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Anonymous — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:15:18 CDT

2009 Class Notes for BSc 1999

It's hard to believe but it's been ten years since we graduated. That means it's reunion time! We are planning one via the LUMS BSc 1999 Alumni group on Facebook so join in on the discussion and hope to see you in Lahore.

Abdul Mannan Abbasi is working in London with Riskmetrics. He is happily married and is no longer missing New York.

Adeel Janeed Meer is working in Jersey City.

Adeel Jamil Siddiqui and Nadia Hussain are in Washington DC with their 3 year old daughter.

Adil Paracha is working in the UK as a brand manager for Kimberly Clark Europe. He is a proud father of a boy and two girls.

Adnan Bhutta and Naira Latif Chaudhry have a son named Mikail and a daughter named Amna. They are both still working at Microsoft.

Ahmed Hamidani is working in Singapore.

Alefia Lotia and family are quite accustomed to the Texas heat. The girls (Zainab & Zahra) are (im)patiently waiting for the arrival of the newest addition-to-be. In the meantime Alefia is trying to catch as many naps as possible (so far not to her satisfaction). Pool, school, and never-ending housework is causing Alefia to search Craigslist for a 'driver' and a desi cook.

Aliya Salahuddin is working in London.

Amanullah Jiffrey Kariapper is at Strategic Systems International (SSI) in Lahore.

Amber Riaz is doing her PhD from Oxford.

Ambreen Gilani 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, called Alpha Beta Capital Markets, with his boss from AKD Securities (Nadeem Naqvi). He now aims to break into the top five with this new outfit, but the market has been tough. Things were way easier at AKD! He is happily married with two chidlren: Adil (6) and Areeba (3). He recently lost weight, his hair, and his mustache!

Ashab Naeem Iqbal is working for American Express in London.

Asif Amjad is working for KPMG Financial Advisory in Riyadh.

Asim Butt is making art in Karachi.

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

Assed Jehangir and Tania Tariq have moved to the Hague. After completing his PhD, Assed has started work at Siemens Netherlands. 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 in NYC with Rabia and his daughter. He is working at Credit Suisse.

Faisal Wahab continues to run his pharma and toiletries business in Karachi.

Faisal Wasey is in Karachi with his wife and daughter.

Farheen Lotia is in Karachi with her husband and daughter.

Farooq Mustafa Alavi is working for Standard Chartered in Karachi.

Fatima Ashraf has moved back to Calgary, Canada. She is trying to get used to the cold after spending three warm years in Houston. She is a stay-at-home mom to Ahmed, 5, and Sophia, 2.

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

Feroze Gulzar is busy playing polo while running his family business on the side. He is married to Hina Khar and they have a 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 a special assistant to the PM on economic affairs. She is married to Feroze Gulzar.

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

Iftikhar Rafi is working for a Swiss bank in Dubai.

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

Junaid Bin Jahangir is in Edmonton, Canada.

Khawaja Bashir Uddin is 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 is in Lahore with his wife, Fatima.

Kiran Nanjiani is in Karachi, working in the media industry.

Maha Ahmed is working towards her PhD in Holland.

Mahira Daha and Fareed Zaffar are both in Lahore. Fareed is teaching in LUMS.

Mahvash Ghous (formerly Akram) is in Dubai with her husband, Yusuf, and three kids (a boy and two girls).

Makhmoor-ul-Hassan is working for Shell in London.

Marium Hassan (formerly Naeem) is working for Shell in London.

Mariyam Memon and her hubby, Asim Memon, are both working for Microsoft in Seattle.

Marukh Aftab is working for Nokia-Siemens Dubai as a telecommunications consultant. She and Hasan Muzaffar have a beautiful baby girl (Zaria).

Mehreen Tanvir Butt is in the US.

Mehwish Zaman is full-time mom in London.

Moazzam Ali Khan is working for Unilever in London.

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 working for McKinsey in Dubai.

Muhammad Omer Iqbal is still happily married and working for Microsoft in Seattle. He recently had a daughter, Zainab.

Muhammad Oosman is in Silicon Valley.

Mustafa Zulfiqar Rakla is working for McKinsey. He and Marzia have a daughter.

