ABOUT
Pakistani intellectual, editor, and author who wrote short stories and novels and compiled Urdu-language encyclopedias. He also edited numerous magazines, including Qafla (Caravan), Pakistan Digest, and Siara Digest.He edited nine scientific and literary magazines and published more than two hundred books over the course of his career.He and Musharraf Farooqi were both celebrated Pakistani authors.
BEFORE FAMEHe held numerous odd jobs in his younger years, working for a time as both a woodcutter and a newspaper seller in the bazaars.
PERSONAL LIFEHe married Syeda Shamiam Gillani in 1967. The couple raised two sons and two daughters.
The meaning of the name Mahmood: Worthy Of Praise. FUN FACTSNovelist Syed Qasim Mahmood were born on Saturday, in a leap year, birthstone is Topaz, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Dragon, it is 309 days until Syed Qasim Mahmood next birthday.
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Jan. 13 1982