Abdul Sattar Edhi nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Known for establishing the world’s largest ambulance service, a Karachi man is now in line to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
First ever Pakistani Woman for Order of British Empire honor in UK
Tribune: Journalist Durdana Ansari was spearheading a successful Muslim women’s charity project in obscurity until she was awarded OBE (Order of the British Empire), according to ruislip.uxbridgegazette.co.uk.an. OBE is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom to honour individuals with outstanding philanthropic achievements.
Ansari, of Queen’s Walk, South Ruislip, had absolutely no idea about the magnitude of her achievements and was surprised to know about her inclusion in the New Year Honours List for her services to Muslim women in the UK. The 51-year-old spent 22 years working as a producer for the BBC’s World Service, but decided to quit in 2006 to pioneer the Ethnic Minority Foundation’s (EMF) Muslim Women’s Project.
In the last six years with EMF, Ansari has helped thousands of Muslim women learn basic English and IT skills. “I was shocked because I could never imagine that something like this would happen,” Ansari told the Gazette. “I did a lot of work for Muslim women to get them a basic education. I think it has made a lot of difference in families and not just for individuals. There are communities that have been living here for 30 or 40 years but they need confidence.”
According to ruislip.uxbridgegazette.co.uk, centres have been established in Bolton, Bristol, Bradford, Leicester and London. Ansari said that because of government cuts, the project no longer had any of its own classrooms, but was able to use libraries as academic spaces instead. “It is a difficult time but I won’t stop, I am not retiring anytime soon,” she vowed.
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Kristie Yung & Alamgir - Keh Dena
Canadian popstar Kristie Yung sings in Urdu to pay tribute to popular Pakistani singer Alamgir
Help raise funds for his Kidney transplant Pakistan by buying the track from iTunes or Amazon.
More payment options:
http://alamgirhealthfund.com
http://mangoestheseries.com
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Amateur climbers scale Broad Peak
ISLAMABAD: Eight amateur mountaineers felt in the clouds when two members of their international expedition scaled their first 8,000-metre plus peak in the Karakoram range.
“Mountain climbing is a daring and challenging sport that makes all senses react,” said the team leader, Scott Mackenzie, on return from the 8,051 metre high Broad Peak. It took the expedition nearly six arduous weeks to conquer the twelfth highest peak in the world late in July.
Extreme weather conditions made the group have second thoughts at times but it continued to push up. “The weather got so bad that most expeditions to Broad Peak abandoned their ascent and left except one team,” Mackenzie noted, praising the courage of his team of young climbers ranging in ages between 24 and 27. (For complete news article click here, and here for their campaign page)
Broad Peak (8051m)
Broad Peak is the 12th highest mountain in the world and is part of the Gasherbrum group in the Karakorum in Pakistan. Originally know as K3 it is known by some locally as Faichan KangriIn. In June 2011, a team of 6 Brits will set off to Pakistan to attempt to climb this peak. The team aim to summit, without guides, without porters and without oxygen. It will be the first time any of them have gone to 8000m and will be a big test of thier physical and mental strength. If they succeed they will be the 9th - 14th Brits to stand on the summit. To find out more about this mountain follow here.
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SIUT was founded by Dr. Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and it is Pakistan’s largest kidney disease center, as well as Parkistan’s largest public sector health organisation.
The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (‘SIUT’) is a dialysis & kidney transplant centre located in Pakistan.
10-12 transplants are performed weekly, all services provided by SIUT, including dialysis and transplantation, are provided free of cost.
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You’re at a restaurant with a group of friends or family, the waiter brings a bread basket which no one at the table really cares for. Once the entrees are served, the waiter picks up the bread basket and knowing that it will go stale if served later to another customer, he dumps it in the trash can. The same happens if the entrée you ordered has extra chilies or just wasn’t the standard you were expecting. All leftover food at cafes, buffets and hotels (especially at weddings) is trashed. The freshly-cooked food that could have provided meals to at least a couple of dozen hungry people is thrown away. Taking this aspect into consideration, THALI (a non-profit organisation) was established by young professionals who take time out from their day jobs to provide meals for the less fortunate, meals that many take for granted. Set up in 2009, THALI currently works in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
Public Message against Terrorism: Yeh Hum Nahin (trans from Urdu. This is not us)
A public service message from Pakistan.
Edhi wins top UN prize for non-violence
The Pakistani philanthropist and a Belgian human rights defender were awarded the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize. Above: Edhi Foundation Chairman Abdul Sattar Edhi collects donations for IDPs outside one of his offices in Rawalpindi. —Photo by APP
Edhi is credited to be world’s largest charity ambulance service in the world. More about him here. News item, here.
How one Pakistani Robin Hood is helping the UAE’s labourers.
Watch the relevant part on Faisal Khan (TakeMyJunkUAE) in this CNN report from 1:29.
