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[[File:Pav Akhtar.jpg|thumb|Pav Akhtar]]'''Pav Akhtar''' (born 1977) is a trade union official and former [[Labour]] councillor in [[Lambeth]].

In 2007 he was listed number 50 in the ''[[Pink News]]''  list of [[50 most powerful 2007|the 50 most powerful LGBT people in British politics]]. The citation said:

:"He came within 28 votes of becoming President of the National Union of Students, but Pav Akhtar claimed a potent mix of Islamophobia and homophobia denied him victory. The first non-white President of the Cambridge University Students Union, Pav worked as a journalist for the ''Daily Telegraph'' and is now employed by UNISON, the trade union."<ref>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2007/12/27/the-50-most-powerful-lgbt-people-in-british-politics/</ref>

He is a board member of [[UK Black Pride]].

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