BAHAWALPUR: About 50 orphan and poor couples have been married under a collective marriage ceremony in Hatheji, Tehsil Ahmadpur East in central Pakistan by a Karachi-based Faiz Al Qaim Trust in a big gathering of local dignitaries including parliamentarians from Bahawalpur district.
The couples were selected through a lucky draw by the Trust chairman and its other members.
All the couples were given necessary domestic appliances by the trust.
Faiz Al Qaim Trust Chairman Agha Afzal Ali Fazal while congratulating the newly wed couples said that Faiz Al Qaim Trust started this collective marriage programme for the boys and girls, who were orphans or were from poor families, in year 1999 in view of backwardness and poverty of Tehsil Ahmadpur East, particularly Hatheji. So far the Trust has solemnised Nikah of 500 boys and girls who are poor and from downtrodden families, he added.
He vowed that Faiz Al Qaim Trust would also arrange for 1,000 more collective marriages for the deserving boys and girls of this part of the country during the next 16 years.
The chairman also revealed that the Trust was also striving for the promotion of education in this underdeveloped area of South Punjab and had established schools where computer education was being imparted to the children from poor families.
This collective marriage ceremony was also addressed by local PML-N MNA Mian Najeeb-ud-Din Awaisi, local MPA Khalid Mehmood Waran and MPA from Khairpur Tamiwali Mian Kazim Ali Pirzada who specially joined this ceremony to pay tribute to the Trust chairman and his team. INTERNEWS
