title: Between Dreams and Realities: Some Milestones in Pakistan's History
author: Sartaz Aziz
description: <br><strong>Sartaz Aziz</strong> was born in Mardan, a North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan, and raised in Peshawar and Abbottabad. He has had a distinguished career as a civil servant in Pakistan's Ministry of Finance and National Planning Commission.<br>
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  Pakistan Studies
  
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  R E F O R M E R S
  Shah Wali Ullah
  Shah Wali Ullah was born in 1703. He belonged to a family of religious
  preachers. He was raised up in an environment where people use to have
  discourses on Quran, shariah, Muslim morality and social values. His father was a
  religious scholar of repute. Madrasa Rahimia was established by father of Shah
  Wali Ullah, Shah Abdur Rahim in Delhi. This madrasa served the Muslims of
  Northern India. Shah Wali Ullah received his early education from the same college.
  After graduating he started to teach over there. He continued teaching till 1730
  when he went to Saudi Arabia for further studies in theology. There he spent more
  than a year. During his stay there he met Sheikh Abu Tahir bin Ibrahim for whom he
  had great regard. He returned to sub -continent with a vivid aim in his mind to serve
  the Muslims of sub-continent and Islam.
  When he was just 4 years old in 1707 the last Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
  Alamgir died and the history of sub-cont