SIALKOT: Model Customs Collectorate Collector Ahmad Reza Khan held a meeting with official to pay tributes to famous Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi who died on July 8, 2016.
Sialkot Customs Additional Collector Faiz Ali, Deputy Collectors Waheed Anwar Abro, Muhammad Hanif Khan, Muhammad Ilyas, Assistant Collector Fahad Bashir Choudhary, Superintendents Sardar Manzoor, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Naseem, Suhail Butt, Personal Staff Officer to Collector Syed Mussadaq and others participated in the meeting.
All participants observed two-minute long silence to honour Edhi. The officials expressed condolence on the demise Edhi who dedicated all his life to serve humanity.
The officials also hailed service of Edhi. He created a vast network of social services for Pakistan’s most vulnerable, encompassing nursing homes, orphanages, soup kitchens, maternity wards, women’s shelters, rehabilitation centers, and the largest voluntary ambulance fleet in the world.
They termed Edhi Pakistan’s true hero and also vowed to extend his mission of serving marginalised segment of society unconditionally.
Edhi passed away at the age of 88 in Karachi. He breathed his last at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on Friday after kidney failure which he had been suffering from since 2013 and was on dialysis. According to his son, he could not undergo kidney transplantation due to his advancing years.
The meeting concluded at offering Fateh for departed soul of Abdul Sattar Edhi (Late).
