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	'''Syed Daoud Shah Bokhary''' ({{lang-ur\|داوود بخاري}}, {{zh\|包大衛}}, also spelled Daud Bokhary; born 15 January 1920) is a retired businessman in [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="TheStandard">{{citation\|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html \|periodical=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)\|The Standard]] \|date=2005-05-26 \|accessdate=2008-01-09 \|title=Good life fit for a hero \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526140254/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html \|archivedate=26 May ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref name="Dawn">{{citation\|title=Credibility: zero minus\|first=Ardeshir\|last=Cowasjee\|date=1998-02-28\|accessdate=2010-01-31\|periodical=[[Dawn (newspaper)\|Dawn]]\|url=http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1998/21Feb98.html}}</ref>		'''Syed Daoud Shah Bokhary''' ({{lang-ur\|داوود بخاري}}, {{zh\|包大衛}}, also spelled Daud Bokhary; born 15 January 1920) is a retired businessman in [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="TheStandard">{{citation\|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html \|periodical=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)\|The Standard]] \|date=2005-05-26 \|accessdate=2008-01-09 \|title=Good life fit for a hero \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526140254/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html \|archivedate=26 May 2005}}</ref><ref name="Dawn">{{citation\|title=Credibility: zero minus\|first=Ardeshir\|last=Cowasjee\|date=1998-02-28\|accessdate=2010-01-31\|periodical=[[Dawn (newspaper)\|Dawn]]\|url=http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1998/21Feb98.html}}</ref>

	==Early life==		==Early life==
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	Bokhary's wife died in the 1970s. He formerly owned land in Peshawar near his hometown, but sold it when he realised that neither he nor his sons wanted to settle in Pakistan.<ref name="TheStandard"/>		Bokhary's wife died in the 1970s. He formerly owned land in Peshawar near his hometown, but sold it when he realised that neither he nor his sons wanted to settle in Pakistan.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

	Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary is Daoud Bokhary's eldest son.<ref name="TheStandard"/><ref>{{citation\|last=Carney \|first=John \|title=Amina's friends and family in high places \|accessdate=2011-05-11 \|url=http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places \|date=2010-08-08 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721181934/http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places \|archivedate=21 July ~~2022~~}}</ref> He inherited the brokerage business when his father retired.<ref>{{citation\|title=家世顯赫頻惹官非 (From a good family but frequently getting into trouble with the law)\|periodical=Hong Kong Daily News\|url=http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716\|date=2010-01-29\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006135300/http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716\|archive-date=6 October 2011\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|title=SFC Reprimands Bokhary Securities Limited and Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary\|date=2003-12-29\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|periodical=Enforcement News\|publisher=Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong\|url=http://www.sfc.hk/sfcPressRelease/EN/sfcOpenDocServlet?docno=03PR287}}</ref> Bagh Ali's daughter Amina Mariam Bokhary was notable for [[Amina Bokhary controversy\|her legal problems]] in Hong Kong.<ref name="TheStandard20081203">{{citation\|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 \|date=2008-12-03 \|accessdate=2010-01-28 \|title=Sobering times for judge's niece \|periodical=The Standard \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035613/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 \|archivedate=4 June ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc \|title=撞車拒吹波波包致金姪女摑警員 (Refuses breathalyzer after car accident; Judge Kemal Bokhary's niece attacks police officer) \|date=2010-01-29 \|accessdate=2010-01-29 \|periodical=Sing Pao \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611151729/http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc \|archivedate=11 June ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|periodical=Wen Wei Po\|url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm\|date=2010-01-28\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|title=叔大法官舅夏佳理 (Paternal uncle a big judge; maternal uncle Ronald Arculli)", Wen Wei Po, 28\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203040850/http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm\|archive-date=3 February 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref>		Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary is Daoud Bokhary's eldest son.<ref name="TheStandard"/><ref>{{citation\|last=Carney \|first=John \|title=Amina's friends and family in high places \|accessdate=2011-05-11 \|url=http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places \|date=2010-08-08 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721181934/http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places \|archivedate=21 July 2011}}</ref> He inherited the brokerage business when his father retired.<ref>{{citation\|title=家世顯赫頻惹官非 (From a good family but frequently getting into trouble with the law)\|periodical=Hong Kong Daily News\|url=http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716\|date=2010-01-29\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006135300/http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716\|archive-date=6 October 2011\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|title=SFC Reprimands Bokhary Securities Limited and Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary\|date=2003-12-29\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|periodical=Enforcement News\|publisher=Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong\|url=http://www.sfc.hk/sfcPressRelease/EN/sfcOpenDocServlet?docno=03PR287}}</ref> Bagh Ali's daughter Amina Mariam Bokhary was notable for [[Amina Bokhary controversy\|her legal problems]] in Hong Kong.<ref name="TheStandard20081203">{{citation\|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 \|date=2008-12-03 \|accessdate=2010-01-28 \|title=Sobering times for judge's niece \|periodical=The Standard \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035613/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 \|archivedate=4 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc \|title=撞車拒吹波波包致金姪女摑警員 (Refuses breathalyzer after car accident; Judge Kemal Bokhary's niece attacks police officer) \|date=2010-01-29 \|accessdate=2010-01-29 \|periodical=Sing Pao \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611151729/http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc \|archivedate=11 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|periodical=Wen Wei Po\|url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm\|date=2010-01-28\|accessdate=2010-01-29\|title=叔大法官舅夏佳理 (Paternal uncle a big judge; maternal uncle Ronald Arculli)", Wen Wei Po, 28\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203040850/http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm\|archive-date=3 February 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	Daoud Bokhary's youngest son [[Kemal Bokhary\|Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary]] is one of the three permanent judges in the [[Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)\|Court of Final Appeal]] in Hong Kong.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm\|title=List of Judges and Judicial Officers\|date=2010-01-01\|accessdate=2010-01-27\|publisher=Hong Kong Judiciary\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123112819/http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm\|archive-date=23 January 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="SCMP">{{citation\|periodical=South China Morning Post\|title=Kemal Bokhary\|date=1997-06-13\|accessdate=2008-01-09\|url=http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523105953/http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html\|archivedate=2006-05-23}}</ref>		Daoud Bokhary's youngest son [[Kemal Bokhary\|Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary]] is one of the three permanent judges in the [[Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)\|Court of Final Appeal]] in Hong Kong.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm\|title=List of Judges and Judicial Officers\|date=2010-01-01\|accessdate=2010-01-27\|publisher=Hong Kong Judiciary\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123112819/http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm\|archive-date=23 January 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="SCMP">{{citation\|periodical=South China Morning Post\|title=Kemal Bokhary\|date=1997-06-13\|accessdate=2008-01-09\|url=http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523105953/http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html\|archivedate=2006-05-23}}</ref>

