Bilquis Edhi honoured with Mother Teresa Award in India

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Bilquis Bano, Medecins Sans Frontieres get Mother Teresa Award
By IANS

MUMBAI: Bilquis Bano, the Pakistani caretaker of Indian girl Geeta, and the global humanitarian aid provider Medecins Sans Frontieres have been selected for "Mother Teresa Memorial International Award-2015" for social justice, an official said here on Sunday.

The prestigious award, which has been earlier presented to two Nobel laureates -- Dalai Lama and Malala Yousufzai -- has been instituted by the Harmony Foundation, Mumbai.

"In view of the noble and humanitarian act of sh ..

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Bilquis Bano, Medecins Sans Frontieres get Mother Teresa Award - The Economic Times

 

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Bilquis Edhi honoured with Mother Teresa Award in India
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Published: November 3, 2015
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Bilquis Edhi, the wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi of Edhi Foundation, has been selected for Mother Teresa Memorial International Award-2015 for sheltering Geeta, a deaf and mute Indian girl who was stranded in Pakistan.

“In view of the noble and humanitarian act of sheltering our dear Geeta, a deaf-and-mute woman who had accidentally crossed into Pakistan, the Harmony Foundation Board has unanimously decided to honour Karachi-based Bilquis Bano of the Edhi Foundation,” the foundation’s chairman and activist Abraham Mathai said.

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Bilquis Edhi has been honoured along with global humanitarian aid provider Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The prestigious award, which has earlier been presented to two Nobel laureates, Dalai Lama and Malala Yousufzai, has been instituted by the Harmony Foundation, Mumbai.

The Edhi foundation had looked after Geeta for over a decade and till her recent return to India. “It is indeed remarkable to note Bano’s emphatic gesture of considering her religious beliefs and cultural sentiments through the years, despite Geeta’s disadvantaged situation to demand the same,” Mathai explained.

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Bilquis Edhi and MSF’s representative Leslie Shanks have accepted the Harmony Foundation’s invite to come to India in person and receive the award instituted in memory of the late Mother Teresa at an event scheduled on November 22.

Geeta was 11 or 12 when she crossed one of the world’s most militarised borders from neighbouring India. She became stuck in Pakistan because she was unable to identify herself or say where she came from.

Now believed to be in her early 20s, Geeta remained under the care of Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation, the Edhi Foundation, living in a shelter in the port city of Karachi. Even the name “Geeta” was given to her by Edhi staff.

This article originally appeared on The Economic Times.

 

[livingdead]

Edhi does not go around converting poor and destitute.

 

[Devil Soul]

Edhi does not go around converting poor and destitute.

and u my friend have an habit of trolling on each & every thread with ur unrelated comments....

 

[Dubious]

Congratulations Mrs Edhi....

May GOD bless you always!

 

[livingdead]

and u my friend have an habit of trolling on each & every thread with ur unrelated comments....

I thought my comments are thoughtful and writen after long deliberation.

 

[Musafir117]

I thought my comments are thoughtful and writen after long deliberation.

Your all posts will written in black words
On topic
Thanks but not thanks, she and her husband didn't need any award specially from India.

 

[livingdead]

Your all posts will written in black words
On topic

I stared at your post for 5 second, then gave up.

 

[Maarkhoor]

First they try to level they score by donating 1 billion INR when they fail to settle it now they are offering a award as reward should not be accepted because we should not accept any thing from a terrorist head of state.

 

[Moonlight]

She truly deserves it. Massive respect!

 

[xyxmt]

I urge this saint of a woman to return this award in protest of intolerance

 

[Musafir117]

I stared at your post for 5 second, then gave up.

It was worth a glance and you took 5 sec! Ok, your this post will written in golden words

 

[zeetr]

First they try to level they score by donating 1 billion INR when they fail to settle it now they are offering a award as reward should not be accepted because we should not accept any thing from a terrorist head of state.

lol it was only INR 10 million= PKR 16 million
our people can donate it in seconds

 

[FULL_METAL]

Edhi does not go around converting poor and destitute.

dude come on don't ruin this thread, why do you wanna start a shitstorm? it takes only one post to screw an entire thread

ontopic: A very well deserved award