Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 11: Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust (GDCT), Jammu, organized a meeting to pay rich homage to Baba-e-Qoum late Dr Masud Choudhary, an eminent scholar, visionary social reformer and lifelong champion of education and humanitarian values.
The programme was graced by chief guest Khurshid Bismil, chairman, Muslim Educational Trust (MET), Thannamandi (Rajouri), who visited GDCT along with his son Tahir Khurshid Raina, Principal District & Sessions Judge, other family members and associates.
The proceedings began with Fateha Khwani at the final resting place of late Dr Masud Choudhary, located near the GDCT premises. Later, the GDCT Library hosted a large gathering of lawyers, academicians, educationists, intellectuals, former senior government officers, retired bureaucrats, and prominent social figures.
Tributes were paid by former Additional Advocate General Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui; Dr Shahnawaz Chaudhary; Rashid Azam Inqalabi, former Director School Education; Senior Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmad; Gulzar Ahmad Qureshi, former Director School Education; Prof Musarraf Hussain Shah, former college principal and president, Aligarh Society; eminent Gojri writer Dr Javed Rahi; and former chairman GDCT and designated Senior Advocate of the High Court of J&K, Shah Mohammad Chaudhary.
In his address, Khurshid Bismil highlighted Dr Choudhary’s life and ideology, offered suggestions for strengthening GDCT, and announced a donation of Rs 50,000 from MET, Thanna Mandi.
Family members present included Arafat Masud, vice chairman GDCT and Dr Nazia Choudhary, Director KBPS. Also present were former Deputy Commissioner GA Khawaja; former chairmen GDCT Ahsan Ullah Chechi and Hashim Ali; former general secretary GDCT Ch Mohammad Sharif Chouhan; and Trustees Ch Shouket Javed, Ch Salam-ud-Din Bajarh, Ch Shouket Parvez, Ch Mohammad Yousuf Khepar, Ch Sajad Majeed, Ch Mohammad Rafiq Kohli, Ch Mohammad Saleem, Mohammad Taj Choudhary, Ch Inzar Ahmed Rana, Haji Hamid Hussain, Ghulam Rasool, Ch Mohammad Aslam Geghi, Khurshid-ul-Islam, Advocate Anwar Choudhary, Advocate Zulqar-Nain Choudhary, Ch Asif Khaliq Poswal, Ch Amjad Ali, Ch Javed Iqbal and Ch Mohammad Amin.
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