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{{Short description|Hong Kong businessman}}
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'''Syed Daoud Shah Bokhary''' ({{lang-ur|داوود بخاري}}, {{zh|包大衛}}, also spelled Daud Bokhary; born 15 January 1920) is a retired businessman in [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="TheStandard">{{citation|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html |periodical=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]] |date=2005-05-26 |accessdate=2008-01-09 |title=Good life fit for a hero |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526140254/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GE26Dh01.html |archivedate=26 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="Dawn">{{citation|title=Credibility: zero minus|first=Ardeshir|last=Cowasjee|date=1998-02-28|accessdate=2010-01-31|periodical=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|url=http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1998/21Feb98.html}}</ref>

==Early life==
Bokhary was born near [[Peshawar]] in the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]] of British India (today part of [[Pakistan]]). He served in the [[Indian Army (1895–1947)|British Indian Army]] for four years as a logistics expert, and came to Hong Kong with the army on the first British ship after the [[surrender of Japan]] ended the [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|occupation of Hong Kong]]. He briefly returned home to run a [[Coal mining|coal mine]], but, fearing for his wife's safety during the [[Partition of India|independence]] of [[Pakistan]] in 1947, returned to Hong Kong with her and their first son soon after.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

==Career in Hong Kong==
Bokhary began his career in Hong Kong managing a dockside [[Warehouse|godown]], a position he found thanks to his army logistics experience. He received accolades and promotions for his ability to keep his workers happy, and his skilled handling of the growth in ship traffic resulting from the [[Communist Party of China]]'s takeover of [[Shanghai]]. He eventually came to manage an entire wharf, and with his increased responsibilities, began taking night classes in [[accountancy]] at the [[University of Hong Kong]]. He retired from his wharf position in the 1970s.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

For his second career, Bokhary went into [[day trading]], and together with his elder son founded his own company, Bokhary Securities; he wanted to be his own boss, and believed that his religion and ethnicity would keep him out of managerial positions at the big financial corporations which then dominated securities trading in Hong Kong.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

