Sada-e-Watan
Sydney ™
sadaewatan@gmail.com
Mr.Muhammad Asif,Chairman & Managing Editor of Paklink Australia 's speech at the 4th Anniversary of the Magazine held at the Himalaya Restaurant Granville Sydney on Friday,3rd May 2013
Hon Michelle
Rowland, Federal MP, Representing Prime Minister of Australia
Hon. Tony Issa MP, Representing Premier of NSW
His Excellency Abdul Malik Abdullah, High Commissioner of Pakistan
Mr Abdul Aziz, Consul General of Pakistan
Hon. Dr Jeff Lee, MP, Parramatta
Hon. Shaoquett Moselmane, MLC
Hon. Mehreen Faruqi-MLC
Dr. Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chairperson ,Community Relations Commission
Sheikh Hassan, CEO,Muslim Aid Australia
Allama Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi
Iftikhar Rana, President Pakistan Association Sadaqat Siddiq & Ahsan Khan
and all Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,
Good evening & ASSALAM O ALAIKUM
On Behalf of Paklink Australia, I would like to thank you all for sharing their
precious time especially on this working day to attend this event, when we are
celebrating the 4th anniversary of Paklink magazine.
4 years back we were thinking how we can serve the community in a better way; the feedback from the community was to start a community based magazine. We were delighted to accept the Community’s desire and started publication of this magazine. Today , we are 4 years old and the time flies like a blink of eye.
Muhammad Asif
Managing Editor Paklink,Director Sadaqat Siddiq and Director Iftikhar Rana
Paklink is the only Pakistani based tabloid magazine that is being issued
regularly. It has picked up its pace in local as well as in ethnic community.
This is the only bilingual Urdu & English magazine that has maintained its
continuous publication unlike others. It is covering the news and events held in
Australia and other parts of the world.
We on our part, in these 4 years, tried our level best to live up to the
Community’s expectations and build the image of this magazine and we hope we
have achieved somewhat in local as well as in ethnic community . Your presence
here today gives us encouragement that we may have been able to deliver well. We
undertake to continue this mission and serve even better in the future.
This success would not have been possible without the support of our sponsors who have continuously supported us in issuing these publications. Most of the sponsors are sitting here, so I want to thank them for their continuous support and hope they will be supporting us in future as well.We haveto spend a large amount of money from our own sources to continue this magazine and serve the community.
Issuing a
magazine is not a single person job , it requires a full dedicated team to work
hard and achieve the desired results. I want to thank to my entire team ,
without their cooperation it would have not been possible to keep consistency
issuing these publications.
I want to thank my entire team consisting of:
Latif Chaudhary, Cdr Usman Khan,UzmaGillani,Ashraf Chohan,
Perth Coordinator, Rana Abdul Jabbar &Prof.SameenaYasmeen
Melbourne Coordinator, Dr Shabaz Chaudhry
IT Coordinator Sadaqat Siddiq &Ishaq Sabir Shahi
& Bureau Chief in Pakistan Rana Tahir Javed
So well done Paklink Team.
It is my
pleasure to introduce Mr Anjum Ayaz who is with us today. Mr Ayaz is an
internationally acclaimed Artist
fromPakistan.He is sculptor,a calligrapher and a performing theater artist.Mr
Ayaz has exhibited his work in the USA,France,Holland,Australia,China, Greece, U
A E, Canada and several other countries.His sculptures are permanently Installed
in China Olympics garden,Japan and Pakistan.in 2007 his art piece was one of the
few selected for Sculpture by the sea exhibition at Bondi Beach in Sydney.Mr
Ayaz is regular visitor to Australia last year he exhibited his Islamic
calligraphic art in Sydney and this year he has been commissioned by the first
Islamic museum in Melbourne to showcase his art work "Gate Of Knowledge' in a
permanent exhibit.
A big hand for Mr. AYAZ ANJUM
Finally the meaning of our slogan, our slogan is LINKING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER,
We have the goal to promote Multiculturism in this society and we have tried to
bring closeness between the locals and ethnic groups.
We will continue to :
Promote Multiculturism
Bringing harmony amongst all communities & Linking communities together
Thanks You.
Editor-in-Chief Sada-e-Watan Syed Zafar Hussain,Hon.Michelle Rowland MP and High Commissioner Abdul Malik Abdullah
Mr.Muhammad Asif,Chairman & Managing Editor of Paklink Australia is speaking at the 4th Anniversary of the Magazine held at the Himalaya Restaurant
