May 07, 2008: It gives me enormous pleasure and honour to be a part of that vision on which Hanif S. Kalia and KRG are endeavoring in order to promote an IT culture in Pakistan, which is the key of success being the language of 21st century, Chief Guest, Mr. Mohammad Raza Haroon, Minister For Information Technology (IT) Government of Sindh, said during his speech at the inauguration ceremony of Deaf Computer Learning Centre – DCLC, at Pakistan Association of the Deaf (PAD), Shaheen Tower, Shahra-e-Faisal, Karachi on Wednesday, 7th May 2008, established & donated by Ko-Ordination Group-KRG on special recommendations of Ms. Huma Bukhari, District Governor, 305 S-1 Lions Club International, who was also the Presiding Guest of the event.

Mohammad Raza Haroon in his speech expressed that he is overjoyed after seeing the commitment and efforts of Mr. Hanif S. Kalia and Dr. Saira Bano towards their noble cause of spreading quality IT literacy through out the country, specially in this era, where people give much concentration in generating wealth and in flourishing their businesses, but I possess great esteem for Hanif S. Kalia who has consumed his all energy and resources, just to give this country an IT literate generation for the future, in order to compete globally. Pointing towards the audience, the major of which were members of Pakistan Association of the Deaf, he said that, to call talented people like you disable would be an underestimation, because I believe God has given you more talent and willpower, compare to other normal persons, he further said that, basic education is a vital and fundamental factor for further continuation of future studies and if students of Pakistan are given good primary education, only then they can be empowered with other qualification and I would indubitably take the matter of 10,000 non-functional schools in Sindh, to education ministry, brought under my notice by Hanif S. Kalia. He concluded his speech by saying that being the IT minister, I would try to follow the commendable work that Hanif S. Kalia is doing for IT sector and keeping in view the importance of IT, efforts are made to computerized the schools, hospitals and police departments as well to enhance their efficiency.

Expressing his gratitude on this occasion, Mr. Irfan Mumtaz, President, Pakistan Association of the Deaf said, with limited resources PAD is striving to plant confidence and empower disable person so that they can prove their metal to the world. The Guest of Honour, Mr. Mohammad Akram, Founder Chairman, Danishkadah a role model for special persons, thanked KRG for donating such an advance computer with latest system to PAD.

Later on Dr. Saira Bano, General Secretary KRG, highlighted the efforts of KRG for IT, She said that I was approached specially by Ms. Huma Bukhari, District Governor, 305 S-1 Lions Club International for the establishment of the computer centre in PAD and KRG acted on this request immediately because we firmly believe that a country can’t grow well till all the wings of its society are functional and nearly 7 to 10 percent of our total population are suffering from disabilities, but its our duty to empower them to utilize the exceptional talent that is concealed in them and today’s inauguration is another step in the same direction of KRG.

Presiding Guest, Ms. Huma Bukhari, District Governor, 305 S-1 Lions Club International said that God has created innumerable blessings for us in this world, and countless blessings are still uncovered, because HE wanted to test the creativity of human’s mind and I am very much grateful to KRG for acting upon my request and donating a state of the art computer learning centre for these pearls, She said that to talk about Hanif S. Kalia is a very difficult task because this man has so many achievements to his credit, that one doesn’t know on which quality of him he or she should speak, but his contributions for IT sector in Pakistan are unrivaled and to name Road and Park in Lahore, another 5-Corrina Road in Charsadda and Conference Hall in Hyderabad speaks for Hanif S. Kalia’s outstanding services in IT sector.

Earlier, Mr. Hanif S. Kalia, Chairman – KRG, while delivering his speech told the audience that KRG sensed “an IT era” 10 years ago and took the initiative of spreading computer learning centres across Pakistan and today by the grace of God our established and donated centres are spread all over the country imparting quality IT education and training and our intentions of spreading this net of computer centres in every nock and corner of our country is getting still firm as ever, even after so many centres establishment, because we want that our youth can exploit full advantage of IT, so that they can contribute towards economic stability of our country in a more proficient way. He added that now there is new definition of literacy as no matter from which profession you belong, be it Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering etc, but if you not computer literate, till then you can not be included in the new definition of literate persons. He said that Human Resource is the most valuable asset of any community or a nation and there are no two opinions that the optimum utilization of Human Resource is only possible through Career Guidance & Career Counseling and KRG, being the only organization in Pakistan with such vast net of IT centres, is also executing its responsibilities in this regard from Karachi to Peshawar and Azad Kashmir fruitfully.

At last, Mr. Kamran Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Association of the Deaf thanked all esteemed guests present at the event and the ceremony was concluded with the memorandum shields and souvenirs distribution.