Wednesday, August 19, 2009

LBT Meeting Minutes dated 19 Aug 09

The meeting was attended by:
Iftikhar Ahmed Mona Rana
Wajiha Hyder Natasha Mohammad Zai
Nabeel Khan Shahtaj Qizilbash
Tamkinat Karim Imrana Tiwana
Rafay Alam Ahmed Raza Khan
Nida Mahmood Amina Jamal
Rabia Mehmood Ammar Aziz
Amir Butt Shahid Hussain
Majid Naseer Noman Safdar
Ahmad Hussain

Iftikhar brought the banners that were printed for the event tomorrow. The Tehreek will install these 50 banners at divers places along either side of the Canal tomorrow. *It was agreed the volunteers would meet at Nehr Ghar on the Canal (the Zaman Park side of the Mall Road-Dharampura Underpass stretch of the Canal) at 5:30 tomorrow 20 August 2009.* Banners will be handed out and sites allocated at volunteers at that time. Rafay Alam and Amir Butt to organize the ropes needed to fix the banners on trees. Amir Butt to bring along scissors etc.

Shirkat Gah’s gesture of generously volunteering to pay for the cost of the banners was appreciated.

It was agreed the media would be invited to the event. Rafay Alam to draft press release and invitation for media to attend. (After the meeting, media contacts were collected. A copy of the media invite is attached, for anyone who wants to invite someone in the media themselves). Rabia Mahmood agreed to contact her media organization to cover the event. Amna agreed to cover the event for her media organization. Hina Shahid also agreed to invite media to cover the event.

Tamkinat Karim confirmed that the Lahore Bachao t-shirts had been printed and will be available at the meeting place tomorrow. T-shirts are available for Rs. 200.

Imrana Tiwana said the Lahore Bachao presentation for the Chief Minister would be ready by Monday 24 August.

It was agreed that Lahore Bachao would host an Iftari along the Lahore Canal on Friday 28 August 2009. The Iftar would be the culmination of the awareness raising campaign. Preparations for the Iftari event would be made at the next meeting.

The next meeting of the Lahore Bachao Tehreek will be held at 6pm on Wednesday 26 August 2009 at the Variety Books Café in Liberty Market.

(Meeting Minutes taken by Rafay Alam)

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