Shahryar Rashed
Shahryar Rashed (Urdu: شہریار راشد) (1998–1948) was a Pakistani English language poet. He was the son of the Pakistani Urdu poet Noon Meem Rashid[citation needed]. Rashed attended Aitchison College, Karachi Grammar School, and the United Nations International School in New York. After attending Drew University, Shahryar returned to Pakistan to complete his master's degree in English from Punjab University[citation needed]. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971[citation needed]. His diplomatic postings took him to Europe, West Africa, Tokyo and Bombay. At the time of his death in 1998, he was ambassador to Uzbekistan[citation needed].
Shahryar wrote a number of English radio and stage plays including The Immaculate Puptent which was broadcast on the English Service of BBC radio[citation needed]. He also published two collections of his verse: Hybrid (1991) and Liquid Clocks (1997).
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