In the last few days we as bloggers, tweeples (and whatever other word you’d like to associate to it) suffered a great loss.

Salman Mehmood who was more commonly known as ‘skdev’ online passed away at the age of 24. Personally I hadn’t known him very well, but for his actions online and for the blood drive campaigns that he often organized I respect him from the bottom of my heart.

He was already a Thalassemia major, and the blood drive he organized were for the treatment of the patients suffering from the same, but very recently he had been infected by Meningitis, for which he was admitted to Aga Khan University Hospital.

For about a week he suffered, his brain activity had gone zero and he was put on ventilator, which was finally removed on the 19th of October 2009.

During all this his sister Ayesha Mehmood, who he had always encouraged to move forward with the Blood drive kept us all updated via twitter, which was very kind and brave of her considering what she was going through watching her brother in the hospital.

During these days we saw most of the Pakistani blogger community praying for the better of Salman. We saw some deep emotions surface, since we on some level had interacted with Salman, and needless to say he was one awesome person, friendly, helpful and lively.

I offer my condolences to his family, and yes we will miss him, I want us to move forward with the Thalassemia project so his dream of getting rid of such disease in Pakistan can come true. Ameen.

Please take a moment and say a little prayer for Salman and his family. Thanks.