immortal memon personalities

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FEBRUARY 2012 Volume No. 53 Issue No. 640
IMMORTAL
MEMON
PERSONALITIES
“Such a large and
lasting infl uence on
the Memon Community”

February 2012
Volume No. 53
Issue No. 640
Registration No. SS-038

27 Community News - Hijama Therapy at MITI
4 Join Hands 35 Community News - Memon
6 From the desk of the editor Community in UAE
7 Community News - Immortal 38 Jama Masjid Mauritius
Memon Personalities 42 Profi le - Justice Ismail
29 Community News - Graduation Mohammed
Ceremony at MITI 43 Thought Provoking - Choosing
32 Community News - WMO a spouse
Youth Wing delegation 46 Health Matters
participating in MUNIK III 48 Humor
50 Memon Quam na
Bhutkalma dokio
52 Na’ Bolvama Nav Goon
53 Kaka Bawany
56 Abdul Aziz Kayano
Inteqal
57 Nariyal na Faida
58 Hanse tenu ghar wasay
59 Tak
60 Prerna
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Dignified Personalities of
the Memon Community
M
emons are known for their involvement in business, industry and philanthropic activities
and the Memon Community is proud of the social work their members have done. Many
countries across the globe have also seen this through the many humanitarian projects the
Community has built. Having played a major part in the building of Pakistan industry, an increasing
number of Memons over the years, had since turned into professional occupations.
In the Memon Community, we come across a number of dignified and notable personalities through
whose concentrated efforts and burning desire, the Community has made tremendous progress in
social and humanitarian work.
Nearly all the successful dignified personalities of the Memon Community were of the view that
a business is not weak for the weak-willed. They hold that it should begin with a mute resignation
to loss. They were in fact saying that the greatest business leaders emerge from losses of colossal
proportions because they accept its reality earlier on and redouble their efforts to overcome. They trust
that relentless hard work, discipline and a positive attitude pays back and that equips them with the
courage to get up and run again.
The most successful businessmen are not those who suffer losses. They are those who accept it as a
challenge and work harder at overcoming it and beginning a new.
This is not easy at all but it is the best training an entrepreneur can get in honing leadership skills
and attaining success. The successful entrepreneur remembers that he is bigger than the business can
ever be.
Catastrophe in essence steers one towards introspection, towards a changed direction and a vision
towards farther horizons to explore. The world we live in today is mired with conflicts and turbulence
of all sorts. There is a high probability of success through rethinking one’s core business strategies and
starting afresh on principles of service, integrity and hard work that commerce initially began with
and gradually lost to greedy profiteering.
In the Memon community, we find many such master-minded Memon personalities who have
engraved their names in the history of Memons for their unstinted philanthropic activities.
One such prime examples of men who made apparent misfortune work out for them was Seth
Ahmad Dawood from Pakistan. Dawood built and rebuilt his business empire thrice in his life. Once
when he migrated from India to Pakistan at the time of the partition, he had to leave his flourishing
trade business behind. Then with the creation of Bangladesh, he had to let go his 60% business
holding in the former East Pakistan. Finally his biggest industrial set ups were nationalized in 1971.
When he went to live in the United States during the nationalization of the 70’s, he ended up exploring
oil fields successfully in the US.
The man proved to be in relentless pursuit of knowledge as he learned Oracle in his eighties. In his
own words, the key to his success was hard work and working without the sense of ego.
In the Memon Alam issue under review, the WMO has tried to incorporate most of the notable and
dignified personalities including leaders in the Memon Community who have imprinted their names
with flying colors in the history of Memon.
Pir Muhammad A. Kaliya
Chief Editor
Memon Alam
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Immortal Memon
Personalities
PROF, ALLAMA ABUL Arabic researchers and scholars. At the have written poems in honor of Allama
insistence of Mr. Mumtaz Hassan, the Al- Memony. He was also honored with the
AZIZ MEMONY
lama accepted the honorary Directorship degree of doctorate and awarded medals by
Among the scholars of international repute, of Central Institution of Islamic Research various Arab countries. The Government of
Allama Abdul Aziz Al-Memony’s name when Arabic Department was established Pakistan conferred upon him the Pride of
ranks foremost. This world famous religious in Karachi University, and at the request Performance.
