Twenty five couples, including two from the Christian community, tied the knot in a mass wedding ceremony organised by the Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) at Minhaj University, Township, here on Sunday.
MNA Muhammad Afzal Khokhar, MPA Malik Saiful Malook, MPA Ejaz Ahmad Khan, MPA Uzma Bukhari, actor Nisho, actor Bahar Begum, actor Muhammad Afzal alias Jan Rambo and his wife Sahiba, another actor, and noted columnist Ajmal Khan Niazi attended the ceremony.
They addressed the ceremony and praised the MWF for conducting the ceremony for the poor couples.
The foundation chose “the genuinely deserving girls, mostly orphans” for the ceremony, said Mian Iftikhar Ahmad, deputy director of the MWF. The two Christian couples wed according to their own customs, he added.
Including Sunday’s event, the MWF has arranged for the weddings of 610 couples since it started holding mass ceremonies in 1995, Ahmad said. He said the MWF presented each bride a gift pack containing a pedestal fan, a washing machine, a sewing machine, a double bed, blankets, a DVD player, a dinner set, a tea set, a water set, cutlery sets, furniture, an iron, a box for domestic items, a suitcase, a water cooler, stitched and unstitched cloth and other items.
The foundation presented each bride a jewellery set made up of about 11 grams or one tola of gold and a wristwatch worth Rs5,000 to each bridegroom during the ceremony, he added. Each bride and each groom was allowed to bring 25 guests to the wedding.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2011.
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