SAINT 2

The picture (Published in the previous blog) shows my friend and classmate who was popularly known as Saint.
   His name was Qamar Zaman, a lovable chap. After a couple of years down the Medical school years we learnt he was so fond of the stories of "Saint", a spy kind of character in the stories created by the writer- Leslie Charteris (1930). I did not see those novels but that was loved by Qamar Zaman. The movies made from 1938 starred George Sanders but the TV series star was Roger Moore who was later contracted to play 007 when the original 007 player (Sean Connery) had stopped making those movies. When I was in England during the sixties, I frequently watched the series of "Saint" and that was when I became aware of what my friend Qamar Zaman, may God rest his soul in peace (I recently learned he died young, was practicing medicine in Lahore.) had fallen in love with. So he got that nickname of "Saint" and we never called him by his original name. Some of our classmates studied in Missionary schools of Lahore before coming to Medical school and they were exposed to such English books or literature more than us who attended regular schools where English teaching was done by non-English speaking teachers. Qamar Zaman represented such "English-oriented" group of students. Our other classmate with the same name (or probably Qamar-uz-Zaman) was a pathan from frontier who also died a few years ago, again a young death, and he was a well respected popular Obs-Gyn fellow in Lahore May Allah rest his soul in peace.

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