








Living the Rotary Mission
Our website aims to provide information about Rotary itself as a global organization, and more specifically about our club, The Rotary Club of Karachi (RCK), the biggest and the oldest club of Rotary’s District #3271. This District covers the Sindh & Balochistan provinces of Pakistan, and as of now, the District comprises of 108 Rotary clubs.
We are very much a Karachi-based club, the biggest city of Pakistan, with a population estimated to be about 25 million today. At the time of the Club’s founding in 1933, the population was only 300,000 inhabitants. Karachi contributes approximately 25 percent of the country’s GDP and generates about 50 percent of the country’s revenue — more than the next ten largest cities combined.
Our projects and programmes however are not limited to Karachi, but extend to many other cities, towns and rural areas of the Sindh province. You can read about these under the RCK PROGRAMMES header above.
This website is not only for our own members, but also for Rotarians all over the world and all else who would like to know more about Rotary and about our Club.
As with everything new, this website will remain a ‘work in progress’ for some time, as we continue to expand, improve and update the content, and troubleshoot any design or structural issues that may pop up. Your patience therefore
will be much appreciated!
We also welcome any feedback you may wish to share with us, and you can do
so by contacting us at the link provided.
Sincerely,
RCK WEBSITE TEAM

A weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Karachi in progress
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Guest Speakers

Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive, Burn, Aesthetic Surgeon, Holistic Practitioner & Educationalist at Dr. Ziauddin University Hospital
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Awareness Maintaining Health - BODY, MIND & SOUL with PREVENTION of Skin Cancers, Accidents, Burns, Diseases, Drug Addiction…Professor Shaista Effendi Rais is a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive, Burn and Aesthetic Surgeon, Holistic Practitioner, and Educationalist at Dr. Ziauddin University Hospital, Karachi. She is a graduate of Dow Medical College and holds an FRCS from Edinburgh.
Over her distinguished career, she established the largest 65-bed Burns Centre at Civil Hospital Karachi through a public-private partnership, introduced multidisciplinary cleft lip and palate care, and pioneered microvascular surgery initiatives.
She has also represented Pakistan internationally in burn and disaster management forums and has made significant contributions to healthcare development, medical training, research, and patient care.
She is also a granddaughter of late Hassanali Effendi, the founder of Sindh Madrastul lsam.

Founder and Chief Advisor, A.Qadir & Company
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Discussion on the Budget Proposals 2026Abdul Qadir Memon is the Founder and Chief Advisor of A. Qadir & Company, a leading taxation and corporate law consultancy established in 1980. A founding Rotaractor of Rotaract Club North and an active member of the Rotary Club of Karachi, he has held numerous leadership positions in taxation, corporate governance, and public policy.
He has served on several national boards and advisory committees, while also contributing extensively to welfare through organizations including the Cleft and Contracture Foundation, Elza Mukhtar Foundation, Patients’ Behbud Society for Aga Khan University Hospital, and Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan

Managing Director, JOFA Group
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Harmony Within Strategy for Coping with Stress.Dr. Imran Yousuf is the Managing Director of JOFA Group and a globally recognised leader in management sciences and psychology. Holding a D.Litt. and PostDoc from the UK, he is a Master Trainer in NLP and Clinical Hypnotherapy, and serves as National Convener of the PostDoc Society, UK. Over three decades, he has conducted seminars and workshops across four continents, reaching over 100,000 individuals. A member of psychological associations in Canada, the US, the UK, and Pakistan, he has received national awards from four countries, is the author of eight books, and is ranked among Pakistan’s Top 100 CEOs.
In this section, we are reporting some of the highlights of RCK’s activities during its first 50 years, from its foundation in 1933, to 1983. This selection of the Club’s activities from this period, will be both illuminating for RCK members, to learn about their Club’s illustrious history, and will be informative for all others who visit our website, to know how very active RCK has remained in the pursuance of the Rotary mission.

RI President Charles W. Pettengill at a Rotary meeting (1964-65)