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the richest muslim is an arab!
World's richest Muslim to spend US$ 2 billion to open 1,300 across India
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How many of this so called today's generation have we seen using a product through virtual experiences, we still get the pro's and cons from the user ie is friends and relatives. Or at the maximum through internet and that to consumer reviews are more welcomed than the promoters of the product. Dont give me an excuse stating an interaction with the customer is called marketing. Marketing is an ethical trend and art, which not every person can achieve.Marketing is not only interaction but also creating and delivering. I was very much talking about VCE but a force dragged me into it. And I am just a 12th class pass out not a B-School graduate.
I am sorry I never knew VCE was a concept 3 pages ago and got operationalised just now out of nowhere. Kindly ignore.
Sorry for Late reply. I live in an Island Lakshadweep and we harvest our energy mainly from Solar and the govt supports us through Wind. We do not waste energy at nights. My times limited in internet in Nights. Let me shoo you know.
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I hope this makes it to every newspaper in every country. I've done my part by forwarding this to as many of my non-Indian friends. Indian Muslims need to be praised no end for being secular, progressive and tolerant.
I hope the world gives credit where it is deserved and Indian Muslims show what "Real Islam" is all about especially since Islam followed by others in the sub continet has failed completely in bringing out the real value of Islam.
I'm a very proud Indian today!
I hope the world gives credit where it is deserved and Indian Muslims show what "Real Islam" is all about especially since Islam followed by others in the sub continet has failed completely in bringing out the real value of Islam.
I'm a very proud Indian today!
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Indian muslim's are a model to the world when it comes to integration with modern values while at the same time maintaining a strong identity of their own. They do not preach to be the leader of the Ummah unlike some other people but have continuously proved that they are the best among the bunch. The Indian muslim is one the few reasons why Muslims all over the world can have their heads held up high, proud to be part of such an elite crowd, Jai Hind.
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Nice job premji......but please spend some money on your employees..they highly need your attention in this matter.
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your wishes are coming true, have you read about Rcom, Renergy, 2G scam,
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Maybe its me but If I look around the world and I find that best Muslims in the world lives in India (including Turkey and Iran), progressive business oriented and People who study.
People who do are down to earth focusing on real life instead or wasting time giving sermons.
People who do are down to earth focusing on real life instead or wasting time giving sermons.
Pakistan billionaire
Malik Riaz Hussain, a billionaire Pakistani developer, has responded to the misery of millions of his flood-stricken compatriots by pledging to spend 75 per cent of his fortune on rebuilding their lives.
The extraordinary offer was made in a television interview in which he told how he had sent a letter before the floods to 100 of Pakistan’s most wealthy and powerful people asking them to pool money into a fund to repair homes, provide vocational training and extend microfinance loans to impoverished Pakistanis.
Mr Hussain is the chairman of Bahria Town, a US$6 billion (Dh22bn) urban development enterprise that has built gated communities for a million people in the central cities of Lahore and Rawalpindi.
Bahria Town has already responded to the current floods by vastly expanding a corporate social responsibility programme called dastarkhwan, or dining spread, to provide two meals a day to more than 150,000 flood refugees in inundated areas and free medical care at mobile hospitals.
Its housing projects, unrivalled in Pakistan as models of highly desirable but affordable suburban living, have revolutionised Pakistan’s real-estate sector over the last decade by targeting the previously untapped middle class, rather than the rich.
The huge popularity of the Bahria Town brand has made Mr Hussain, at the age of 62, one of a handful of Pakistanis believed to be billionaires in US dollar terms, although this cannot be verified as he has never released his tax records.
A man of unremarkable origins, Mr Hussain espouses traditional family values, and has expressed them in the modern family-friendly suburbs he has built.
Reproductions of famous landmarks, such as London’s Trafalgar Square, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, point to his aspirations for Pakistan, while beautiful mosques and Quranic calligraphy suggest that modernity is in harmony with Muslim beliefs.
Drawing on that experience, and with a fleet of 2,500 earth-moving machines, Mr Hussain sees the reconstruction of the almost one million homes destroyed or damaged in the floods as a matter of numbers.
Nearly all the destroyed homes have been simple two-room mud-brick constructs belonging to the poor that, by his reckoning, would cost 300,000 rupees each to rebuild, with enough left over to buy a few head of livestock.
“That’s all it will take to give them back their lives,” he said.
