Rai Rashid Ahmad Khan Bhatti

There are several Muslim families who have both emotional and spiritual attachment with Sikhism for the past several generations. Out of these families, one family that has served significantly to the area is of Rai Rashid Ahmad Bhatti.

Rai Rashid Ahmad Bhatti;Ex M.N.A, born 15th January 1938 at Kot Hussain Khan, graduated from Government College lahore in 1958. His elder brother Rai Bashir Bhatti is law graduate and he remained MLA in 1951,MNA in 1965 and 1993. Rai Rashid Ahmad Bhatti took active part in the restoration of democracy in MRD movement and offered arrest from Regal Chowk Lahore as Secretary General PPP Punjab.

Mr.Bhatti, a well-known and influential politician of Pakistan, was at one time a close associate of Benazir Bhutto. He was a memeber of the Provincial Assembly in 1975 and got elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1977 and 1988.

Mr.Bhatti belongs to the 15th generation of Rai Bular, a landlord, who was a contemporary of Garu Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikh faith. Rai Bular was awed by the spiritual acts of the Guru and became his devotee. Later, Rai Bular's family donated 750 murabas (18,750 acres) of agricultural land to Gurdwara Nankana Sahib. The Gurdwara has been built at the birth place of Guru Nanak Dev.

Mr.Bhatti has three sons and all are Aitchisonian; eldest son Humayun Rashid BBA from USA,is currently running a software house in California,second son Haroon Rashid Bhatti,student of Law at University of Punjab, and third son Rai Faisal Rasheed Bhatti,Student of MIS at Iowa State University.

Rai Rashid Ahmad Khan Bhatti went to Libya as delegate to attend the first September revolution day; went to Kuala-lumpar in a delegation of public private partnership in health care and also to Jakarta in a seminar of population planning; attended forty session of United Nation and addressed the General Assembly.

Travels:
U.S.A, U.K, Libya, Saudiarabia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Afghanistan, Persia and Indonesia.

Games:
Member of college football team which won Punjab University Championship.

Hobbies:
Literature and Hunting.