scholar, whom even the Arabs called “Us- of the Vice Chancellor, Professor A.B.A. The special feature about the Allama was
tad” (teacher) has not received due recogni- Haleem, he became the Head of the Arabic his memory, particularly about books. He
tion from his own community or country. Department. He also offered his services to could easily tell anyone as to which rare
But he has been adequately recognized by the Arabic Department of Punjab Univer- book was available in which library and
the Arab world. It may be due to the fact sity for two years and later on, he was made even on which shelf. He spoke Arabic like
that the Allama had complete command the Head of Arabic Department in Oriental a native speaker and his speeches in Arabic
of Arabic language, Grammar and Usage College. were well recognized.
and most of his work is in Arabic, which Due to his old age, he could not continue The Allama, due to his mastery of the
has endeared him more to the Arab world as a full time professor and offered his Arabic language, was nominated on the
than his own countrymen and community. service as Professor Emeritus at Karachi Committee of Arab scholars to finalize the
His mastery of the Arabic language stunned University and Sindh University. The Egyp- latest version of the Arabic Dictionary Al-
even the Arab scholars who sought his guid- tian, Saudi Arabian and Iranian universities Lisanul Arab.
ance in the subject. His books, written in tried their best to acquire the services of
Sir ADAMJEE HAJI
Arabic, have been included in the curricu- the Allama, which he thankfully declined.
lum of various Arab Universities including The trend set up by the Allama continues DAWOOD
the famous Jamia Al Azhar of Egypt. in the family. His son, Muhammad Umar
At the age of 12, the Allama went Memon, is also a professor.
to Delhi from his birthplace Rajkot, in The Allama was a man of principles and
Kathiawar and became a pupil of the noted never compromised on them. He always
scholar and interpreter of Qur’an and believed in simple living and whatever he
hadith, Mian Nazeer Hussain Dehlavi. He saved, he spent on research. He had a very
also studied under the guidance of Deputy valuable collection of rare books. Once,
Nazeer Ahmed. For higher studies he during discussion with a highly acclaimed
went to Amroha and Rampur and learned scholar of Islam, the Allama was informed
ancient philosophy and logic from Maulana that the scholar was writing a book entitled
Muhammad Tayyab Makki of Madrassa “Downfall of Islam” at which the Allama
Aliya, Rampur, passing his Munshi Fazil was infuriated and replied that there has
with distinction from Punjab University. He never been any down fall of Islam in the
was selected for lectureship in Arabic and past and never would be in future. Downfall
Persian at Edward Mission College, Pesha- comes in the lives of people and not Islam,
war. Later on, he was appointed professor which had remained glorious throughout
of Arabic and Persian Department. He history.
authored simple translations of Arabic text- When Allama went for Haj in 1957, he
books for which he received Maulvi Fazil. was treated as a royal guest and was given
In 1925, he was appointed Reader of Arabic a royal accord by the Saudi government.
at Aligarh Muslim University - the first non- Throughout Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Morocco.
European to be appointed to this post. Here Tunis, Turkey and France for research work
he wrote about 30 thought provoking books, he was respected. “Many parents of idle income group are re-
which were all printed in Egypt and Syria. The Allama donated Rs. 300,000 each to luctant to seek any assistance for the educa-
These books are highly rated in Arabic Nadwatui Islam (Voice of Islam) and Ali- tion of their children, but he advised them,
literature. garh Muslim University: He also gave sig- not to allow their ego to become a hurdle in
In 1928, the Allama received Fellow- nificant donations to Darul Uloom, Binori the way, of their children’s education. They
ship from Arabic Academy of Damascus Town, Karachi and donated thousands of are the Memon citizens of tomorrow and
and subsequently the Egyptian Academy priceless books on different research works your prosperous depends on their health
also offered him fellowship, both of which to various universities. and good character. It is your right to seek
were the highest honor for the experts of The Arabic poets of various countries help from the society and it is the obligation
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of the society to remove your difficulties. and Marwari rivals created many hurdles only Adamjee but also the whole Memon
Even a bit of carelessness on the part of any in his way but at last he successfully started Community had regard for the Quaid even
one will be tantamount to pushing the com- construction of a mill in December 1927 before the well-known Pakistan Resolu-
munity towards a set-back to that extent”. at Blur, about 5 miles away from Calcutta, tion. The Memons in Calcutta felicitated
Adamjee Haji Dawood, the founder of the with a huge capital of Rs. 8,000,000. The the Quaid in 1936 in a large gathering of
Memon Educational & Welfare Society, mill started its production in December Muslims. In those days, the Quaid-e-Azam
uttered these words on 7th October 1934, 1928. was known as Mr. Jinnah. Mr. Adamjee
while speaking at the first meeting of the Haji Dawood Baig Mohammed, father of addressed the gathering as the leader of
Society. Adamjee, had opened a small dispensary in the community, and from that moment he
Adamjee was born on 30th June 1880, Jetpur and was planning to convert it into a started taking interest in politics.