==Other activities==
Outside of his work, Bokhary has been engaged in various philanthropic activities. He has paid for the upkeep of a mosque in his hometown in Pakistan, and also served as a treasurer on the council of the [[Diocesan Girls' School]], an [[Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui|Anglican]] school, and on one occasion helped it out of financial difficulties.<ref name="TheStandard"/><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.dgs.edu.hk/popup/speechday1.html|title=The Rededication Ceremony, Cake-Cutting Ceremony and Speech Day 98–99|date=January 2000|publisher=Diocesan Girls' School|accessdate=2010-01-31}}</ref> He prefers, however, not to have buildings named after him in return for his donations.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

==Identity==
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Bokhary holds [[Pakistani nationality law|Pakistani nationality]].<ref name="TheStandard"/> He has been critical of the Pakistani government's corruption and poor governance, noting that [[overseas Pakistani]]s like himself achieve successes which they could never match at home due to the lack of an environment which rewards hard work. When asked by a journalist whether he invested in Pakistan, he reportedly responded, "Having conversed with me for an hour, do you really take me to be such a damned fool?"<ref name="Dawn"/>

Though his career development had been limited by his ethnic background, Bokhary has taken a philosophical attitude towards the discrimination that he and other [[South Asians in Hong Kong]] had faced, and has felt grateful for being allowed to settle in Hong Kong. He also has admonished younger South Asian immigrants for their anti-discrimination activism, suggesting that they would feel less affected by racism if they focused more on learning about religion.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

==Family==
Bokhary's wife died in the 1970s. He formerly owned land in Peshawar near his hometown, but sold it when he realised that neither he nor his sons wanted to settle in Pakistan.<ref name="TheStandard"/>

Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary is Daoud Bokhary's eldest son.<ref name="TheStandard"/><ref>{{citation|last=Carney |first=John |title=Amina's friends and family in high places |accessdate=2011-05-11 |url=http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places |date=2010-08-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721181934/http://topics.scmp.com/news/whorunshk/article/Aminas-friends-and-family-in-high-places |archivedate=21 July 2022}}</ref> He inherited the brokerage business when his father retired.<ref>{{citation|title=家世顯赫頻惹官非 (From a good family but frequently getting into trouble with the law)|periodical=Hong Kong Daily News|url=http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716|date=2010-01-29|accessdate=2010-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006135300/http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=83716|archive-date=6 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=SFC Reprimands Bokhary Securities Limited and Syed Bagh Ali Shah Bokhary|date=2003-12-29|accessdate=2010-01-29|periodical=Enforcement News|publisher=Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong|url=http://www.sfc.hk/sfcPressRelease/EN/sfcOpenDocServlet?docno=03PR287}}</ref> Bagh Ali's daughter Amina Mariam Bokhary was notable for [[Amina Bokhary controversy|her legal problems]] in Hong Kong.<ref name="TheStandard20081203">{{citation|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 |date=2008-12-03 |accessdate=2010-01-28 |title=Sobering times for judge's niece |periodical=The Standard |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035613/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=21&art_id=75193&sid=21725207&con_type=1&d_str=20081203&fc=4 |archivedate=4 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc |title=撞車拒吹波波包致金姪女摑警員 (Refuses breathalyzer after car accident; Judge Kemal Bokhary's niece attacks police officer) |date=2010-01-29 |accessdate=2010-01-29 |periodical=Sing Pao |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611151729/http://www.singpao.com/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=74459&Lang=tc |archivedate=11 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{citation|periodical=Wen Wei Po|url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm|date=2010-01-28|accessdate=2010-01-29|title=叔大法官舅夏佳理 (Paternal uncle a big judge; maternal uncle Ronald Arculli)", Wen Wei Po, 28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203040850/http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/01/28/HK1001280015.htm|archive-date=3 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Daoud Bokhary's youngest son [[Kemal Bokhary|Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary]] is one of the three permanent judges in the [[Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)|Court of Final Appeal]] in Hong Kong.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm|title=List of Judges and Judicial Officers|date=2010-01-01|accessdate=2010-01-27|publisher=Hong Kong Judiciary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123112819/http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/en/organization/judges.htm|archive-date=23 January 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="SCMP">{{citation|periodical=South China Morning Post|title=Kemal Bokhary|date=1997-06-13|accessdate=2008-01-09|url=http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523105953/http://hongkong97.scmp.com/news/ArchiveArticle19970622234507865.html|archivedate=2006-05-23}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:Possibly living people]]
[[Category:Hong Kong businesspeople]]
[[Category:Hong Kong Muslims]]
[[Category:Pakistani emigrants to Hong Kong]]
[[Category:People from Peshawar]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]