Abdul Qayyum

Abdul Qayyum (Arabic: عبد القيوم ‎) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Qayyum. The name means "servant of the eternal", Al-Qayyūm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part can be transliterated Qayum, Qayoom, Qayyoom, Gayoom, or in other ways, and the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

It may refer to:

Abdul Qayyum (general)

Lieutenant General Abdul Qayyum is a retired three-star general of the Pakistan Army who has been the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories and chairman of board of Pakistan Steel Mills.

Early Life

Abdul Qayyum, Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military), is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan army. He hails from the rural areas of Chakwal District of Punjab province of Pakistan.

Career

He entered the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, in May 1966 as a cadet and was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in April 1968 and retired as a three-star general in January 2004. He remained the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories from September 1998 to January 2004.

Retirement

After his retirement, he became chairman of the board of Pakistan Steel Mills in 2004 and remained there until September 2006. He resigned from there under protest against a privatization attempt of Pakistan's largest integrated steel plant which was later cancelled by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Currently, he is the president of Association for Citizen Empowerment which works in the rural areas of Pakistan focusing on health care, education and development of individual skills. Qayyum is also the president of the Ideology Of Pakistan forum in Islamabad under the patronage of renowned journalist, Majid Nizami. He is also the president of the Columnist Club of Pakistan and he contributes a column to daily Nawa-i-Waqt every Friday under the title of Fikr-o-Khayal.He appears frequently in television talk shows as a politico-defense analyst.