MEMONS IN PROFESSIONS

Today Memons can boast of thousands of professionals in law, medicine, professional accountancy, Information Technology, Engineering, Architecture and Teaching. The Memon Professional Forum – the organizer of this conference is a body of these professionals. Most of these professionals have excelled in their professions and are known through out the country. Many are practicing their professions and others are occupying senior positions in business, industry and banking.

Mr. Kasim Parekh, now President of Metropolitan Bank was once Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. Dr. A. Ghaffar Billoo was the dean of Medicine in Karachi University. Dr. A. Majeed Memon was the principle of Dow Medical College. Mr. Janmohammad Memon is the first Vice Chancellor of Sindh’s first Medical University. Many of our professional brothers have served as judges of superior courts. Others occupied senior positions in Bar Associations, Income Tax Bar Association, Institute of Engineers & Institute of Professional Accountants. Prominent among them are Mr. Yusuf Adil, Mr. Abdul Qadir Memon, Mr. A. Razzak Diwan and Mr. Abdul Wahid Tejani. Today, the professional institutions of Chartered Accountants & Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan are headed by Mr. Pirmohammad Kalia and Mr. Ashraf Bawany. Mr. Pirmohammad Kalia is also President of Institute of Corporate Secretaries and South Asian Federation of Accountants. Mr. Moin A. Fudda, a Memon Professional is now heading Overseas Chamber of Commerce.

• Origin of Community

• Early Days

• Role of Community in Independence Movement

• Gandhi groomed as a leader by a Memon

• Role in Pakistan Movement

• Memons in Pakistan after partition

• Contribution in Education

• Contribution in Health Care

• Memons in Professions

• Contributions of Community to Pakistan's Economy

• Prominent Industrial Groups 

• Twenty Two Families & Memons

• Epilogue