With the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) unanimously agreeing to name the New Islamabad Airport after the country’s only female prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Twitterati have started campaigning to rename the same after philanthropist and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi.
I accept Benazir Bhutto was a great lady but Abdul_Sattar Edhi is the name of real Humanism …..
There are Medical collages, Hospitals & many other institues are named as Benazir Bhutto but I never heard the name of this person in any field…
#EdhiInternationalAirport pic.twitter.com/SE6jyWjcnp— itsmehtabgul (@itsmehtabgul) February 1, 2019
#EdhiInternationalAirport Islamabad is our wish as well demand. pic.twitter.com/hASs3S0W9G
— Aatif Cheema (@CheemaAatif) February 1, 2019
The name should be Eidhi International Airport if at all to be changed from its present name#EdhiInternationalAirport pic.twitter.com/jMiF75LD78
— Jahan Zaib Virk (@jahan_virk) February 1, 2019
Guys, Grab your keyboards and start trending #EdhiInternationalAirport as we want Islamabad International airport to be named after Edhi not Bhutto pic.twitter.com/uKCrbPEcXl
— Dr Farhan K Virk (@FarhanKVirk) February 1, 2019
Guys lets start trending #EdhiInternationalAirport as public accounts community want to maintain the same name of Islamabad airport but as we all know Benazir have done nothing for Pakistan she and her husband only looted Pakistan thr airport should be named after Edhi sab. pic.twitter.com/o0YnLxhe7N
— Aftab Afridi (@AftabAfridiPTI) February 1, 2019
New Islamabad Airport should be named after Edhipic.twitter.com/2jtlnfBsFX#EdhiInternationalAirport
— Noman Sarwar (@Nomysahir) February 1, 2019
Rename it as Sir Eidhi International airport 😎#EdhiInternationalAirport pic.twitter.com/KT1JYgDoed
— Jahan Zaib Virk (@jahan_virk) February 1, 2019
The country’s most celebrated social worker Edhi, who founded the Edhi Foundation that runs the world’s largest volunteer ambulance network, along with homeless shelters, animal shelter, rehab centres, and orphanages across Pakistan, passed away in 2016.
Earlier, an online petition to rename the airport after Edhi had also been tabled. Within 24 hours, the petition had received endorsements from 21,000 Pakistanis.
“Simply a case of merit, no one deserves more than Abdul Sattar Edhi after whom this airport be named… His services to humanity are unmatchable,” the petitioner had said while sharing the reason behind his move.
