General Jahandad Khan served his country and its masses for more than five decades.
LAHORE: In an age where life is too short to think of others, too frugal to spend on others and too hypercritical to love others, we must remember and praise those who do otherwise. Consequently, we can inculcate and keep alive the feelings of living for others in the coming generations. General Jahandad Khan served his country and its masses for more than five decades.
After a brave, illustrious and stainless carrier in the Pakistan Army spanning over 30 years, he remained governor of Sindh for almost three years. Life could have been very easy for him after that. However, in his late 50s, he established the internationally renowned Al Shifa Eye Trust Hospital. Now the hospital has branches in Sukkur, Kohat and Muzaffarabad, in addition to the one in Rawalpindi. His curiosity for the welfare of people led him to establish a school for girls and boys, which is now a college, and a vocational technical training institute (VTTI) in his village of Malloo in Attock. He mentioned in his will that we have to take forward his work and give it all we have. I hope, wish and pray that God gives us courage to do so.
Nations seldom rise if they ignore the services of their heroes. Though I have lost a loving grandfather, the people of my nation have lost much more. They have lost a mentor, a leader, an advisor, a sympathiser, a philanthropist, and a true Pakistani, to say the least.
Maria Jahanzeb
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2011.
