Seminar on "Marriage realted affairs" by PAD's women wing:
Seminar on "Information Accessiblity" in collaboration with APCD:
On the July 10, 2006, Pakistan Association of the Deaf (PAD), in technical collaboration with Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) arranged a seminar on “Assistive Technologies, and information accessibility for the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), at Aga Khan University Hospital AKU Auditorium
More than 80 participants from different cross disabilities organizations from all over the Pakistan and students from universities of Karachi attended this seminar.
Right of Driving for Deaf Persons:
On June 05, 2006, PAD arranged a seminar and walk on the issue of "right of driving for deaf persons". Mr. Mansoor Majeed, General Secretary PAD, gave a brief introduction about association's activities. Mr. Irfan Mumtaz, President PAD, said that deaf community is facing many problem because they are not allowed to drive.
Besides hundreds of Deaf participants, representatives from Home Dept., Traffic Police, Lawyer, and ENT specialist also attend the seminar.
Seminar on Web Accessiblity and Assistive Devices:
On March 25, 2006, Pakistan Association of the Deaf (PAD) arranged an awareness raising seminar on web accessiblity and assistive devices. The aim of the seminar was to raise the awarenss about web accessiblity, and share the knowledge about web accessbility that we earned from APCD.
Mr. Noman Saigal - Advisor to Chief Minister on Information Technology was the chief Guest. Two assistive devices "talking hand" by Sir Syed University Students, and "Deaf AidCo" by a deaf member of PAD were presented.
16 - 20 March 2006 - Visit of Kashmir - Earthquake affected areas:
In March, President Irfan Mumtaz, General Secretary Mansoor Majeed, and Advisor / Special Projects Co-ordinator Muhammad Akram visited different areas (Kotli, Rawalkot, Bagh, Muzafrabad) of Kashmir. This Aim was to observe the situation of deaf community after earthquake, and to establish our network with deaf community of AJK.