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Tariq Ali

1943 - Today

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Tariq Ali (‎;Urdu: طارق علی; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford. He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tariq Ali is the 3,500th most popular writer (down from 2,984th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 49th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tariq Ali ranks 3,500 out of 7,302. Before him are Zacharias Werner, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, H.D., Alf Prøysen, Max Aub, and Édouard Drumont. After him are Subh-i-Azal, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Enrique Vila-Matas, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Susan Brownmiller, and Kir Bulychev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tariq Ali ranks 326. Before him are Muhammad al-Sadr, Michel Ocelot, Theodor Stolojan, Ramón Grosso, Bjørn Wirkola, and Michael Byrne. After him are František Veselý, Larry Clark, Angelo Anquilletti, Cornelia Froboess, Al Foster, and Gisela Hahn.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Tariq Ali ranks 68 out of 217. Before him are Francis Younghusband (1863), Lal Bokhari (1909), Farooq Leghari (1940), Kumail Nanjiani (1978), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), and Taxiles (-400). After him are Manoj Kumar (1937), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), Shyama (1935), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956), and L. K. Advani (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Tariq Ali ranks 8. Before him are Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), and Rahman Baba (1632). After him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Bulleh Shah (1680), Bhisham Sahni (1915), and Parveen Shakir (1952).

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