Shazia Manzoor, singer from Rawalpindi, later moved to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Shazia Khalid (born 1973), Pakistani medical doctor and advocate of women's human rights
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Shazia Mirza, British Pakistani comedian and columnist from Birmingham, England
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Shazia Marri, Sindhi Baloch Pakistani politician and provincial Minister for Information of Sindh
Shazia Mirza | Shazia Marri | Shazia Manzoor | Shazia Khalid |
MIST next expanded to Atlanta via Ahmed Salim and Boston via Daniel Jou in 2004, New York via Maneeza Dawood in 2006, and Detroit via Shazia Siddiqi and Toronto via Hamzah Moin in 2008.
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MIST was the brainchild of Shazia Siddiqi, a teenage freshman at the University of Houston who had a vision to start a tournament combining many aspects of the academic arena, including art, writing, and speech, that would bring high school students together from around the nation to develop leadership, promote communication, and inspire creativity while gaining an understanding of Islam and Muslims.
In 2005 Dr. Shazia was an employee of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), and working at the company's Sui hospital for the past 18 months while living alone in accommodation provided by PPL.
Shazia as Sindhi folk singer; having been an avid fan of folk-songs of Sindh about Marvi and poetry of renowned poet of Sindh Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.