KARACHI, Feb 18: A leader of the transport community, Chaudhry Mohammed Ismail, died here on Monday after protracted illness. He was 81.

He was in goods transport business in the undivided Punjab, and after migrating to Pakistan he established the Karachi Bus-Owners Association in 1948 and remained its general secretary for 10 years.

He became president of this association in 1980 and later as its chief patron in 1990. He was also chairman of the Karachi Bus-Owners Association. He was also vice-president of the Pakistan Motor Transport Federation. He held these three posts for life.

He had been a member of the Masood-ur-Rehman Commission, the Karachi Transport Commission headed by Justice Ajmal Mian and the Planning Commission Islamabad.

Quran Khwani will be held on Wednesday at Masjid-i-Quba, Britto Road, Soldier Bazar, between Asr and Maghrib prayers and for women at his residence — 149 Bhurgari Road.

The president of the Karachi Transport Ittehad and general secretary of the Karachi Bus-Owners Association, Irshad Hussain Bukhari, and other leaders of Karachi transport community have expressed their grief over the death of Chaudhry Ismail.—APP