Iqbal Tareen
Mr. Iqbal Tareen was born in Shikarpur, Sindh
and graduated from Sindh University Engineering College, Jamshoro. During
his student years, he actively participated in the movement for the
restoration of sovereignty of Sindh. Mr. Tareen was the founding president
of Jeay Sindh Students Federation. During the regimes of Ayub Khan, Yahya
Khan and Z.A. Bhutto, he was incarcerated for extended periods of time. In
1969, he was kept in solitary confinement for seven months in the notorious
Central Prison of Multan. He continued to be politically active till he took
up a teaching assignment at Dawood College of Engineering & Technology in
1974, and was also involved in the Performing Arts at the Karachi Television
Center.
In 1982, Tareen migrated to the U.S. Currently, he is
Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a Richardson-based IT and Telecom
Solutions and Consulting Company in Texas. Mr. Tareen is a human rights
activist who has also edited Sindh Monitor, a publication voicing
Sindhi-American opinion on issues relating to Sindh and South Asia. As a
Sindhi American, he strongly supports an active American foreign policy that
takes a moral stand against dictatorial regimes, ethnic cleansing, hate
crimes and homegrown and overseas terrorism.
Through nonviolent means,
The World Sindhi Institute works relentlessly
for universal human rights and humanitarian law for the
Sindhis of Sindh, in southeastern Pakistan.
