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While it’s no surprise that celebrities all over the world are known for their philanthropic activities, Pakistani stars raise the bar even higher by proving that they too, can raise a heaping amount of funds with their talent in no time! The latest to do so is none other than rockstar Ali Zafar.

Raising over USD 1 Million, Ali was part of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre fundraiser which took form as a 5-city US tour. Through the events, the singer was able to raise funds for the construction of the pediatric unit at the SKCMH.

 

A game of Where’s Waldo: Ali Zafar was circled by his fans at the fundraiser.

 

Ali embarked on this entire fundraising mission for the hospital in November appearing at fundraisers for the hospital across 5 cities, speaking, motivating and at times singing to audiences too. Thousand showed up in each city for Ali Zafar and a few days ago in Washington alone, the singer raised over USD 350,000.

Now, if that isn’t a reason to love Ali Zafar even more than we don’t know what is!

Shahjehan Saleem

The author is Contributing Editor at Something Haute as well as a professor in the Media Sciences department at SZABIST, Karachi. Socio-cultural theories and geography fill up the rest of his time.