Among his grandsons are Pir Sayed Tahir Allauddin, the Shaykh of Sunni Muslim scholar Shaykh al Islam Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri and Sayed Ahmed Zafar al-Jilani, the elder brother of Pir Sayed Tahir Allauddin and the Naqeeb of Iraq, who blessed Shaykh Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin in 2007, Deputy of Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi, and advised him to work uplift relations between Westerners and Muslims, Arabs, and the people of Iraq .< ref >

H M Ershad called President Iajuddin Ahmed three times along with Kazi Zafar Ahmed twice on 23 December not to extend two days time for filing nominations for scheduled 22 January 2007 elections when Awami League and its allies decided to join that elections after long parley of Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury with Sheikh Hasina.

Modern Bengali music has been enriched by Indian singers like Hemanta Mukhopadhyay ( Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay ), Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Manna Dey, Geeta Dutta, Sachin Dev Burman, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar, Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Shyamal Mitra, Tarun Bandopadhyay, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Shreya Ghoshal, Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Sudhirlal Chakraborty, Jaganmoy Mitra, Robin Majumdar, Bechu Dutta, Gourikedar Bhattacharya, Satya Chowdhury, Sachin Gupta, Subir Sen, Dilip Kumar Roy, Uma Bose, Kanan Devi, Sabitri Ghosh, Ila Ghosh, Kamala Jharia, Angurbala, Indubala, Utpala Sen, Gayatri Bose, Supriti Ghosh, Alpana Banerjee, Protima Banerjee, Sabita Chowdhury ; and, Azam Khan, Abdul Jabbar, Apel Mahmud, Ferdousi Rahman, Khurshid Alam, Bashir Ahmed, Syed Abdul Hadi, Shahnaz Rahmatullah, Kalim Sharafi, Abida Sultana, Kanak Chapa, Shakila Zafar, Samina Chowdhury, Happy Akhond, Lucky Akond, Maqsood, Arnob, Farida Parvin, Latif SaNi, Bari Siddiki, Anusheh Anadil, Sabina Yasmin, and Runa Laila hailing from Bangladesh.

His father, Zafar Ali Ahmed, was a lawyer at the Tufanganj Sub-divisional Court.

* The Indian Progressive Writers ' Movement and Association first began after the publication of Angare ( Burning Coals ), a collection of short stories by Ahmed Ali, Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jehan and Mahmuduz Zafar in 1932 and its postcription by the British U. P. Government in 1933.

A League of Progressive Authors, was first announced by Ahmed Ali and Mamuduz Zafar in The Leader of Allahabad dated April 5, 1933, which later expanded and became the Indian Progressive Writers ' Association.

In 1981, Pakistani scholar Zafar Ishaq Ansari researched Fard's life and claimed that Fard was identical with Muhammad Abdullah, a Pakistani Ahmadiyya Muslim.

* Zafar Ansari ( 2005-10 ), Surrey cricketer

Abedi was succeeded by Swaleh Naqvi as the bank's chief who, in the aftermath following controversy over BCCI, was replaced by Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry in the late 1990s.

* Shani Haider-a unique musician from a musical family and the only producer who produced music albums for almost every artist Junaid Jamshed, Ali Zafar, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Hadiqa Kiyani, Shehzad Roy, Fakhir, Haroon, Jimmy Attre, Raheem Shah, Najam Sheraz, Fakhar-e-Alam, Sajjad Ali.

Zafar was the son of Akbar Shah II and Lalbai, who was a Hindu Rajput, and became Mughal Emperor when his father died on 28 September 1837.

Zafar Mahal was originally built by Akbar II, but it was his son, Bahadur Shah Zafar, who constructed the gateway and added to the palace in the mid-nineteenth century.

* Maulvi Sirajuddin, who is father of Zafar Ali Khan in his newspaper Zamindar on the death of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote.

But, according to communist Zafar Poshni who maintained, in 2011, that " no agreement was reached, the plan was disapproved, the communists weren't ready to accept General's words and the participants dispersed without meeting again ".

Nazir uddin Ismail Shah who had revolted against the Delhi Sultanate stepped down on that day in favour of Zafar Khan who ascended the throne with the title of Alauddin Bahman Shah.

The last Emperor to use the title was Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was styled Badshah-e-Hind ( Emperor of India ).

Anyone who belonged to the Mughal royal family, or who had sent a petition to Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Rebellion was liable to be deported to the islands.

The founder of the dynasty was Zafar Khan Muzaffar ( later Muzaffar Shah I ) who was governor of Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate.

