an important Pathan tribe in the North-West Frontier Province of India, inhabiting the south-eastern portion of the Peshawar district and the south-eastern and eastern portions of Kohat.
They number 24,000, and have always been quiet and loyal subjects of the British government.
This page was last modified 20:56, 3 Sep 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Khattak   (65 words)

  
 Khattak | Faculty/Staff | Civil Engineering | Departments | College of Engineering | University of Nebraska-Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Khattak, Aemal J., Joseph E. Hummer, and Hassan A. Karimi.
Khattak, Aemal J., John A. Gaber, and Sharon L. Gaber.
Khattak, Aemal J., Geza Pesti, and Vijay Kannan.
www.nuengr.unl.edu /civil/faculty/khattak.shtml   (1927 words)

  
 Pastho: Poems of Khushal Khan Khattak , Olaf Caroe, Evelyn Howell : Itefaq (Concord) « Pukhtana’s Blog
This entry was posted on 25 February, 2007 at 4:09 am and is filed under Afghanistan, Books, Khushal Khan Khattak, Olaf Caroe, Pashto Poetry, Poems of Khushal Khan Khattak, Poetry, Poetry Books, Pukhtun Matters, Pukhtunkhwa.
I used to recite the Verses of Nanagyalai Baba (Khushal Khan Khattak).
Khattak baba is accept Grand Father of all Khattak’s and all Pukhtoons..!
dranapukhtana.com /2007/02/25/pastho-poems-of-khushal-khan-khattak-olaf-caroe-evelyn-howell-itefaq-concord   (1399 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak
Khushal Khan Khattak (b.1613-1690) wrote in Pashtu during the reign of the Mongol emperors in the seventeenth century.
Khushhal Khan was born near Peshawar, the son of Shahbaz Khan, a chief of the Khattak tribe.
His grave carries the inscription: "I have taken up the sword to defend the pride of the Afghan, I am Khushal Khattak, the honorable man of the age." The Khattak tribe of Khushhal Khan now lives in the areas of Kohat, Peshawar, and Mardan.
www.afghan-network.net /biographies/khattak.html   (418 words)

  
 History of NA 7 Charsadda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ajmal Khattak: former ANP president and the founder of NAP has been re-joined ANP and merged his party NAP in this party, announcing at Wali Bagh Charsadda in front of Rehber Khan Abdul Wali Khan.
The return of khattak will give better energy to the members of the party who were depressed on the over through of Khattak.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Human Rights committee, Afrasiyab Khattak re-joined ANP too after a long journey without it.
www.khyberwatch.com /na7.htm   (725 words)

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