WELCOME TO PAKISTAN CLUB

Bradford based social club that is non-political and non-religious that aims to provide a positive vehicle for the Pakistani heritage people in the UK.

ABOUT US

The Club is run in democratic and transparent manner with good team spirit that encourages voluntary effort to promote the Club’s work.

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OUR TEAM

Pakistan Club is blessed with a number of talented, vocationally successful and dedicated people whose sole aim is to foster harmonious social discourse .

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EVENTS

Events are aimed to drive better care, treatment, awareness and quality of life. Excellent way to keep up to date with the latest news & updates.

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MEMBERSHIP

Pakistan Club are always looking for committed and enthusiastic people from a wide range of backgrounds to help drive our cause.

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    COMMUNITY COHESION
    Joining up strategy and delivery, which looks at the need for practicing a holistic approach to community cohesion, with strategic officers and service providers working together with third sector organisations and community members for best results.
    Understanding and tapping into local communities.
    Public participation for common cause.
    Bringing people together around a common cause.
    Common vision and a sense of belonging for all communities.
    ACHIEVEMENTS
    Pakistan Club want to raise awareness for Pakistani achievements in the UK, these are the building blocks that enables someone to construct a sense of themselves. The achievements that matter most combine to form a version of success that has meaning and substance for the individual or business.
    Business
    Music
    Sports
    Film
    BUILDING BRIDGES
    We strive to uphold our responsibility to develop and demonstrate positive community bridging program’s; A reflection of our community which shows the strength of good relations and people who are advocates of a common goal of promoting cohesive communities.
    Help build better opportunities
    Tackle poverty within communities
    Recognise and welcome all culture, background & religion
    Develop more collaborative partnerships

    LATEST EVENTS

    Keep up-to-date with our ongoing range of events and challenges across the UK & Worldwide. Get involved and become a Pakistan Club Member.

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    ANNUAL EVENTS

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    SPONSORS

    25+

    REGISTERED MEMBERS

    £ 150K+

    DONATION RAISED

    ABOUT US

    Pakistan Club is a Bradford based social club that is non-political and non-religious that aims to provide a positive vehicle for the Pakistani heritage people in the UK to celebrate their special cultural days, provide a neutral platform for people of similar interests and tastes to interact and also to counter some of the more negative perceptions created about the Pakistani diaspora in the UK.

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    TESTIMONIALS

    Well known personalities & celebrities who have endorsed Pakistan Club and their activities in the UK.

    I am delighted to endorse 'The Pakistan Club' in Bradford. It will, i am sure become a social hub and a landmark for overseas Pakistanis living in Bradford and the surrounding areas who wish to promote their cultural heritage and lineage. I look forward to its grand completion and wish you all the success in achieving your vision.
    IMRAN KAHN
    PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER
    I am delighted to be associated with Pakistan Club for its is based in Bradford where there is a very large number of Pakistani youth who follow the sport i love and pursue as my career - Car Racing. This is a winning combination for me, for the people of Pakistan and for the club as it acts as a focal point.
    ADAM KHAN
    RACING CAR DRIVER
    I am delighted to be associated with Pakistan Club. It provides a non-political, non-religious, in fact a totally secular platform for people of Pakistani heritage to come together and enjoy life in Britain. I recommend it to all who wish to enjoy family pursuits within Pakistanis cultural and social norms.
    LORD NAZIR AHMED
    POLITICIAN
    I have acquainted myself with what Pakistan Club hopes to achieve and i feel it is a laudable initiative for British people of Pakistani heritage to be involved in. It is clearly a secular and inclusive drive to provide Pakistanis with focal point for their social and cultural activities. Thumbs up to it.
    MOHAMMED AJEEB CBE
    ELDER STATESMAN
    I am delighted to endorse 'The Pakistan Club' in Bradford. It will, I am sure become a social hub and a landmark for overseas Pakistanis living in Bradford and the surrounding areas who wish to promote their cultural heritage and lineage. I look forward to its grand completion and wish you all the success in achieving your vision.
    ANWAR MASOOD
    POET
    As a business women and matriarch who travels a great deal, I value Pakistan Club idea as it will provide a focal and restful place for people on the go to enjoy their cultural, family and friends special occasions amongst like minded people. This is indeed a worthy initiative that people should support.
    NIGHAT AWAN OBE
    BUSINESS TYCOON
    As a former lord Mayor, i represent the whole of the community in Bradford. I do however appreciate the work Pakistan Club in bringing a diverse set of people together within the British Pakistani community, a community i am very much a part of by heritage. I know the club is non-religious, secular, gender-neutral and without bias for any particular region. I endorse the club concept and wish the people behind it all the best.
    NAVEEDA IKRAM
    FORMER LORD MAYOR OF BRADFORD
    British Pakistanis are rightly proud of their dual cultural heritage as well as their contribution to the UK. I appreciate the effort of Pakistan Club in highlighting this positive message and encourage others to get involved.
    SALMA YAQOOB
    POLITICAL LEADER
    Basharat Ali
    President

