KARACHI, Dec 10 (APP): Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force, Sohail Aman Thursday laid the foundation of Topian Spirit Trust (TST) Academic Campus at Rashidabad, off Mirpurkhas on Thursday.
Upon arrival, the Air Chief was received by Air Commodore (Retd) Shabbir Ahmed, Executive Director RMWO (Rashid Memorial Welfare Organisation), Air Marshal (Retd) Rashid Kaleem, President TST and Air Commodore Nayyar Q Khawaja (Retd), Principal SST (Sargodhian Spirit Trust).
Air Commodore (Retd) Shabbir Ahmed apprised the audience that the
focus of RMWO was on eliminating illiteracy and alleviating deprivation
from the country through establishing projects at district level.
The project encompasses four essential elements of progress (education,
health, environment and socio-economic uplift), which are needed to be addressed at all costs to help the deprived.
Addressing the audience, the Air Chief lauded the valuable contributions
made by the RMWO in serving the underprivileged of the country.
He was of the view that Rashidabad was a role model for the entire nation and it had made remarkable progress in a short span of time.
He reiterated that PAF would continue supporting the project and its
noble cause in future as well.
RMWO was set up by a group of retired PAF officers in 1998 in memory of
Flt. Lt. Rashid Ahmed Khan (Shaheed). Rashidabad is stretched over 100 acres and is situated near Mirpurkhas (Sindh).
The objective of RMWO is to set up model villages through out the
country to provide essential facilities to the needy rural folk.
Air Chief lays foundation stone of TST campus at Rashidabad off Mirpurkhas
