Asghar Nadeem Syed


Asghar Nadeem Syed is a Pakistani playwright, a TV drama serial writer as well as a poet.. he wrot many Dramas for Pakistani state channel and other channels as like "Chand Grahan", which is most high rated drama of 90's and shown on STN, and other Dramas 1993's hit "Nijaat" and 1997's "Hawaien", these two Classical Dramas were aired by. 1998's another Classical Drama "Ghulam Gardish" is also on his Credit, which was directed by Nusrat Thakur.

Early life and career

He was born in 1950 in the city of Multan. He received his master's degree in Urdu language from the University of Punjab, Lahore and then did his PhD degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He is married and has three children, a son and two daughters. Syed wrote the popular TV play Chaand Garahn, an Urdu TV drama serial. At one time, Asghar Nadeem Syed was a media consultant at the Pakistan Television Corporation.
His dramas depict the social injustices in the society. He has written plays depicting the feudal culture in rural Sindh, exploitation of women, the oligarchic structure in Pakistan comprising politicians, feudals, media moguls and the bureaucracy.
In January 2014, he was wounded by some unknown assailants in a gun attack in Lahore. He was returning home from his job as head of the Department of Television, Film and Theatre at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, when they shot at his car near Shaukat Khanum Hospital. He has a total of 36 years of teaching experience.

TV Plays

In 2013, he served on the Board of Governors of Pakistan Academy of Letters, an institution of Pakistani scholars and writers.

Awards and recognition