    Basharat Ali, lawyer by vocation and who provided the Club’s constitution, is a family man and a guiding force for the Club.

    Basharat ensures that Club activities remain within the spirit of the Club’s constitution, that the Club lives up to its non-political and non-religious ethos and works tirelessly to create an environment within the Club to foster unity, cohesiveness and yet promote a dynamic discourse internally to keep the Club moving forward. It is under his leadership that the Club has established sound credentials’ as an entity that reflects the Pakistani heritage in its true spirit be it for charitable causes working with Human Appeal or now with the Dam building appeal in Pakistan. It is because of the credibility lent by Basharat that the Club has been able to attract support from people from the very highest echelons in different fields of endeavour with Pakistani heritage. People such as Amjad Hussain, former controller of British Navy, Dr. Shoaib Suddle, former Pakistan Ombudsman, Peer Sabir Shah, Senator and Senior Vice President PMLN, Peers, MEP’s, and MPs from the UK and entrepreneurs of significant commercial entities the world over. The work of the Club and therefore the President is a continuum and it will we remain confident continue in an upward carve.

    Basharat was instrumental in procuring endorsement for the Club from PM Imran Khan, Lord Nazir Ahmed, former Lord Mayors, Adam Khan, formula driving ace, high profile sports and business personalities and local community elders.

    Shirjeel Malik
    Chairman

    The stability as an organisation that Pakistan Club enjoys is because at the outset the founding members handpicked people of both calibre and integrity who loved their heritage whilst being pillars of the local community. Shirjeel, an accountant with a busy and demanding practice was seen as the right choice to be Club’s General Secretary, a difficult position to do justice to as it required attention to detail, record keeping, communications and also leadership in ensuring implementation of board decisions. Shirjeel has been equal to the task and not only that he has excelled in organising the 2018 annual dinner with aplomb. Shirjeel took lead to organise the Dam Fund raising event in November 2018. Central co-ordination of attracting 600 paying guests, sponsorships, securing a venue, organising entertainments and all other associated logistics lay in his domain.

    Shirjeel is ever resourceful and a persuasive personality that excels in delivering identified KPI’s under stressful conditions and exacting deadlines. For his abilities and time investing in the Club causes, Shirjeel is held in high esteem in social, political and corporate milues and he is able to get support for the Club’s events and activities from diverse groups of people.

    Whilst the Club is and always will remain non-political and non-religious, Shirkeel keeps his commitment to the Club ethos and his avid interest in the PTI movement both alive and separate, which is an eloquent testimony to his skill and integrity.

    Shirjeel, a loving son, a doting father, an active political worker and a proud socialite is a credit and an asset to Pakistan Club.

    Cannon Yaqub Masih MBE
    Vice Chairman

    Cannon Yaqub was one of the founding members of the Club and since formation of it, he has demonstrated his ability to provide pivotal support in helping the Club to achieve its objectives at both tactical level as in attracting sponsorships and sale of tickets to strategic level in over-coming objections to this proud Club that celebrates its members heritage in difficult transitory times. On occasions when Cannon Chairs the board meetings, he is huge fun and epitome of good grace though of course business is transacted efficiently and effectively.

