Pirzada Qasim
{{Short description|Pakistani scholar, poet, scientist and educationist}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name =Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui
پیرزادہ قاسم
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|2|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Delhi, British India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality =
| fields = Neuroscience
| alma_mater = University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
| known_for = Literary work in Urdu language
| work_institution =University of Karachi{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/74701 |title=KARACHI: Pirzada Qasim appointed first VC of Urdu varsity |date=27 December 2002|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=25 May 2018}}
Federal Urdu University
Nazeer Hussain University
Ziauddin University{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1403846 |title=Over 500 awarded degrees at Ziauddin varsity convocation|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|date=26 April 2018|access-date=25 May 2018}}
Laboratories of Lord Walton of Detachant
| prizes =
}}
Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui ({{langx|ur|پیرزادہ قاسم رضا صدیقی}}; born 8 February 1943) is a Pakistani scholar, author, poet,{{cite web|url=https://epaper.dawn.com/DetailImage.php?StoryImage=21_11_2016_115_006 |date=21 November 2016|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|title=Doctors, families turn up in large numbers at festival on last day|author=Hasan Mansoor|access-date=25 May 2018}}{{cite book|last=Sājid|first=Afsar|title=Appraisals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o89jAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Beacon Books|page=222}} scientist and educationist. He has served as vice chancellor of several universities.{{cite book|last1=Affairs|first1=United Nations: Office for Outer Space|last2=Nation|first2=United|last3=Association|first3=Spaceweek International|title=Report on World Space Week 2005: Prepared in Cooperation with Spaceweek International Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bjd8aYQFvvgC&pg=PA21|date=July 2006|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=978-92-1-101131-9|pages=21–}}
Early life and career
Pirzada was born on 8 February 1943 to an Urdu-speaking family in Delhi, India.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} After the Partition of India in 1947, he continued his studies in Pakistan and received his college degrees from D J Science College in Karachi and BSc (H) from University of Karachi. He earned his PhD degree at Newcastle University, England.
Pirzada Qasim started his career as a lecturer at the University of Karachi and became a professor. He has been associated with the University's Department of Physiology since 1960. He also served as Vice-Chancellor at the Federal Urdu University, University of Karachi and Ziauddin University. He has also served as the Chancellor of Nazeer Hussain University. He has written several books in English and Urdu, including Urdu poetry.{{cite web| url= https://www.dawn.com/news/632573 |title =Profile: Phrasing empathy (article includes profile of Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui)|date= 29 May 2011|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=25 May 2018}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Qasim, Pirzada}}
Category:Alumni of Newcastle University
Category:University of Karachi alumni
Category:Urdu-language poets from Pakistan
Category:Vice-chancellors of the University of Karachi
Category:D. J. Sindh Government Science College alumni
Category:Pakistani neuroscientists