Contributions of ASK founders recalled

Paying homage to Barrister Salma Sobhan, Justice KM Sobhan and Advocate Aminul Haque, speakers yesterday at a memorial programme said that they had made great contributions to today's democracy.
The eminent personalities were the founding members of the legal aid and human rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).
The speakers at the programme reflected on their colourful lives and heroic deeds at intervals of singing and poem recitations.
ASK organised the memorial meeting with a cultural programme at the Chhayanaut auditorium in the city yesterday evening.
They did not have greed for designations which is rare and also difficult to follow by others, they said.
Their relentless work to ensure human rights brought them fame not only in the country but also abroad, they added.
The speakers said that these individuals also led a movement against communalism and to ensure trial of war criminals.
Salma Sobhan founded ASK in 1986 to make deprived women in the country aware of their rights. She breathed her last on December 30, 2003.
Justice Sobhan, who was also one of the founding members of ASK, died on December 31, 2007 while Aminul Haque passed away on July 13 in 1995.