An obituary reference would be organised at the Pakistan Academy of Letters on Thursday to remember the services of late Professor Ghulam Jilani Asghar, a celebrated educationist and literary personality born in Talagang.
A number of writers and scholars, including Professor Fateh Muhammad Malik, Azhar Jamil, Akbar Hameedi, Rashid Nisar and others will pay their respect to one of the prominent literary figures of Sargodha. Late Professor Jilani Asghar initiated a new method in Urdu literary criticism. In addition, Professor Asghar was an excellent Urdu poet, whose work has been published.