Nabeeha is going to be celebrating her tenth wedding anniversary in August and feels it's high time she changes her name on the alumni notes to Nabeeha Arif because 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 only need to talk to her for one minute to know she's like her mom.

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

Nauman Akbar is working for Export Flow in Lahore.

Neda Mulji is in Dubai with Sameer Anees and their daughter Alesha.

Nirmal Babar is in Maryland.

Novira Sabir is in London busy being a mom to her two daughters, Alizeh and Manal, 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 and they were blessed with a little angel, Aleena, earlier this year. He still travels a lot for work and pretends to hate it. And he is still surprised when people in BSc class notes continue to claim that he has been getting job offers from Google and is rejecting them. Why would he?!

Razal Minhas is in the US.

Rida Zaidi is living in London and passed her driving test on the first try! She is working with Fitch and her past employer, FSA, is due to be abolished next year.

Runaas Deheem is happily married, living in Jeddah, and is managing Pantene for the Arabian Peninsula region.

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. He got married in July.

Salman Ahmed is in London and has passed his driving test with flying colors! He is currently working with Nouriel Roubini to set up a macro advisory business in the UK.

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.

Sameer Mohammad Anees is working as a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little in Dubai. He is married to Neda Mulji and they have a daughter Alesha (pronounced Ali-Sha).

Samir Zahid is 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.

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 is in Chicago.

Syed Mustafa Bilal is in Seattle and is also working for Microsoft.

Syed Salman Zaidi is at Deutsche Bank in Singapore.

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

Umair Jalil is the managing partner at Web and Mobile (WAM). He is happily married and has 3 children: Abdullah, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment at SickKids hospital in Toronto for stage 4 neuroblastoma (abdullahumair.blogspot.com), Aayan and Iman.

Usman Waheed is working in Bahrain as Brand Manager Coca-Cola Middle East. He is happily married and has a 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). He has finally 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 realized 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, Anita Manzoor Chaudhry, Hasanat Ahmed Haider, Laila Bushra, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Zakria Khan, Muhammad Rashid, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Nadia Rehman, Rana Sajjad Ahmad, Shama Saeed, Syed Hasan Hasnat, Syeda Shehrbano Kazim, Waqas Ahmed, Haseeb Hadi, and Wasif Tanvir.

This is the fourth year we have 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 the class on MyFamily.com or on Facebook. Please do get in touch 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.

2008 Class Notes for BSc 1999

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:49:10 CDT

2008 Class Notes for BSc 1999

[Note: The deadline for editing this page has passed and our class notes have been submitted to the LUMS Alumni Office. Thanks to everyone who helped compile them. - Ameel]

It's 2008, which means there is one year to go before our 10-year reunion. Where will we be, what will we be doing, and will any of us manage to get together to celebrate a decade since we graduated? I guess we'll find out next year. Meanwhile, here's what everyone is up to now.

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) got married to Adnan, has just moved to New York, and is loving all that the city has to offer.

Ameel Zia Khan finished his MBA from Melbourne Business School and plans to stick around in Melbourne for a few more yearswhile his wife finishes her PhD. He is 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 is at AKD Securities in Karachi.

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 made some big moves this year: he left Saudi Hollandi Bank (ABN Amro) to join Credit Suisse in Riyadh and, during this period, somehow found the time to get hitched to Sana.

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 are enjoying their stay in Enschede, the Netherlands, where Assed is going to get a doctorate degree this year. He also loves to play with Ayaan (2 year old son) and Alaina (1 year old daughter).

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.

Fuad Ghazanfar is working for Nestle in Lahore.

Hassan Ali has joined NASA in San Francisco (in their animal space venture program!). He got influenced by sufiastic Islam and took a recent 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 working as a Sales Planning Analyst with the handsets division at Motorola Middle East and is doing an evening MBA from the University of Strathclyde.

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 Jafar is in Karachi and is very busy, teaching at both the Convent of Jesus & Mary and Le'cole for Advanced Studies. She has a four and a half year old daughter, Iman.

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 Network Appliance after rejecting an offer from Google. In a global survey done recently, 100% (up from 99% last year) of respondents refused to believe this claim. He is happily married to Maira and lives in sunny California.

Razal Minhasis still 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.

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 helped get the BSc '99 crowd to hold several re-union parties in London.

