The best part of Canada is its diversity and how Canadian values are a beautiful mosaic of various religions, cultures, traditions and values. In one of his speeches, Premier Dalton McGuinty especially thanked parents and grandparents for imparting and passing on the values to their kids.
MPP Dr. Qaadri with Shamsa and Qaadri Jr.
Premier McGuinty has much to thank for to MPP Dr. Shafiq Qaadri’s parents’ who have raised MPP Qaadri and are, now, nurturing, their grandkids.
At his public events, Dr. Qaadri, an MPP from Etobicoke North, is seen with his kids. His kids Shamsa and Shafiq Qaadri Jr. were at Pakistan Day Independence Day celebrations at Queens Park on August 14th, and they were at International Muslim Organization (IMO) centre at Rexdale.
“It really feels nice to be at all these great events especially to the ones that are religious,” Shamsa said.
Dressed in blue shalwar kameez with her head covered with dupatta, Shamsa is fasting in the holy month of Ramadan every other day.
Shafiq Qaadri Jr. with her sister Shamsa at Jinnah's tomb in Karachi
Shamsa, who is starting grade 6, and her brother Qaadri Jr., who is starting grade 4 in Fall, have just been back from their trip to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
“We went for Umrah,” she tells us excitedly. Shamsa and her brother were told by her maternal grandfather that whatever you ask for with the first sight at Ka’aba in Mecca, “it will come true.”
So Qaadri kids and family prayed “Allah mian, whatever dua we make, please make it come true.”
This was the first time that they had gone to Mecca, though their grandparents have been to Saudi Arabia for Umrahs and Hajj multiple times.”
Qaadri kids had gone to Pakistan after about six years.
“Pakistan is one of the best countries of the world I’ve been to,” says Shamsa, the politician-in-making.
In one of his interviews with Generation Next, Dr. Qaadri had said my kids are “trained campaigners.”
By: Staff Writer
