3rd Death Anniversary of Qazi Wajid. He died of a heart attack on February 11, 2018 in Karachi. Qazi Wajid was a Pakistani actor born 26 May 1930. He began his career in front of the camera from the age of 10 as one of the boarding school boys in one of the earliest Pakistani movies in the mid-1950s, Beydari, which featured the now-famous song ‘Aao Bachon Sair Karaayein Tumko Pakistan Ki’. Later he became a full-time artist at Radio Pakistan in Karachi, contributing to various programmes, and many still remember him as a regular voice artist for the very popular Cassette Kahaniyaan for children. He began his radio stints in late ’50s as a performer in the Sunday morning show for children Bachon Ki Dunya, which initially had Abdul Majid as an anchor and later Munni Baji. In the segment titled ‘Qazijee Ka Qayda’ Qazi used to play a student attempting to learn his lessons and often being admonished and beaten by his ustaad. His first ever appearance was Imtiaz Ali’s Toofani Dopaher which also included Masooma Latif and Santosh Russell. As an actor, Qazi Wajid could possibly have been one of Pakistan television’s greatest finds. Like Spencer Tracy, … Continue reading 3rd Death Anniversary of Qazi Wajid, today