2009 Class Notes for BSc 1999

[Note: We are now compiling class notes for the 2009 LUMS Alumni Annual Magazine. Please update this page with your latest information. I will be submitting these notes to the Alumni Office on 31 May 2009. If you don't find your name in this list: (1) add it in the appropriate place (the notes are sorted by roll number) and write a sentence or two about what you're up to these days and (2) remove it from the "Classmates not included in these notes" section at the end of the document. Thanks! - Ameel]

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Abdul Mannan Abbasi is working in London with Morgan Stanley. He is happily married and is missing New York.

Adeel Janeed Meer is working in Jersey City.

Adeel Jamil Siddiqui and Nadia Hussain recently moved to Washington DC with their 2 year old daughter. "Marhoon" has been working on the healthcare side of the computer industry and hopes to finally do something more meaningful than coding at work. After finally putting some weight on his skinny bones, Adeelo now spends much time trying to keep if off (rather unsuccessful so far).

Adil Paracha, who has been working in the UK for the last 3 years, recently joined Kimberly Clark Europe as European Brand Manager on their bath tissue business. He is a proud father of a boy and two girls.

Adnan Bhutta and Naira Latif Chaudhry have a very cute son named Mikail and are expecting another one in late August. Adnan is still working at Microsoft.

Ahmed Hamidani is working in Singapore.

Alefia Lotia and hubbyHuzaifa are sweltering -- constantly! -- in Irving, TX. Chatterbox Zainab (3+) and 6 month old Zahra the Grabber are enjoying school, pool, and naps.

Aliya Salahuddin is workingin London.

Amanullah Jiffrey Kariapper, after spending a couple of years in Grenoble (France), is back in Lahore and back at Strategic Systems International (SSI). He's looking into teaching computer science, especially in public sector institutions, and is working to raise political awareness among the youth (particularly students) of Lahore.

Amber Riaz is doing her PhD from Oxford.


Ambreen Gilani (formerly Iqbal Malik) is working with the Poverty Group at UNDP and continues to enjoy living in New York.

Ameel Zia Khan is working for Melbourne Water in Australia. He continues to be an active blogger and you can read his professional blog at insanityworks.org/acme and his personal blog at insanityworks.org/randomtangent.

Amir Ali Jafri is working for Microsoft in Seattle.

Aqib Elahi Mehboob recently set up a new broking firm with his boss, Nadeem Naqvi, at AKD Securities. The new outfit is called Alpha Beta Capital Markets, he now aims to break into the top 5 with this new outfit, but the market has been tough. Things were way easier at AKD! Happily married, with 2 kids - Adil (6) and Areeba (3). Recently lost weight, hair and HIS MUSTASCHE!

Ashab Naeem Iqbal is working for American Express in London. He got married last summer and is planning a move back to Dubai.

Asif Amjad is working for KPMG Financial Advisory in Riyadh.

Asim Butt is making art in Karachi after graduating from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 2006.

Asim Memon and Mariyam Mansur are both working for Microsoft in Seattle.

Assed Jehangir and Tania Tariq have moved to the Hague. Assed has started work at Siemens Netherlands after completing his Phd. Tania is a stay at home mom who is usually found cleaning up after the eternally energetic Ayaan (3) and Elaina (2).

Babar Ghias is rock-steady in NYC with Rabia and his 6 month old baby daughter

Faisal Wahab continues to run his pharma and toiletries business in Karachi. He also recently joined a brokerage house as Head of Brand Development.

Faisal Wasey got married and is (still) loving it.

Farheen Lotia (formerly Alwi) is in Karachi.

Farooq Mustafa Alavi is working for Standard Chartered in Karachi.

Fatima Ashraf still calls Houston home. She keeps busy entertaining four year old Ahmed and one year old Sophia. She is going to start taking piano lessons soon.

Fatima Muzaffar is living in London. She's busy being a full-time mom to her three year old son Mikaeel.

Feroze Gulzar is busy playing polo while runs his family business on the side (i.e. whenever he manages to find the time away from polo). He got married to Hina Khar last December. They have an 8 month old daughter named Anaya.

Fuad Ghazanfar is working for Nestle in Lahore.

Hassan Ali joined Intrinsyx Technologies in San Francisco and started his career in business development. He is also involved with NASA in San Francisco (in their human and animal space venture program!). He got influenced by sufiastic Islam and planning on redoing the trip to Mauritania to get blessings from a 100+ year old sufi shaykh!

Hassan Javed is in Redmond.

Hina Khar won her seat in the 2008 elections with a strong majority and is now a special assistant to the PM on economic affairs. Way to go Hina! She got married to Feroze Gulzar in December 2007.

Hina Khawar Aslam is married to Akbar Ahmad and has settled in London. They have a wonderful daughter Zara (3+).