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 currently trading Latin America credit derivatives at Merrill Lynch in New York city, where he spends most of his time worrying about the vagaries of the Latin debt markets. There is still no desi girl in his life (please note the "desi" part of that last sentence).

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 is still planning on how to get his children into Harvard.

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 second 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.

2007 Class Notes for BSc 1999

ameel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:17:00 CST

[Note: This page is now archived and should not be edited.]

It has now been over eight years since 'rag week' during our final days as students at LUMS. We were all dressed up as 'jamadaars' when we invaded Professor Ijlal Shah's office. Adnan Bhutta quietly picked up his wallet that lay on his desk. With all sincerity, we then negotiated among ourselves on how much we should take from his wallet as a 'donation' to our class. We believe the deal was struck in a very fair environment as we slid out the 'big notes'. Our impeccable character as a class was highlighted when we honorably returned a somewhat lighter wallet back to him. I remember that he was truly thankful and felt that the whole process was at least transparent. Finally, crazy Runaas poured a bucket full of water on Dr. Riaz, bringing the festivities to a dramatic end. Those were the days :). Oh Well, that was a trip down nostalgia lane, let's come back to the realities of life and how/what all of us are doing.

Adeel Meer Saheeb a.k.a Jon, has been bestowed with a new nick name in the ghettos of New York(Jersey City). He is now known as 'Fidvi' as in 'aap ka fidvi'. The latest excitement in his life is 'Poker'. Now this is what happens in the absence of a wife, a care taker or a girlfriend in US. All his married friends in NY and NJ seek refuge at his bachelor pad every friday for a poker night and the winner gets all...i.e. a six pack of diet coke! Oh by the way he is doing very well professionally in case you wonder.

Adnan Bhutta and Naira just had a very cute baby son whom they named Mikhail. Adnan is still working at Microsoft. Nowdays, he is also working hard to resolve the 'sood' issue in the light of Sharia.

Adil Paracha got the British Chevening Scholarship in 2003 and left a very successful marketing career at Reckitt Benckiser Pakistan to complete an MBA in Marketing in the UK. He has now been working there for the last 3 years and recently joined Kimberly Clark Europe as European Brand Manager on their bath tissue business. He is a proud father of a boy and 2 girls.

Ahmed Hamidani keeps himself busy at CSFB Singapore's sales & trading desk. He may have moved from London to Singapore but his burning ambition remains the same: to find himself a girl and settle down.

Alefia Lotia and hubby (Huzaifa) are happily living in Huntingdon, PA. A stay-at-home mom for 2.5 yr old Zainab (jumping jack) and a business partner with her husband, Alefia is happily enjoying the summer of '07.

Aliya Salahuddin has been actively involved in media in Pakistan and was behind 'George ka Pakistan'. She is currently studying media in London.

Amanullah Jiffrey Kariapper, after spending a couple of years in Grenoble (France), is back in Lahore and back at Strategic Systems International (SSI).

Ambreen Iqbal Malik is pursuing an exciting career at World Bank and is now happily to be married in December '07. We wish you the best of the best!

Ameel Zia Khan quit his job at PDGF to pursue an MBA on a scholarship. Now that is something you never hear of: a scholarship for an MBA and that too from Melbourne Business School! Way to go Ameel.

Aqib Elahi Mehboob is "making things happen" at AKD Securities, a very well reputed capital markets firm in Pakistan as its Director of International Sales. He juggles three time zones, a wife, and two kids in an attempt to balance the forex deficit (which results from Pakistanis' propensity to import) by marketing Pakistani equities to foreign portfolio investors. His waistline is ever-increasing despite valiant efforts to curtail it.

Ashab Naeem Iqbal graduated from Columbia business school and is working at American Express, London. He recently got engaged and is planning to get married over the summer.

Asif Amjad was last seen at Saudi Hollandi Bank (ABN Amro) in Riyadh setting up their equity desk.

Asim Memon and his wife are living the CS Luminite dream: working for Microsoft...together!

Babar Ghias is rocking in New York City with even sharper basketball skills.

Faisal Wasey got married and is loving it.

