# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/altaf-hussain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:35.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/altaf-hussain"
name: "Altaf Hussain"
slug: "altaf-hussain"
description: "Altaf Hussain is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He holds United Kingdom citizenship and has been living in exile in the UK since the start of Operation Clean-up. Since 2015, he has been a fugitive from the Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan on the charges of 'murder, targeted killing, treason, inciting violence and hate speech'. He went on trial in the UK in January 2022 for 'promoting terrorism and unrest through hate speech in Pakistan', and was acquitted the next month. He had fled the country in 1992 after a crackdown against his party was launched."
tagline: "British Pakistani politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Altaf_Hussain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.339569333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%81_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "الطاف حسین (سیاستدان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%81_%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ألطاف حسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Hussain"
    title: "Altaf Hussain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Hussain_(Pakistani_politician)"
    title: "Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Hussain"
    title: "Altaf Hussain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "अल्ताफ़ हुसैन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Hussain"
    title: "Altaf Hussain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਅਲਤਾਫ਼ ਹੁਸੈਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%81_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "الطاف حسین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%81_%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "الطاف حسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2840298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump