"Irfan Khursheed has actively directed, by telephone from his office in Jamaica, Queens, how the $500,000 in donations raised by the Islamic Circle of North America Relief will be distributed in Pakistan. Mr. Khursheed, the group’s executive director, approved 1,000 tents, 5,000 blankets and $50,000 for three field hospitals for Kashmir, where he is from, he said."
Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/13/nyregion/13relief.html
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