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I love elderly people; they relate wonderful tales of yore. They are also mirrors, in whose eyes I see my reflection not too distant away; I am, after all, over the fifty hump and rapidly accelerating down. They can also be crabby and vicious at times, some of them. Take Mullah Mchungu for example, who […]
CAI Breaks Ground On Imam Sajjad (A) Medical Clinic, Afghanistan The hard winter freeze is finally thawing in Sacheck, Bamiyan Province so construction of donor funded Imam Sajjad (A) Medical Clinic has now begun alhamd’Allah. This facility will go a long way in alleviating the suffering of the sick, especially expecting mothers with difficult pregnancies […]
Tanzania in general, the people of Dar es Sallam, worldwide Khoja Shias, but especially the Dar es Salaam Khoja community is struck with terrible calamity on March 29 2013 when a sixteen floor building under construction adjacent to the Khoja mosque complex comes tumbling down like a deck of cards. Thirty-six people lose lives that […]
Dear Mr. President, Salutations and peace to you and yourn family. My name is Ali Yusufali; it may interest you I was born not too far from your father’s birthplace of Kenya, in Arusha, Tanzania, where I grew up and became an adult. Aspirations for a quality education, better economic opportunities and awe for the […]
How CAI Uses Your Sadeqa Funds Although the focus of CAI worldwide activities is and will insha’Allah remain focussed on education support in poor communities (schools construction in remote areas, renovate dilapidated schools, add laboratories, computers, libraries, washrooms etc.), she is also active in various aid activities. Here are few recent activities: 1. Here is […]
Oh. My. Gawd, you are such an uncool Dad! Why can’t you, like, be like other Dads? Exclaims my twelve-year-old daughter Maaha Zainab once more, rolling eyes to the heavens. I have heard her use this expression several times now, consequence of middle school peer influence obviously, but it never fails to irk me to […]
I sit at my desk, minding my own business, at peace with the world and, for a change, the world at peace with me. There are no bombs exploding down the street, no lunatics with Kalashnikovs wondering the street taking potshots at everything that moves, no delayed aircrafts with silly excuses of late incoming flights. […]
Grand Opening – Phanderi Girls School, UP India CAI donor constructed girls school in Phanderi, UP India opened on February 10; a great event, alhamd’Allah. Please read and view photoshere. CAI Donor Aid Comes To Sampang, Indonesia The besieged Muslim community at Sampang, Indonesia finally got CAI donor funded medical and other humanitarian aid, finally. […]
Most of today is a wait in anticipation of what is to come. Karachi streets are empty, young kids play cricket instead, on roads that are usually crammed with traffic and people. Rows and rows of shops and businesses are shuttered shut. I visit a protest rally near Mehfil e Khorasaan where women and men […]
A trip to Pakistan is always a frustrating challenge certainly, but with intertwining interesting episodes that can leave me in tears or giggling incoherently. You may have read my earlier episodes of forays into this badbakh country, so I will spare you a detailed repeat of much that occurred during my most recent trip but […]
