LAHORE - The Formanite Alumni Association of the Forman Christian College (FCC) held its Annual Reunion on Saturday. It was the 11th reunion since denationalisation, and was dedicated to FCC’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
Chief Justice Pakistan and Formanite Tassadduq Hussain Jillani was the guest of honour on the occasion while FCC Rector Dr James Tebbe and former Rector Dr Peter Armacost, President Formanites Alumni Association (FAA) Chaudhry Ahmad Saeed, Governor Balochistan Muhammad Khan Achakzai, and Member Board of Directors Yusuf Shirazi were also present.
Distinguished Formanite awards for outstanding contributions in their fields were given to Justice Wajihuddin, Lt Gen Farooq Ahmad Khan and Gen Noel Israel Khokhar. Gen Kuldeep Singh Bajwa a Formanite from India and President of the Chandigarh Chapter of the Alumni Association was also honoured.
On the occasion, the CJP said, “We live in an age of advanced technology, an age of internet, an age of shrunken distances. The social media is having a universal transformative effect. Democracy has no greater tool than social media to empower the masses. The dividing lines between the international and domestic relations are thinning out. We have become more vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction, to terrorist acts of the non-State actors.  At domestic level, those non-State merchants of death have wreaked violence in the name of sect, ethnicity and a narrow world view.”  Addressing young graduates, he said in the wake of these challenges there was one office that they share with rest irrespective of the choice of your career, your vocation, your religion or your sectarian or ethnic affiliation.