Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani scholar
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About Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: ?????? ???? ????? ?) (20 November 1903 – 22 January 1981) popularly known as I.H.
- Qureshi), SP, HI, was a Pakistani historian, scholar, writer, and a professor of political history, first at the University of the Punjab and then at the Karachi University.
- Apart from his work as an academic historian he was also a well-known playwright.An early activist of the historic Pakistan Movement, Qureshi served in the ministries of education and frontier regions as the secretary; in addition, he was elected a member of the parliament of Pakistan.
- But, due to his association with academia, he resigned from his government appointments and joined the academic faculty at the Columbia University as a professor of South Asian history.
- But soon, he returned to Pakistan and founded the National Language Authority (NLA) in the 1970s and helped set up the History Department at the University of the Punjab.
- Later, Qureshi joined the faculty of history at the University of Karachi where he remained there the remainder of his life.
- Qureshi is also credited for editing a four-volume series on history of Pakistan.
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