Akhtar Hameed Khan

Akhtar Hameed Khan (Urdu: اختر حمید خان, əxt̪əɾ hɐmiːd xɑːn ) (born July 15, 1914 in Agra , India ; † October 9, 1999 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist ; he pioneered microcredit , agricultural cooperatives and training programs in developing countries . For his Kumilla model (1959) for comprehensive rural development, he received the Ramon Magsaysay Prize of the Philippines and an honorary doctorate from Michigan State University .

In 1974 Khan examined rural development in Java ( Indonesia ) as an advisor to the World Bank . He was also briefly visiting professor at Lund University , Harvard University and Oxford University . In 1980 Khan moved to Karachi and worked to improve the sanitary situation in the suburbs of Karachi.

When Khan visited his family in the United States in 1999, he suffered from kidney failure and died of a myocardial infarction on October 9 in Indianapolis at the age of 85 .

Prizes and awards

• Jinnah Award ( posthumous 2004)
• Nishan-e-Imtiaz (posthumously 2001).
• Ramon Magsaysay Prize (August 31, 1963, Manila , Philippines ).
• Sitara-e-Pakistan (1961).

Khan was fluent in Arabic , Bengali , English , Hindi , Pali , Persian and Urdu .

Publications

• 1965: Rural Development in East Pakistan, Speeches By Akhter Hameed Khan . Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University.
• 1974: Institutions for rural development in Indonesia , Pakistan Academy for Rural Development. Karachi.
• 1985: Rural development in Pakistan . Vanguard Books. Lahore.
• 1994: What I learned in Comilla and Orangi . Presentation at the seminar of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ). Islamabad .
• 1996: Orangi Pilot Project: Reminiscences and Reflections . The Oxford University Press: Karachi. (Editions: 1996, 1999, 2005). ISBN 978-0195979862
• 1997: The sanitation gap: Development's deadly menace . The Progress of Nations . UNICEF .
• 1998: Community-Based Schools and the Orangi Project. In: Hoodbhoy, P (ed.), Education and the State: Fifty Years of Pakistan , Chapter 7, Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195778250
• 2000: Twenty Weeks in America: A Diary September 3, 1969– January 21, 1970 . Translated from Urdu by Aqila Ismail. City Press. ISBN 9698380329

on Urdu

• 1972: Safar-e-Amrika ki Diary (travel diary from America). The City Press: Karachi.
• 1988: Chiragh aur Kanwal (collection of poems). Saad Publishers. Karachi.

Web links

• Gabriele Venzky : " The Orangi Utopia " - In: Die Zeit No. 14/1996 (on the influence of Islamist fundamentalists)
• Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan Memorial Award
• In Memory of Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yousaf (2003), pp. 352-53.
2. ↑ Yousaf (2003), p. 386.
3. ↑ DAWN (2006). Ishrat Hussain, late Akhter Hameed honored .
4. ^ Khan, SS (2006). Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan Memorial Lecture ( Memento of May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF). Pp. 15-27.
5. ↑ Ramon Magsaysay Prize (1963) Citation for Akhter Hameed Khan ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . August 31, 1963, Manila, Philippines.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Miah, S .: Akhter Hameed Khan , article in the Banglapedia .
7. ↑ Hasan (1996), pp. Xii.