Nepali community members and other officials pose for a group picture.
A Nepali community in Qatar organised a programme on August 24 at Radission Blu to show solidarity with the state of the Qatar.
The slogan of the programme was ‘we love Qatar, we support Qatar, we are in Qatar and Qatar is our second home’.
It was chaired by Dr Dev K Aji Dangol, Chairman of Nepali community Doha. Rashid Al Dehaimi, Assistant Director of Asian Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar was the chief guest. Fahad Sallam Almarri (pictured), an official from the ministry, was the guest of honour.
Representatives from different communities from countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Srilanka and the Philippines were also present. The programme started with reading of The Holy Quran and played the national anthem of both Nepal and Qatar. Nepali artist Ramesh Shrestha made a live painting of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The images were later handed over to Rashid Al Dehaimi.
The community also presented a documentary on the relationship between both the countries. It was presented by Shiba Raj Gautam . Fahad Sallem Almarir, said, thanked the community for their support to Qatar. Sandhya Sharma and Kamachha Chamlagai recited a poem. Both sharma and Chamlagai was the school students and in the poem they mentioned Qatar is their second home , they found homely environment in Qatar so they love Qatar .
Dev Kaji Dangol thanked all the participants. The programme was financially supported by Raj Regmi, RK Sharma, Prakash Koirala, Mahendra Chaulagain, Badri Prasad Pandey, Narendra Bhatt and Dr. Dev Kaji Dangol and coordinated by Shiba Raj Gautam and Sagar Nepal.
The Ambassdor of Qatar to Nepal Yousuf bin Mohammed Al Hail supported, directly and indirectly, the organiser to make this a success.