at Jetpur in Kathiawar; his father Haji large hospital but due to his demise this pro- He was also actively interested in the
Dawood Baig Mohammed and his mother gramme could not materialize. Sir Adamjee promotion of sports. He was patron of the
Hanifa Bai used to call him by ‘Adamjee’ purchased a large plot of land in Jetpur well-known Mohammedan Sporting Club
instead of Adam and, therefore, he was near station and constructed ‘Haji Dawood of Calcutta and did his best for its progress.
widely known as Adamjee. Though Ad- Hospital’. He provided one lac rupees for In recognition of his status in trade and
amjee was keen about education, he could maintenance of the hospital. He took ac- industry and selfless services he rendered
not go beyond fourth class in Gujrati. In tive interest in Public welfare projects and for the welfare of the masses, the British
1895, at the age of 15, he went to Proma extended considerable material support to Government awarded him knighthood in
town of Burma, and started his career as Anglo-Gujrati School of Calcutta. 1938.
an employee of Mr. Saleh Mohammad Heavy rains in 1928 throughout Gujrat He reached Jetpur again in 1940 in con-
Ghaziani. His salary was only Rs. 25 per and Kathiawar resulted in floods, which nection with the marriage of his younger
month but after completion of one year his claimed several human lives and colossal son. There he built a school named ‘Sir
employer, in appreciation of his honesty loss to property. Some stalwarts established Adamjee Muslim High School’. Moreover,
and work, gave him a prize of Rs. 125 and a fund named ‘Gujrat Kathiawar Rail Rahat with a view to preserving the memory of
an embroidered cap. Committee’ and went to Mr. M.K. Gandhi his late mother he purchased a building and
In 1913, Adamjee started his firm in and requested him to recommend an honest established ‘Hanifa Bai Kanyashala’ (Girls
Rangoon under the name of Adamjee Haji and enthusiastic man who could manage School). He also formed a private Organiza-
Dawood & Co. In 1914, a branch of this the affairs. Mr. Gandhi named Mr. Ad- tion and got it registered as ‘Sir Adamjee
firm was opened in Calcutta. This firm pro- amjee Haji Dawood as the proper person. Haji Dawood Educational and Medical
gressed well and afterwards was converted Therefore, a delegation headed by Mr. Tri Society’.
into a limited company with a capital of Rs. Bhuvan Hira Chand, a leading businessman In 1940, the Quaid-e-Azam emphasized
5,000,000. of Bombay, reached Calcutta and requested the need for a press for projecting the
Adamjee entered industrial field in 1923. Mr. Adamjee to accept the responsibilities point of view of the Muslim League. He
He established a match factory in Rangoon. as Chairman of the Relief Committee. De- established a press fund in which Adamjee
He was director of Rangoon Electric Trad- spite his pre-engagements Sir Adamjee ac- was the first man to send his contribution
ing Company and Scandia Steam Naviga- cepted the responsibilities and successfully telegraphically. Adamjee served the Muslim
tion Company. He took Burma Fire and handled the job. He also donated generously League in a befitting manner from 1936
Marine Insurance Company under his own to the Committee. to 1948. During this period he had close
management and was taken on the Manag- Addressing a conference on the topic of contact with the Quaid-e-Azam, and he was
ing Board of Bank of India Limited. He education, he emphasized the importance one of his reliable colleagues.
