July 30, 2012
Process on to deliver Zardaris donation
Pakistan high commission clarifies on donation to Ajmer shrine
More than three months after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announced a donation of Rs50 million (Dh1.92 million) to the Ajmer shrine during his visit to the Sufi shrine, the Pakistan high commission on Monday clarified that arrangements are being made to fulfil the pledge.
Arrangements are in hand to make the donation as announced by the president of Pakistan, a spokesperson of the Pakistan high commission said.
The High Commission thanks the government of India, the state authorities, and the shrine committees for their cooperation in this regard, the spokesperson said.
During his day-long visit to India on April 8, Zardari, besieged by a host of domestic crises back home, pledged a donation of Rs50 to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty when he visited Ajmer for a few hours.
There was some disillusionment among managers of the shrine when the promised money did not reach the shrine even months after such a pledge was made. The high commissions clarification came in the wake of media reports that quoted a shrine committee official as saying that the head of an Islamic state has failed to fulfil his words before this shrine.
Zardari had also proposed assistance for some development projects at the shrine by the committee, a government recognised body, and Anjuman Syed Zadgan committee of hereditary khadims. The proposals included construction of an old-age home, a 100-bed hospital and a new building of Darul Uloom (Islamic seminary).
According to reports, Zardari had asked the Anjuman Syed Zadgan Committee to get in touch with Pakistan High Commission for release of the grant.
Process on to deliver Zardari
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What if he had donated that amount to Edhi or Imran Khan's cancer Hospital instead an un-islamic shrine?
The link reads good "Process on to deliver Zardari"