Remembering Anwar Saleem Ahmad
April 18, 2021
The past year and a half has been full of loss and heartbreak for so many, across the world. Every life lost, especially the ones taken far before their time, deserves to be remembered and celebrated. As we enter the sixteenth year without our beloved father, Anwar Saleem Ahmad, we once again turn to the pages of the newspaper in which he wrote a long-running article to remember his life and honor his memory.
Our father lived an unconventional and challenging life. After losing his mother at the age of two, he was raised by his elder sisters, two invincible women who undoubtedly prepared him for the many trials life would throw at him. He graduated at the top of his class in the first batch of students to receive a Masters in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University, and went on to top the CSS examination and join the DMG. In 1982, he was awarded the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, under which he studied policy and governance
RAWALPINDI: For a few hours twice a month, young explorers and cultural enthusiasts follow Hassan Tauseef as he takes them through the narrow alleyways and forgotten streets of Rawalpindi to discover some of the most interesting and little-known aspects of Pakistan’s fourth-largest city.
“I wanted to start giving people tours because there is so much hidden in plain sight here,” Tauseef, a 20-year-old architecture student from capital Islamabad, told Arab News.
He has been arranging the Pindi Heritage Walks since January this year to discover and document Rawalpindi with other young people.
Neglected for decades despite its unique cultural and architectural heritage, Rawalpindi is back on the radar as young people seek to learn more about the centuries-old city, and retell stories that shaped the town’s history to what it is today.