Imamia Medics International Silver Jubilee Celebration in SF Bay Area
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Silver Jubilee celebration of the Imamia Medics International (IMI) was held on July 20, 2019 at Mehran Restaurant in Newark CA. 
Maryam Turab, a well known face of the Bay Area, was MC of the event.
Internationally acclaimed Urdu poet, Manzar Bhopali was the chief guest. 
The IMI Silver Jubilee celebration event began with recitation of the Holy Quran Hamid Mushraf.
Dr. Wajih Rizvi, the IMI founder, flew from New Jersey to grace the occasion. His speech provided an insight into the IMI mission and global work.
The Imamia Medics International was established in 1987, since then the IMI has grown from a grassroots, local effort to a global initiative, spanning 5 continents, 17 countries, countless cities and impacting millions of people.
The IMI Global, headquartered in the USA, is currently comprised of active regional chapters in Europe and East Africa and national chapters in Australia, Canada, India, Iraq, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Local chapters at state and city levels exist in many of these locations as well.
The IMI’s work is not contained to only those regions where it has its chapters. The work by its chapters is augmented by IMI’s International Medical Delegations and Humanitarian Relief missions increasing its capacity to serve. Wherever it serves, its beneficiaries include individuals from all backgrounds without regard to religious affiliations.
Dr. Wajih Rizvi also recalled the beginning of the IMI by young doctors.
As immigrants and foreign medical graduates, IMI’s founders faced numerous challenges establishing their professional roots in the US. As they laid the foundations for their own successful careers, IMI’s founders and core members began to identity ways to work through vetted community networks to help new immigrant health professionals as they landed in the US. During one such meeting in the famed basement of a New York residence, Imamia Medics International was born.
Imamia Medics will hold its 10 International Conference in Islamabad. This will be the first conference of Imamia Medics in Pakistan that will be inaugurated by President Arif Alvi.
Urdu Language
Dr. Khalda Akhtar presented a well researched maqala about the Urdu langue which is one of the major world languages. Altogether Urdu is estimated to 120 million native speakers and 500-600 million second language speakers, giving a grand total of close to 700 million people who speak Urdu as of 2018, according to quora.com.
She traced the development of the Urdu language. The Urdu language perhaps started evolving from Persian and Arabic contacts during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent by Persian and Turkic forces from the 11th century onward.
Urdu developed more decisively during the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) and the Mughal Empire (1526–1858). When the Delhi Sultanate expanded south to the Deccan Plateau, the literary language was influenced by the languages spoken in the south, by Punjabi and Haryanvi, and by Sufi and court usage. 
Urdu’s first major poet was Amir Khosrow (1253–1325), who composed dohas (couplets), folk songs, and riddles in the newly formed speech, then called Hindvi. This mixed speech was variously called Hindvi, Zaban-e-Hind, Hindi, Zaban-e-Delhi, Rekhta, Gujari, Dakkhani, Zaban-e-Urdu-e-Mualla, Zaban-e-Urdu, or just Urdu, literally ‘the language of the camp.’
Today Urdu is spoken in many countries around the world, including Britain, Canada, United states of America, India, Pakistan and the middle east. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan. Urdu is one of the 20 official languages of India, having official status in the six states of Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as well as the national capital territory of Delhi.
Urdu is also spoken include Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Fiji, Germany, Guyana, India, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, the UAE, the UK and Zambia.
