A total of 31 couples tied the knot during a mass wedding ceremony in Daska city on Tuesday. The ceremony was held under the auspices of a locally active NGO, Young Blood Foundation.
NGO chairman Bashir Ahmed Naz, president Tanveer Ahmed Mughal, general secretary Haji Zahid Jehangir and Women Wing chairperson Prof Mumtaz Chattha said that they were happy to have helped so many couples get married. “All of these people are destitute and could barely afford the expense of a wedding. We helped make dowries for all the women and invited their families to the function,” Chattha said.
All arrangements for the function were completed diligently and locals said that the wedding was the first of its kind in Daska city. “We have had mass weddings here before but never one so large. The arrangements were extremely well thought out and each bride received a dowry, salami and each couple was allowed 25 guests,” said a guest at the function Waseem. A total of 31 couples, including 24 Muslim couples and seven Christian couples were married during the ceremony.
The organizers said that local parliamentarians , senior officials of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) Punjab and Social Welfare department, senior journalists from Daska, Sialkot and Gujranwala and other prominent civil society members were all in attendance. “This is the 6th annual event put on by the Young Blood Foundation and we hope to be able to do this biannually from next year if we have the funds,” said president Tanveer Ahmed Mughal.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2011.
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