October 2013 Message from the Chief Editor Dear Members, Eid Mubarak. Eid ul Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is just round the corner. Among several festivals celebrated by Muslims, Eid ul Adha is also one of the foremost festivals. It is also known as Bakr Eid where from older people to children enjoy the delicacies of food seasoned with hot spicy flavors. Barbeque aroma is mouth watering. Family get-togathers and social parties are at its peak. In the club, we are witnessing members flocking at the fecilitation centre for the RFID cards, as from 1st Oct, even the Life members and Permanent members may also process their cards. Members are therefore requested to please visit facilitation centre alongwith two passport size photographs with copy of CNIC and get thier cards issued at earliest. Please instill habit of carrying card among your friends and family as it will soon be necessary for most of the activities in the club. Last quarter of the year will witness a flurry of activity with all committees organizing their events before the year end. Political activity in the club too is witnessing some awakening and we are due to have exciting elections once again this year. Take care of yourself and your families. Happy Reading, Shamoon Bakir Ali Lokhandwala karachiclub@gmail.com New Membership Cards A new RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Card) is being envisaged for identification and billing purposes. Karachi Club Magazine Magazine Club Karachi Up coming events Gujrati Food Festival 6.30 pm onwards at Karachi Club Main - Lawn Hakimuddin Sadik Gold Cup 2013 7.00 pm onwards at Karachi Club Main 27th October 25th November Courses being offered at KC for members and their families only Aerobics Classes by Lubna Malik Who has got more than 15 years experience by conducting classes in top most health & fitness studio. Course Fee: Rs. 2,000/- per month Every Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 4:30 to 5:30 pm from October 2013. Neelam Ghar 8.30 pm onwards at Karachi Club Main - Lawn 30th November to the members Karachi Club and their Families Grand Bumper Farewell Quiz Rama Show 2013 14th December 8.15 pm onwards at Karachi Club Main - Lawn on behalf of the President, Hon Secretary and the Members Managing Committee. Publication Sub-Committee 2013 Associate Editors M. Jawed Zakaria - English Abdul Hafeez Memon - Urdu Members Kausar Ali Khan Muhammad Yousuf Huned Bakir Hussain Ali Asghar Mohsin Ali Shehzad Qadir Moten H. Aslam Moosa Bangda Advisers Farida Lavingia Sidra S. Farooqui Safina Shahid Mariam Godil Hiba Anis Umama Irfan Shazia Shoaib Anusha Jawed Karim Mustafa S. Sadriwala Emaan Abbas Afifa Shoaib Ammarah Shoaib Aisha Munaf Mehnti Sayeda Inayat Nasser
Club Events Dhaba Karahi - Food festival Food Festivals in Karachi Club are now becoming tradition, almost every month, Kitchen Convenor, Ayaz Siddiq and his Committee endeavours to hold such events. Members enjoy not only the sizzling hot food but also live music. Continuing with this Musical Night by Asif Mehdi Entertainment Committee Convenor, Aamir Abdullah Zaki and his team organized a well demanded Musical Night on Saturday 28th Sep at the lawns of main club in which star performer was Asif Mehdi, prodigy of legend singer Mehdi Hassan. Noman Khan and Agha Shiraz hosted the program, while comedy skits were October 2013 tradition, Dhaba Karahi Food Festival was organized on 29th September. The event witnessed large gathering of members some of whom were lucky to get place on limited number of Takhat that were put up for members. Several Karahi, Roast and BBQ dishes from Club's kitchen and also from outside were available. Convenor and his team deserve commendation on this achievement yet again. presented by Pervez Siddique and Isam Shah. When Asif Mehdi commenced to sing popular numbers of his father the crowd was enthralled and showered praise on the singer. Other singers performed at the end of the program with a Live dance performance by Ustad Ibrahim Lachak and Datta Group. It was a program which had something for every one and the members enjoyed the program greatly. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
October 2013 C & H Snooker Tournament - Snooker The grand ambience of the newly renovated Snooker Room inspired our young members of Child (C) and Household (H) categories to perform exceptionally well. The tournament organized between 28th August and 3rd September by Saifuddin Madraswala, Convenor of Billiard and Snooker was a thorough success in all Club Events respects. In "C" Card category, Mustafa Ali was the Winner while Shayan Gazdar was the Runners-up who had highest break of 30 to his credit. Ali Aqil Suria was the Winner with Asad Hussain Kamani as the Runners-up with a break of 54 by Ali Aqil Suria in "H" Card Category. Ashfaq Tola, President of the club who was the Chief Guest distributed the prizes along with Soahil Amin Dhedhi and Faheem A Sakrani, MC Members of the club. KC Women Cricket Tournament Even though Cricket is not the National sport of the country yet it is played by all and sundry and not to our surprise, our Women Team performs even better then our Male Team at the international competitions. Our Club too has its share of surprise by number of girls adopting to play cricket at the club level. To nurture this nursery of young cricketers, Amin Bawany, Cricket Convenor and his Committee organized an excellent Tournament on 14th September on the lawns of Main Club. The participation was very encouraging and as many as four teams were formed to contest for the top honours. KC Black was led by Sania Jamali with Fatima Saifuddin as her deputy. KC Blue's captain was Farah Danish, while Anoshay Jawed Karim was Vice Captain. Third team was KC Red led by Javaria Salman, while Kainat Baloch assisted her. Lastly KC Pink was ably led by Khatija Jawed and Salima Jawed was Vice Captain. The final was played between KC Blue and KC Red, where KC Blue scored 74 runs in 6 overs. KC Red while chasing the target were all out for 43 runs conceded the title to KC Blue. It s not whether you get knocked down, it s whether you get up.
