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LAHORE: Philanthropist and humanitarian Bilquis Edhi has been declared the ‘Person of the Decade’, for “having far-extending impacts in diverse fields and extents of human accomplishments.”
According to an Edhi spokesperson, as per the domino effect verdict, announced on Friday by the Impact Hallmarks, Bilquis Edhi was declared the most impactful person of the first two decades of the 21st century.
The Impact Hallmarks, an international web-based organisation, said in its announcement that the three persons – Bilquis Edhi, Prof Yanghee Lee and Stephen Soldz – have “stretched and segmented the top of the decade’s impact hallmarks and the opinion poll’s top ‘triarchy’ as well”.
Bilquis Edhi is the most active philanthropist in Pakistan. She received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. She was awarded the prestigious ‘Hilal-e-Imtiaz’, and she is also the recipient of several other awards.
Another honour the contest brought for the country was declaration of another Pakistani – an erudite, a polymath and a discoverer, Prof Aurangzeb Al Hafi – among “Top of the Top Ten” over his scientific discoveries.