was a leading businessman of jute and rice. of learning and knowledge. He focused at- The newly born nation Pakistan con-
He was elected the first President of Burma tention on the rapid progress in science and fronted heavy odds in its early days. Only a
Indian Chamber of Commerce, established learning. He cited Russia’s efforts to develop nominal amount was received by the State
in Burma. Later, he became the President the country. Even in India, which is consid- out of total allocation. The dispute over the
of this Chamber. This was his first public ered to be a backward country, Parsis have balance left the exchequer empty of fund. In
activity. made tremendous progress. Hindus are also those days Adamjee came to Karachi, the
After the death of his father, when he working hard to achieve material progress. Quaid-e-Azam had a meeting with him in
came back to Rangoon he found that He deplored that the majority of the Mem- camera, only Mr. Ghulam Mohammad, the
Hakim Ajmal Khan, a great leader of the ons remained semi-literate. The community then Finance Minister, was there. During
Muslim community, had arrived there in whole-heartedly responded to the call of the deliberations, Admjee put forth very
connection with the funds for Tibia College. Mr. Adamjee, and they became united useful suggestions, which became the basis
Adamjee donated a fairly large amount to under his bold and dynamic leadership. of a viable economy of this nascent state.
the College fund. He also gave a generous Memon Educational and Welfare Society In January 1948, to consult him on mat-
amount to Burma University. During the was formed in 1933 to promote knowledge ters relating to the formation of the State
same period he started to give scholarships and learning in the community. Bank of Pakistan, the Quaid invited him.
to Muslim students in his individual capac- The welfare activities of Adamjee were In those days Adamjee was a heart patient.
ity. He was elected president of Rangoon not confined to the Memon community The meeting was arranged at upper storey
Memon Jamat in which capacity he served only, he did his best for everybody. In 1934, of the building and there was no arrange-
for several years. he collected funds for earthquake victims ment of elevator. He had to walk upstairs
His main line of business was jute bags, of Bihar and Quetta under the auspices of which aggravated his heart trouble. Col.
which were generally imported from the Society and very efficiently handled the Shah immediately gave him initial treat-
Calcutta. So, he decided to establish a jute relief activities by creating a volunteer force. ment. He was rushed to his residence in
mill in Calcutta, and he was the first ever Adamjee had an unshakeable faith in Saddar, but he died the next day on the 27th
Muslim to start a jute Mill. His Scottish the leadership of the Quaid-e-Azam. Not of January 1948.
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BARRISTER ABDUL gettable for the reforms of the community. transition from business to industry,
Elsewhere, in the book his services to first establishing Dawood Cotton Mills
SATTAR WALI
the cause of the Memons, Muslims and Limited in 1952. The industry expanded
Indians, generally have been described. In rapidly. With the realization that the only
short, Barrister Wali was one of the rare way to maintain continuous growth and
leaders of the community whose serv- enhance reputation was to expand inter-
ices unfortunately could not be utilized nationally, the first international office
because of his advanced views on reforms was established in Manchester, England,
and adoption of democratic system in operating under the title ‘Dawood (Eng-
running the organizations. Not having land) Limited’. Simultaneously, senior
succeeded in his mission he became frus- members of the family, in a bid to ensure
trated and after migration to Pakistan, he that the education of all successive gen-
died unknown, un-honored and unsung. erations be given the utmost importance,
sent their children to England to pursue
SETH AHMAD
their studies.
DAWOOD As such, nearly the entire second
generation has graduated with university
Seth Ahmad Dawood, was one of the top degrees from England, from where they
businessmen and industrialists of Paki- proceeded to the United States to study
stan. He was born in 1905 and has played business at graduate level. The family
such an important role as a Memon that can boast of having graduates of the best
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth to his services cannot be excluded from universities like Oxford, Manchester, Lon-
a very rich family, A.S. Wali was the first Memon history. He was the founder of don School of Economics, Strathclyde,
Memon Barrister. All his life he remained Dawood Foundation through which he McGill, University of Western Ontario,
an idealist and reformist. Charities of his established Dawood Engineering College Harvard, Northwestern and Columbia.
father were very well known and Bar- in Karachi. In the early days some of the The family has more MBAs than any
rister Wali inherited both the wealth and subjects taught in this College were not other family in Pakistan. The Dawoods
generosity of his father. He spent lavishly being taught in any other university/col- decided to expand further. In 1959, the
on the causes, which were dear to his lege anywhere in Pakistan. Even after na- family purchased Burewala Textile Mills,
heart. He was a fluent orator in Memony, tionalization of this College he provided a cotton textile mill with its own ginning
Gujrati, Urdu, English and Persian. casual financial aid to the institution. The factory, and in 1969 established Dillon,
Eminent leaders like Mr. M.A. Jinnah and Foundation runs schools and other chari- which manufactured nylon and synthetic
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu sought his company table institutions. yam. Their last textile venture was Law-
at public functions. He was the founder trustee of Al-Shifa rencepur Woolen Mills.
