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Amjad Ayub Mirza (Urdu:ڈاکٹر امجد ایوب مرزا) (born c. 1959) is a Pakistani left political activist, scholar and leader.
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Exile
In 1978 he went into exile to China where he received medical education. Amjad Ayub Mirza remained in China till 1984. It was in China that he thoroughly observed and studied Mao Zedong's revolutionary methodology. In 1979 when the former elected Pakistani Prime-Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was assassinated, Mirza conducted a massive anti-Zia rally in Beijing on 6 April 1979. This was the first protest rally on this issue in any foreign country. In China he clandestinely published an Urdu pro-democracy magazine called Fikrr e Nau (New Thoughts). He now lives in Glasgow.
Activities
Amjad Ayub Mirza also known as Ricky was born in Nottingham in 1959 where his father practiced as an NHS doctor. In 1963 the family moved to Pakistan and returned to the UK in 1990. Amjad Ayub Mirza practiced as a medical doctor in Pakistan from 1984 to 1995. However, during this period he traveled back to his mother country, the U.K. and held several meetings with leading members of the British political groups.
In May 2009 he toured Pakistan and gave several lectures on democracy-related topics to university students in Lahore. He has vast experience of working among different Pakistani and Scottish political and social groups.
During 2016 Mirza had a change of heart. During an interview Dr. Mirza said that he now considered both left and right extremism are out of date and that a moderate common sense approach to politics is the way forward. Dr Mirza completed a master's degree in Film and Television Studies from Glasgow university in 2016. His book Misrepresentation of Culture in Pakistani Cinema was published in 2013.