parvez was born in lahore, pakistan in 1945 to sheikh abdul karim who was head of the chemistry department, islamia college, lahore. parvez's grandfather khwaja dil muhammad was the principal at islamia college, lahore. he was also a poet of the pakistan movement as his nationalistic poems were read in the annual conventions of anjuman-e-himayat-e-islam mostly presided by allama iqbal.