Category: Vignette
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Remembering Feisal Rahimtoola and Conflicting Perspectives
Remembering Feisal Rahimtoola who taught us Principles of Management at IBA, Karachi in 1985 in my first MBA semester. His energetic style of teaching was distinctively unique while pacing from left to right moving from front to back and front, raising questions and answering the questions with good humor, while thinking aloud and exploring all…
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Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady
Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady On 12th of April, 2023, Mrs Parveen Rauf Momani, my mother’s brother’s wife left this world to meet her creator. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon. May Allah give her the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. Rauf Mamoo and Rauf Momani (1960) Rauf…
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Prof Abdul Razzaq Memon- Credit for basic concepts of computer design and engineering
زرا عمر رفتہ کو آواز دینا- With our teacher Dr Abdul Razzaq Memon at VCs Workshop at Movenpick! He is currently VC of Preston University. He is 77 now and I crossed 60 recently.He was chairperson of Electronic Engineering Department at DCET during 1980s. October 25, 2022 pic He taught us (80-85 batch) one of…
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Companions of Hajj: Dekh mera Zauq o Shauq (See My Yearning and Passion)
Hajj kay Saathi (Companions of Hajj): Dekh mera Zauq o shauq (See my Passion and Yearning) In 2016, Arif bhai went for his second Hajj, and all through the trip, he kept on recalling the saathis (group fellows) of that first Hajj of 1996 which I also accompanied. When I talked on Skype with Arif Bhai after…
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Generation Inspired by Khairis and Aligarh: Ahsan Hyder and his German and French Teacher Abdul Sattar Khairi
Abdus Sattar Kheiri was my father’s teacher at Aligarh during 1934-35. Khairi along with his brother in 1917 had proposed the idea of Muslim state in British India. Attached is the recommendation that A. Sattar Kheiri wrote for my father Ahsan Hyder in 1939. During its transcription, I discovered several interesting links. My father had…
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Prof A. G. Saeed of IBA, a role model of God fearing forth rightness
Prof. A.G. Saeed left for the hereafter on the 9th of May, 2022. May Allah give him the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. He left IBA much before I joined as MBA student in 1985. However, heard a lot about him and other stalwarts in the group photo below. In my association with…
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Dr Irfan Hyder Youtube Channel Videos Topics and Links
I have come to the conclusion that social media especially youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and now even Google does not want people to remember chronologically and category-wise information that they have seen or even generated themselves. I am no longer able to see a list of all the videos that I have uploaded. It is only…
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A Drive on a Rickety Cycle and Sufistic Thought by Shah M Ismail Rauf
This is a story/article written by my dear mamoo Shah M Ismail written around 1953-55. Today September 8, 2021 is his 22nd death anniversary. He retired as Major in 1980s. He was great man who taught me how to love and play with children. Father of Faizan Shah, Faryal Osman Khan, Faraz Shah, Fariha Ahmreen,…
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Partition, Broken Families, Migration Ethos: Bharat ko Janey Waley by Fatima Khatoon
Farewell picture of my grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder’s return in June 1951 with the extended family. Research for names of those in Pic and labeling them with numbers was done by Khurshid Alim Zaidi, a very painstaking task. My recitation of the poem Poem written by Phuppi Fatima Khatoon on the decision of Daday Abdul…
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Teachers at ICB/IMS
Sitting Sir Manzoor Ahmed Khan (English), Sir Nafees Siddiqui (English), Principal MKA Beg, Madam Shuja Zaidi (Headmistress), Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu), Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) This appears to be editorial board of Sumbul, school magazine
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The Art of Gentle and Soft Persuasion- Dr Zahir Ali Syed
Dr Zahir Ali Syed, Director of UIT (Usman Institute of Technology), was plucked from us yesterday June 11, 2021, in a murderous event reminding Karachites of how Hakim Saeed was taken away from us in a terrorist murder some 25 years ago. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon! He was a mentor to me…
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Fauqul Chacha and Family Help
I knew them both and their father Fauqul Hasan Zaidi. Fauqul chacha will regularly drop at our place for morning tea with my father and mother during his break journey on his way from his home in F-6/1 to his office in the old state bank building which was being used as parliament building temporarily…
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ICB/IMSB Teachers Autographs 1975-80
Tribute to my school teachers who laid the foundation for my learning at ICB (Islamabad Model School for Boys) G-6/3 near Covered Bazar/Melody. Autographs from 1975 and 1980: Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) Sir Hanif Tahir (Maths) Sir Subhan Ullah (Geography) Sir Rafique Malik (English) Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu) Sir Sabir Raza (Urdu) I regret…
