Connecticut – An ESPN Muslim sports caster Adnan Virk, is hosting the baseball MLB World Series in St. Louis. ESPN – the leading sports network world wide is headquartered in Bristol, Conn.
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Adnan Virk
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Adnan Virk otherwise known as “Canadian Captain Virk” is a sports anchor, currently for ESPN. He was previously an anchor for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment’s Raptors NBA TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV. Until June 2009 he hosted several programs on The Score, and was previously an associate producer for Sportscentre at TSN. He was also the co-host of Omniculture and Bollywood Boulevard at Omni Television.
In 1972, his parents immigrated to Canada from Pakistan. He was born in Toronto, but spent his formative years in Morven, Ontario, a small town just outside of Kingston. After graduating from high school, he took radio and television arts at Ryerson University in Canada.
In 2009, he joined Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) as a host and reporter for Raptors TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV Canada. He left in April 2010 to join the ESPN family of stations in Bristol, Connecticut. It is planned that starting the 2013 MLB Season, he will anchor Baseball Tonight replacing Steve Berthiaume.
……………………………Notable personalities of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat…………………………..
Adnan Virk, ESPN sportscaster
Abdus Salam[112] – first Pakistani and first Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Akhtar Hussain Malik[113] – lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army
M M Ahmad[114] – prominent civil servant of Pakistan and former executive director and vice president of the World Bank
Iftikhar Janjua[115] – major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war
Abdul Ali Malik[116] – war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war
Sahibzada Abdul Latif[117] – martyr of Ahmadiyya Islam; Afghan king Abdur Rahman Khan’s advisor and representative of the Afghan government in the formation of the Durand Line
Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, established Islamia College University and Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and negotiated the durrand line.[118]
Qalandar Momand[119] – Pakhtun scholar, poet, writer, journalist, researcher, critic, academician, lexicographer. Recipient of Pakistan’s Pride of Performance civil award, the National Award for Democracy and Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Tariq Ahmad[120] – Member of the House of Lords and vice chairman of the Conservative Party for cities
Hadayatullah Hübsch[121] – prominent German writer and journalist
Yusef Lateef[122] – jazz musician and Grammy Award winner
Ahmad Jamal[122][123] – jazz musician
Obaidullah Aleem[124] – famous Urdu poet
Saira Wasim[125] – internationally acclaimed miniature artist
Art Blakey[122] – jazz musician
Adnan Virk[126] – ESPN anchor
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali[127] – American actor
Sahib Shihab – jazz musician[122][not in citation given]
McCoy Tyner – jazz pianist[122]
Charlie Parker – jazz saxophonist[122]
Farimang Mamadi Singateh[128] (1912 – 19 May 1977) – the second and last Governor General of The Gambia.[129]
Dakota Staton – jazz vocalist[122]
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan[130] – first Foreign Minister of Pakistan (1947–54), President of the UN General Assembly (1962–64), President of the International Court of Justice (1970–73)
Sitara Burooj Akbar – 10 year old Ahmadi Muslim girl from Rabwah, Pakistan who broke world record for youngest person to pass GCSE (‘O’Level) Biology.[131]
Qasim Rashid – spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA, accomplished writer, and author of “The Wrong Kind of Muslim”
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