Amjad Parvez

Amjad Parvez امجد پرویز
Pride of Performance Award by President of Pakistan
Born	(1945-03-28) 28 March 1945 (age 72) Lahore, British India (now Pakistan)
Nationality	Pakistani
Occupation	Singer, writer

Amjad Parvez (Urdu: امجد پرویز‎) (born 28 March 1945) is a Pakistani educationist and engineer, and he is also a writer, singer and musician. He has served as chief engineer, general manager, vice president and managing director of Nespak (National Engineering Services Pakistan). He received the Gold Medal of the Instutute of Engineers, Pakistan, in 1977 and Pride of Performance in 2000 for his music achievements.

Parvez was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1945 to Sheikh Abdul Karim who was head of the Chemistry department, Islamia College, Lahore and was author of many books on chemistry that were on the syllabus of inter and graduate curricula of the forties and the fifties. Parvez's grandfather Khwaja Dil Muhammad was principal at Islamia College, Lahore. He was also a poet of the Pakistan Movement as his national poems were read in the annual conventions of Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam mostly presided by Allama Iqbal.

Parvez received his primary education in Punjab Schools in 1960. He obtained the Matriculation Examination at Central Model School, Lahore. He joined Government College, Lahore (GCU) and University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET) from where he graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1967. After joining UET in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he proceeded to the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1968, where he qualified for a Master's degree in Quality and Reliability Engineering in 1969 and a Doctorate in Engineering Production in 1972.