This is a list of
Americans in Pakistan. It includes
American immigrants or expatriates who have lived in
Pakistan, as well as Pakistani people who are of American descent. The list is sorted alphabetically by the individuals' professions or fields of activity to which they have notably made contributions, such as academia and education, the arts, business, crime, diplomacy, literature and journalism, military or intelligence, music, politics, religion, science and technology, and social work.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article or references implying notability, as well as showing that they are American and have resided in Pakistan.
Faran Tahir, Pakistani-American actor; raised in Pakistan.[8]
Business and economics
Yasin Anwar, banker and 17th governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; a dual U.S.-Pakistan citizen.[9]
Zia Chishti, Pakistani-American business executive
Sanzar Kakar, Afghan-American entrepreneur and business leader; raised in Peshawar.[10]
Crime
The
D.C. Five, five American citizens imprisoned on charges of terrorism.[11]
Erik Audé, American actor and stuntman imprisoned for drug trafficking.[12]
Raymond Allen Davis, former U.S. Army soldier and CIA contractor who shot dead two civilians in Lahore.[13]
Khalil al-Deek, Jordanian-American charity worker who lived in Peshawar; extradited to Jordan for charges of militancy-related conspiracy.[14]
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, al-Qaeda operative and spokesperson, of Jewish descent, who converted; killed by
U.S. drone strike in Waziristan, near the Afghan border.[15]
Richard E. Hoagland, deputy U.S. ambassador in Pakistan from 2011 to 2013; also worked in the country from 1986 to 1989, coordinating resistance efforts during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[22]
Norman Wray, Roman Catholic missionary and social worker based in Karachi.[62]
Science and technology
Mark Schaller, psychological scientist; spent early life in Pakistan.[63]
Curt Teichert, German-American palaeontologist and geologist; worked in Quetta from 1961 to 1964 studying paleontology and geology of the
Salt Range, and conducting stratigraphic research.[64]
Louis Dupree, professor, archaeologist and anthropologist of Afghan history; spent time in Pakistan as Fulbright Scholar and assisting Afghan immigrants in Peshawar.[67]
Nancy Dupree, archaeologist of Afghan history; spent time in Peshawar running a resource centre for Afghan immigrants.[68]
Marla Ruzicka, activist and aid worker; initially based in Peshawar to cover the Afghan war.[69]
John Solecki,
UNHCR officer based in Quetta; taken hostage and released in 2009.[70]
Warren Weinstein, development contractor based in Lahore; taken hostage by militants and later killed in a U.S. drone strike near the Afghan border.[71]
^Kakar, Sanzar (25 August 2016).
"Doing Business in South Asia: A Conversation by the Penn South Asia Center on behalf of Current Penn Undergraduates". South Asia Center. Retrieved 25 August 2016. Well, I was born in Seattle, Washington and lived there the first few years of my life until I was about five. When war with the Soviet Union broke out, my parents – both doctors - moved to Peshawar, Pakistan to help with the relief effort. So much of my elementary and secondary education I completed in Pakistan.
^Donna Leinwand, Jack Kelley (6 November 2002).
"U.S. citizen arrested in 'dirty bomb' plot".
USA Today. Retrieved 12 July 2016. A Defense Department official said Abu Zubaydah, a top al-Qaeda official in U.S. custody, led U.S. authorities to Al Muhajir—possibly to try to sow fear in the United States by showing that al-Qaeda had recruited an American. Al Muhajir met Zubaydah in Afghanistan last year and then traveled to Pakistan, where he studied how to assemble a radioactive bomb at an al-Qaeda safe house in Lahore, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. Weeks later, Al Muhajir met with senior al-Qaeda leaders in Karachi.
^Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin, 2004.
^Dunham, S. Ann; Dewey, Alice G.; Cooper, Nancy I. (2009). "Appendix. Other projects undertaken by the author related to the present research". Surviving against the odds: village industry in Indonesia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. pp. 299–301.
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