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Monday, November 9, 1998
SAARC must commit to disabled: NGO
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, November 8: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) leadership should revive its Islamabad resolution of 1993 on disabled people to make the ongoing SAARC decade for the `disabled' meaningful, Dr Salma Maqbool, the first chairperson of `SAARC Forum for Blind Women', an NGO body, has said."The resolution in 1993 reaffirming the member nations'commitment to the welfare of disabled people in general and blind people in particular has been forgotten," said Maqbool, after her nomination to the post at the end of a two-day conference of blind women. The meet was attended by delegates from member states like Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, besides India. It also had guest participants from Sweden. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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