British-Pakistani Councillor Muhammad Afzal becomes Birmingham’s new lord mayor

Councillor Muhammad Afzal becomes Birmingham’s new Lord Mayor. The veteran Labour politician was sworn in to be the “First Citizen” of the city where he’s lived for more than 50 years now. Muhammad Afzal who was first elected as a councillor way back in 1982 from city’s Aston Ward is currently the longest serving Muslim councillor in the UK. Mohammad Afzal, who originally belongs to Dina near Jhelum, Pakistan, went to the UK in 1969. He also happens to be the first Muslim elected as a councillor in Birmingham. Mohammed…

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Inspire, Support and Creating Opportunities 

A former Youth Member of Parliament and GE19 Parliamentary Candidate, Atifa is a renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist who combines a successful management consulting career with active community involvement at local, national and international level. Beginning her professional career at Accenture, Atifa established her own consulting business in 2013, operating at Board Level large public and private sector clients to drive forward complex change and transformation projects.  She is now a Partner at Generations, an international practice providing financial reporting, management consultancy, real estate planning, and private equity services, to family…

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Pakistani who founded a multi-million dollar company ‘Wifigen’

What does it take for a man to reach his full potential? Good advice – more than anything else. And this was exactly what Bilal Ather got during his journey in creating wifigen a tool that gives free Wi-Fi to customers in exchange for their information. It is a software that operates on a subscription based model, costing around $20 per month only per access point, and uses permission-based Facebook API to give user access. Bilal was just an ordinary guy who like many other A-Levels students was not sure about…

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Australia approves two Pakistan mango facilities

The Australian Department of Water, Agriculture and Environment has approved two mango processing facilities of Pakistan for exports to Australia. This is in addition to two existing facilities, Consul General of Pakistan in Sydney Muhammad Ashraf said in a Whatsapp message. Two mango treatment facilities in Sindh — Mustafa Agriculture Farm, Kotri, and Iftekhar Ahmed & Co, New Sabzi Mandi, Karachi — have been approved by Australian authorities for export of mangoes from Pakistan. Taking to Twitter, Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood said the approval of the facility has been…

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