Amazing Pakistani Social Workers
Ansar Burney
Born August 14th 1956 in Karachi Pakistan, Syed Ansar Ahmed Burney, son of Syed Mukhtar Ahmed Burney, was the first man to introduce true human rights in Pakistan over 25 years ago. To date, he is a name synonymous with social welfare, human rights and philanthropy in Pakistan.
Mr. Burney is much than a social worker and human rights activist. He has worked on several international missions and has set up several organizations which continue to help the underpriviliged and others in distress. He is recipient of honorary PhD in Philosophy.
He has always strived for true human rights and has been widely recognized as an activist who has so far been able to secure release of around 700,000 prisoners from countries all around the world. These have included persons locked up on false charges, those released from private and illegal prisons, illegal immigrants and those who were released from slave labor camps; some released after as many as 55 years of illegal confinement.
Ansar Burney, founder and chairman of Ansar Burney Trust, is an authority on human rights in Pakistan and the Middle East. He has hosted and attended hundreds of National and International conferences, groups and forums and has received over 200 awards and medals from home and abroad. On the 23rd March 2002, he was conferred Pakistan’s National Civil Award "Sitar-i-Imtiaz", the first in the history of Pakistan in the field of human rights.
With the passing of time, Ansar Burney led the Trust into becoming a true human rights organisation working for justice without discrimination and against all forms of human and civil rights repressions and violations.
Working at the forefront, Ansar Burney has fearlessly led legal missions, humanitarian relief teams and fought for the rights of the innocents in many parts of the world; facing yet more imprisonment in Bosnia and various attacks on his life.
Pakistan and people of Pakistan will always be proud of his achievements.
More on Ansar Burney Welfare Trust and his personal achievements can be viewed at this site:
www.ansarburney.org
Mr. Burney is much than a social worker and human rights activist. He has worked on several international missions and has set up several organizations which continue to help the underpriviliged and others in distress. He is recipient of honorary PhD in Philosophy.
He has always strived for true human rights and has been widely recognized as an activist who has so far been able to secure release of around 700,000 prisoners from countries all around the world. These have included persons locked up on false charges, those released from private and illegal prisons, illegal immigrants and those who were released from slave labor camps; some released after as many as 55 years of illegal confinement.
Ansar Burney, founder and chairman of Ansar Burney Trust, is an authority on human rights in Pakistan and the Middle East. He has hosted and attended hundreds of National and International conferences, groups and forums and has received over 200 awards and medals from home and abroad. On the 23rd March 2002, he was conferred Pakistan’s National Civil Award "Sitar-i-Imtiaz", the first in the history of Pakistan in the field of human rights.
With the passing of time, Ansar Burney led the Trust into becoming a true human rights organisation working for justice without discrimination and against all forms of human and civil rights repressions and violations.
Working at the forefront, Ansar Burney has fearlessly led legal missions, humanitarian relief teams and fought for the rights of the innocents in many parts of the world; facing yet more imprisonment in Bosnia and various attacks on his life.
Pakistan and people of Pakistan will always be proud of his achievements.
More on Ansar Burney Welfare Trust and his personal achievements can be viewed at this site:
www.ansarburney.org