Club Events October 2013 Grand Bumper Quiz Rama The Second Grand Bumper Quiz Rama Show was held on 21st September 2013 at Main Club with usual funfare and was attended by full capacity crowd of about 3000 (approx) members. The Main sponsors for the event were Advance Telecom, Danish Motors and Summit Bank. A Motorcycle was offered to the winner in card no 4 followed where by a cash Bumper Prize by Advance Telecom along with 2 Nokia Cellphones model Lumia 520 to each winners. Besides countless other mobile phones and gift hampers were given under lucky draws held at regular intervals. A Bedroom Fridge & Food Factory were gifted by Summit Bank alongwith cash prizes to several winners under different games. The show ended with the snowball card with a fabulous Bumper cash prize as announced by our President Ashfaq Y. Tola. This prize was equally shared by 3 winners, which was followed by a Second full house. Full credit goes to the convenor Quiz Rama committee Shiraz Thaver and his committee members as well as Mohammad Ayaz Siddiq Member of Managing Committee for their massive support in making the show a great success. Congratulations On behlaf of the Members, President Ashfaq Tola, Honorary Secretary Jawed H. Karim and the Members of Managing Committee of Karachi Club, we congratulate Aamir Abdullah Zaki, sitting Member of Managing Committee of Karachi Club on his unopposed election to the coveted position of President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry. We wish him good luck and hope his acumen will benefit the business community in particular and citizens of Karachi in general. Wedding Bells Mohammad Omair son of Munaf Lodhikawala (L-1329) weds Anum on 27th September 2013. Uzair (T-7900) son of Dawood Ismail Tinwala (P-3050) weds Marium on 14th September 2013. Adeeba (P-4200) daughter of Ibrahim Hashim Khatri weds Khurram Khalid on September 2013. Condolence Karachi Club Members express their deep grief on the passing away of Faizullah A. Tapal (L-0491) on 5th September 2013. May the departed soul rest in eternal peace. A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
October 2013 Fun Gala - Swimming The roar of laughter and claps by children all evening of 5th October was heartening for organizers. This was the scene at Swimming Fun Gala organized by Munaf Mehanti, Convenor Swimming Pool and his Committee at Main Swimming Pool. All age groups were accommodated in at least three events and young Club Events toddlers were even provided opportunity to play their favourite games of tug of war and musical chairs. Little older children participated in games like coin collection and ball collection. Yet more established swimmers were tested for Under Water Skills and Tyre Tube Races. Water Polo Matches were also organized. Over all the event lasted for seven hours, was full of fun and activities. It was thoroughly enjoyed by children and even their parents. Loose by a whisker - Sindh Open Swimming It couldn't have been more closer - Karachi Club stood second by a lone point. This was 52nd Sindh Open and Junior Age Group Swimming Championship that was held on 28th and 29th September at Karachi Gymkhana. Top international swimmers from Karachi Club, Mazhar Naqvi, Hasan Paracha and Saad Amin put up a fine show to emerge as stars. Despite their heroic effort, Karachi Club were reduced to runnersup spot by barest of margins against Karachi Grammar School whose swimmers stole the cup by leading with one point. KGS ended the event with 238 points against KC s 237. Traditionally KGS fields a larger and strong team and Karachi Club would find it difficult to get near to their tally but with no less then seven records the KC team put up a sterling performance and lost narrowly. Highly talented Mazhar, who had recently represented Pakistan in the World Swimming Championship in Spain, dominated the open category by creating four new records in the four events he featured. Swimming prodigy Hasan Paracha was overall declared the best swimmer of the championship after securing 58 points in the two-day competition. Saad Amin of KC with 35 points was group champion of under-16 category. Aftab Hussain was the Manager of the team, while Adnan Ismail was the Coach. A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see.
October 2013 A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.