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Ausaf Husain and His Sincere Frankness
Syed Ausaf Hussain Marhoom: On 18th January, 2012, Ausaf Bhai left for his heavenly abode. A wrangler in the true sense and a man of high principles. With the way he carried himself, no one could gauge his true age. I remember sharing an anecdote with us that he once visited a Hakeem. Hakeem sb…
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Irfan Husain, Mazdak, Begum & Akhtar Husain Raipuri and Zafar Umar
I have been reading Mazdak/ Irfan Husain’s articles in Dawn for last 20+ years. Although I often disagreed with his opinions but yet used to read them regularly. Son of acclaimed writers Akhtar Husain Raipuri and Begum Hameeda Akhtar Husain Raipuri. Begum Hameeda Akhtar, an acclaimed writer herself was daughter of Zufar Umar author of…
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Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering the Learnings from Mukhtar A Siddiqui, My Khaloo
Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering Mukhtar Siddiqui Mukhtar Khaloo once came to Islamabad and was traveling to Mardan. This was the mid-1970s. He spent a few days at our place. There are two memorable incidents from his stay. One was my learning about excellence in ironing. The way he ironed his shirt and pants…
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Dr Shahid Amjad and Leadership of Lahore School of Economics
Met Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector Lahore School of Economics at the picturesque campus on Burki Road on Jan 21, 2020. Got to see the peacock dance as I entered the beautiful campus. It was as if the peacock gave me a special welcome (or do they perform for every visitor). Saw one of the…
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Senator Mazhar Ali – Dreams and Achievements
Sen Syed Mazhar Ali was a man who was ahead of his time. He was a visionary who could appreciate the role of IT in creating wonderful opportunities for Pakistan in 1980s. His apartment complexes set the standard for high quality during 1970s and early 1980s. His Gulshan-e-Maymar town was conceived and constructed decades ahead…
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Javier Poncela-Professor from Malaga Spain who Taught us Selfless International Collaboration
Very sad. It was very sad to learn that Dr. Javier Poncela, a Professor at the University of Malaga, Spain had passed away. Dr Poncela was a well known personality in the electrical engineering departments of the universities of Sindh. He became a popular academician in Pakistani community and was routinely invited for the conferences…
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Rauf Mamoo, My war hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle.
My hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle. Rauf Mamoo (as known in the family) related to us of his experience at Chawinda battlefield in the 1965 India-Pakistan war. Major Shah M Ismail He was assigned the duty of an OP (Observation Post) and was deputed in the no-man’s…
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Love of Research and Books-Prof Ahmed Saleem
I went to meet Professor Ahmed Saleem at his home library. His house is in Judicial Town near Chhattar Park in a very picturesque setting at the foot of the hill with stream flowing near by. His library consists of his personal collection of over 45,000 books and a collection of newspapers since 1947 of…
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Growing Up in the 1960s-70s: Recollections of Rauf Mamoo by his Daughter
Recollections of Faryal Osman daughter of Rauf Mamoo (Major Shah Mohammad Ismail, Artillery SP3), while growing up in Nowshera when Rauf Mamoo was a Captain and later in Hyderabad where he was posted as Major before his retirement. The chronicle is interesting because it describes the life and times of junior army officers during those…
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Exemplary Inspirational and Collaborative Leadership – Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad
Today (Sep 10, 2018), with the departure of Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad for the hereafter. I lost a mentor, a guide and a trail blazer who exemplified what does it mean to be an inspirational leader. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon. A loss that seems more acute because I could have learned much…
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Dr Muhammad Mahmud of IBA: A Self-made Industrious Faculty Member
Dr M Mahmud expired early morning of July 12, 2018. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon. May Allah reward him with the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. Allah blessed him with 27th Ramazan night to start this journey. He was an alumnus of IBA. His association with IBA started in 1967-68 in…
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Role Model of Forthrightness, Calm and Resourcefulness: Daud Khaloo
I can still hear the distinctive sound of Daud Khaloo’s Java motor cycle coming from afar in 1970s calm and quiet Khawaja Nazimuddin Road portion of F-6/4 of Islamabad near China Chowk. It was the time when Shahrah-e-Quaid e Azam and the adjoining buildings now known as the Blue Area had not yet been constructed,…
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Sardar Mamoo – Reliance and Tawakal on Allah- Life is to give and not to take
“Shah M Mubeen ur Rehman known in the family as Sardar was my ماموں and veteran of wars of 1965 and 1971 (Baluch Regiment) and passed away with metastatic cancer in 1992. He along with his brother Shah M Ismail, served as رضا کار during Hyderabad Indian army action in 1948 and narrowly escaped death…