Dr Durreshahwar Pervez elected Karachi Gymkhana’s first-ever lady Vice President

Pakistan News & Features Services

Dr Durreshahwar Pervez has created history of sorts by getting elected as the first lady Vice President of the Karachi for the year 2015. It’s for the first time in the 128-year-old history of the club when a lady has been elected as its Vice President. 

She earned the honour by having secured the highest number of votes (1086) in the annual elections which were held at the club’s premises the other week. 

A practicing physician and an active social worker, she is a graduate of the Dow Medical College. She is blessed with two daughters and son while her husband’s job in Merchant Navy provided the opportunity to the family to sail around the world. 

Community service has been very dear to her heart and Dr Durreshahwar Pervez has been serving the humanity with great passion. She had looked after the modest clinic on the ship which was under second mate. 

She has done a lot of social work with the emphasis on taking caring of the patients belonging to the low income group. She has been providing medicines and other facilities to the deserving patients. 

Dr Durreshahwar Pervez had also volunteered her services during the inaugural edition of IDEAS, the biennially held international defence exhibition, at the Karachi Expo Centre in 2000. She has fond memories of the IDEAS-2000 in which she had contributed in making the foot paths and colouring the building to uplift the Expo Centre arena which earned her appreciation.