Muttahida sends relief goods to Iran

Published January 12, 2004

KARACHI, Jan 11: Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation, in collaboration with a British welfare organization, handed over three truckloads of relief goods to the Iranian consul general here on Sunday.

Members of MQM coordination committee, Abdul Khaliq Baloch and Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi, handed over the goods-laden trucks, donated by the KKF with the cooperation of the British NGO SUN to Consul General Syed Musa Hussaini.

The press release said that the relief goods included warm clothes, blankets, quilts, milk-powder, tea-leaves, medicines and other food stuff. MPA Haider Abbas Rizvi delivered a message of Muttahida chief Altaf Hussain to the Iranian consul general expressing grief over the deaths of thousands of people in the earthquake in Bam. Mr Rizvi said that in this difficult moment the Muttahida, on the instructions of his chief, had installed 25 relief camps for fund-raising in Karachi and a relief convoy had left Karachi for Iran comprising doctors and paramedics on Thursday last.

ALTAF: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has invited people from different walks of life to join the MQM for solution of the problems facing Sindh and for the rights of poor and middle classes.

He was addressing party office-bearers, workers and supporters who gathered at the party head office Nine-Zero to celebrate the victory of Dr Brohi in the Senate seat election.

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