Prominent teachers / lecturers there include the Bangladeshi writer and scientist, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering as well as the head of the department.

* Bahadur Shah Zafar, who used the pen name Zafar, last Mughal emperor of India

In 1980, after the Iranian Revolution, it was converted to an international news magazine by Dr Kalim Siddiqui, director of the Muslim Institute and Zafar Bangash, a member of the Muslim Institute who had been editor of Crescent since 1975 and remained editor until 1998.

During a visit to Iraq LA Chairman Zafar Khan met Ahmad Hamza, a 14-year old boy who had also been injured in the Iraq conflict, resulting in his right leg and left hand being amputated.

In late January 633 the forces of Muhajir and Ziyad combined at Zafar, capital of Hadhramaut, under the overall command of the former, and defeated Ash ' as, who retreated to the fortified town of Nujair.

It was he who along with Maulana Mohammad Ali and Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, created Gohar-e-Ahrah after the demolition of a part of Machli Bazaar Mosque of Kanpur on August 2, 1913.

In February 1690, Himmat Khan ( son of Khan Jahan Bahadur Zafar Jang Kokaltash, Subahdar of Allahabad ) was appointed Subahdar of Awadh and faujdar ( military commander ) of Gorakhpur who held the charge of Basti and adjoining districts for a long time.

As a result of this, the Kingdom of Aksum was able to capture the Himyarite capital of Zafar in the first quarter of the 3rd century.

In 1948, Soraya was introduced to the recently divorced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, by Forough Zafar Bakhtiari, a close relative of Soraya's, via a photograph taken by Goodarz Bakhtiary, in London, per Forough Zafar's request.

It was recorded on location in Maharashtra, India earlier in 2007 with a cast drawn from Bollywood, Indian television and the Mumbai English-speaking theatre traditions ; actors included Nadir Khan as Vishvadev ( i. e. Valentine ), Arghya Lahiri as Parminder ( Proteus ), Anu Menon as Syoni ( Silvia ), Avantika Akerkar as Jumaana / Servi ( Julia / Sebastian ), Sohrab Ardishir as The Maharaja ( Duke of Milan ) and Zafar Karachiwala as Thaqib ( Thurio ).

Emperor Zafar became the last Mughal Emperor, for he was deposed the following year and exiled to Burma, with many of his sons put to death.

Bahadur Shah II (), better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, born Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar (), on 24 October 1775 – died 7 November 1862 ) was the last Mughal emperor and a member of the Timurid Dynasty.

Zafar was not his father ’ s preferred choice as his successor.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, and wrote a large number of Urdu ghazals.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was a devout Sufi.

Zafar was himself regarded as a Sufi Pir and used to accept murids or pupils.

In 1828, when Zafar was 53 and a decade before he succeeded the throne, Major Archer reported, " Zafar is a man of spare figure and stature, plainly apparelled, almost approaching to meanness.

In an incident in which one of his followers was bitten by a snake, Zafar attempted to cure him by sending a " seal of Bezoar " ( a stone antidote to poison ) and some water on which he had breathed, and giving it to the man to drink.

One evening, when Zafar was riding out across the river for an airing, a Hindu waited on the king and disclosed his wish to become a Muslim.

The building where he stayed during the period was originally built by his father and Zafar added an impressive gate and a Baaraadari to the structure and renamed it Zafar Mahal.

In 1959, the All India Bahadur Shah Zafar Academy was founded expressly to spread awareness of his contribution to the first major anti-British movement in India.

* A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.

* Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi, known as the Fleet Street of India

In 1857, the British East India Company put down with a heavy hand the independence movement begun by disparate north Indian forces, conducted in the name of the otherwise powerless Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Seeking a figure that could unite all Indians, Hindu and Muslim alike, most rebelling Indian kings and the Indian regiments accepted Zafar as the Emperor of India., under whom the smaller Indian kingdoms would unite until the British were defeated.

Many princes settled in various provinces of India, but some settled in Burma and Bengal since a large number of imperial family members, along with Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar were exiled to Rangoon in Burma.

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Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India, had asked the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and his successors to leave the Red Fort, the palace in Delhi.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was proclaimed the Emperor of the whole of India.

Zafar Futehally started the first birdwatchers ' newsletter in the 1950s and this helped network the birdwatcher community spread across India.

* Syed Zafar Haider, Islamic arms and armour of Muslim India, 1991

* Netaji Subhash Marg / Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg leading to India Gate ( north and south )