The weekly “Memon Sudharak” was Eye Hospital to which his Foundation has The strategy of diversification was
published under the editorship of the late contributed more than Rs. 15 million. He marked by the setting up of Dawood
Barrister A. Sattar Wali, who played a was the main founder of United Memon Hercules Chemicals (Urea fertilizer), fol-
very vital role in bringing reforms and Jamat and has always been keen to bring lowed by Transpak (baby food, tooth-
awakening to the Memon community. all the Memons on one platform. Unfor- paste, toothbrushes and other consumer
This weekly also published regular col- tunately, during the Bhutto regime, he was goods), Dawood Yamaha (Motorcycles),
umns to pave the way for holding Memon kept under house arrest for several months Dawlance (refrigerators and microwaves),
conference. The magazine also inspired for just being an outspoken industrialist. Descon Engineering (construction), and
new writers in Gujrati on subjects like He left Pakistan for a couple of years dur- Meiji Biscuits.
social evils, and harshest possible critical ing which period he did exploratory work A move into the financial sector was
articles were published very boldly. Bar- in USA in the field of oil exploration. He the next step. It was put into effect with
rister Wali traveled extensively throughout was a very daring industrialist with a fore- the establishment of Central Insurance
Kathiawar to see for himself the social sight. In East Pakistan, due to labor unrest Company (in-house insurance), BRR
and educational conditions of the Memon nobody was prepared to buy the PIDC Capital Modarba (leasing under the Is-
community. He realized the need to pub- Project Karnaphuli Paper and Chemical lamic mode of financing), BRR Secound
lish a magazine for campaigning reforms Mill, but Ahmed Dawood dared and con- Modarba (working capital finance), and
and, as such, he started the publication tinued to run it profitably till the emer- Equity International Modarba (venture
from Bombay in 1929, the leadership of gence of Bangladesh. His main mission capital funding as a joint venture with
the community at that time was mostly that every able bodied man in Pakistan IFC and Robert Flemings). All three
hereditary. “Memon Sudharak” strongly should be provided with a bicycle to make Modarbas have since been merged into
deplored this system and advised the com- him mobile has not yet been fulfilled. one, namely BRR International Mo-
munity members to elect leaders through The Dawood family started from hum- darba. Other concerns include Orient
ballot. In 1931, when Barrister Wali raised ble origins when Ahmed Dawood began Insurance Company, and the latest,
this issue in the Memon conference and trading in pre-partition India and was Dawood Leasing Company Limited, a
moved a resolution against the existing eventually joined by his brothers. At parti- joint venture among the four brothers
system, there was a major uproar. At the tion, the family opted to move to Paki- and other renowned financial institu-
intervention of Seth Adamjee, the resolu- stan, where the new nation created ample tions of Pakistan. Prior to the establish-
tion was withdrawn. The contribution of openings and opportunities for business ment of Bangladesh, the Dawood family
Barrister Wali was very great and unfor- and industry. The family thus made the also owned and managed Karnaphuli
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Paper Mills Limited and Karnaphuli was Chairman and Director of many pub- ABDUL SATTAR EDHI
Rayon and Chemicals Limited, which lic companies including Pakistan Refinery
utilized bamboo as raw material for all Limited, Zeal Pak Cement and other
their products. Karnaphuli Jute Mills companies. According to a report pub-
Ltd was established in East Pakistan. lished in those days in New York Times,
With the nationalization fever in the the industrial assets of Adamjees were to
early seventies, when Mr. Zulfiqar Ali the tune of 60 million US Dollars, half
Bhutto took over the reins of Pakistan, of which were invested in East Pakistan.
