
- India,
- 04-Mar-2022 07:34 AM IST
Kyiv: The Russian attack on Ukraine has affected the lives of hundreds of people, including Pakistani-born billionaire Mohammad Zahoor. Zahoor has been living in Ukraine for years and this is his second home. However, due to the Russian attack, he had to leave his country. Zahoor is also known as 'Prince of Kyiv'. Along with this, the world also knows him as a steel king and a big figure in Ukraine's entertainment industry. Zahoor's journey from a common Pakistani boy to a famous businessman of Ukraine (From Pakistani Boy to Ukrainian Business Tycoon) has been very exciting and full of difficulties.President-Prime Minister relationshipMohammad Zahoor's wife won the title of Mrs World in the year 2008 and is a famous singer from Ukraine. Zahoor has a lot of status in Ukraine, he also has close ties with the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine. He has been organizing music awards in Ukraine for the last 11 years, which according to him are no less than Grammys. Originally from Karachi, Zahoor is considered to be an expert in the steel world today. He was directly associated with the steel business till the year 2008. He had several steel mills in the world including Ukraine and Britain. But then he sold his steel mills.There is also a deep relationship with RussiaAt present, he is associated with the business of investment, apart from advising on the business of steel around the world. He also ran a newspaper in Ukraine called 'Kyiv Post' for many years. He claims that the newspaper became popular due to its fair policies and criticism of the government, but later he sold it too. Zahoor's first wife now lives in Moscow. He also has a close relationship with Moscow, as he also lived in Moscow for 13 years. He told that his second wife Kamalia has sung in many such shows, where Russian President Vladimir Putin was also among the guests. Actually, Kamalia's father is from Moscow and her mother is from Ukraine, but Kamalia considers herself Ukrainian.was born in karachiMohammad Zahoor was born in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. His father Khushal Khan lived in Hasnaina village of Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Khushal had gone to Karachi even before Pakistan was formed. Zahoor did not like the fact that despite his father's good government job, his life was not as respectable and luxurious as others. He wanted to do something big, so that he can give a wonderful life to everyone. For this reason, he started looking for a way out of the country and it started in 1974, when he was selected to study engineering in the Soviet Union. At that time, he was a first year engineering student at NED University in Karachi.Donetsk arrived on scholarshipSome of the 42 children selected for the scholarship were sent to St. Petersburg, some to Moscow and some to Donetsk, including Zahoor. He had a very good student life in Donetsk. He learned Russian the earliest among those accompanying him, which helped him a lot in moving forward. In student life itself, he married a girl studying with him, who later stayed with him in Pakistan as well. The condition of this scholarship was that after completing education, he would have to go back and work in Pakistan Steel Mill for five years. So he went back to Pakistan.