Taj Haider, SI (Urdu: تاج حيدر; born 9 March 1942) is a left-wing politician, nationalist,[1] playwright, mathematician, versatile scholar, and Marxist intellectual.
[2] A mathematician and scientist by profession, Haider provided a vital leadership in the formative years of clandestine atomic bomb projects in the 1970s.
During his career at the Karachi University, Haider primarily taught and focused on the ordinary differential equations and topics in multivariable calculus.
[3] During the attendance of 1967 socialist convention, Haider was one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and committed himself as a vehement supporter of change by left-oriented philosophy of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
[2] In 1990–2000, he contributed in PPP-initiated industrial projects such as the establishment of Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC), Hub Dam and various other social programmes.
[9] On literary and political circles, he has written critic articles against the military dictatorship, specifically policies enforced by the conservative President General Zia-ul-Haq throughout the 1980s.