Faisal Wahab is helping his father with his business and has expanded it into the retail side as well. He is currently looking after cosmetics and hair care products imported from North America. It seems that an MBA from LUMS is paying off as he has learnt how to balance things...for instance, compensating a receding hairline by growing a beard.

Farooq Mustafa Alavi moved back to Karachi from Dubai and is working like a dog at Standard Chartered in Karachi.

Fatima Ashraf is living in Houston, Texas with her husband (Irfan), son (Ahmed), and daughter (Sophia). She's a blissful stay-at-home mom much to the chagrin of everyone in the family.

Fatima Muzaffar is living in london. She has a boy Mikaeel which sure is a popular name among the 99ers!

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).

Fuad Ghazanfar has moved on from selling oil at Shell to selling milk at Nestle. As evidence of his loyalty he no longer buys doodh from the corner shop ! He got married last year to Sana from BSc 2004. The MBA fan that he is, he has convinced his wife now to get an MBA from LUMS.

Hasan Muzaffar is living in Dubai and is happily married to Marukh. Hasan is working for McKinsey and is always complaining about the travelling but, at the same time, has become a miles-junkie

Hassan Ali continues to stalk Adnan Bhutta (as he has from class 1) and the inevitable happened when he also joined Microsoft. He is now a core member of the "Microsoft clan" and continues to delight the crowd with his well developed culinary skills.

Hina Khar is working as Pakistan's Minister of State for Economic Affairs, mainly dealing with multi/bi lateral agencies. We wish her success in the upcoming elections!! Also, all those in Pakistan, pls do vote and excercise your "democratic" right. Mushee Zindabad!

Imran Ahmed has decided to kiss IT/Computer Science good bye and has taken up a role as a Sales Planning Analyst with the handsets division at Motorola Middle East. Currently enrolled in the evening MBA program with University of Strathclyde his mission these days is to convince people Dubai is a hell hole and they need to go somewhere else. Still single and under tremendous pressure to get the issue sorted out.

Junaid Bin Jahangir will most probably be working with his long time mentor Dr. Bashir Khan at FC University. Currently, he assists a human rights activist and works behind the scenes on issues related to the LGBT. He hopes to adopt an orphaned child someday.

Khawaja Bashir continues to live in Dubai but has left Emirates Airline to join Emitac Mobile Solutions (Blackberry Channel Partners in MENA region) as a Project Manager. Bashir and Sana were blessed with a baby girl early this year and are having loads of fun with the little one.

Kiran Nanjiani is working in Karachi at AAJ TV as a Programming Manager. The 'George ka Pakistan' that Aliya Salahuddin produced is the George that Kiran is married to and the two are looking to moving to the UK shortly.

Maha Ahmed, after a successful career at the World Bank and the UN, has decided to pursue an academic life and is working towards her PhD in Holland.

Mahira Daha recently got married to Fareed Zaffar and both are enjoying marital bliss in Defence, Lahore.

Makhmoor-ul-Hassan is working with Shell in London as a Financial consultant for Global Mergers and acquistions.

Marium Naeem is currently in London where she is working with Shell as a management consultant. She can usually be found in various European cities as she continues to clock air miles. And yes: Sameer, Makhmoor, and Marium form the BSc '99 power triangle in Shell London.

Mariyam Mansur has a beautiful little girl. She is working in Microsoft with her hubby Asim. For cross reference see class notes for Asim Memon.

Marukh Aftab is working for Siemens Dubai as a technical lead for their telecom business.

Monazza Aslam got her PhD and is now working towards a post-doc in Oxford.

Mustafa Zulfiqar Rakla will be completing his MBA from INSEAD, France. Studies seem to be off Mustafa's agenda with Mustafa and his wife keeping themselves busy touring around Europe.

Omer Iqbal is happily married and living in Seattle, working for Microsoft. He has also developed a very interesting website where he tries to answer questions using the Islamic framework.

Omer Mehmood Asad left Sun Microsystems and is currently working for Network Appliance after rejecting an offer from Google! (In a global survey done recently, 99.99% of the respondents refused to believe this claim!). His travel schedule is quite heavy and he is usually shuttling across different continents. He is happily married to Maira and lives in sunny california.

Razal Minhas cannot believe that Moody got an offer from Google.