Mr Hussain quickly calculates aloud the maths and remarks that the requisite $3.5bn could easily be raised if Pakistan’s wealthy elite, named in his list of letter recipients, were to match his pledge of donating 75 per cent of his wealth with half of their personal fortunes.
However, his letter was not written as a desperate appeal to their better nature.
Rather, it issues a stern warning that the floods could exacerbate social tensions between Pakistan’s moneyed elite, a tiny percentage of the country’s 170 million people, and the impoverished half of the population that the United Nations said did not know where their next meal was coming from.
In the letter, Mr Hussain said the ostentatious lifestyles of Pakistan’s wealthy and their indifference to the plight of the poor were disturbingly reminiscent of social conditions before the French and Iranian revolutions, which occurred nearly 200 years apart.
“It is time that we realise our duty towards Pakistan. If we are unable to see the imminent consequences of our continued ignorance, I am scared that not only our families, but also our businesses, will fuel a bloody revolution,” Mr Hussain wrote.
“This is a clear warning to land barons, politicians, bureaucrats and industrialists to shed their sloth and wake up before all is lost, and there is no place to hide.”
Mr Hussain is not a conspiracy theorist; his prediction is based on his experience of housing orphan students from the Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad, the setting in July 2007 for a bloody stand-off between security forces and militant clerics that ended in the deaths of more than 100 people.
The deaths of the students, many of them children from the Swat valley, caused nationwide outrage, decisively turned public opinion against Gen Pervez Musharraf, then the president, and ignited a Taliban insurgency that, until the success of military counteroffensives last year, threatened to overwhelm the government.
Mr Hussain says he has been deeply disappointed that his letter has failed to evince a single response to date, and is unhappy that his offer to place the Bahria Town fleet of earth-moving machinery at the government’s disposal has been ignored. “I have stepped in to help my people, but I cannot do this alone,” he said
But he is not a man accustomed to taking no for an answer, and has vowed to lobby those who have been sent the letter.
“At this time, what I need is support from fellow Pakistanis who, like me, have earned a fortune from the motherland and are indebted to it,” he said.
“Trust me, it’s time to pay back to our country.”
Malik Riaz Hussain, a billionaire Pakistani developer, has responded to the misery of millions of his flood-stricken compatriots by pledging to spend 75 per cent of his fortune on rebuilding their lives.
The extraordinary offer was made in a television interview in which he told how he had sent a letter before the floods to 100 of Pakistan’s most wealthy and powerful people asking them to pool money into a fund to repair homes, provide vocational training and extend microfinance loans to impoverished Pakistanis.
Mr Hussain is the chairman of Bahria Town, a US$6 billion (Dh22bn) urban development enterprise that has built gated communities for a million people in the central cities of Lahore and Rawalpindi.
Bahria Town has already responded to the current floods by vastly expanding a corporate social responsibility programme called dastarkhwan, or dining spread, to provide two meals a day to more than 150,000 flood refugees in inundated areas and free medical care at mobile hospitals.
Its housing projects, unrivalled in Pakistan as models of highly desirable but affordable suburban living, have revolutionised Pakistan’s real-estate sector over the last decade by targeting the previously untapped middle class, rather than the rich.
The huge popularity of the Bahria Town brand has made Mr Hussain, at the age of 62, one of a handful of Pakistanis believed to be billionaires in US dollar terms, although this cannot be verified as he has never released his tax records.
A man of unremarkable origins, Mr Hussain espouses traditional family values, and has expressed them in the modern family-friendly suburbs he has built.
Reproductions of famous landmarks, such as London’s Trafalgar Square, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, point to his aspirations for Pakistan, while beautiful mosques and Quranic calligraphy suggest that modernity is in harmony with Muslim beliefs.
Drawing on that experience, and with a fleet of 2,500 earth-moving machines, Mr Hussain sees the reconstruction of the almost one million homes destroyed or damaged in the floods as a matter of numbers.
Nearly all the destroyed homes have been simple two-room mud-brick constructs belonging to the poor that, by his reckoning, would cost 300,000 rupees each to rebuild, with enough left over to buy a few head of livestock.
“That’s all it will take to give them back their lives,” he said.
Mr Hussain quickly calculates aloud the maths and remarks that the requisite $3.5bn could easily be raised if Pakistan’s wealthy elite, named in his list of letter recipients, were to match his pledge of donating 75 per cent of his wealth with half of their personal fortunes.
