KARACHI: A leading businessman and renowned social worker Abdul Rahim Janoo has been awarded a gold medal by Memon Leadership Forum for his meritorious services for promotion of trade and industry, and for the welfare of Memon community and the society as a whole.
MLF’s Patron-in-Chief Aqeel Karim Dhedhi presented the gold medal to Janoo at a ceremony here, which was attended by prominent businessmen and other dignitaries including President, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry Mian Nasser Hyatt Magoo, former president FPCCI Zubair F.Tufail, Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Akhter Younus Arfa, Hamza Tabani, Rafique Suleman, Safder Mehkri, Jawed Jillani, Member Sindh Assembly Bilal Ghaffar and Arsalan Taj Hussain, said release on Wednesday.
Abdul Rahim Janoo, President MLF (Global) , Chairman Haji Razzak Janoo Memorial Trust, FPCCI’s former senior vice president and former chairman of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan.
on this occasion, said he had served business community for a long period and recently he has taken retirement from FPCCI and national politics. He also wanted to retire from REAP politics and wish to give time to his family and to his charity work of which included holding of free eye camps in different areas of the country.
Aqeel Karim Dhedhi said that Rahim Janoo being leader of the ruling group in REAP had played a vital role for the promotion of rice export to over two billion dollars from $ 300 million within last few years. Rice export trade was the second largest export trade of the country.
Rahim Janoo had also served as former senior vice president FPCCI and did many reforms in this apex trade body of the country and as a result it became financially strong.
Being Chairman Haji Memorial Trust, Rahim Janoo had made it Pakistan’s largest family trust for eye cure. This Trust arrange free laser surgery eye camps not only within the country but in Afghanistan and Bangladesh. During last 31 years, Trust has arranged 308 free eye camps at which 200, 000 laser surgeries by Pakistan’s prominent eye surgeons had done and more than five million patients had been treated under free OPD, Dhedhi recognised.
Aqeel Dhedhi further said that Rahim Janoo as the President MLF (Global) gathered leading business persons belonging to Memon community at MLF platform and in 2019 he organized historical Memon Leadership Conference in Karachi which was attended by more than 108 delegates from around the globe and 3000 leading businessmen and dignitaries of Pakistan.