Biography
Qasmi was born in the village of Anga in Khushab District, British India. He matriculated from Campbellpur in 1931, around the time when he wrote his first poem, and then moved to the Sadiq Egerton College in Bahawalpur. He graduated from the University of the Punjab, Lahore in 1935. He had one brother, Peerzada Mohammad Bakhsh Qasmi, and a sister. He became an active member of the Progressive Writers Movement as a secretary, and was consequently arrested many times during the 1950s and 1970s. He died on 10 July 2006 of complications from asthma at Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore.
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