The New Nation - Internet Edition

One of the drawbacks of the Academy is that it has no research fellow.

I went to meet the great humanitarian activist Abdul Sattar Edhi who has dedicated his whole life for the service of mankind at 12.30 p.m. I visited the Mental Hospital run by A. Sattar Edhi Foundation. The Hospital has a capacity to accommodate 200 indoor patients. A. Sattar Edhi Foundation has also established an air-condition mortuary, I was amazed to see, with the capacity to keep 250 dead bodies. Since Abdul Sattar Edhi was not in the Mental Hospital. I therefore rushed to the Karachi office of the A. Sattar Edhi Foundation. He was not there either and was busy with the journalist in another office of the Foundation. I talked to Muhammad Belal, in charge of the Karachi office of the A. Sattar Edhi Foundation. He wanted to take me to Abdul Sattar Edhi, but as I had a scheduled appointment I could not afford to wait further and requested Muhammad Belal to convey my message to Abdul Sattar Edhi that the people of Bangladesh loves him and need his leadership for philanthropic activities and requested Muhammad Belal to tell Abdul Sattar Edhi to open branch of A. Sattar Edhi Foundation in Bangladesh. People of Bangladesh are ready to extend him all assistances including financial assistance by the resourceful persons. Muhammad Belal presented me the autobiography of Abdul Sattar Edhi - 'A Mirror to the Blind’.

I went to meet Zaigham Mahmood Rizvi, Advisor of the State Bank of Pakistan at 1.30 p.m. It was decided that I shall take only tea at his residence. While on the way to his house he phoned Protocol Officer Brother Muhammad Raziuddin Khaled Mehanti to inform that we have to take lunch at his residence and on arrival he took two of us directly to the dinning table. Respected Bhavi within very short time prepared delicious lunch for us. During the lunch we discussed situation in our countries.