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Anonymous — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:26:45 CDT

2008 Class Notes for BSc 1999

[Deadline: Monday, 26 May]

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

Adeel Jamil Siddiqui and Nadia have recently move to Washington DC with their 2 year old daughter. "Marhoon" has recently been working on the healthcare side of 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).

Adeel Meer Saheeb

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.

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.

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.

Aisha Masood Rashid

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 working 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).

Amber Riaz

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 just finished his MBA from Melbourne Business School and plans to stick around in Melbourne for a few more years. He is an active blogger and you can read his professional blog atinsanityworks.org/acme and his personal blog at insanityworks.org/randomtangent.

Amir Ali Jafri

Anita Manzoor Chaudhry

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 got married last summer, and is planning a move back to Dubai

Asif Amjad made some big moves this year, he's shown Saudi Hollandi Bank (ABN Amro) the proverbial 'bird' and has joined Credit Suisse in Riyadh. In between this, he 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 his wife are living the CS Luminite dream: working for Microsoft...together!

Assed Jehangir

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

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.

Faisal Wasey got married and is loving it.

Farheen Alwi

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.

Hasanat Ahmed Haider

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.

Hassan Javed

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!

Hina Khawar Aslam

Iftikhar Rafi

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.

Khurram Khaliq Khan got married to Fatima Hayat in May 2007 and they both have 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 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.

Laila Bushra

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.

Mahvash Akram

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

Mehreen Tanvir Butt just attended her 5 year graduate school reunion in Boston and is shocked that its been so long since she entered the "real world"!! These space sicentists should stop wasting their time demoting Pluto and start working on that time machine! Pronto.

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

Moazzam Ali Khan

Mohammad Rizwan

Mohammad Zakria Khan

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

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

Muhammad Amaan Akram

Muhammad Fareed Zaffar

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

Muhammad 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.

Muhammad Oosman launched several online services from the Silicon Valley. www.Zavaj.com, a Muslim matrimonial portal is the oldest service and is free. After starting www.LeLeDesigning.com (a website designing company), soon launched www.LeLeCart.com (providing hosted e-commerce websites for merchants). Recently ventured into mobile marketing area by launching website for real estate marketing www.TxtAHouse.com . TxtAHouse.com allows realtors to list their properties online, and the property listings including pictures and streaming videos can be viewed on the mobile phone by potential buyers. The realtor gets instant notification and phone numbers of potential clients.

Muhammad Rashid

Muhammad Umer Farooq

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.

Nabeeha Jafar

Nadia Hussain

Nadia Rehman

Naira Latif Chaudhry

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

Nauman Akbar

Nida Mulji

Nirmal Babar

Novira Sabir

Omer Mehmood Asad left Sun Microsystems and is currently working for Network Appliance as Chief Architect for the CTO office, 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.

Rana Sajjad Ahmad

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 happily married, living in Jeddah, and as brand manager for P&G is managing the Pert and Silvikrin brands for the Arabian Peninsula.

Saara Salim

Sabeen Pirzada

Salman Ahmed currently lives in London working for Goldman Sachs International.

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 Mahbub

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

Saman Sheikh will soon be starting her career in the world of media as Associate Producer. In her free time she manages to successfully total cars- this must be Razal since he has taken up the responsibility of being the official informant of my world (much to my dislike!!) Now Im writng for myself: Im working for PBS in Chicago in the most dangerous of neighborhoods in America and shuttle between Pakistan (which I cant 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 racer! My future plans include: breaking barriers and promoting love and tolerance for humanity at large and if Im ever lucky enough, the only person I 'll run over with my Ferrari would be Razal!!:)

Sameer Mohammad Anees

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

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

Sehr Sheikh

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.

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.

Shama Saeed

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

Shayan Mehdi Zaidi

Syed Hasan Hasnat

Syed Mustafa Bilal

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

Syeda Shehrbano Kazim

Tania Tariq

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 who launched 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 is happily married and has 2 beautiful babies, Abdullah (~3.5 years - currently undergoing cancer treatment at SickKids hospital in Toronoto for stage 4 neuroblastoma, may Allah cure him completely and give him a long, healthy and blessed life in this world; please make as much dua as possible for him) and Aayan (~2 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.

Waqas Ahmed

Yasir Ali

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'.

Haseeb Hadi

Wasif Tanvir

2008 Class Notes for BSc 1999

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:20:25 CDT

Abdul Mannan Abbasi.

Adeel Jamil Siddiqui

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aisha Masood Rashid

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).

Amber Riaz

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.

Amir Ali Jafri

Anita Manzoor Chaudhry

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 Butt

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

Assed Jehangir

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

Faisal Wahab joined FNEL as Head of Brand Development, handling it along with his father's business.

Faisal Wasey got married and is loving it.

Farheen Alwi

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.

Hasanat Ahmed Haider

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.

Hassan Javed

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!

Hina Khawar Aslam

Iftikhar Rafi

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.

Khurram Khaliq Khan

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.

Laila Bushra

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.

Mahvash Akram

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.

Mehreen Tanvir Butt

Mehwish Zaman

Moazzam Ali Khan

Mohammad Rizwan

Mohammad Zakria Khan

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

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

Muhammad Amaan Akram

Muhammad Fareed Zaffar

Muhammad 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.

Muhammad 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.

Muhammad Oosman

Muhammad Rashid

Muhammad Umer Farooq

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.

Nabeeha Jafar

Nadia Hussain

Nadia Rehman

Naira Latif Chaudhry

Nasir Masud Khan

Nauman Akbar

Nida Mulji

Nirmal Babar

Novira Sabir

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.

Rana Sajjad Ahmad

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.

Saara Salim

Sabeen Pirzada

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 Mahbub is current working at Sapient in Northern Virginia.

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

Saman Sheikh

Sameer Mohammad Anees

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

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

Sehr Sheikh

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.

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.

Shama Saeed

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

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.

Syed Hasan Hasnat

Syed Mustafa Bilal

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

Syeda Shehrbano Kazim

Tania Tariq

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.

Waqas Ahmed

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'.

Haseeb Hadi

Wasif Tanvir

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'.