Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: اﺸﺘﻴﺎﻖ حسين قریشی;3 November 1903, – 22 January 1981; popularly known as I.H. Qureshi), SP, HI, was a Pakistani historian, scholar, writer and a professor a political history at the Karachi University.
An early activist of Pakistan Movement, Qureshi served as the Member of Parliament for the Pakistan Parliament, serving as the minister-secretary at the Ministry of Education (MoEd), and deputy-secretary at the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions. However, he resigned from his government appointments and joined the academic faculty at the Columbia University as a professor of Soviet history. But soon, he returned to Pakistan and founded the National Language Authority (MLA) in 1970s. Later, Qureshi joined the faculty of history at the University of Karachi where he remained there the remainder of his life. Qureshi is also credited for editing a four-volume series on history of Pakistan.
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