Amjad Parvez ( ur, ) (born 28 March 1945) is a Pakistani engineer, writer, and a singer. Dawn (newspaper), Published 17 September 2006, Retrieved 1 July 2022
He has served as chief engineer, general manager, vice president and managing director of Nespak (National Engineering Services Pakistan).Arts: Learning classical music Dawn (newspaper), Published 7 August 2005, Retrieved 1 July 2022
Personal life
Background
Parvez was born in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest ...
, Pakistan in 1945 to Sheikh Abdul Karim who was head of the Chemistry department, Islamia College, Lahore. Parvez's grandfather Khwaja Dil Muhammad was the principal at Islamia College, Lahore. He was also a poet of the
Pakistan Movement
The Pakistan Movement ( ur, , translit=Teḥrīk-e-Pākistān) was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India. It was connected to the p ...
as his nationalistic poems were read in the annual conventions of Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam mostly presided by
Allama Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...
.
Parvez completed his basic education at
Central Model School, Lahore
Government Central Model School, Lahore is a school in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The school has two independent branches, with independent headmasters; one is near District Court and the other is in the center of Samanabad, near Masjid e Khizra. ...
in 1960. He then joined
Government College, Lahore
The Government College University, Lahore (colloquially known as GCU), is a public research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Opened as Government College, Lahore, in 1864, it became a university in 2002.
Overview
In 1864, Gov ...
(GCU) and
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
The University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specializing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is the oldest and one of the most ...
(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
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, 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.
Career
Parvez served Nespak (National Engineering Services Pakistan) for nearly 30 years, rose to the positions of general manager and Vice President, and retired as managing director and President in 2005. During his tenure as managing director, he brought in a significant annual amount of business for Nespak.
After retirement from Nespak, Parvez joined as professor at UET responsible for teaching and research at graduate and post-graduate levels in its Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department. He also set up a consulting company for UET namely 'Engineering Services UET Pakistan Limited (ESUPAK)'. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Lahore
The University of Lahore ( ur, ), abbreviated as UOL, is a private university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded at collegiate level in 1999 under the IBADAT Educational Trust and was granted full degree awarding status in 2002. ...
. He is a visiting faculty member at Lahore Leads University.
Awards and recognition
* ''Gold Medal'' Award by the
President of Pakistan
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* ''Dr. A. Q. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award'' from the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan in 2009
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Pride of Performance
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Award in 2000 by the
President of Pakistan
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Music
Parvez says he has had a passion for music since his childhood. He began his career as a child artist in 1954 at
Radio Pakistan
Radio Pakistan serves as the national public broadcaster for radio in Pakistan. Although some local stations predate Radio Pakistan's founding, it is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Pakistan. The network was established on 14 August ...
, Lahore in the children's programme 'Honhaar' before appearing on 'Khatir-e-Ehbaab' in the sixties. He trained in classical singing from the Ustads of
Sham Chaurasia gharana
Sham Chaurasi Gharana is a vocal gharana (a family's style of singing) in Hindustani classical music known for the singing of vocal duets. It is also known as the cradle of drupad. It is one of the four singing gharanas of Punjab; the other thr ...
such as Ustad Nazakat Ali Khan-Ustad Salamat Ali Khan duo (became their pupil in 1976), Ustad Ghulam Shabbir Khan-Ustad Ghulam Jaffar Khan duo (1992), and music composers Akhtar Hussain Akhian and veteran music composer Mian Sheheryaar. He is a practising singer at the Central Production Unit, Radio Pakistan, where he has recorded hundreds of
ghazal
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s, geets, and other songs since the 1970s in his monthly performances. For the past two decades, he has performed a raag for the programme "Ahang-e-Khusrovi" every month and has rendered more than fifty raags in
Khayal
Khyal or Khayal (ख़याल / خیال) is a major form of Hindustani classical music in the Indian subcontinent. Its name comes from a Persian/Arabic word meaning "imagination". Khyal is associated with romantic poetry, and allows the perfo ...
form. Parvez performs both light, semi-classical music and classical music songs.
Parvez has also been associated with
Pakistan Television Corporation
Pakistan Television Corporation ( ur, ; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcasting, broadcaster. Pakistan entered the television broadcasting age in 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore.
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(PTV) since its inception in 1964. In his career, he has also performed in the US, UK, France, Italy,
Norway
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,
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Egypt
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,
Saudi Arabia
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,
Qatar
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,
UAE
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,
Bahrain
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,
Myanmar
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and
India
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.
Writings
*Parvez's writings has been widely recognised. He has written a regular column reviewing books for
The Nation (Pakistan)
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, daily newspaper in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest ...
, Pakistan for the past three decades.
* His writings have been collected in two volumes ‘Symphony of Reflections’ (2006), and 'Rainbow Of Reflections' (2011). Both books were published by Jahangir Books, Lahore.
*Parvez also speaks and writes on music. His book titled 'Melody Makers of the subcontinent' covers 47 music composers of India and Pakistan from the 1950s to 1980s. It was published by Sange-Meel Publications, Lahore in 2012.
List of Pakistani writers
This is a List of Pakistani writers, writers of fiction and nonfiction who are native to, or born in Pakistan, writing in any language.
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List of Urdu-language writers
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers.
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List of Pakistani ghazal singers
This article contains the list of the past, present and forthcoming Ghazal singers that are based in Pakistan.
Following are the most popular Pakistani Ghazal singers of all times.
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Ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...
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