Qazi Wajid Biography
Full Name: Qazi Wajid
Date of Birth: 26 May 1930
Place of Birth: Gwalior state, British India
Nationality: Pakistani
Religion: Islam
Occupation: Actor
Children: Fazila Kaiser
Death Year: February 11, 2018 (aged 87)
Awards: Pride of Performance
Qazi Wajid Biography :
- Wajid Qazi was a Pakistani actor.
- Born Qazi Abdul Wajid Ansari, his birthplace is the Gwalior state and the year is 1930, as he himself stated in one of his last interviews.
- His family, including five siblings (three brothers and two sisters), moved to Pakistan after the partition of 1947.
- He began his career by joining Radio Pakistan as a child artiste in 1956.
- After 25 years on radio, he resigned and performed as an actor, joining television in 1966, and for his contributions in the field, he was eventually awarded the Pride of Performance Award in 1988 by the Government of Pakistan.
- In a career spanning more than 50 years, he did “more than 1,200 dramas as a staff artist for Radio Pakistan since 1977, and more than 500 dramas for TV.
- His works include Tanhaiyaan, Dhoop Kinare, Mehndi, Khuda Ki Basti and Ankahi.
( Last Updated: 24 August 2021 )
