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Mohammed Ajeeb CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, and was the first Asian (Pakistani) Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom.
Biography
Mohammed Ajeeb was born in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir in 1938. Ajeeb attended Dadyal High School and then studied at a local college in the district and went on to study at Karachi University. Ajeeb moved to Britain in 1957, and settled in Nottingham, where he started community work as a housing officer with the District Community Relations Committee.
In 1973 he decided to move to the northern city of Bradford where he had the opportunity to become deputy director of SHARE (Shelter Housing and Reneval Experiment) and went on to become the director in 1977.
He joined the Labour Party in 1974, was elected to the local Council in 1979, and was Lord Mayor in 1985-86.
In 2001 Ajeeb was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Controversy
He has been criticized for having sacked headmaster Ray Honeyford who in 1984 wrote an article in The Salisbury Review arguing that multiculturism was damaging the Pakistani children whom he taught. [1]
References
- Lister, Derek A J (2004). Bradford's Own. Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-3826-9.
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