Monday, January 30, 2023

Aziz Memon re-elected as UMJP President

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The popular figure of Aziz Memon, an eminent industrialist and an acclaimed philanthropist, has been re-elected as the President of the United Memon Jamat of Pakistan (UMJP) for the tenure of 2023 to 2025. 

According to the notification issued by the UMJP, their other elected office-bearers for 2023-25 are Ashfaque Ahmed Memon (Senior Vice President), Shahzad Sabir (Vice President-1), Parvez Madraswala (Vice President-2), Ashraf Kassim Machiyara (Vice President-3), Zafar Iqbal Sobani (Honorary Secretary), Abdul Nabi Memon (Deputy Secretary General), Faisal Abubaker Khanani (Joint Secretary General & Information Secretary), Abdul Aziz Haji Yaqoob (Chairman Council of Emeritus), Prof M Saleem Memon (Finance Secretary) and Mahmood Parekh (Co-Chairman Council of Emeritus). 

Aziz Memon, who has been holding various important portfolios at national and international in his illustrious career, was first elected as President of the UMJP in November 2016. 

His leadership has added value to the UMJP, a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 with the aims and objectives of promoting welfare activities, community development and helping the underprivileged members of the society in general and of the Memon community in particular. 

The UMJP has a widespread network all over Sindh in the form of 35 affiliated Jamats of Memon Community. The activities of the community are diversified but mainly focus on providing medical and educational assistance to the needy and less privileged. 

Recently the UMJP President, Aziz Memon, alongwith a few other office-bearers of the Jamat, handed over two rickshaws and one motorbike to unemployed youth of the community. 

Besides working proactively in the health related endeavours, its activities in the educational sector include providing scholarships, setting up vocational training centres, establishment computer centres and providing of salaries to teachers of schools run by UMJP.

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