Introduction

Professor Syed Bashir HussainJafri(LATE), Died on 21-JAN-2016, Nishan-e-Sipas, an Iluminary from the State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir was born on the 15th May, 1934 at Sohawa Sharif District Bagh in a noble religious family of Saadat-e-Gardazia. He received his early education at Dhirkot, Bagh and then passed his matriculation from the Government High School, Rawalakot. For further studies he joined, Islamia Collage Lahore, did his Graduation and passed his M.A from the Punjab University Oriental College, Lahore in 1958. The same year he appeared in Civil Services Competition exam from the Punjab province. He joined civil service at Rawalpindi in capacity of a District Urban Development Officer in August 1958. He worked as a member on the team responsible for shifting of the Central Government offices from Karachi to Rawalpindi in 1960. He got his service transferred from the district Administration to the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad In 1964 (on deputation) then in 1975 he was transferred as Science Promotion Officer (Ministry of Science & Technology Islamabad). During the last two assignments Mr. Jafri remained busy at libraries as a Research Scholar & produced five research papers (Monographs) on different topics wiz Physics, Medical Sciences, Veterinary Sciences, Zoology, Agriculture and obtained awards and cash prizes on his works. In all he wrote sixteen books, seven thousand columns, essays, stories, features etc. both in Urdu & English, on multi-dimensional topics and gained honour, respect in the realm of literature. He became a celebrity both in science & arts circle as you will see hereunder. He enjoyed as a visiting professor in UK, USA from 1988 onward. He enjoyed two round the world trips in 1988 and 1989 at his own, each being 7 months duration. He visited six sub-continents & hundreds of countries in 22 years. He is a well known all-rounder.