However, his letter was not written as a desperate appeal to their better nature.
Rather, it issues a stern warning that the floods could exacerbate social tensions between Pakistan’s moneyed elite, a tiny percentage of the country’s 170 million people, and the impoverished half of the population that the United Nations said did not know where their next meal was coming from.
In the letter, Mr Hussain said the ostentatious lifestyles of Pakistan’s wealthy and their indifference to the plight of the poor were disturbingly reminiscent of social conditions before the French and Iranian revolutions, which occurred nearly 200 years apart.
“It is time that we realise our duty towards Pakistan. If we are unable to see the imminent consequences of our continued ignorance, I am scared that not only our families, but also our businesses, will fuel a bloody revolution,” Mr Hussain wrote.
“This is a clear warning to land barons, politicians, bureaucrats and industrialists to shed their sloth and wake up before all is lost, and there is no place to hide.”
Mr Hussain is not a conspiracy theorist; his prediction is based on his experience of housing orphan students from the Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad, the setting in July 2007 for a bloody stand-off between security forces and militant clerics that ended in the deaths of more than 100 people.
The deaths of the students, many of them children from the Swat valley, caused nationwide outrage, decisively turned public opinion against Gen Pervez Musharraf, then the president, and ignited a Taliban insurgency that, until the success of military counteroffensives last year, threatened to overwhelm the government.
Mr Hussain says he has been deeply disappointed that his letter has failed to evince a single response to date, and is unhappy that his offer to place the Bahria Town fleet of earth-moving machinery at the government’s disposal has been ignored. “I have stepped in to help my people, but I cannot do this alone,” he said
But he is not a man accustomed to taking no for an answer, and has vowed to lobby those who have been sent the letter.
“At this time, what I need is support from fellow Pakistanis who, like me, have earned a fortune from the motherland and are indebted to it,” he said.
“Trust me, it’s time to pay back to our country.”
Chairman Bahria Town Mr. Malik donates US$ 2 billion to flood victims
As nation we have the strength to face any difficulty and hardship. We know how to live and die with dignity. In this time of crisis you should either help us or leave us alone to fight the circumstances
A man who has alone pledged more than double the amount USD 700 million donated by foreign aid agencies: Richard Quest's introduction of Malik Riaz Hussain
Chairman Bahria Town, Malik Riaz Hussain has announced the donation of 75% of all his assets for the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims. In an exclusive interview with CNN International on Quest Means Business, prime time business show, Malik Riaz Hussain announced the unprecedented amount of US$ 2 Billion to the cause of helping the victims and elaborated the severity of the calamity damaging the agriculture and economy of the country throughout impacting business and trading activities by up to 60 percent. When the chief anchor person at CNN, Richard Quest reconfirmed whether Malik Riaz Hussain would donate US$ 2 billion, he reaffirmed that he would contribute much more than that amount. This is more than double the amount USD 700 million donated by foreign aid agencies.
In his exclusive interview with CNN, Chairman Bahria Town dwelled on the massive poverty the country is facing and the relevant social issues that arise out of it and reiterated his recent appeal to all billionaires of Pakistan to come forward and help their country. According to him, “If 140 rich Pakistanis come together and commit to alleviating poverty, then this grave national problem could be solved within days.” In this regard, he personally committed to give away 75% of all his wealth to charitable causes within Pakistan.
Malik Riaz Hussain said that if Pakistan gets US$ 25 million, it will be enough for the construction of 10 thousands homes which not only accommodate 80,000 people but will also provide them facilities of education, healthcare & entertainment. He elaborated Bahria Town can construct a house in USD 4,000 only. He said if approached Bahria Town will construct these houses on no profit basis. Infact he is ready to donate more from his pocket for this cause. He suggested a special team should be established to monitor funds utilization & quality of the houses being constructed.
Speaking of Bahria Town’s ongoing efforts for the poor, Malik Riaz Hussain mentioned that his company presently provides 150 thousand free daily meals, free Healthcare to 80 thousand individuals, everyday. They are also providing them relief goods including tents, utensils, daily items etc. He said “ And I am ready to spend my each every penny for this purpose, because if my people are out of food, out of houses, I cannot sleep. ”
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Please don't discuss religions Muslims, it is nothing to do with it. The man who have heart and soul willing to give billionaires dollars to the poor and needs, we should praise anyone not based on nationality or races.
