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Rotary appeared in the area, now District
3270 (Pakistan and Afghanistan) in the year 1927 when Rotary Club of
Lahore was chartered on 7th Dec 1927. The second club was chartered in
Karachi on 11th May 1933. The third was Hyderabad which received its
charter on 17th Nov 1938.
In 1942-43 these clubs belonged to the then District 88. It comprised of
areas from Bombay to Delhi. The first District Governor elected from this
district was Rev. R. C. Bartels of RC Hyderabad. In 1945-46, Hiralal
Srichand Bharvani also from RC Hyderabad was elected governor. Dr. Dev Raj
Narang of Rotary Club of Lahore was the first District Governor of what is
now Pakistan. He was the DG in 1947-48.
Later, the southern area of Pakistan was districted to number 51 and
Rotarian Yussuff Nurmahomed Chinoy remained the Governor in 1954-55.
Re-districting of the area later resulted into two districts namely 310
comprising of areas from Kabul to Delhi and 305 from Karachi to Bombay. In
the year 1961-62 Syed Jameel H. Rizvi (later Justice) of RC Lahore and
Hakim Muhammad Ahson of RC Karachi were the Governors simultaneously. In
the late 60s, the then Pakistan (including East Pakistan) was formed into
one district 307. However, after separation of Bangladesh the present
entity of West Pakistan was given the District 327 which was then assigned
3270 in 1995.
Since its inception in 1927, Rotary has done many service projects
including helping the earth quake victims of Quetta in 1935 and helping
the famine victims.
On 6 March 1936, Quaid-e-Azam, then Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressed the
Rotary club of Lahore when the Sikh movement was in its offing. He said, "
Our object
should be peace within and peace without. We want to live peacefully and
maintain cordial and friendly relations with our immediate neighbors and
the world at large. We have no aggressive designs against any one.
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