Washington Interfaith
Gathering Raises over $80,000
Washington, DC: Participants
in an impressive interfaith gathering raised over $80,000
for victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. The fundraiser
was held in a Washington DC suburb Sunday.
The iftar/dinner was hosted by Dr. Aquil ur Rahman at his
house in Potomac, Maryland.
Representatives of several Pakistani and Muslim organizations
as well as the American Jewish Committee and several Pakistani
Americans listened as Dr. Rahman highlighted the needs of
the victims of the worst natural disaster in Pakistan. He
urged the people to donate generously.
Tom Kahan, a representative of the American Jewish Community,
presented a token check to Pakistan Embassy’s Deputy
Chief of Mission for the President’s Earthquake Relief
Fund. In his remarks, Kahan said the American Jewish community
“felt the pain of their cousins, the children of Abraham
(AS), and is coming forward to ease the pain of the people
of Pakistan.”
Deputy Chief of Mission Mohammad Sadiq urged the community
to donate generously. He asked the people to donate tents
as Pakistan needs more than 200,000 tents to save the survivors
from the worsening weather conditions.
A prominent Muslim American, Mr. Tufail Ahmed, and a representative
of the Organization of Pakistani Engineers North America
(OPEN), also spoke on the occasion.
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