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At the beginning of the Grand Mushaera program Tashie Zaheer, President of the Urdu Academy of North America welcomed the Urdu lovers on behalf of the Academy. He also briefly dwelled on the history of the Urdu Academy which completed this year eight and half years of its existence. He said that the Academy is holding monthly literary gatherings regularly. These meetings are attending by at least 65 to 70 Urdu lovers and occasionally about 250 people attend its special literary gatherings.
He thanked all the active members of the Academy who make the gatherings possible and successful. In this respect he particularly thanked Khalid Rana, the Operations Director of the Academy for his efforts to make this Grand Mushaera event possible. Tashie Zaheer also thanked the following Academy members and supporters:
Ahmad Shawar, Arshan Naseer, Naheed Zaheer, Farzana Siddiqui, Arshad Rashid, Zafar Naqvi, Meraj Sultana Ghazali, Abdus Sattar Ghazali, Misbah Rehman, Farkhuna Rehman, Sumayya Rehman, Usman Rashid and Samiur-Rehman.
Tashe Zaheer also thanked Syed Sarwat, owner of the Chandni Restrautant for hosting the Urdu Academy literary gatherings and patronizing Urdu in the Bay Area. He also thanked Pakistan Link, a leading Urdu/English American newspaper for giving frequent coverage to the Urdu Academy events.
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