{"id":3808,"date":"2015-02-04T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2015-05-10T06:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T06:47:48","slug":"memorial-ceremony-asks-tribute-towards-founding-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2015\/02\/04\/memorial-ceremony-asks-tribute-towards-founding-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial ceremony:  ASK\u2019s tribute towards its Founding members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the remembrance of its four deceased founding members namely, Barrister Salma Sobhan, former Attorney General Aminul Haque, Justice KM Sobhan and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Khaleque, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) organised a memorial ceremony on 19January 2015 and celebrated their contribution and works through songs, dance and reminiscences by co-workers and family members of the deceased at Chayanaut Bhaban in the Capital.<\/p>\n<p>In appreciation of being inspired by founding members, Executive Director Sultana Kamal embraced self-criticism as well as assessment in order to re-examine ASK\u2019s position. She mentioned that the departed four members always put themselves forward in any movement regarding ensuring rule of law, upholding justice and human rights. They will be the guide and source of inspiration for all at ASK. \u2018Hence, we do not remember them just to mourn but also for inspiration\u2019, she added. She also mentioned the founding members as \u2018educator for ASK\u2019 and thus, their principles and works must be followed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/founder_member.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3809\" alt=\"ASK\u2019s tribute towards its Founding members\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/founder_member.jpg\" width=\"597\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/founder_member.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/founder_member-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/founder_member-587x300.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This memorial ceremony commenced by playing flute and a dance performance . Distinguished individuals of the society along with the family members of the four deceased bestowed their gratitude by lighting candles and read out excerpts from the biographies of four departed stalwarts who along with five other members started the organization in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>In commemoration of Justice KM Sobhan, his son Rehan Sobhan spoke about his father\u2019s lifelong constant struggles for upholding justice, human rights and ensuring trial of war criminals. Selina Khaleque, wife of former IGP Abdul Khaleque, thanked ASK for organising this memorial event in respect of their predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Among the members of ASK executive committee, Barrister Sara Hossain <em>Faustina Pereira<\/em> and general secretary ZI Khan Panna remembered four founders\u2019 lives, works, achievements and struggles as well. Mr. Panna also unfolded some anecdotes from ASK\u2019s early days when the organisation commenced its journey from the garage of Nurjahan Murshid\u2019s Residence at Dhanmondi.<\/p>\n<p>Noted economist Professor Rehman Sobhan, husband of late Barrister Salma Sobhan thanked ASK family to follow their predecessors\u2019 footprints to enlarge what they envisaged. He stated that whether in professional or in personal life they proved themselves as \u2018responsible towards the society\u2019. \u201cThey accomplished successfully their institutional responsibilities and at the same time followed their conscience\u201c, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Recently departed lyricist and composer Gobinda Halder\u2019s famous inspiring song \u201cMora ekti phul k bachabo bole juddho kori\u201d also performed in this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the remembrance of its four deceased founding members namely, Barrister Salma Sobhan, former Attorney General Aminul Haque, Justice KM Sobhan and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Khaleque,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}