Memorials & famous biographies

Pashtun independence activist, politician, and freedom fighter who founded the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British rule in colonial India and later led the Azad Party in Pakistan

Indian Prime Minister (1997-1998), diplomat, and independence activist known for his regional diplomacy approach in South Asia

Acclaimed Punjabi poet, writer, novelist, and journalist who authored over 100 books and received the Sahitya Akademi Award

Indian politician and economist who served as acting Prime Minister of India twice and was awarded the Bharat Ratna for his dedicated service

Pakistani musician, singer, and composer recognized as the "Shahanshah-e-Qawwali" for his powerful performances of Sufi devotional music and for introducing qawwali to the world stage

Indian actor and politician known for pioneering method acting and dominating Hindi cinema for decades

Pakistani Field Marshal who served as the country's second President from 1958-1969 and first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army

Indian-American molecular biologist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for interpreting the genetic code and its role in protein synthesis

An Indian film actor, producer, and director known as "The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema" and "The Charlie Chaplin of Indian Cinema"

Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles

Indian actor renowned for a six-decade career in Hindi cinema, becoming one of its highest-paid and most respected figures

Indian-American theoretical physicist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for his mathematical studies of stellar evolution and discovered the Chandrasekhar limit

Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, who also founded the Pakistan People's Party

Barrister, politician, and freedom fighter who founded Pakistan and served as its first governor-general

Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician, and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014, known for his economic reforms and statesmanship

Pakistan's 11th and 13th prime minister, and the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country