A two-day national conference on Khan Bahadur Hassanally Effendi, the founder of Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI), Karachi, will start from May 21. The event would be conducted under the auspices of the SMI Karachi. Noted scholars, intellectuals and academicians would be invited to take part and present their papers of the life and achievements of Effendi.
In a statement, SMI Principal Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh said that this is for the first time that such a big conference is being organised on Effendi. “This will be a big tribute to the great visionary,” he added. He said that Effendi was one of the members of the Muslim troika along with Justice Amir Ali and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who worked for the modern education of the Muslims of the subcontinent in the 19th century.