Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri pays tribute to Sir Anwar Pervez, Lord Zameer Choudhry
Canberra: Pakistan High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week paid tribute to successful overseas Pakistanis Sir Anwar Pervez and Lord Zameer Choudhry.
“Sir Anwar Pervez #AnwarPervez & Lord Zameer Choudrey #ZameerChoudrey are great success stories amongst Pakistani Diaspora. In my interactions, always found them to be proud of their Pakistani heritage and at service for Pakistan,” he tweeted.
Earlier, Sir Anwar Pervez’s Bestway Foundation raised more than $2 million through its fundraising efforts while also appealing to the UK government and the international community to do more on an urgent basis to help Pakistan deal with the flood tragedy that has affected over 40 million people directly.
At an event held at Intercontinental Park Lane by Sir Anwar Pervez and Lord Zameer Choudrey, Pakistan’s leading foreign investor Bestway Group invited UK government ministers and leading Asian business figures to donate money for the Pakistan flood victims.
Those who attended the event included Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK Moazzam Ali Khan; Brandon Lewis MP, the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary; Tom Tugendhat MP, Security Minister; Paul Scully MP, Minister for London; as well as former ministers Sajid Javed MP and Oliver Dowden MP Dr Murtaza Syed, Deputy Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, also attended the event.
Lord Zameer Choudrey later said: “We have raised more than $2 million through charitable donations of our businesses and the British Pakistani community. We arranged the fundraiser to assure the people of Pakistan that the Bestway Group stands with them. There is an urgent need to do a lot more to help Pakistan.”
Bestway’s CFO, Haider Zameer Choudrey spoke to those at the event about the impact Bestway Foundation intends to make on the ground and that they will build homes and shelters for 5,000 families; provide usable water for 100,000 individuals; and provide food and medical supplies to over 20,000 people. He also highlighted the scale of the issue.