EDIT: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-n...-2010/Bahria-Town-donates-2b-to-flood-victims
Many credibles sources available, don't ask silly questions.
As nation we have the strength to face any difficulty and hardship. We know how to live and die with dignity. In this time of crisis you should either help us or leave us alone to fight the circumstances
A man who has alone pledged more than double the amount USD 700 million donated by foreign aid agencies: Richard Quest's introduction of Malik Riaz Hussain
Chairman Bahria Town, Malik Riaz Hussain has announced the donation of 75% of all his assets for the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims. In an exclusive interview with CNN International on Quest Means Business, prime time business show, Malik Riaz Hussain announced the unprecedented amount of US$ 2 Billion to the cause of helping the victims and elaborated the severity of the calamity damaging the agriculture and economy of the country throughout impacting business and trading activities by up to 60 percent. When the chief anchor person at CNN, Richard Quest reconfirmed whether Malik Riaz Hussain would donate US$ 2 billion, he reaffirmed that he would contribute much more than that amount. This is more than double the amount USD 700 million donated by foreign aid agencies.
In his exclusive interview with CNN, Chairman Bahria Town dwelled on the massive poverty the country is facing and the relevant social issues that arise out of it and reiterated his recent appeal to all billionaires of Pakistan to come forward and help their country. According to him, “If 140 rich Pakistanis come together and commit to alleviating poverty, then this grave national problem could be solved within days.” In this regard, he personally committed to give away 75% of all his wealth to charitable causes within Pakistan.
Malik Riaz Hussain said that if Pakistan gets US$ 25 million, it will be enough for the construction of 10 thousands homes which not only accommodate 80,000 people but will also provide them facilities of education, healthcare & entertainment. He elaborated Bahria Town can construct a house in USD 4,000 only. He said if approached Bahria Town will construct these houses on no profit basis. Infact he is ready to donate more from his pocket for this cause. He suggested a special team should be established to monitor funds utilization & quality of the houses being constructed.
Speaking of Bahria Town’s ongoing efforts for the poor, Malik Riaz Hussain mentioned that his company presently provides 150 thousand free daily meals, free Healthcare to 80 thousand individuals, everyday. They are also providing them relief goods including tents, utensils, daily items etc. He said “ And I am ready to spend my each every penny for this purpose, because if my people are out of food, out of houses, I cannot sleep. ”
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Please don't discuss religions Muslims, it is nothing to do with it. The man who have heart and soul willing to give billionaires dollars to the poor and needs, we should praise anyone not based on nationality or races.
EDIT: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-n...-2010/Bahria-Town-donates-2b-to-flood-victims
Many credibles sources available, don't ask silly questions.
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This is OT, but $2 billion is a huge amount. Any credible sources for this ?
The Nation is certainly not credible, it's just a notch above Rupee News. A donation of $2billion dollars would certainly get highlighted in DAWN or Express Tribune or even international news sites. This is just a cheap PR stunt
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May god bless this great man and give him more strength and money that he can do more good for India. After reading about this Alwaleed guy thanks to @Zulkarneyn i think my respect for Azim sahab has gone up manifold. The difference in outlook shows that people are different, irrespective of religions.
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This man is an INDIAN first. He is doing this outrageously generous move for the people of his country NOT his religion. These sort of headlines are ridiculous and act only to be fractious.
What a great man, philanthropy certainly needs to be ramped up in India- this hero's footsteps should be followed.
Words cannot express my admiration for this great Indian.
What a great man, philanthropy certainly needs to be ramped up in India- this hero's footsteps should be followed.
Words cannot express my admiration for this great Indian.
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to spend, not spent. and you have to discount 2billion back for 15 years plus the potential huge depreciation of USD. which is, maybe just several hundred million of USD of today.Second, this kind of public stunt does not change the world, if a few rich men can change the world, there would be no institutions. He maybe a Muslim, but don't forget hes also a business man. Maybe in India its different. But in that Chinese filled country, it's nothing but a public stunt. And any Chinese would ask this question first: what's in it for him? I also bet it's tax free.
Anyway, I feel the need to give a second opinion since most of conments here are one-sided story. You know what I am saying?
Who would remember this in 2025???
Anyway, I feel the need to give a second opinion since most of conments here are one-sided story. You know what I am saying?
Who would remember this in 2025???
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