Early Times Report
Poonch, Nov 25 : A Gojri writer from Pakistan occupied Kashmir's Abbaspur area, Latif Faizi, who had migrated to Abbaspur in 1947 was felicitated in a felicitation ceremony held in Poonch which was attended by a galaxy of intellectuals and social activists.
The visiting personality Latif Faizi in his thanks giving address hailed the people of Poonch for felicitating him and hoped that a day will come when the artificial line drawn arbitrarily between two parts of Jammu and Kashmir will be a thing of the past and the tragedy inflicted by the partition on the people Jammu and Kashmir shall come to an end. He also said, "I'm impressed by the development of Gojri language in Poonch and Rajouri."
Earlier Former IPS officer and Ex-Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University BGSBU, Dr Masud A Chaudhary, in presidential address, asked Faizi to work for the upliftment and betterment of downtrodden sections of society. Dr Masud hoped that the cross LoC points opened by the governments of India and Pakistan is part of an irreversible process of uniting the divided ethnicity on both sides of LoC. He further hoped that the movement of people across the LoC will not be restricted to the divided families. Ch Mohammad Asad Noomani who also conducted the proceedings of programme gave a brief account of Mr. Faizi who retired as senior officer in education department in PoK.
"Born in village Banbat of Haveli Tehsil in 1945, Faizi was particularly honoured for his efforts to promote spoken Gojri in an otherwise Punjabi influenced PoK, he said adding, "before joining education department, Faizi graduated from from Punjab University and did Law from Karachi University."
"Faizi's family along with the family of Dr Masud Chaudhary had migrated to Abbaspur where the duo lived and studied together in Abbaspur before Dr. Masud came back to his native village Kalaban. They met after 61 years, he added.
Among other prominent present this occasion include famous Gojri writer and educationist, Mohammad Amin Qamar, Urdu poet and writer, Abdul Ghani Jagal, Khadam Hussain Qamar, Mohammad Ayaz Saif and Ghulam Sarwar Chouhan, senior PDP leaders, Ch Lal Hussain Mushtaq and Javaid Choudhary, Ch Talib Hussain, Ch Mohammad Asad Noomani and others. On the occasion, a Gojri mushaira was also organized in which several poets recited their work highlighted the trauma of partition |
