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[FONT="]30th April, 2011: Karachi[/FONT]
Jinnah Society held the “Jinnah Award” ceremony at Oxford University Press Club in Karachi. Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Mr. Imran Khan was conferred with the “Jinnah Award” for his outstanding services to Pakistan.
Jinnah Society which propagates principles, ideals and vision of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah also conferred Jinnah Award (2008) to Dr Adeeb Rizvi, Professor & Director, Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT), I. A. Rehman, Director of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for 2009.
Mr. Imran Khan also spoke on the occasion and thanked Jinnah society for presenting him this award. He said he felt proud to be present among these noble people of Pakistan. Mr. Khan told the audience that sports has taught him the fighting spirit - which keeps him determined to fight till the end and never give up. He said he is really hopeful that a big change is coming in Pakistan and we can only take Pakistan out of this mess if we start believing on ourselves and keep fighting the justice.
Jinnah Society highlighted Mr. Khan’s services in the field of sports, health care, education, social welfare and politics.
Imran Khan is known as an outstanding sportsman, a philanthropist, a reformist and as a political activist, but what makes Mr. Khan outstanding is his focus, determination, his ability to lead by example, his inspiration to his team weather it is in sports, in social welfare or in the march against injustice.
Among the top awards Mr. Khan has received President’s Pride of Performance Award 1983, Hilal-e-Imtiaz 1992, ICC Hall of Fame, these awards continue to provide the hope and ambition to the aspiring youth of Pakistan.
Imran Khan’s contribution to Pakistan in brining pride to the country in terms of World Cup was applauded
Imran Khan founded the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital & Research Center in 1994 in the memory of his mother and works tirelessly as the Chairman of the state of the art institution. This was set up with nationwide and international fundraising campaigns led my Mr. Imran Khan himself.
Imran Khan is also UNICEF’s special representative he has been an advocate for Youth and supported health and immunization campaigns in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
In 1996, Imran Khan launched Tehreek-e-Insaf – the movement for justice. Chairman of the party he represented Mainwali from 2002-2007 as member of National Assembly. His most promonint contribution in the field of politics is highlighting the lack of justice in the country and campaigning for independent judiciary in Pakistan.
In 2008, the Namal College was inaugurated by Imran Khan in Mianwali. Namal College is affiliated with Bardford University of UK, of which Imran Khan is the Chancellor.
Imran Khan raised a large amount of money in short time on Imran Khan’s PUKAR. It was used to provide the immediate relief as well as for the long term to build almost 20,000 houses for flood affected people. The response to PUKAR was immediate and very generous as Imran Khan is trusted by the contributors. Observers have maintained that this was the most effective and genuine flood relief work.
Jinnah Awards were earlier conferred on the following personalities for their outstanding services to Pakistan: Abdul Sattar Edhi (Edhi Foundation); Hakeem Mohammad Saeed (posthumous) [Hamdard Foundation]; Graham Layton (posthumous) [Layton Rehmatullah Benevolent Trust (LRBT)]; Dr Ruth Pfau (Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre); Dr Ishrat Husain (former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan); Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan (Orangi Pilot Project); Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan; Ahmed Ali Khan (posthumous) [former Chief Editor, Dawn).[FONT="]
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Senior politician Sardar Sherbaz Mazari on Saturday presented the Jinnah Awards to head of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation-SIUT Dr Adeeb Rizvi (2008), Chairman Human Rights Commission of Pakistan IA Rehman(2009) and Imran Khan (2010).The Jinnah Awards for 2008, 2009, and 2010 were given at the launch of the Jinnah AnthologyThird Edition, compiled and edited by Liaquat Merchant and Prof Sharif-Al-Mujahid. The launch was held under the aegis of the Oxford University Press (Pakistan) at their Head office.
Citations for the awards were read out by noted dance artiste Sheema Kirmani. Mentioning the achievements of the recipients of the awards, she said that Dr Adeeb Rizvi’s SIUT had provided free medical treatment to a million patients since its inception and had spent over a million rupees on patient care. She said that the government had decided to nominate Dr Rizvi for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She also cited the contribution of IA Rehman towards working for the marginalized segment of society.
Liaquat Merchant, President Jinnah Society, cited the first screening of the film, Jinnah, at the Governor’s House, and the tremendous response and standing ovation it received from the gathering 11 years ago, which, he said, was indicative of the strong sense of patriotism and the joy of being Pakistanis. He lamented that today “things were different”. He thanked Mrs Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director, OUP, for her help and cooperation in the publication of the third edition.
Ameena Saiyid, welcoming the guests, said that the event gave us a chance to commemorate the life and work of a great man.
“As time goes by, we realise, with sadness in our hearts how very rare his qualities were, how infrequently history comes up with such a convergence of brilliant qualitiesall in one frail human body”.
“You will find this volume a great source of information about the frail man who, despite gargantuan odds, seized Pakistan from powerful, unwilling hands”.
Imran Khan said what was most urgently needed today in Pakistan is Jinnah’s politics, a genre of politics that ensures rule of law, welfare, unhindered justice, provision of human rights, honesty, and discipline.
“When we talk of justice, it means the weak against the strong, not just justice for the women or the minorities”, Imran said.
Expressing his strong disgust for the VIP culture and the mass disdain for the rule of law, which has developed such strong roots in our set-up, in the most undisguised of terms, Imran said that there must never be any differentiation between citizens on the basis of their privileged or underprivileged positions as all citizens were equal in the eyes of the law and all were equally deserving of basic rights.
In this context, he cited his own example when, he said, he had taken his mother over to the UK for treatment and while she was a paying patient, on the bed just next to hers was a patient who was undergoing medical treatment under the National Health Service (NHS) cover and he said that the attitude of the doctors and the medical staff towards the NHS patient and his mother was exactly the same, which he said, was very congenial, efficient, and sympathetic but more that that, there was absolutely no discrimination on the basis of being paying or non-paying patients. On the contrary, he said, in Pakistan, quality medical care was just available to the super-rich and government hospitals which were meant to cater to the less fortunate were in a pathetic state.
“The VIP culture is the biggest curse in Pakistan where the poor subsidise the rich”, he said, adding that the first time he had ever seen a real welfare state was when he went to England as a student.
He said he’d been in the opposition for 15 years and only he knew what he was up against and as such he said he knew what Mr Jinnah must have had to undergo given the fact that he was up against far greater political personalities, much greater than Pakistan’s politicians of today. In this context he named, among others, Mr Nehru and Maulana Abu Kalam Azad who, he said, formed a formidable opposition to Mr Jinnah.
He debunked the pessimism harboured by many about the future of the country and said that Pakistanis were a highly talented lot, imbued with a deep-seated patriotism. He cited the case of cricket and said that despite the system, such a lot of talent had emerged in the field.
Talking about the patriotic spirit of the people, he said that he undertook a tour of 29 cities to collect funds for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital at Lahore, a project which had single-handedly undertaken, and said that in one of the towns, he had collected Rs1 million within a matter of two hours. He said that the most redeeming feature of the campaign was that it was the poor who came forward and donated most generously.
He lamented the overly ostentatious living of the rulers which, he said, was all at the expense of the poor toiling masses of the country.
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