LAHORE, April 21: MD (Muhammad Din) Tahir, known for his public-friendly litigation, was buried here on Monday at Imamia Colony.

He died at the age of 65 on Sunday due to a cardiac arrest after brief illness. He was taken to Punjab Institute of Cardiology to be pronounced dead on arrival. He is survived by two daughters and four sons.

His funeral prayers were held at a mosque near his Gulshan Ravi residence and attended by hundreds of people and lawyers, including former president Rafiq Tarar and Justice Khalilur Rahman (retired).

His grave was prepared near a mosque he had built and was being managed through the rent from the nearby shops also built by him.

The late Tahir migrated from Ambala to Sargodha at the time of partition and graduated from Zamindar Collage, Gujrat. He got a degree in law from the University Law Collage and started practicing in Lahore.

During his career, the lawyer filed cases on divers issues, most of them related to public welfare. Among the cases which he pleaded, a few are: raise in petroleum prices, stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh, government functionaries’ lavish spending on foreign tours, rights of prisoners in Punjab jails, deaths in kite-flying incidents and the establishment of the Islamabad high court.

His litigation was not confined to people only, but he also moved court for regarding the welfare of animals and birds. He visited almost all jails of Punjab to collect data on the plight of prisoners.

The lawyer believed in the independence of judiciary, and urged it through his petitions to assert its role in public life. He also moved the Lahore High Court to take to task those responsible for taping conversation between former Lahore High Court judge Malik Qayyum and former Ehtesab Bureau chief Mian Saifur Rehman. —Reporter