About This Website

This website has been produced and developed exclusively by Syed Ayaz Bokhari, grandson of Late Professor Ahmed Shah Bokhari (Patras Bokhari) in collaboration with Pakistan Data Management Services, Karachi.



This website was officially launched at Patras Bokhari’s Alma Mater, GC University, Lahore (formerly known as Government College, Lahore) on 24th December 2005. The launch ceremony was held at the Bokhari Auditorium (named after Patras Bokhari) of GC University. Speakers on the occasion were Syed Ayaz Bokhari, Syed Haroon Bokhari (son of Patras Bokhari), Khaled Ahmed, journalist, Bano Qudsia, writer, Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal and Prof. Dr. Khalid Aftab, Vice Chancellor, GC University.



We hope that this website will provide the opportunity to its visitors to enjoy the writings of Patras Bokhari, and discover the many facets of this great personality through his works, and the articles and features on him which are included in this website.



There is still more material on Patras Bokhari which is being collected and as soon as it is ready, will be uploaded on to this website from time to time.



Materials and comments from visitors are welcomed for inclusion in this website. Please send these through the Contact Us section of this website.

 

Technical Information

Urdu text of this website is  displayed using latest Urdu Nastaliq open type font – PDMS_Jauhar. This font is developed by Pakistan Data
Management Services
.

PDMS_Jauhar features more than 1700 ligatures optimized for display on Windows based PCs with Internet Explorer. Font size is quite small (less then 300 KB) for fast Internet download. This site is built using Drupal web portal technology with custom scripts and uses php/mySQL/HTML.