Dawood Petroleum Limited and Central He became the President of All Pakistan
Life were taken over by the State. Memon Educational and Welfare Society
Finally, when this industrial empire was when its offices were shifted to Karachi
divided among the brothers, Seth Ahmad from Calcutta. His services in managing
Dawood, Mr. Suleman Dawood, Mr. Sid- and increasing the assets of the society
diq Dawood and late Mr. Ali Mohammad are worthy of note. The Federal ‘B’ Area
Dawood, the industrial ventures, men- Memon Colony was built by the Society
tioned earlier, were amicably distributed under his leadership. So did the Adamjee
and are being owned and managed by family build the Adamjee Science College
each one of the brothers or descendants. with their generous donations towards
construction and maintenance of the col-
ABDUL WAHID
lege. His family constructed Adamjee Haji
ADAMJEE Dawood Public School in Dacca, also es-
tablished the Adamjee Foundation, which
Eldest son of Sir Adamjee, Abdul Wa- is contributing towards general welfare
hid was born in 1908. He was educated of the masses without any discrimination
in a convent school in Rangoon. He and without any publicity.
acquired deep knowledge of business
ABDUL LATIF
correspondence from his office staff to Services rendered by Abdul Sattar Edhi
make up for the deficiency of higher EBRAHIM BAWANI and his Foundations, which are spread all
education. He learned business manage- over Pakistan and are innumerable, are
ment in a systematic manner from his AL-Haj Abdul Latif Bawany was one of only too well known. The work, has been
father, who appointed him to various de- the most popular leaders of the community done on an ever-increasing scale for the last
partments in his large business empire. He was known as Kaka Bawany (Uncle Ba- forty years. The services rendered during
He established the largest jute mill in wany) among Memons and Non-Memons the Afghanistan-USSR war, at the risk to
the world near Dacca, which was visited alike. He is remembered for his dedicated his person, cannot be ignored. Mr. Edhi
by foreign visitors including ruling services not only for the community but went personally to the war zone to do and
Presidents and the queen of England. In also for humanity as a whole. His public life supervise relief work. Similarly, his services
this jute mill, all facilities were provided started in Burma where he was a leading in Lebanon during Israel occupation of the
for thousands of workers. The assets of member of Rangoon Memon Jamat and West Bank and Gaza strip are also unforget-
the jute mill then were estimated to be founder member of the local chamber of table. He also went to Palestine to help the
around Rs. 110 million. He also started commerce. refugees. He also arranged to send ten thou-
Adamjee Particles and Boards Mill, Even before the partition of India, sand tones of rice, worth Rs. 30 millions,
Magna Textile Mills, Aroma Tea, etc. he was known for his philanthropy, the to Eriteria in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and
The Adamjees became the owners of the organizations that benefited from his gen- other African countries that were torn and
biggest tea gardens in the world. In West erosity include Darul-Anjuman-e-Hima- devastated by famine, hunger, and civil war.
Pakistan, in 1952, Adamjee Cotton Mill yat-e-Islam, Islamic Economic Institute, To Bangladesh also, he sent volunteers with
was established. He also established Ad- Aligarh University, Jetpur High School ambulances and an amount of US Dollar
amjee Chemicals and paper Board units. and Jetpur Gymkhana. He served Jetpur 10,000/- for relief to the needy people there.
Adamjee Insurance was established in Memon Association for three years. He In 1986, anti-social elements brought about
1960. He remained Chairman of the also played a great role in the working Sri Lankan girls to Pakistan by luring them to
Adamjee Group of Industries. Almost of the Memon Conference as well as the secure good and lucrative jobs for them and
every regime in Pakistan sought his Memon Educational & Welfare Society later on tried to involve them in 112 immoral
co-operation in the field of business and and contributed much towards the forma- professions. Maulana Edhi came to their rescue,
industrial development. He was offered tion of Memon Relief Committee in arranged for their return journey to Sri Lanka
ministerial post but he always refused. Pakistan. and in the meantime kept them in the security
He became the Chairman of Pakistan He also played a vital role in the establish- of his institutions. He always came to the rescue
Industrial Credit Investment Corpora- ment of the All Pakistan Memon Federa- of such destitute people including fishermen
tion (PICIC) and rendered valuable tion and remained its president for two or other foreigners who either crossed the
services for the industrialization of the years. His contribution is also countable in border illegally or sea front or who over stayed
country. He also established Adamjee developing the Memon Colony under the in Pakistan. Such people are provided shelter,
Insurance Company, which is the largest auspices of the Pakistan Memon Education- food and care before they are sent back to their
in Pakistan. al & Welfare Society at Federal ‘B’ Area, respective countries. The account of his services
In recognition of his valuable services, Karachi. needs volumes. However, it must be said to
he was awarded “Hilal-e-Pakistan”. He his credit that a single individual, sleeping on a
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