[1][2] Zahir Qasmi was born to Muhammad Tahir Qasmi, son of Islamic scholar Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad, son of Maulana Qasim Nanotvi mohtamim & founder of famous Dar-Ul-Ulum Deobund, Saharanpur, UP, India.
(iii) Qari Vaheed Zafar Qasmi the famous naat khuan of Pakistan.
[4][2] He also established a Qira’at Institution in the early 1950s in Pakistan called “Darul-Quran, Jamia Qasima” in lazvella, Karachi.
The meeting also decided to make Maulana Zahir Qasmi its convener, and to appoint a committee consisting of Maulana Qasmi, Hamid Husain Farooqui (advocate), Ziaul Hasan Chishti (advocate), Dr Safdar Farooqui, M. Ghulam Murtaza and SM Sohail to prepare the constitution of the party".
[1] Above quote from the Dawn newspaper archives makes it obvious that Zahir Qasmi was highly active politically and socially in Karachi more than 50 years ago.