Barlekha Ideal Society UK fetes Professor Dr Hosain Ahmed in London

London correspondent: The Barlekha Ideal Society UK (BISUK), a social organisation of Barlekha residents living in the United Kingdom, has accorded a reception to Professor Dr Hosain Ahmed, a professor at Sylhet Women's Medical College and a noted physician. The reception and discussion meeting was held on Tuesday evening (20 October) at Al Baraka Restaurant (38-40 Whitechapel Road) in Whitechapel, East London, on the occasion of his visit to the UK.

The event was presided over by the organisation's president, Md Lutfur Rahman, and conducted by its general secretary, Md Delwar Hossain. The guest of honour, Professor Dr Hosain Ahmed himself, attended as chief guest.

Special guests included Mohammad Abdul Munim Jahedi Carol, a director of Sylhet Women's Medical College, noted journalist and community figure; Shahriar Alam Shipar, former president of Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir's Sylhet city unit; Abdullah Al Munim, a former Sylhet district president of the organisation; Dr Ehteshamul Haque; Principal Anwar Ali; Hafiz Abdul Karim, a chairman candidate for Barlekha's No. 2 Dasher Bazar Union; businessman Helal Uddin; Advocate Ebadur Rahman Sufian; and young writer and artiste Hifzur Rahman Tasnim.

Also present were the organisation's executive members Salah Uddin, Jamil Hossain, Shamim Uddin, Oliur Rahman, Faruk Ahmed and Nazrul Islam, along with distinguished members of the expatriate community and representatives of social and cultural organisations.

Speakers at the meeting said the main aim of such events is to further strengthen communication, goodwill, unity and cooperation among Barlekha residents living abroad. Honouring people who have contributed to education, healthcare and social service back home also deepens the expatriate community's bond with the motherland, they remarked.

Barlekha Ideal Society UK has long been working to strengthen social bonds among UK-resident Barlekha people, increase mutual cooperation and advance welfare activities for the community. The organisation's motto is unity, harmony and human welfare.

According to the organisers, community organisations play an important role in keeping love for one's roots, heritage and social responsibility alive amid the busyness and constraints of expatriate life. Such events foster brotherhood and mutual respect among expatriates and create opportunities to present the history, heritage and social values of their home area to the new generation.

The reception was therefore not merely an occasion to honour a distinguished physician; it was also an expression of the resolve to bind expatriate Barlekha residents in a common bond and to work collectively for social welfare.