Abdur Rahim Khan as I knew him (1)

I was lucky to have met three top leaders of the profession and, in time, developed very close relationship with them – amounting to almost friendship. They were: Abdur Rahim Khan (ARK), Anis Khurshid, and Abdus Subuh Qasimi. The first one who I knew the most has been the last to depart. The situations, circumstances and the time-span in which I interacted with these seniors were different in each case but we spent hours together discussing, apart from personal interaction, the past, contemporary and future issues of Pakistani librarianship. Each one of them was deeply involved in professional activities and was part of the history of the profession. During these interactions and the discussions that followed, I learned a great deal about many unrecorded events of our professional history (2).