June 12, 2007
Shabbir AHMAD SIAL
The Japanese Esperanto Institute is issuing a special invitation to 23 Asian Esperanto activists to take part in this year's World Esperanto Congress in Yokohama. In the April issue of the Japanese magazine La Revuo Orienta JEI has published statements by each of these people. I am reproducing them here, in English translation, one by one.
The next listed activist is Shabbir AHMAD SIAL of Pakistan. Ahmad Sial is a 30-year-old worker.
Esperanto and I
I became an Esperanto speaker in 1983. I organized several Esperanto organizations such as the Lahore Esperanto Club (LEK), Esperanto-International Academy (EIA). Furthermore, I carried out the tasks of board member or president of LEK, the Pakistani Esperanto Association and EIA, and I held congresses or meetings and organized the Murre Esperanto Club and represented the Universala Esperanto-Asocio in the Global Social Forum 2006 in Karachi and arranged their various meetings and activities there.
World Esperanto Congress and After
1) I want to strengthen the Pakistani Esperanto Association and disseminate Esperanto in Pakistan. 2) I want to do and arrange various activities for the dissemination of Esperanto activity in Pakistan and in the entire world. 3) I want to send and communicate the message of Esperanto to every door of every home, college and university in all of Pakistan. 4) I want to arrange a future conference of the Commission for the Asian Esperanto Movement in Pakistan, if the Commission approves.