Shafqat Tanvir Mirza

Early life and education Belonging to a Jarral Rajput family that took the Mirza nobility title during the times of emperor Akbar, his ancestors belonged to Rajouri (now in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir), but Mirza himself was born in February 1932 the village of Domeli, in the Jhelum District (now in Punjab, Pakistan) while his father was born in Saman Burj, Wazirabad, into the royal Jarral exiled family, from where his father, a Range Officer in the Punjab Forest Department, was transferred to Jhelum.

Mirza studied at schools in Chakwal, Khushab, Wazirabad, Attock, Bahawalnagar and at Gordon College, Rawalpindi.