Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani (born 18 July 1940) served as Pakistan's Federal Minister of Law. He was born in Kohat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. His early education was at Islamia College, Peshawar, Iftikhar joined Forman Christian College, Lahore, in 1956. After studying law at Punjab University from 1959–61, in 1967 Iftikhar moved to Peshawar to practice the Law. In 1970 elections he contested for the Provincial Assembly as an independent candidate. Losing his first election he joined the PPP in 1971. Elected to Parliament in 1988 he served as Federal Minister for law in the first government
Iftikhar al-Dawla Iftikhar al-Dawla Iftikhar al-Dawla (; meaning "pride of the dynasty") was the Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099. On 15 July he surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was escorted out of the city with his bodyguard. Little is known about Iftikhar al-Dawla, although he is mentioned as governor of Ascalon following the fall of Jerusalem, which suggests he was Fatimid governor of the whole of Palestine. The Syrian chronicler Bar-Hebraeus refers to him as "a man from the quarter of the Egyptians," which could indicate that he was of Nubian