![]() ![]() Upon completion of his training, his regiment was assigned from Hyderabad to Karachi from where it was sent to East Pakistan via ships. According to the MQM, Altaf Hussain enlisted with the Pakistan Army through the NSCS and his services were assigned to the 57th Baloch Regiment as soldier number 2642671. In 1970, General Yahya Khan introduced the National Service Cadet Scheme (NSCS), making it compulsory for higher secondary scholars to enlist with the army. After graduating from the university, Hussain began his career as a trainee at the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Karachi while simultaneously working for a multinational pharmaceutical company. In 1979, he graduated from the University of Karachi with a Bachelor of Pharmacy. In 1974, Hussain graduated from the Islamia Science College with a Bachelor of Science. He later moved to City College Karachi for his second year. For the first year of his intermediate education in pre-medical sciences, he attended the National College Karachi. He later enrolled in the Government Boys Secondary School to complete his matriculation in 1969. ![]() Hussain received his early education from the Government Comprehensive School in Azizabad. The family later moved residence again in the 1970s to a small house in Azizabad, which later became the headquarters of Hussain's political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM formerly Muhajir Qaumi Movement). The family subsequently left their government allotted residence and moved in with Nasir. ![]() Hussain's elder brother Nasir Hussain was later employed by the government and given a small quarter on Jehangir Road. ![]() They were provided with government housing in Abyssinia Lines reserved for muhajirs (people and families migrating from the Dominion of India). Upon emigrating to Pakistan, the family settled in Karachi. Hussain's parents were initially reluctant to leave everything behind in Agra to resettle in Pakistan but were later forced by Hussain's elder brother to reconsider. Hussain's siblings include four sisters and six brothers.įollowing the partition of India in 1947, a wide-scale migration of Muslims ensued, mostly from the various states in the Dominion of India to the newly established Dominion of Pakistan. His paternal grandfather Mohammad Ramazan was the Grand Mufti of Agra and his maternal grandfather Pir Haji Hafiz Rahim Bakhsh Qadri was a religious scholar. His father was an officer with the Indian Railways. Before the independence of Pakistan, Hussain's parents resided at their ancestral home in Nai ki Mandi, Agra, U.P., British India.
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