By Muhammad Luqman
Qazi Wajid, who won a presidential award for his achievement in the field of radio and television dramas in 1988, died in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Sunday.
According to family sources, the legend actor died after he was hospitalised following chest pain.
Born in 1930 in the eastern city of Lahore, he started his carrier as radio drama artist and remained attached to the “sound box” until television was introduced in Pakistan in 1964. Wajid won a presidential medal for his achievement in the field of radio and television dramas in 1988.
In television dramas, Wajid performed a wide variety of characters, both comedians and serious. His colleagues referred to him as the “academy.”
He is survived by his wife and a daughter.
