Saba Dashtyari
{{short description|Pakistani academic (1954-2011}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Saba Dashtyari
| image = Saba baloch.jpg
| occupation = Professor of Islamic studies
| birth_date = 1953
| birth_place = Karachi, Pakistan
| death_date = {{Death date|2011|06|01}}
| death_place = Quetta, Pakistan
| death_cause = Gunshot wound
}}
Ghulam Hussain Saba Dashtyari (1954 – 1 June 2011) (Balochi: صبا دشتیاری بلوچ) commonly known as "Saba Dashtyari", was a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Balochistan in Quetta, Balochistan.
Early life
Dashtyari was born to middle class family in 1953 in Lyari district of Karachi, Pakistan.{{Cite web |last=Rauf |first=Omair |date=2012-05-25 |title=The Lyari we all (don't) know |url=https://tribune.com.pk/article/11700/the-lyari-we-all-dont-know#google_vignette |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Baloch |first=Gulab |date=2020-05-31 |title=Professor Saba Dashtiyari: An Immortal Personality |url=https://www.thebalochnews.com/2020/05/31/saba-dashtiyari-an-immortal-personality/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=The Baloch News |language=en-US}} Dashtyari's elder brother Ghulam Abbas Baloch was an international footballer who represented the Pakistan national football team.{{Cite web |date=2019-09-21 |title=تین فٹ بالر، تین دوست اور لیاری - ایکسپریس اردو |url=https://www.express.pk/story/1792166/268/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921115013/https://www.express.pk/story/1792166/268/ |archive-date=21 September 2019 |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=express.pk}}
He received Master of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Islamic Studies.{{citation needed|date= August 2022}} He was fluent in Urdu, English, Persian and Arabic.{{cite web|url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/06/01/lyaris-pride-professor-dashtyari/|title=Lyari's pride: Professor Dashtyari|author=Zeba Ansari|date=8 June 2012|work=Pakistan Today}}
Career
Dashtyari was a teacher of Islamic Studies at the Balochistan University and frequently shuttled between Karachi and Quetta.{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/633370|title=Baloch scholar shot dead in Quetta|date=1 June 2011|work=Dawn News}}
His literary contributions include more than 24 books on Balochi literature, history, poetry and translations. He also established the Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi reference library, library on Balochi literature, in Malir area of Karachi.
The library houses more than 150,000 books in various languages on Balochi literature, culture and civilisation. Furthermore, he also compiled an index and bibliography of Balochi literature published in the past 50 years.
Death
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Category:Balochi-language writers
Category:Academics from Karachi
Category:Academic staff of the University of Balochistan
Category:People murdered in Balochistan, Pakistan
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