This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.
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Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar
Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher
Rukhsana Ahmad – writer, playwright, and translator
Moonis Ahmar – scholar of international relations and conflict resolution
Afaq Ahmed – leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan
Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure
Riaz Ahsan – professor and former president of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association
Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford
Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations
Ahmed Ali – co-founder of Progressive Writers Movement & Association; novelist; short story writer; critic; translator; diplomat; scholar
Sohail Aman – Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force
Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies
Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan; former Citibank executive officer
B
Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist
Hina Baig – Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography
Sanam Baloch – television actress
Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist
D
Noon Meem Danish – poet
Quentin D’Silva – former Chairman and Chief Executive, Shell Pakistan Limited
F
Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster
Tarek Fateh – writer, novelist, columnist, author
Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
Robin Fernandez – journalist and Foreign Editor for the Express Tribune
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Khalida Ghous – scholar of international relations and human rights; activist
H
Husain Haqqani – Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States
Hussain Haroon – Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations
Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert
Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan
Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
Nehal Hashmi – Senator, General secretary PML-N Sindh
Mehwish Hayat – model
Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet
Abdul Rasheed Hussain – Maldivian politician and public figure
Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
I
Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer
J
Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature
Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi; MQM leader
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Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan; exchange student in the early 1970s
Rashid Kausar – Professor of Knowledge Management
Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects
Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
Rana Muhammad Akram Khan – former Chairman, Punjab Bar Council
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Anthony Theodore Lobo – Roman Catholic bishop
M
Rehman Malik – Senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan
Yawar Malik – former Competitive Gymnastics under-18 national champion
Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer
Gholam Mujtaba – politician and Pakistani American
Waheed Murad – film actor
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Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister
Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist
Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England
Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer
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Nadeem F. Paracha – journalist, cultural critic and satirist
Tanwir Phool – poet; children's literature author; officer of the central bank of the Government of Pakistan
Zinia Pinto – principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963-99
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Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi
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Raza Rabbani – Senator
Atta ur Rahman – Chairman of HEC; Director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
Raheel Raza – author
S
Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist
Faisal Sabzwari – deputy parliamentary leader of MQM
Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News
Ehsan Sehgal – poet and journalist
Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
Rashid Minhas Shaheed – PAF Officer; received Nishan-e-Haider
Parveen Shakir – Urdu poet, teacher, civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic
Muhammad Rashid Ali (Siddiqui) – sports journalist
Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960–1962
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Muhammad Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar; served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party
Raees Warsi – poet; author; founder and president of Urdu Markaz New York
Talat A. Wizarat – scholar of international relations and Middle Eastern studies
