NewsMonday, March 24, 2008
Sitara-i-Imtiaz for Jinnah’s grandnephew
KARACHI: Liaquat H. Merchant, grandnephew of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, received a Sitara-i-Imtiaz for his outstanding public services in education and health in Pakistan. He received the award from Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad in a ceremony held at the Governor House Sunday. Merchant is the administrator of Quaid-e-Azam’s estate established under the Aligarh Education Trust on the orders of Sindh High Court and has been its executive trustee since 1984. It has granted over 5,000 scholarships to graduate and post-graduate students in Pakistan. He established the Jinnah Foundation which renders services in health and education. He is the founder and president of the Jinnah Society which propagates the principles, and the vision of Quaid-e-Azam. He has also set up Al-Mehrab Tibbi Imdad, the Pakistan Human Development Fund, the Promotion of Education in Pakistan Trust and the Legends Trust. He is the chairman of Khatoon-e-Pakistan Education and Welfare Board and Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls School and was the Deputy Attorney General from 1984-1986. ppi
Courtesy Daily Times