Iftikhar Rafi got married and is currently working for a Swiss bank in Dubai.

Imran Ahmed is taking the year off to see the world.

Junaid Bin Jahangir is probably in Canada.

Khawaja Bashir Uddin is living in Dubai with his wife (Sana) and daughter (Zaynah). He is working as Sales Manager for EMS, which is BlackBerry's Partner in Middle East & Africa.

Khurram Khaliq Khan got married to Fatima Hayat in May 2007 and together they started a new interior design company FK Collezioni. Khurram is still working with his company Quadra Technologies and their international partners Deutsche Telekom, Daktronics, and BMG.

Kiran Nanjiani is probably in the UK.

Maha Ahmed, after a successful career at the World Bank and the UN, decided to pursue an academic life and is working towards her PhD in Holland. However, she is often found jet setting to Marbella or Mallorca.

Mahira Daha and Fareed Zaffar are both in Lahore.

Mahvash Akram has moved to Dubai from London with her husband, Yusuf, and has three kids (a boy and two girls).

Makhmoor-ul-Hassan is working with Shell in London as a Financial consultant for Global Mergers and Acquisitions. Still all of 5 feet tall he is regularly stopped by the Bobbies for random full body searches.

Marium Naeem is currently in London where she is working with Shell as the European Credit Manager for the Aviation Business. She can usually be found in various European cities as she continues to clock air miles. And yes: she, Makhmoor, and Marium still form the BSc '99 power group in Shell London (Sameer left them for sunnier skies).

Mariyam Mansur has a beautiful little girl. She is working in Microsoft with her hubby Asim Memon.

Marukh Aftab is working for Nokia-Siemens Dubai as a telecommunications consultant and recently had a beautiful baby girl.

Mehreen Tanvir Butt just attended her five year graduate school reunion in Boston and is shocked that its been so long since she entered the "real world"! These space scientists should stop wasting their time demoting Pluto and start working on that time machine. Pronto!

Mehwish Zaman is full-time mom in London. Her son Zorane is 15 months old.

Moazzam Ali Khan is working for Unilever in London and has a baby boy.

Monazza Aslam got her PhD and is now working towards a post-doc in Oxford. She recently had a baby girl, Zara.

Muhammad Amaan Akram is working in London and has two beautiful daughters.

Muhammad Hasan Muzaffar is finally getting to spend more time at home in Dubai with Marukh Aftab and his two month old baby Zaria. There are rumours that he sold his soul to McKinsey and one wonders if he'll ever quit the consulting life.

Muhammad Omer Iqbal is still happily married and working for Microsoft in Seattle.

Muhammad Oosman launched several online services from Silicon Valley. Zavaj.com, a Muslim matrimonial portal, is the oldest service and is free. After starting www.LeLeDesigning.com (a website designing company), he soon launched www.LeLeCart.com (providing hosted e-commerce websites for merchants). Recently he ventured into mobile marketing area by launching website for real estate marketing www.TxtAHouse.com.

Mustafa Zulfiqar Rakla completed his MBA from INSEAD and is now working for McKinsey. He and Marzia recently had a daughter.

Nabeeha is going to be celebrating her tenth wedding anniversary in August, and feels it is high time that she changes her name on the alumni notes to Nabeeha Arif; that's been her identity for the last ten years! She is in Karachi teaching Mathematics & English Literature at the Convent of Jesus & Mary. Her daughter, Iman, is now five and a half, and though most say she resembles her dad, you talk to her one minute and you know she's like her mom.

Nasir Masud Khan is currently working at eBay, Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer.

Nauman Akbar is in Lahore.

Neda Mulji is in Dubai with Sameer Anees and their daughter Alesha who is very chatty, just like her dad.

Nirmal Babar is in the US.

Novira Sabir is in London busy being a mom to her two daughters, Alizeh (1) and Manal (6), and running a small business of her own, Rusum (www.rusum.co.uk), which does photography and make-up for brides.

Omer Mehmood Asad is currently working for Riverbed Technology in San Francisco, California. He is happily married to Maira. They were blessed with a little angel, Aleena this year. He still travels allot for work and hates it. He is still surprised why people, in B.Sc. class notes, claim that he has been getting offers from Google and he is rejecting it; Why would he?

Razal Minhas is in the US.

Rida Zaidi is living in London and plans to spend this year being a serial failure at the driving test. Her husband who took three times to pass is prepping her so hopefully she's in safe hands! She is now with Fitch and is the primary reason behind the sub-prime crisis.

Runaas Deheem is happily married, living in Jeddah, and managing Pantene for the Arabian Peninsula region. He has left the party lifestyle and is working hard to adopt a religious one (with limited success). He can be found in Makkah praying hard for his next assignment to be in Beirut. Rumors are abound that he has started exercising for the first time in his life and has vowed to overtake Salman Ahmed as the second-least-muscular guy in the batch.

