FW: INDO PAK FRIENDSHIP

[Rasheed Ahmed]

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Saturday, March 27, 2004       Dear Friends:         Goodwill created by Indo-Pak cricket match must transform itself in a “Permanent No War Pact.”   You can play a very important role in preserving the peace between India and Pakistan and insuring that the present state of harmony continues…   Rima Kashyap of Mumbai  says:   “Pakistan hospitality for visiting Indians was superb.  Even strangers invited me to their home for a meal.    “Everyone told me that a time has come when people of India & Pakistan must demand that Peace, Brotherhood & Love should prevail between the two neighbors.”         You can help in making this dream a reality.  At September 2003 National Meeting of Non Resident Indians for Secular and Harmonious India in Chicago, it was unanimously decided to organize a joint delegation of Indians and Pakistanis residing abroad to go meet the people of both countries during 2004 for promoting Indo-Pak friendship.               This proposal was presented by Sushri Nirmala Deshpande, President of Harijan Sevak Sangh at the Chicago Meeting.       Nirmala Didi has taken the first step of this process by welcoming a delegation of thirty three Pakistani Parliamentarians  to India for attending the World Social Forum in Mumbai.       Some members of NRI SAHI agreed to help Nirmala Didi to partially meet the hospitality expenses of the Pakistani delegation.       We agreed to provide at least Rs. 100,000/- or US $ 2,300/- for providing for their hotel accommodations and train travel from Amritsar to Mumbai.  Nirmala Didi has submitted itemized travel expenses of Rs. 1,56,505/- or US $ 3,537  for reimbursement.       You are requested to join Mr Saeed Patel, Mr P D John and I by initially contributing $ 100 to $ 500 for Indo-Pak Friendship Project to Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment on tax deductible basis. Please mail your check to Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment 3505 Coolidge Rd., East Lansing, Michigan 48823       If only 17 people donate an average of US $ 200  (from $100 to $500) we will have raised the full amount of reimbursement requested.   Your donation regardless of how big or how small is welcome on tax deductible basis.       Any additional funds will be utilized for organizing the Indo-Pak friendship delegation in the fall of 2004.       You can play an important role in helping to organize this important effort and I invite your ideas and suggestions for the same.       Please respond urgently to help Nirmala Didi clear up her pressing bills.   With warmest personal regards,                                     Yours In Service To Humanity                                     Shrikumar Poddar, for                                     NRI SAHI   PS: Please send me an email message confirming how much donation you are sending to the Michigan address given above so that I can release an equivalent amount in India.

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