Rida Zaidi completed her PhD from Cambridge and is married to Shahid. She is working with the FSA (the regulatory body) so most London based bankers are quite scared of her.

Runaas Deheem is working as a brand manager at P&G Pakistan. He still believes that selling shampoos is the coolest job on earth, although there are some who continue to express their doubts. He is happily married to Sara and has recently changed his last name to Sara Deheem from Deheem Yousuf. He is also trying to learn Salsa and beats hands down the next worst student in class.

Salman Ahmed is happily married and currently lives in London. For those wishing to get in touch, on most days and nights he is found either at the Goldman Sachs offices or meeting central bankers and prime ministers from all over the world!
Another way to catch him is to watch CNBC at 8 p. on Sundays where he is usually found giving his expert views on Pakistan economy in his classic CP style. His CPs continue to remain well beyond the realms of our comprehension.

Salman Khalid is an outdoors animal. He has summited Mt. Rainier in Seattle and barely escaped frostbite. He has been to the Grand Canyon three times and hiked 24 miles of rocky terrain in a single day. One of these days he is bound to make it as the 'missing outdoors person' on CNN if he doesn't slow down soon. When he's not fixing ready to eat meals in the woods he is working in a cube for Microsoft in Seattle like other BSc99 folks.

Salman Mahmood is happily married and living in Texas. He is a Oracle databases guru.

Salman Zaidi is happily married to Samreen. Zaidi is also pursuing his MBA from INSEAD.

Samir Zahid's back from the land down-under and currently works for the tobacco industry, though he still hasn't developed the taste for it himself......but hey, if its any consolation, he's carrying out a research that proves smoking does NOT cause cancer (he just might get richer than Bill Gates after all). Single, happy, totally wild & free....but feels kinda weird when new interns call him uncle (yikes!). And if that's not all, occasional baby birthdays at friends' places does kinda kill the whole wild effect!

Sarah Naeem has two adorable little boys and is also managing a career as a hot-shot realtor in the DC/Virginia area.

Sarah Zaka, one of the few conscientious economists from the Class of 99, is working as a development economist. She has two daughters.

Shahzad Hasan is now officially the 'most eligible bachelor' in BSc 99. He is currently working with JP Morgan's EM debt desk in New York city, where he spends most of his time commenting on the vagaries of the Latin debt markets.

Shayan Mehdi Zaidi is typically seen catching flights between the various coasts of US. The best place to meet him would be Chicago O'Hare Airport. Managing his software team of mostly NRI's (i.e. Non-resident Indians) and flying back and forth between Salt Lake City and Chicago, he seems to imply a very busy life. However, what we cannot figure out is how the hell he manage to take time out for his 'chicagofhc' field hockey games all over the US.

Shazia Farooq Rahim is happily married to Khurram Jan and is based in Karachi.

Sheikh Mohammad Ali manages Hilal Technologies and aims to convert this small setup into the largest software house of Pakistan before he turns 40 because of early retirements plans. He has plans of diversifying into other areas related to IT.

Tayyab Rafiq Balagamwala is working in his family business and is focusing primarily on trading of commodities and the accounting and finance elements of the business. He is happily married and still passionately pursues his hobbies of playing cricket.

Umair Jalil is an entrepreneur currently running a software development/consulting business by the name of Web and Mobile (WAM) headquartered in Dubai. WAM has developed software solutions used by 4500+ companies in 90 countries in 18 languages. These include several Fortune 500 companies such as Motorola, GE, Compass Group, Gillette, Benq Siemens, and Standard Charted Bank. Umair floats between Toronto (his residence) and Dubai (his business). He is happily married and has 2 beautiful babies, Zohaib (2.5 years) and Aayan (1 year). www.umairjalil.com

Usman Waheed has metamorphosised. Yes, it is true. Gola is no longer gole. He has become a very very muscular Johnny Bravo.

Yasir Ali, other than complaining about property taxes, also worries about her 3 year old daughter's future SAT score and if she will get into Harvard or MIT. He certainly has gained some weight however he does not realize it as his wife keeps asserting that he is "oh still so handsome".

Zeeshan Mansoor is, as always, involved in his family business of making jeans for Levis. He has a daughter, Zoya, and is on the path to be bestowed the title of 'King of Miserliness'.