Saara Salim is busy being a mom in London.

Sabeen Pirzada is happily married to Aniq Ahmad and is living in the sweltering city of Houston TX. She completed her CPA and is working with a public accounting Firm as a Manager in Tax. She wishes Uncle Sam would leave her clients alone so that she can have more time at home!!

Saif Nomani is working as a wildlife biologist and statistician in sunny Wyoming. Getting married in July :)

Salman Ahmed works for Goldman Sachs in London. He recently got his US visa after a two year wait and also recently failed his driving test!

Salman Khalid is working in a cube for Microsoft in Seattle like many other BSc '99 folk.

Salman Mahbub is based in DC and working for Sapient.

Salman Mahmood is happily married and living in Texas.

Saman Sheikh is working for PBS in Chicago -- that too in the most dangerous neighbourhood in America! She shuttles between Pakistan (which she can't ever have enough of) and the US to work on exciting/life threatening journalistic projects in both countries to compensate for not having become the first Pakistani Formula 1 driver. Her future plans include breaking barriers and promoting love and tolerance for humanity at large. If she's ever lucky enough, the only person she'll run over with her Ferrari will be Razal.

Sameer Mohammad Anees recently left the Royal Dutch Shell Group in London and is now a Dubai-based strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little. Happily married to Neda Mulji with a soon to be three year old daughter Alesha (pronounced Ali-Sha), he continues to love the sound of his own voice and offend people with his strong views on just about every topic under the sun. He is proud of the fact that his waist line is exactly the same as it was in college. In fact, nothing much has changed except that his hair just a little greyer in certain places and his attitude just just a little tamer than it used to be.

Samir Zahid is married and back in Australia with his wife Saira.

Sarah Fatima Zaka is working as a development economist and consultant in Lahore. She has two daughters.

Sarah Naeem Qureshi has two boys and is working as a realtor in the DC/Virginia area.

Sehr Sheikh is busy with her son Zayaan and excels at making fantastic birthday cakes.

Sheikh Mohammad Ali manages Hilal Technologies in Lahore.

Shahzad Hasan is working at a quant hedge fund in New York city, focusing at the Fixed Income options world.

Shazia Farooq Rahim is in Karachi.

Shayan Mehdi Zaidi has continued to maintain his position at the top of BSc '99ers Most Eligible Bachelors list -- all those wild pictures on his Facebook profile do tell tales, after all. Still based in Chicago, he has racked up a few million miles travelling coast-to-coast within the continental United States while working on various projects. His current goal in life is to acquire double platinum status with all the major US airlines before they go bankrupt or shut down their operations altogether. The best place to catch him is at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

Syed Mustafa Bilal is in Seattle and is also working for Microsoft. He got married in December 2007.

Syed Salman Zaidi is on the trading floor at Deutsche in Singapore. Salman tries balancing his time between getting his butt kicked by his boss at work and by Samreen at home.

Tayyab Rafiq Balagamwala is working for his family business in Karachi.

Umair Jalil is an entrepreneur who launched Web and Mobile (WAM), a software development/consulting business headquartered in Dubai. WAM has developed software solutions used by 4500+ companies in 90 countries in 18 languages. Umair is happily married and has 2 beautiful babies: Abdullah (3.5 years old and currently undergoing cancer treatment at SickKids hospital in Toronto for stage 4 neuroblastoma -- may Allah cure him completely and give him a long, healthy and blessed life in this world; please pray for him) and Aayan (2 years old). www.umairjalil.com

Usman Waheed is working as a Brand Manager at Nestle for Children Health & Nutrition (Nestle NIDO). He is happily married and has a two and a half year old daughter named Reem. Usman is happy to touch base with you on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Yasir Ali keeps busy managing his portfolio of stocks, options and ETFs when he is not @work (wink wink). Finally, he has moved to the Cisco campus in Massachusetts and commutes to work thrice a week. On the family front, Sadaf and Yasir are expecting their second child and have realised that finding the right baby name is way tougher than finding a house!

Zeeshan Mansoor is working for his family business in Karachi.

Classmates not included in these notes: Aisha Hassan (formerly Masood Rashid), Anita Manzoor Chaudhry, Hasanat Ahmed Haider, Laila Bushra, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Zakria Khan, Muhammad Rashid, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Nadia Rehman, Rana Sajjad Ahmad, Sabeen Pirzada, Shama Saeed, Syed Hasan Hasnat, Syeda Shehrbano Kazim, Waqas Ahmed, Haseeb Hadi, and Wasif Tanvir.

This is the third year we have successfully compiled our class notes online. If you weren't aware that this compilation was happening, you're probably not in touch with the rest of us on MyFamily.com or on Facebook. Please do get in touch with us because we really would like to know what you're up to, even if all you give us is a one-sentence update on your life.