Tariq Saeed Mufti

Tariq Saeed Mufti, born on 1 January 1948, is a surgeon and medical educator who lives in Peshawar, Pakistan, and is Professor Emeritus at Rehman Medical College. He was schooled in Peshawar, attended Edwardes College, qualified with an MBBS at Khyber Medical College and trained in general surgery in the United Kingdom, gaining the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in February 1979. At Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad he was professor of surgery for seventeen years, headed the department for eight, and later served as principal and dean. He then led the KUST Institute of Medical Sciences in Kohat and, at Rehman Medical Institute in Peshawar, headed surgery and directed the creation of Rehman Medical College, of which he became the first principal. He was a founding member and for nearly ten years chief editor of the Journal of Ayub Medical College, founded the KUST Medical Journal, and wrote an autobiography titled Kalam-e-Natammam.