Zahid Makhdoom is our Presenter for Tuesday
Well ladies and gentlemen, we have a confirmed speaker for Tuesday’s meeting, Banned Books, Freedom of Speech, and Mein Kampf.
Zahid Makhdoom, Vancouver JP and president of the World Sindi Institute, will be our featured speaker.
During the recent World Peace Forum, he moderated the panel discussion ROADBLOCKS TO PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA, and was for many years active in Aboriginal-Government negotiations across Canada.
Here is his biography from the WSI:
Mr. Zahid Makhdoom, President of the World Sindhi Institute’s Board of Directors from 2002 to present, was born in Sindh in 1954 and moved to Canada in 1984, where he continues to reside today. During persistent struggles for human rights for the people of Sindh, Makhdoom was arrested and imprisoned for ten months in 1971-2. He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada with his wife and works as a Sitting Justice at the Provincial Court of British Columbia. Mr. Makhdoom is an extremely engaging and dynamic speaker, with extensive knowledge of the politics and culture of Sindh, Pakistan, and the various political relations between and with both.
Wednesday, August 9th 2006 at 9:45 am
Dear Zahid Makhdoom
Assalam o Alaikum
I (a collegue of Athar Saleem in Islamabad in 1980, if u remember) have come to Canada, Attending a seminar (7-August-1st September)at SETYM International at Montreal. Staying at Hotel Residence Marriot Room 1207. (Phone 514 935 9224. While searching through web for friends in Canada, I found a long list of your Human Right related and other activities and delighted to know your whereabouts.
Regards
SABIR HASAN
General Manager, Operations
National Highway Authority
27-Mauve Area,G-9/1, Islamabad
(Cell 03008383654)
Saturday, March 1st 2008 at 10:45 am
Zahid Makhdoom had a profound influence on me, understanding the struggle he has gone through as a writer against the existentialist psychopathic governments of right wing fundalmentalism and fascist anarchy, opposite poles of the same hypocrisy. i wish he could feel safe to write to expose the atrocities of petty tyranny in a fearful world of tyranny. terrorism is a psychological threat to the human race. to confront and to name the monster can serve to disempower it.