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, during Yahya Khan's regime, he was moved from Hyderabad to the notorious Central Prison of Multan and kept in solitary confinement for seven months. He continued to be politically active till he took up a teaching assignment at Dawood College of Engineering & Technology in 1974. He was also involved in the performing
arts at the Karachi Television Center.

In 1982 he migrated to the US. Currently, Mr. Tareen is working as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for a Richardson-based IT and Telecom Solutions and Consulting Company in Texas. He is the Chair of the Sindh Rights Committee of Sindhi Association of North America. He has also chaired SANA's People-Against Kalabagh Dam Action Committee, and served as Sr. VP and President of Sindhi Association of North America. Between 1988 and 1993, he 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 moral stand against dictatorial regimes, ethnic cleansing, hate crimes and homegrown and
overseas terrorism.