26/07/2025
Dr Ali Jan!
Even more than 33 years after his passing away there is hardly any Kashmiri whose life has not been touched by this Hakeem Luqman. Dr Ali Jan, as he was known by his popular name believed to have perform miracles since diagnosing a disease by just looking at the face and other parts of the patients’ body and talking to him casually was no less than a miracle. His unique diagnostic skills of detecting the disease even without making patients undergo the expensive clinical tests. Dr Ali Jan’s memories are now folklores in the Valley where the consumption of per capita medicines in the country is the highest.
Dr Ali Jan was born on September 3, 1914, at Gojwara, Srinagar, in a prominent family of educations and spiritual Fazili family. He completed his MBBS degree from King Edwards Medical College, Lahore, and topped the course in 1937. The College still has the name of Ali Mohammad Fazili as a topper on its honors board. The brilliant mind that he was, Dr. Fazili passed DCH and MRCP from Edinburgh, UK, in mere nine months.
He served mostly in the rural areas of Kashmir and Jammu regions for more than 10 years before leaving to the UK for higher studies.
