Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui

Pirzada Qasim پیرزادہ قاسم
Born	8 February 1943 Dehli, India
Nationality	Indo-Pakistani
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Nazeer Hussain University Karachi University Ziauddin University Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology laboratories of Lord Walton of Detachant
Alma mater	University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Known for	Intellectual and work in Urdu

Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui (Urdu: پیرزادہ قاسم رضا صدیقی‎) (born 8 February 1943) is a noted Indo-Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet scientist and educationist. He is serving as Chancellor of the Nazeer Hussain University.

Pirzada was born on 8 February 1943 to an educated, Urdu-speaking family in Delhi, India. After the partition of Pakistan and India in 1947, he continued his studies in Pakistan and received his intermediate from D J Science College in Karachi and BSc (H) from University of Karachi. He earned his PhD at Newcastle University, England. He 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 is currently the Chancellor of Nazeer Hussain University. He has written several books in English and Urdu, including Urdu poetry.

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