NLA hails book-loving bureaucrat

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi 

(Pakistan News & Features Services)

 

The National Library Association (NLA) has hailed the services of senior civil servant, Iftikhar Ali Shallwani, who has recently been posted as the Federal Secretary of Housing and Works to the Government of Pakistan. A Grade-22 officer, he belongs to the District Management Group (DBG) of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS). 

The NLA President, Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah, in a brief statement issued on July 18, recalled the services of Iftikhar Shallwani towards the promotion of library culture during his tenure as the Commissioner of Karachi. 

“He proved himself a book-loving person with his initiatives and his decision to develop and open a street library at the centrally located Hotel Metropole deserves to be highlighted time and again. He had looked eager to facilitate in having more street libraries in Karachi,” the NLA President remarked. 

“Alongwith a few of my NLA colleagues, I was also invited in the inauguration ceremony of the street library at the Hotel Metropole where we had the opportunity of exchanging views with the then Commissioner about the needs to spread library culture in the society,” Muzaffar Ali Shah disclosed. 

“We would like to take a delegation of NLA office-bearers to Islamabad in near future for a session with Iftikhar Shallwani, now a Federal Secretary, to seek his blessings and support in accomplishing our mutual goals of promoting library culture,” he concluded.