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Ardeshir Cowasjee

Born

in Karachi, Pakistan

April 13, 1926

Died

November 24, 2012

Genre

Nonfiction

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Ardeshir Cowasjee was a renowned Pakistani newspaper columnist from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. His columns regularly appeared in the country's oldest English newspaper, Dawn. He was also the Chairman of the Cowasjee Group which was the financier of many scholarships for students wishing to pursue higher education. These included grants for both local and overseas education. Due to his philanthropic activities he became widely regarded as an old "guardian" of the city of Karachi.

Cowasjee owned a family run shipping company that at the time of Partition was Karachi's largest, but was later nationalized by the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regime. Bhutto later appointed Cowasjee as Managing Director of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) in 1 ...more