    The good Cannon is an internationally recognized personality for undertaking large-scale charity initiatives under his own organisation called New Horizons through which Cannon Yaqub has raised significant amount of money for the poor people of Pakistan whenever there is an emergency through natural or man made disasters in Pakistan. His work in providing clean water to people in the poorest communities in Pakistan is lauded internationally. Furthermore, Cannon Yaqub provides the Club a strong bridge with different religions, political parties and the law enforcement agencies with which Cannon Yaqub has close relationships.

    Recently, Canon was conferred a MBA title for his services to humanity. It augers’ well for the Club knowing such such people are at the helm of affairs in it.

    Raja Allah Ditta
    Treasurer

    In many ways AD, as he is fondly known to friends, is the mascot of Pakistan Club. A graceful mover and shaker, AD is the Club’s choice not only as its Treasure but also as Master of Ceremonies in all the events held by the Club save for when he is otherwise engaged. As a Treasurer working closely with the Chairman, AD has always kept the financial affaires of the Club in good order and because of his professional handling of the same; there has never been any untoward financial issue in the Club which has seen significant movement of money over the years. The Club maintains membership monies separate from the day-to-day Club account and both of these are most transparently managed.

    AD has an accountancy firm, which is both significant and reputable and has many other property and business interests that he oversees not only for his personal benefit but also through which he benefits other social cum political groups that promote positive Pakistan. It is his love of Pakistan that persuaded him to not only accept responsibility as a treasurer but also to allow Pakistan Club to use his company boardroom, which he co-owns with Shirjeel Malik, General Secretary, for the Club meetings. Without this help, Pakistan Club would have found it difficult to function effectively. Pakistan Club owes a huge debt of gratitude to this gracious Director who epitomises the Club spirit.

    For social, charitable and Pakistani heritage issues not much moves without positive involvement of AD in Bradford. Since student days, AD has been an avidly active charity worker, a calling that only became stronger when endowments of his own offices and money grew so did AD’s participation in such causes as fund raising for the Thar Baluchistan draught, for Jalazoi people and for internally displaced people of Kashmir because of the earthquake that destroyed everything in its wake. Alshifa Eye Hospital benefited profoundly through AD’s involvement and as did the Friends of Pakistan when the mother country was slapped with punitive sanctions by the US at a time when Pakistan tested its nuclear program.

    The Confucius ethos of not asking what the country has done for me, rather to asking what can I do for the country is the motto AD lives his life by.

    Raja Nisar Farooq
    Director

    The core of people who established Pakistan Club wanted a Chairman for the Club who was graceful, well respected in the community and someone who would galvanize dynamic community forces to come together for a worthy cause. This search led the group to Rajas Nisar Farooq, an International Accountant with a thriving practice base in Bradford and a person of huge integrity with diverse business and charity interests globally. In private life, Raja is a patriarch with grown up children and grandchildren who he dotes on. With other fellow Club Directors Raja always provides wise counsel with humility and warmth.

    Practically speaking, since the formation of the Club, Raja has provided incisive leadership at the board level to ensure every activity and every event that the Club organised was done so professionally and all the decisions were democratically taken and implemented. It is his abiding integrity that has ensured that the Club has thus far been free from any financial or moral irregularity.

    It has to be said that Raja has an astute management style that gets the best out of a dynamic and diverse group of people to work together to create synergies that are rare in a social entity, which the Club quintessentially is.

    Zaffar Iqbal
    Director

    The Club is heavily dependent on generosity of its directors for financial support, for their good standing in the community to give the Club credibility in pursuit of its aims; wise counsel when needed and inspiration at other times are also the necessary qualities a good Club thrives on. On all these fronts, Zaffar who is a very successful business tycoon under two high profile brands, Jinnah and United Foods has proved to be a reliable and a willing spirit whose many personal and financial endowments have benefited the Club over the years. Zaffar is a pillar of strength and quiet energy that provides the necessary will and direction for others to follow to shape the Clubs direction. Thus far, much of the success the Club has in becoming a strong brand is attributed to the support from Zaffar and other directors whose input is always available and always welcome.

