Zahoor Mohammad: biography and personal life

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Zahoor Mohammad is a businessman, an international millionaire and just an interesting person. Many people know him only as the husband of Kamaliya. But if not for his investment in his soul mate, who knows what the former queen of the world would be doing now.

Metallurgical king helped to become dad

How did Zahoor Mohammad get on his feet and develop his powerful business? The biography of this person is full of many interesting facts. If not for the ability to take risks, business acumen and remarkable ingenuity, Zahoor would not have been able to rise to the current heights. Although not only these qualities helped the Pakistani in this. A good starting point was given to him by a family in which his father was an official associated with the metallurgical industry in Pakistan. And while his native country was at war with India, his son was sent to study in the prosperous Ukrainian SSR.

In 1974, at the age of 18, Zahur Mohammad entered the now Donetsk National Technical University at the department of metallurgy. But in the future, the son of a high-ranking father did not plan to become a true metallurgist. But to lead an enterprise in this industry was foryoung and ambitious Pakistani is an excellent prospect. Subsequently, this is what happened. Mohammad Zahoor, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has become the king of the metallurgical industry.

Created the most high-tech enterprise in the CIS

Pakistani recalls that he was very happy when he found out that he could acquire in Donetsk exactly the enterprise where many years ago he had his first internship as a student. On its basis, in the late 90s, Mohammad Zahur created a mini-metallurgical plant, which then had no analogues in the entire territory of the CIS. The businessman invested more than one hundred and fifty million dollars in Istil (Ukraine) to make it a high-tech steel production enterprise. And it was the undoubted success of the Pakistani metallurgist. Although before that, Mohammad Zahoor had gone no less successful way.

Pakistan's cunning maneuver

After gaining experience at a Pakistani steel plant and gaining experience as a director of the Pakistan Trade House in Moscow, in the early nineties, Zahoor decides to open his own business. In 1991, he founded the company ISTIL, specializing in the sale of steel produced in the CIS to different countries of the world. A few years later, there are already about thirty states on this list, the Pakistani enterprise is one of the twenty largest steel traders in the world.

Later, Zahoor Mohammad settles on the London Stock Exchange, and there he acquires shares in the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant, from which he makes "candy". But after 11 years in 2008 inin the midst of the highest prices for steel, a Pakistani decides to sell a stake in a successful business and switches to completely different areas - oil and gas production, plastic production, banking, media, entertainment, hotel business, etc. A little more time will pass, and the new owner of the metallurgical the plant will suffer losses due to the global steel situation, and Mohammad, along with his beautiful wife, will enjoy the results of the right decision and invest in new projects.

Mohammad believed in the beautiful Kamaliya

Kamalia's husband Mohammad Zahoor never spared money for his first and only wife, believing in her talent as a singer and just a beauty. In 2008, after five years of married life, Kamaliya won the prestigious Miss World pageant. This title helped the woman to become recognizable. Not very well-known at home, the Ukrainian singer, thanks to the generous support of her husband, is quite popular among the Russian-speaking diaspora of different countries. Kamaliya not only actively sang herself, but also arranged show programs with the participation of domestic and foreign stars of various sizes.

The couple waited for their first child after 10 years

The couple did not have children for a long time. Mohammad Zahur, whose first wife had once given birth to his son and daughter, also expected from his second passion the successors of the family. In order for the couple's dream to come true, it took ten years of patience and faith in the result. In 2013, two tiny babies were born, one of which was Kamaliya withThey called Mohammad - Arabella, which means begged from God. The second girl was named Mirabella (wonderful).

Zahoor is a generous benefactor

Making a fortune, Zahoor did not forget about charity. The support of the millionaire was felt both by the inhabitants of his second homeland (Ukraine) and the first (Pakistan). Financial participation in the restoration work of the beautiful Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre, support for Donetsk orphanages, construction of a university in Northern Pakistan, support for a cardiology center in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi - this is an incomplete list of Zakhur's charitable deeds. He also gave strong support to the people of North Pakistan after the earthquake in 2005.

Mohammad's family lost part of the business

Now Mohammad's family is going through hard times. In connection with the events in the east of Ukraine, it suffers some losses. The militants of the self-proclaimed republics seized their hotel in Donetsk. Moreover, all the businessman's assets associated with the Donbass ended up in their hands. And in the near future, Zahoor will not be able to return his property. Due to the general unpromising situation in Ukraine, the family can go abroad for permanent residence. Mohammad's main assets are in Europe. But there is an option that they will move to the USA with Kamaliya and their children.