Nawab Ali Tariq

Nawab Ali Tariq, known as Nawab Ali Khan, is a Pakistani writer and social welfare activist.

Early life
On 2 June 1940, Nawab Ali Tariq was born in the village of Beka, a town and Union Council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. He is the eldest son of the late Mohabat Khan, a prosperous landlord who wanted his son to get an excellent education. He started his education at the Government High School Tordhera Swabi District. He graduated with a Master degree in English literature from the University of Peshawar. He gained an Engineering Diploma and then went to Europe, China and England for specialist training.

Career
On returning from England he worked as a Principal in Technical Education and went to Italy, France, Austria, Poland, and the Middle East for further training and development.

To improve people's basic life and standard of education, Nawab ran projects to increase literacy, manpower, and skills. He implemented World Bank Projects for example the broad-based programme Gazi brotha, as well as the Prime Minister programme, Pak-Swiss programme and Pak-German Programme.

Social welfare work
To continue his father Haji Mohabat Khan's mission of education he created a girls' high school on land denoted by his father.

After visiting his son in the UK in 2000, Nawab understood that English Language and Computer literacy are essential to young people. He gave his brother a new bungalow for the English Model school to help people with English language and computer literacy.



He conducted English courses in Pak-Almania Institute, Abbottabad. about 55 girls have passed their IELTS test. In the English Model School, around 300 children are receiving education. Nawab also gave land for the Islamic women Institute of Learning. Nawab is looking for a sponsor to build this institute. The women will receive Deni, health, computer and English education.

Publication
He has written three books: Naseem Saghar, Payaar ki Manzaal (in Urdu) and Eleven Star (in English). He is working on Zandagi (in Urdu).