    Zaffar is a patriarch in a large family that has significant property, a restaurant chain and super-market businesses in its ever increasing investment portfolio. It is difficult to see the Club surviving without the crucial help provided by Zaffar and his ilk on the board.

    Javed Iqbal
    Director

    Javed is one of the founding members of the Club and was instrumental in introducing Zaffar Iqbal to the Club and provided high profile efforts in getting the Club off the ground. Since those early days, Javed has always been a steady and consistent supporter of all Club activities. His good standing in the community often means the Club secures support from a wide network of people whose support means the difference between success or failure of a given program.

    Javed provides telling and decisive counsel in the board meetings that often set the tone on any given issue. Directors like Javed provide the necessary glue that binds the group together.

    Javed is a family man with a large extended family presence in Bradford which is a source of strength for the Club.

    Rehan Ahmed
    General Secretary

    Rehan is a director with a difference as he is busy in building his burgeoning business interests in a wide array of financial services to augment his core business which is Kingsland Recovery, a highly rated and one of the largest companies of its type in the UK that specializes in company liquidations. Despite his taxing business schedule, Rehan makes time to attend to the Club’s needs and uses his business networks to gain valuable services and or support for the Club.

    Rehan has volunteered many a times to spearhead club activities and his astute handling of projects and or providing input as to how to shape projects are valuable to the Club and as such Rehan has been a pride asset for the Club.

    Rehan has a young family with two sons who light up the Club or Club Families’ events with their energy and enthusiasm.

    Ch. Mohammad Munir
    Director

    Pakistan Club is gifted with intellectual power from many directors who have life experience, vocational success and academic achievements to underpin their societal profiles. In the case of Munir, the Club’s elder statesman, the board benefits from his counsel based on being a successful Chartered Accountant and a trained lawyer with strong background in spear-heading other social organisations in the past. Munir was also a Justice of Peace for long period of time in Bradford. The wealth of knowledge and experience Munir brings to the table is awesome.

    Though retired Munir provides the Club significant level of support and guidance when he is in the UK as he spends some time in Pakistan every year.

    Munir has a mature family with grandchildren with whom Munir spend quality time and is enjoying life to the full.

    Wajid Iqbal

    Though young, Wajid is a rising star in the Club as he possesses sound business acumen and dedication in all that he puts his mind to. Recently he contested elections for the local council and though he stood as an Independent Candidate, he gave a very good account of himself. This was not surprising as Wajid is well respected in the community as a young entrepreneur of repute with many wide ranging business interests in diverse business sectors, generosity and bundle of good cheer. Wajid often volunteers to do things for the Club that require time, effort and money. For a young person such dedication is laudable.

    A family man devoted to his young children, it is felt that the batten of the Club’s future leadership will rest easily on shoulders of directors like Wajid and Rehan. In the meantime, Wajid helps the Club through a variety of ways to make the Club a future destination for social activities amongst the young and upcoming groups of people.

    Iftikhar Ahmed
    Former President

    Iftihar was part of the founding members’ team of Pakistan Club and served as its first President.

    In 2014, Iftikhar set an example of probity by resigning his position when he was selected by his political party to fight in the General Election of 2015 to avoid any conflict of interest between his political interests and those of the Club. Since relinquishing his position, Iftikhar has been a pillar of strength to all the Club office holders in helping them as best he could to realise Club objectives. Iftikhar has always been keen to establish good practices at the Club that promote team ethos and sacrifice for the greater good. Iftikhar has a keen eye to see where there are challenges faced by the Club and moves decisively to meet those challenges by synchronising his efforts and resources with those of others’ to win through on a given set of objectives.

    Iftikhar is a family man who has taken keen interest in his children’s development to higher education and is currently engaged in a number of commercial projects as a management consultant. On the political front, Iftikhar is an Approved Candidate for the Conservative Party for the 2022 General Election.