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Rally to mark Day of Persons with Disabilities

From Our Correspondent

MULTAN: The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was observed here on Friday.

The Society for Special Persons and Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry jointly organised a rally from chamber to the regional scouts headquarters under the leadership of MCCI former president Fareed Mughis Sheikh and others. More than 100 disabled, mostly female members, joined the rally. A workshop for parents was also held. Civil society activists Zohra Sajjad Zaidi, Zahida Hameed Qureshi, Begum Tahira Najam and Sadia Kirmani addressed the participants. They urged family members, especially parents, to focus their attention on the person with disability. They called for removing factors that place people with disabilities at higher risk of violence. The participants were told that more than one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world population, live with some form of disability. The speakers said the United Nations had been asking respective governments to implement measures to improve life of disabled persons across the world. The event included art exhibitions promoting artwork by people with disabilities.

In a message, MCCI president Khawaja Jalaluddin Roomi said: “We have signed an MoU with Society for Special Persons and we are bound to cooperate with them in providing jobs and organising training workshops.”