WMO President's - Visit to Pakistan and India - World Memon ...

WMO PRESIDENT’S VISIT
Philanthropists and community
based organisations have an important
role to play in national development:
President Asif Ali Zardari
President Asif Ali Zardari has said
that philanthropists and community
based organisations have an
important role to play in national
development and government has introduced
such policies which support their
activities.
This he said while meeting a delegation
of World Memon Organisation (WMO)
led by President WMO Abdul Sattar Dada.
Other members of delegation included Sir
Iqbal Sacranie OBE, Pir Muhammad A.
Kaliya, Hussain Lawai, Shoaib Ismail Mangroria,
H.M.Shahzad, Feizul Ayob, Sayed
Hoosen Mia, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, Arif
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Habib, Aamir Amin Kothawala, Dr. Haroon
Ahmed Gutta, Abdul Ghaffar Usman
and Muhammad Amin Chappal.
Secretary General Salman Farouqi, Secretary
Malik Asif Hayat and Zaid Usman
Additional Secretary were also present in
the meeting.
Talking to the members of the delegation
the President said that the efforts of
WMO to alleviate the sufferings of the
indigent and under privileged members of
Memon community was most commendable.
He expressed the hope that they will
extendable their activities to other parts of
the country.
President Zardari also thanked WMO for
their generous support during recent floods
which caused unprecedented devastation
and stressed the need for their active participation
in reconstruction phase.
President WMO Abdul Sattar Dada
thanked the President for the meeting and
briefed the President about various activities
of the Organisation in spheres of Education,
Health and Micro-finance and also
elaborated on future plans. He also thanked
the President for government support and
assured that WMO would take steps in light
of advice by the President on enhancement
of scope of activities.
MEMON ALAM APRIL 2011