Syed Baqar Askary

Syed Baqar Askary fondly known as Dr. Askary is the Founder Trustee and CEO of Fatima Jinnah Dental College (FJDC), Karachi. Baqar Askary is a medical graduate of 1966, of Dow Medical College, Karachi Pakistan. Baqar Askary a senior medical practitioner and an educationist. FJDC founded in 1992 is a pioneer institution devoted to the teaching of dentistry, independently and not as a department of any medical college. The college is named "Fatima Jinnah Dental College" to pay respects and dedicated to Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah one of the pioneers of Pakistan and sister of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. During Baqar Askary's close association with Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, who was herself a dentist, emphatically requested him for the establishment of a Dental College in Karachi. This wish of Mohtarma, had remained with him as a sacred trust, over the years. The aim initially was to persuade the Government to establish a dental college attached to one of the existing medical colleges in the city, namely Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre, Sindh Medical College, Dow Medical College or Civil Hospital (Karachi) as dental departments already existed in these institutions.

It was quickly made clear that neither the federal government nor the Sindh Government had any plans to set up a Dental College in Karachi, in 1989 Federal Government of Pakistan, however, as a consolation, announced that it will allow such an institution to be established in the private sector. On 20 February 1993, which was the centenary year of the birth of the Mohtarma, to mark the occasion Baqak Askary addressing a press conference, announced that the establishment of this College was a gift to the Nation. With intimation to the Federal and Provincial Ministers of Health, the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council and the University of Karachi, Fatima Jinnah Dental College was founded.

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