{"id":6952,"date":"2016-01-21T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2021-08-08T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T08:08:23","slug":"memorial-ceremony-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2016\/01\/21\/memorial-ceremony-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial ceremony 2016: ASK\u2019s tribute towards its Founding members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>In the remembrance of its four deceased founding members namely, Barrister Salma Sobhan, Former Attorney General Aminul Haque, Justice K. M. Sobhan and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Khaleque, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) organised a memorial ceremony on 21 January 2016 and celebrated their contribution and works through reminiscences by co-workers and family members of the deceased at Chayanaut Bhaban, Dhaka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial ceremony 2016\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Featured-Image-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distinguished individuals of the society along with the family members of the four deceased bestowed their gratitude by lightening candles and reading out excerpts from the biographies of four departed stalwarts who along with five other members started the organization in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial ceremony 2016\" width=\"632\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask-492x300.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ask-600x366.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo: Prothom Alo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dr. Hameeda Hossain , Founder member, ASK stated that at present the works of human rights activists are becoming very risky. Enforced Disappearance, Extra- Judicial Killings are ongoing and there is no trace of 19 people yet who had been missing since 2013 and Government is not saying anything in this regard. She emphasised on more active measures on these issues. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justice Nizamul Haque Nasim said that these four founder members were path finder and people will find all of them as examples of honesty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sultana Kamal, the <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Executive Director, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ASK said that this organisation has achieved trust of people at all levels. She also remembered four founders\u2019 lives, works, achievements, struggles and mentioned about ASK\u2019s work without any fear or favour. Sultana Kamal stressed to remember principles and honest contribution of late founder members of ASK and requested to all staff members to continue their work with devotion and utmost sincerity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The memorial event started with a song &#8216;O alor potho jatri, e je ratri, ekhanei themo na&#8230;and finally ended with the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 K. M. Sobhan and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-memorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","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=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}