Bilquis Edhi named ‘Person of the Decade’

Bilquis Edhi, a professional nurse and head of the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, wife of late humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi has been declared ‘Person of the Decade’ by an international web-based organization ‘Impact Hallmarks’.

A statement posted on the organization’s web site said: “As per the domino effect verdict, concerning the IH international opinion poll outcomes, Stephen Soldz, an upright ethicist and moralist from the US, Ms. Bilquis Edhi, an unparalleled noted humanitarian from Pakistan and Prof Yanghee Lee, the fabled unsurpassed human rights rapporteur of the UN, have evidently stretched and segmented the top of the decade’s impact hallmarks and the opinion poll’s top ‘tri-archy’ as well.”

According to the organization’s website, the finalists were then presented to the global audience to pick out the person of their choice by voting. The finalists were shortlisted out of over 1.6 million notables with diverse backgrounds and from over 190 countries, it added.

Called the Mother of Pakistan, Bilquis Bano Edhi has spent more than six decades of her life serving humanity in need.

The efforts made by her charity has saved over 42,000 unwanted babies so far by placing cradles across the country at the Edhi Homes and centers.