Top 5 National Heroes of Pakistan

1) Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnnah

2) Allama Muhammad Iqbal
3) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
4) Dr. Abdus Salam
5) Abdus Sattar Edhi
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Al Jinnah

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born at Karachi on December 25, 1876. He was a
lawyer and politician. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is the one of the best Pakistan's
hero. He is the Founder of Pakistan.Jinnah has served as the leader of All India Muslim
league. Today his birthday is celebrated as the national day of Pakistan. He is known as
Babe-Qaum and Quaid-e-Azam.He was died on 11 September 1948.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Allama Mohammad Iqbal was born at Sialkot on November 9, 1877 and studied at
Government College, Lahore and then he taught philosophy at Government College and
practiced law. He was elected (1927) to the Punjab provincial legislature and served (1930)
as president of the Muslim League. He is regarded as the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Iqbal
was the foremost Muslim thinker of his period, and in his many volumes of poetry (written in
Urdu and Persian) and essays, he urged a regeneration of Islam through the love of God
and the active development of the self. He was a firm believer in freedom and the creative
force that freedom can exert on men. He was died in April 21, 1938.
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on 1st April 1936. Abdul Qadeer Khan widely known as Dr. A.
Q. Khan. He is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and a metallurgical engineer who served as the
Director-General of the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) from 1976 till 2001. On 14
August 1989, Abdul Qadeer Khan, along with his counterpart Munir Ahmad Khan, was
honored by the Government of Pakistan after he was awarded the second high civil award,
"Hilal-e-Imtiaz" by the former Prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a public ceremony. In 14
August 1996, Abdul Qadeer Khan was awarded the highest civilian award "Nishan-e-Imtiaz"
by former Prime minister Nawaz Sharif. On 12 March 1999, Abdul Qadeer Khan was again
awarded and honored the highest civilian award "Nishan-e-Imtiaz" from President Justice
(retired) Rafique Tarar.
Dr. Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who, when he shared the 1979 Nobel
Prize in Physics for his contribution to electroweak unification,became the first Pakistani to
receive a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim to win the prize, after Anwar El Sadat of
Egypt, and the first Muslim to win the prize in science.
Salam was a science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position
from which he played a major and influential role in Pakistan's science infrastructure. Salam
was responsible for not only major developments and contributions in theoretical and particle
physics, but as well as promoting scientific research to maximum levels in his country. Salam
was the founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
(SUPARCO), and responsible for the establishment of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG)
in Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). As Science Advisor, Salam played an
integral role in Pakistan's development of peaceful use of nuclear energy, and may have
contributed to development of atomic bomb project of Pakistan in 1972 ; for this, he is viewed
as the "scientific father" of this programme in the views of the scientists who researched
under his scientific umbrella. In 1974, Abdus Salam departed from his country, in protest,
after the Pakistan Parliament passed a controversial parliamentary bill declaring the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as not-Islamic. Even after his death, Salam remained one of
the most influential scientists in his country. In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests, the
Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp, as a part of "Scientists of
Pakistan", to honour the services of Salam.
Abdus Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi or EDHI as he is often known, is a Pakistani philanthropist. He is head of

the Edhi Foundation, the world's largest ambulance help service and charity. Together with
his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He
is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. Edhi is a Muslim of the
Memon community. On September 22, 2010 Edhi was awarded an honorary degree of
Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire.