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Waqar Ahmed Khan

Main headings:

  1. General Introduction
  2. Hobbies
  3. Schooling
  4. Jobs

Introduction:

  • My name is Waqar Ahmed Khan Sherwani. Most of my family (Grand parents, uncles, aunts etc.) live in Khangarh Distt: Muzaffargarh.(So I belong to Khangarh?) My father's family migrated from Malerkota, East Punjab in 1948.

  • I was born in Quetta, Pakistan on Sep 16 (Virgo). Life's been pretty active since then.

  • This is how it goes: 1 year in Quetta, few years in Risalpur and Peshawar and then spent two and a half wonderful years in Dacca (East Pakistan) with my family (My father was in Pakistan Air Force). I still love that part of my country. Though I was very young at the time of fall of Dacca, I still remember most of the detail from that dark period of our history.

  • We became POW (prisoners of war) after the fall of East Pakistan and were taken to Allahabad, India. Stayed there for 19 months. We were in camp 38 and my POW number was 38/0128.

  • Our "second life" started at Peshawar. I appeared for admission test for Cadet College, HasanAbdal. I succeeded and spent 5 years(1975-80) studying there. Most of my memories, day-dreams, friends, belong to those years of my life. Abdalian Once, Abdalian Forever!

  • I did well in FSc exams (like everyone else in my entry at Cadet College) and got admitted to Civil Engineering degree at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.

  • My thoughts, concepts, goals, went through a major re-structuring when my dad died, in Sep '83, in a Gulf Air 737-200 plane crash near Dubai. It was a terrorist act. A bomb exploded in the baggage compartment during approach to Abu Dhabi. The crash killed all 111 passengers and six crew members.

  • Life went on anyway. After graduating from the UET, I started my first job at Haramain(Pvt) Ltd., Islamabad, then worked for REMCO in Lahore and in 1990 joined Military Engineer Services as Assistant Executive Engineer. Got married and blessed with two kids, the elder is daughter Hira and the younger is son Fawad.

  • I went to United States in 1995 for doing Master in Computer Information Systems(MCIS) from University of Denver. Got job in MCI after completion of studies. MCI got bought by a merger merchant, Bernie Ebbars and later went down with WorldCom into Chapter 11. I bailed out and started working for a startup software company, Voyence Inc.

  • In 2004, I moved back to Pakistan after spending 9 wonderful years in USA. I kept working for Voyence for a while and then joined Sereniti Inc. a Jersey City, NJ based company, working remotely from Pakistan. I have recently joined MetaApp, a Silicon Valley company based in Lahore.

    Hobbies:

  • Web Surfing (A lot!) and keeping this web page updated.

  • Reading

  • Physics (Once)

  • Stamps collection (To be more precise, I collect everything from stamps to coins, from knowledge to books, from memories to friends)
    • More than 20,000 stamps
    • Oldest from 1876

  • Traveling
    • We love travelling and Camping. We have camped in Yellowstone National Park at 36 Degrees(F) and at 102 Degrees(F) in Tyler National Park, Texas
    • Travelled more than 150,000 km, mostly by car.

    Schooling:

  • Presentation Convent, Risalpur
  • Muslim Public High School, Peshawar
  • Shaheen School, Dhaka
  • PAF Intermediate College, Peshawar
  • Cadet College, Hasanabdal (1975-80) (Proud to be an Abdalian and Haiderian)
  • University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore - BSc.(Civil Engineering)
  • University of Denver - Master of Computer Information Systems. I love sunny Denver.

    Jobs:

  • Civil Engineering
    • Haramain(Pvt) Ltd. as Customer Engineer
    • REMCO as Site Engineer
    • Military Engineer Services, Ministry of Defence as Assistant Executive Engineer
  • Computer Engineering
    • Penrose Library, University of Denver
    • MCI in Data Systems Lab, Richardson, TX
    • in Richardson, TX
    • Sereniti Inc. in Jersey City, NJ
    • MetaApp (Pvt) Ltd. in Lahore, Pakistan