Ismat shah jahan biography

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Jamhoor is a left-wing magazine that covers issues and progressive politics in the South Asian region and amongst the diaspora. You can read our articles on jamhoor.org. The first season of Jamhoor Radio focuses on progressive and revolutionary politics in Pakistan. In this season we will be discussing the activities of various left-leaning organizations in Pakistan, and speaking with their members.

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Our first interview is with a person who has always been at the forefront of Pakistan’s revolutionary movement. Belonging to District Karak of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ismat Shahjahan has played a vital role in left-wing and progressive movements in Pakistan, including the student and feminist movements. Ismat is currently the chairperson of Women Democratic Front (WDF) and the deputy general secretary of Awami Workers Party (AWP). Along with this, she has

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Ismat

This article is about the Arabic given name. For the private higher education establishment located in Portimão, Algarve region, Portugal, known as ISMAT, see Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes.

Ismat/Esmat (Arabic: عصمت / اسمت^[1] or عصمة^[2]) is a given name meaning purity, chastity or modesty and in classical Arabic infallibility, immaculate, impeccability, faultlessness. Transliteration variants include Esmat and Asmat.

Female given name

• Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991), Indian Urdu writer
• Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904–1995), Iranian aristocrat and the fourth and last spouse of Reza Shah
• Ismat Jahan (born 1960), Bangladeshi diplomat
• Esmat Mansour (born 1986), Egyptian weightlifter
• Ismat Ara Nishi, Bangladeshi Kabaddi player
• Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya or Aisha Taymur (1840–1902), Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist
• Ismat Zaidi, Pakistani actress

Male given name

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Surname

• Riad Ismat (1947–2020), Syrian dramatist and playwright

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Ismat Raza Shahjahan

The Daughter of War: Ismat Raza Shahjahan By: Talha Khan This is an inspiring story of revolutionary political struggle by a woman from a nation enduring an imperialist war for the last forty years, compounded by colonial occupation, state-induced militarization, barbaric patriarchy fueling the conflict, religious fundamentalism, a militaristic authoritarian regime backed by global imperialist powers, poverty, and unprecedented international debt. Ismat Raza Shahjahan is a socialist-feminist political leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She was born in 1963 in the Karak district, located on the Durand Line, which divides Pashtuns into Afghanistan and Pakistan rule. She has been associated with the Left for 40 years and involved in progressive political movements, including student movements, human rights and democratic rights movements, anti-war civil rights movements, national liberation movements, class struggles, and women's emancipation struggles. She received her Bachelor of Arts in law and political science from Jinnah College for Women, Unive