SAARC must commit to disabled: NGO

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 disabled8217; meaningful, Dr Salma Maqbool, the first chairperson of SAARC Forum for Blind Women8217;, an NGO body, has said.

quot;The resolution in 1993 reaffirming the member nations8217;commitment to the welfare of disabled people in general and blind people in particular has been forgotten,quot; 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.