Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi Scientist

Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ حسين قریشی ‎) (lived 3 November 1903, – 22 January 1981; popularly known as I.H. Qureshi), SP, HI, was a Pakistani historian, scholar, writer, and a professor a political history at the Karachi University.An early activist of the historic Pakistan Movement, Qureshi served in the ministries of education and frontier regions as the secretary; in addition, he successfully stood up for the parliament of Pakistan. But, due to his association with the academia, he resigned from his government appointments and joined the academic faculty at the Columbia University as a professor of Soviet history. But soon, he returned to Pakistan and founded the National Language Authority (NLA) in the 1970s. Later, Qureshi joined the faculty of history at the University of Karachi where he remained there the remainder of his life. Qureshi is also credited for editing a four-volume series on history of Pakistan.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 03, 1903
Birth place	Uttar Pradesh , Presidencies and provinces of British India
Nationality	Pakistani people
Citizenship	Pakistan
Date of death	January 22, 1981
Place of death	Karachi , Pakistan
Residence	Islamabad Capital Territory , Karachi , Islamabad
Education	Aligarh Muslim University St. Stephen's College Delhi National Language Authority University of Cambridge
Known for	History of Pakistan