Скачать или смотреть LACHMAN DAS CHARITY HOSPITAL CONVERTED INTO SHOPPING PLAZA, PART 1: ADV NISAR MUJAHID AND DR AHMED

Prof Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed and Senior Pakistan Supreme Court lawyer Nisar Mujahid discuss in this Part I, what happened to the Charity Hospital which Rai Bahadur Lachman Das had built in 1932 at the entry to the Shahalmi Gate of the walled city of Lahore.

In 1947, the Hindu and Sikh inhabitants of Shahalmi Gate were subjected to the worst type of communal terrorism. That locality was set ablaze on the night of 21 -22 June.

A few days earlier a bomb attack had takenplace on the hospital on 16 June 1947. This outrage is covered in the book, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed.

Afterwards some refugees from India came and started living there waiting for accommodation. However, soon the land mafia began to encroach upon the hospital premises. Nisar Mujahid Sahib filed a case against such malpractice but no legal relief was provided and now a Shopping Plaza stands where once a charity hospital built by a Hindu once stood. It provided free medicine and treatment including operations to all and sundry without any discrimination of religion or caste.