Soodi

We met in 1948 as being together in many classes in first year. My Roll No: was 327 and his was 328. We both were in "medical group" (Biology class). We both had much interest in filmy (pop) songs and we both played badminton together. His father was some ofiicer in railaways and they had a "kothi" on Mayo road (Now called Allama Iqbal road). That was not too far from my other friend Inaam's house whose uncle had a well-known Homeopathic clinic. (I did write about Inaam before as he was the one who shot himself after starting his practice of Dentistry and after having served in Pakistan Army for 5 yrs.)
Soodi's name was Mas'ood and was a very likeable clean shave youngman, good player of Badminton. We were together for two years in Islamia College Lahore but toward the end he was less and less eager to meet with us or play. One of the reasons was his lower abdominal pain and he did have appendix taken out but his participation with us did not improve.
One day we sat down (Myself and Inaam) to ask him what happened to his cheerful and lively attitude, the appendectomy had become an old story, so why?
"Germiyon ki chuttion main hum Sialkote main rahay. Meri mulaqat meri aik cousin say ho gaiyee. Mujhay kashish mehsoos ho rahi thi awr woh bhi kashish main thi. Chunancheh hamari mulaqat raat kay andheray main honay lagi. hum aik doosray kay buhut qareeb ho gayay aur wa'day waghaira pukkay honay lagay. Aik shaam buhut barish thi main baher nikla to woh bhi bheegi huie wahan milnay aachuki thi. Uss kay doosray rose say uss nay ana band kerdiya.
Main pareshan tha kiya ho giya usay to pata chala woh beemar thi. Usay nimonia hogiya tha.
issi pareshani main tha khabar mili kih woh Allah ko piyari ho gaiyee"
I dont know what ahppened to Soodi after that as he did not join medical college with us.