Shaeqee Ne Fun (SNF)], a socio-cultural organisation of Pakistani expatriates in Qatar, recently appointed its new office-bearers for a period of two years.
The new office-bearers are: Mohamed Atiq, chairman; Hamid Rasul, vice chairman; Nawaz Akram, president; Javed Humayon and Noor Ansari, vice presidents; Qamar uz Zaman Bhatti, secretary general; Furqan Ahmed Paracha and Farzana Safdar, joint secretaries; Mushfiq Raza Naqvi and Sanwal Abbasi, information secretaries; and Zahid Sharif, finance secretary.
Atiq is a prominent member of the Pakistani community in Qatar and has been living here since March 1973. He is also chairman of Majlis-e-Frogh-e-Urdu Adab, a renowned Urdu literary organisation based in Qatar. SNF was founded by late Malik Museeb ur Rehman in 1993. Since its inception, SNF has been organising high-profile musical concerts of top ghazal, classical and pop singers from Pakistan including; Iqbal Bano, Ustad Hamid Ali Khan, Abida Perveen, Ghulam Ali, Humaira Arshad, Rustam Fateh Ali Khan, Rifaqat Ali, Shamaila Khan, Saira Nasim, Rabi Peerzada, Shahid Hussain, Irum Hassan, Nisar Butt, Ali Sher and Wazir Afzal.
Lately, SNF has been organising Urdu mushairas by inviting poets from Qatar and Pakistan. They held Aalmi Urdu Mushaira online last year due to Covid-19.