Muhammad Ali that year, before converting to Islam after 1961. At age 22, in 1964, he won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in a major upset. He then changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He set an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the white establishment by refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs, and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Ali Ahmed S Kazi civil servant who was a Secretary to the Government of Pakistan from 1974–1979, three grandchildren Nilofer Qureshi, Safdar Kazi and Ghulam Nabi Kazi. Ali Ahmed S Kazi Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi (1896–1970) was one of the few physicians when Sindh was created as a province in British India in 1936. He was born in 1896 and was a nephew of the great intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi and his illustrious wife Elsa Kazi. His father, Sharafuddin Kazi died when he was still quite young. Dr A. S. Kazi played a pioneering role initially in creating the Liaquat Medical College