| Dr. Nabi Bux Khan Baloch | |
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| Born | December 16, 1917 Jaffer Khan Laghari village, Taluka Sinjhoro, Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Died | Wednesday, 6th April 2011, at 3.00 Am (morning/night), Jamadil Awwal 1, 1432 AH At his daughter's residence at Qasimabad, Hyderabad, or a hospital thereabout. |
Dr. Nabi Bux Khan Baloch (Sindhi: نبي بخش خان بلوچ) was a scholar of the Sindhi, Persian, Arabic, and Urdu languages. He has written many books on Sindh's History, and about 42 volumes on Sindhi Folklore. In addition, he has compiled and published Sindhi dictionary in five volumes—which has lately been revised in three volumes. He has also compiled Sindhi-to-Urdu, Urdu-to-Sindhi dictionaries co-authored with Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan. He has compiled works of Classical Sindhi poets including Shah Inayat Rizvi, Qadi Qadan, Khalifo Nabibakhsh, Hamal Faqir and compiled works of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in ten volumes.
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Dr. Nabi Bux Khan Baloch was born on December 16, 1917, in Jaffer Khan Laghari village, Taluka Sinjhoro, Sanghar District. His father's name was Ali Mohammad Khan Baloch.He died on 06 April 2011 in cardiac arrest in Hyderabad Sindh Pakistan
Baloch started his education from Nowshera Feroz High School. He obtained his B.A. from Jhuna Gharh College from Bombay University and got his M.A. Arabic First Class First and LL.B from Aligarh Muslim University .
In 1946 AD he went to Columbia University where he did his Master's in Education and got his Doctoral Degree in the same field. His thesis was on Teacher Education in Pakistan.
After completing the Education, he returned to Pakistan. For a short period of time, he worked in Information and Broadcasting Division as Officer on Special Duty and was to join Damascus in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when Allama I. I. Kazi invited him to join the newly established University of Sindh as Professor of Education to establish first Department of Education in Pakistan. Later on he rose to the positions of the first Dean of Education Department and Vice-Chancellor of University of Sindh. In 1976, he was called upon to join Ministry of Education in Islamabad where he established first Islamic University Islamabad, initiated the scheme of Great Books of Islamic Civilization under Pakistan National Hijra Council. He also worked as first Chairman of Sindhi Language Authority and Chairman of Allama I.I. Kazi Chair. He is Professor Emeritus. His correspondence in the Sindhi Language has been published by Sindh Moti Manik Tanzeem Hyderabad and Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh. Latest work covering his correspondence with world scholars from 1946 to 2006 has been published under the title WORLD OF WORK: A SCHOLAR'S Predicament edited by Muhammad Umar Chand with an introduction covering biographical landmarks of his life, published by Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh in March 2007. dr nabi bux baloch belongs to poor family,his father Ali mohammad khan laghari died he was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle wali mohammad laghari.
and many more books.
Baqiyaat az Kalhora (Persian)
Dr Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, died of a cardiac arrest on Wednesday, the 6th of April 2011 at 3.00 am (morning), the first of Jamadil Awwal 1432 at his daughter's residence at Qasimabad Hyderabad. After suffering a heart attack early on Wednesday morning, 93-year-old, Dr Nabi Bakhsh was admitted to the Red Crescent Cardiac Hospital, where he breathes his last. His funeral will be held in kot mir muhammed, dist: Khairpur. The information on the place of burial has been confirmed from those who attended the funeral and the newspapers report received so far that late Dr. N.A. Baloch was buried at the feet of Allama I.I. Kazi at Jamshoro, University of Sindh. His Janaza Salat was led by Mufti Mohammad Rahim Maulvi of Dargah Sharif. The alternate arrangement of burial had been considered at Kot mir muhammed by the grave of Dr Sahib's mentor Tarik Miyandad Laghari if the University of Sindh had not allowed his burial at University of Sindh as he had requested in 2003. Dr Baloch's basic degrees were M.A. in Arabic, M.A. and Ph.D in Education. Of course, he studied Sindhi literature and language and wrote many books besides compiling and publishing Sindhi dictionary in five volumes. The government of Pakistan honoured Dr Baloch with several awards for his achievements.
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