Arif ali khan biography of william
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After climbing a narrow stairwell and boarding a small elevator, Arif Alikhan reaches his destination: the top of the old air traffic control tower at Los Angeles International Airport. From the empty perch, he can watch the steady stream of jets, cars and other vehicles pulsing through the airport’s complex maze of roads and runways.
“LAX has a very high tempo. We have nine terminals; it’s almost like nine airports. We transport 61 million passengers a year and 1.8 million tons of cargo,” Alikhan says. “How do you secure an airport with so many people coming and going?”
It’s a question the UC Irvine alumnus deals with every day as deputy executive director of law enforcement and homeland security at Los Angeles World Airports, which owns and operates LAX and the Ontario and Van Nuys airports. Major earthquakes and other natural disasters, terrorist attacks, security breaches, criminal activity — anything that could disrupt the flow o
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Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Brown cloth with blindstamped decorations to covers and gilt particulars to spine, which has been professionally rebacked. Light foxing throughout. Inscribed to "[Judge Elphinstone] Jackson with the author's best compliments-" at rear of book. Jackson was born in Calcutta, India, the son of a leading judge. Following his studies in England, he returned to India, and tillsammans with others founded the Indian Football Association in 1893. Photographic plates (each affixed to blank leaves contemporary with publication) of the Duke of Argyll, Alfred Ernest Alfred Duke of Edinburgh (signed and dated), Countess of Mayo, Sir Cecil Beadon (past Lt. Governor of Bengal), Lord John Lawrence (Governor-General of Bengal), Sir F.J. Halliday, Sir William Grey, Earl of Mayo, Queen Victoria (after a painting) and Ameer ali Kahn Bahadoor, Bahadoor gives a history of the recent British rule in India including his family's role in the
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Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
Not to be confused with Syed Ahmad Barelvi.
Sir Syed Ahmad KhanKCSI, FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer,[1][2][3]philosopher, and educationist[4] in nineteenth-century British India.[5][6]
Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement.[1][7][8][9][10][11] Born into a family with strong ties to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889.[12][9][6]
In 1838, Syed Ahmad entered the service of East India Company and went on to become