Background
QURESHI, Ishiiaq was born on November 20, 1903 in Patiali. Son of Qazi Sadiq Husain Qureshi and Begum Altafunnisa Qureshi.
QURESHI, Ishiiaq was born on November 20, 1903 in Patiali. Son of Qazi Sadiq Husain Qureshi and Begum Altafunnisa Qureshi.
Saint Stephen’s College (University of Delhi), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Lecturer in History, Saint Stephen’s College 1928. Reader in History University of Delhi 1940, Professor, and Head of Department, of History 1944, Dean of Faculty of Arts 1945. Professor, of History and Head of Department, of History, Punjab University 1948.
Deputy Minister of the Interior, Information and Broadcasting, Refugees and Rehabilitation, Government, of Pakistan 1949, Minister of State 1950, Minister for Refugees and Rehabilitation, Information and Broadcasting 1951-1953.
Minister of Education 1953-1955. President 1976); Visiting Professor Columbia University, New York 60.
Director Central Institute of Islamic Research, Karachi 1960-1962. ViceChancellor University of Karachi 1961-1971.
President Pakistan Institute of Central and West. Asian Studies, Karachi 1970.
Fellow Pakistan Academy, of Letters 1978 (President. Chairman National Language Authority, Karachi 1979. Star of Pakistan.
Foreign Bengal, Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 1947. Advisory Council of Islamic Ideology 63, National Commission, on Education and Manpower 1968-1969. Tehrik-IIstiqlal party.
Married Nayab Begum Qureshi in 1920 (died in 1965).