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| The
Microcredit Programme
of OPP-Orangi Charitable Trust
Aquila Ismail
Registered
in 1987, the Orangi Pilot Project-Orangi
Charitable Trust (OPP-OCT) supports the
people’s economic efforts through
the provision of small loans. Working both
in the urban and the rural sector, OPP-OCT
provides loans not only to individuals but
also collaborates with other NGOs, CBOs,
and Cooperatives to strengthen small scale
entrepreneurs.
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| Dynamics
of Social Change
Tasneem Ahmad Siddiqui
These
articles by Tasneem Ahmad Siddiqui, were
first published in Dawn. They centre
on the many crises afflicting the state
and society of Pakistan. The author contends
that the crises troubling the country are
not so much the result of a failure of the
state as they are the failure of the society.
The solution, he says, lies in the improvement
of the individual.
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The
Merchant Knight—Adamjee Haji Dawood
Yasmin
Qureshi
Daleara Jamasji-Hirjikaka
The
Merchant Knight is the biography of
a man of humble origins who hailed from
a small ethnic community in Gujarat (India)
but went on to win the hearts and minds
of many of his generation by his courage
and self sacrifice. He is remembered today
as the Father of Memon Education and as
the person who made the offer of a blank
cheque to Quaid-i-Azam immediately after
Partition.
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Language Rights Available |
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Cutting
Free—Salma Ahmed: An Autobiography
Beginning
with a privileged childhood in an elite
family of pre-Partition India, to a troubled
youth in Pakistan, this is the inspiring
story of Salma Ahmed—a woman who surmounted
formidable odds to achieve extraordinary
success in business and politics. The saga
of her personal life, often difficult and
sad, is intertwined with an equally enthralling
account of a public career that brought
her much acclaim and reward.
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