MWS group mourns Edhi’s death

MWS group mourns Edhi’s death

July 13, 2016
FILE PHOTO - In this March 16, 2002 file photo, Pakistan's renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi holds infants at Edhi Childcare Center in Karachi, Pakistan. The family of Pakistan's legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi say he has died at a hospital in Karachi. — AP
FILE PHOTO - In this March 16, 2002 file photo, Pakistan's renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi holds infants at Edhi Childcare Center in Karachi, Pakistan. The family of Pakistan's legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi say he has died at a hospital in Karachi. — AP

Syed Mussarat Khalil


JEDDAH — The Memon Welfare Society (MWS) Jeddah mourned the sad demise of legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi in a ceremony here recently. On the occasion, MWS stated that their members expressed deep sorrow and profound regrets at the sad demise of Abdul Sattar Edhi, who passed away in Karachi Pakistan recently.

The patrons and executive members of Memon Welfare Society, Iqbal Advani, Dr. Hamid, Munaf Bakhshi, Mohammed Badi, Kaleem Naviwala, Abdul Rahman Merchant and President Irfan Kolsawala and Secretary General Tayyab Moosani, paid homage to late Edhi and emphasized that Edhi’s name would be everlasting in the history of humanity.

They expressed heartfelt condolences to the grieving family members of Edhi on his demise. They said it is an irreparable loss for the country and humanity and it would be very difficult to fill the void created by sad demise of.Edhi.

All members of MWS, offered prayers, and hoped that may Allah rest the departed soul in eternal peace, forgive his shortcomings, have mercy on him and grant him a high place in Jannatul Firdous Aameen!

May Allah Subhanahu grant his beloved wife Bilquis Edhi and all grieving family members courage, patience, strength and solace to bear the irreparable loss. Aameen! That was Allah’s wish and we all have to submit to His will.

President and Secretary General of MWS highlighted all on the life of philanthropist Edhi. They expressed that in the sticky streets, and in the heart, of Karachi, Edhi, full of idealism and hope, opened his first clinic in 1951

They said the most prominent symbols of the foundation – its 1,500 ambulances – are deployed with unusual efficiency to the scene of terrorist attacks that has ripped through the country with devastating regularity.


July 13, 2016
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