[2] He was able to use English, French, Hindko, Hindi Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Seraiki and Urdu languages.
He also served as Dean, Faculty of Education & Social Sciences at Hamdard University, Karachi for six years.
He served as the Director of Quaid-i-Azam Academy for six years and was the President of Progressive Writers Association in 2013 at the time of his death.
Journalist Khalid Ahmed wrote: "Most people think Muzaffar Ali Syed was the most learned man in Pakistan.
His assessments of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Allama Iqbal have been heretical but have escaped attention because his scholarship is unassailable and we generally don't like reading controversial things if they are deeply scholarly.