Draft:Pakistan Sweet Home

Pakistan Sweet Home

پاکستان سویٹ ہوم
Founded	2008; 18 years ago
Founder	Zamarud Khan
Type	Non-profit, donation-funded
Location	Sector H-9, Islamabad, Pakistan
Origins	Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal
Region served	Pakistan
Method	Residential care, education, scholarships, healthcare, free meals
Key people	Zamurrad Khan, patron-in-chief and chief executive
Website	www.pakistansweethome.org.pk

Pakistan Sweet Home is a Pakistani non-profit social welfare organisation that looks after orphaned and underprivileged children, providing them with housing, schooling and medical care. It was founded in 2008 by Zamarud Khan, a former Member of the National Assembly who went on to run Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM), and is based in Islamabad. Zamurrad Khan is its patron-in-chief and chief executive, and the children in its homes call him "Papa Jani". It is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan as a not-for-profit company under section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984.

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal runs a larger network of children's homes under the same name, which grew out of the same initiative.

History

Pakistan Sweet Home started in 2008 as a Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal project, when one internally displaced child was placed in Zamurrad Khan's care under the patronage of the then Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani. Officials of the Sindh provincial Bait-ul-Mal have traced the idea to Benazir Bhutto, who wanted homes set up for the children of party workers killed in the 2007 attack on her convoy.

By November 2013 the wider initiative ran 28 centres holding about 2,800 children. The centre at Sukkur, which opened in August 2011, took up to 100 children aged four to six from districts including Sukkur, Shikarpur, Kandhkot, Jacobabad, Ghotki and Khairpur. Most had lost their fathers in floods or tribal feuds. Carers known as "mothers" each looked after ten children, lived on site, and went home to their own families once a week.

Zamurrad Khan said in 2026 that the organisation was running ten major projects.

Services

Residential care

Children in the homes are given a bed, meals, uniforms, books, medical care, skills training, laundry, religious instruction and counselling at no cost. The main campus is in Sector H-9, Islamabad, and has a school, a hostel and a mosque. The organisation says it has helped more than 10,000 children and that under six per cent of what it receives goes on running costs.

Education

The organisation runs its own cadet college, which Zamurrad Khan described in 2020 as the first set up for orphaned children. Zamurrad Khan said in 2022 that seventeen girls from the homes had won places at the cadet college in Larkana. A girls' programme begun in 2021 combines schooling with cadet training, with tuition, boarding, stationery and food paid for by the organisation.

Its bursary, the Papa Jani Zamurd Khan Scholarship, pays for pupils at outside schools. Thirty-four Sweet Home pupils attend Sukkur IBA Public School on the scheme, taking Cambridge and Aga Khan Board courses, and forty pupils from the Sukkur, Larkana and Shaheed Benazirabad divisions have gone on to cadet colleges including Petaro, Larkana, Sanghar and Ghotki. Former residents have reached Quaid-i-Azam University, the National University of Sciences and Technology, Iqra University and Ayub Medical College. One of them, Shah Faisal, joined as a small child, went through the cadet college and finished a degree in English in 2025.

The organisation also runs free hospitality training with the firm Crown Q, leading to an international certificate. In July 2025 Zamurrad Khan gave motorbikes to twenty students who had passed their FSc exams and started university, after seeking written consent from their mothers and arranging riding lessons, licence tests and a road safety session with the traffic and motorway police.

Healthcare

Its blood bank holds donation drives in Rawalpindi with the district administration. Zamurrad Khan said the bank took more than 10,000 donations in 2022 and aimed for 25,000 the following year, giving blood free to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, the Jameela Sultana Foundation, the Sundus Foundation and the Pakistan Thalassemia Welfare Society, mainly for patients with thalassaemia, haemophilia and blood cancers.

Zamurrad Khan took over the Fatima tuz Zahra Medical Complex in December 2023 under an agreement with the Alpial Welfare Trust, which built it. The hospital sits on five kanal off Range Road in Rawalpindi and serves an area of eleven union councils around Chakri Road that had no full hospital of its own. Its laboratory, imaging and gynaecology and paediatric departments are running, with dental, eye and dialysis units planned, and treatment is free.

Food and burial services

The organisation runs the Syeda Fatima tuz Zahra Dastarkhwan, which serves free meals to more than 7,000 people a day and was extended to flood-hit areas in 2025. In 2026 it opened a second kitchen in Rawalpindi feeding over 1,500 people daily, alongside a free burial service for families who cannot afford one.

Relief work

After the 2022 Pakistan floods the organisation rebuilt a school near Village Nabi Bux Bhanbro in Saleh Pat tehsil, Sukkur District, working with Harrow Central Mosque and the Mascood Islamic Center. In 2025 Zamurrad Khan said he intended to take in children orphaned by that year's flooding.

Sport and civic activities

In January 2022 the boxer Usman Wazir, then Asian champion, said he would set up a boxing academy at the Islamabad home with coaching three days a week, and promised a share of his prize money to the organisation. In February 2026 it held a voter-education workshop with the Election Commission of Pakistan, where officials went through voter checks, balloting and counting, and the children ran a mock election as candidates, polling officers and voters.

Campuses

Besides the Islamabad campus and the Sukkur centre, the organisation opened a building at its Irshad Bibi Campus in Bhalwal, Sargodha District, in 2023, taking schooling there up to class ten. It describes its own network as five centres.

Relationship with Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal runs a separate and much larger set of children's homes under the same name. In 2023 its managing director put the number at 51 nationally, with eleven in Islamabad and Azad Kashmir, nine in Lahore, five in Multan, three in Gilgit-Baltistan, eleven in Sindh, eight in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and four in Balochistan, holding more than 6,000 students. He said PBM would pay for them through to a degree and help them into the federal and provincial public service commissions and the Central Superior Services examination, the first time the agency had offered jobs this way.

PBM officials, not the charity, run these homes. At Kot Addu the agency's South Punjab director said it spent about Rs30,000 a month on each child, set up a committee to check exam results, and worked through supervisory and management committees; a PBM assistant director asked the deputy commissioner there for government land to build on. How the two organisations relate to each other has not been set out in independent reporting.

Funding

The organisation lives on donations. It holds a yearly iftar dinner for donors in Islamabad, and Zamurrad Khan appeals for money publicly at Eid. Its fundraising material includes a theme song, "Sahara Banein", sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan with Noman Rauf and released on its own channels. It holds tax exemption under sections 61 and 66 of Pakistan's tax law and publishes audit reports on its website.

Public money and gifts in kind have come in too. In Sindh, where the Pakistan Peoples Party politician Khursheed Ahmed Shah has championed the Sukkur operation, reported support includes Rs40 million from the Speaker of the Sindh Assembly and Rs20 million from a provincial minister, along with three buses, a solar system and 25 acres at Aror from the chief minister.

Recognition

Zamurrad Khan received the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 2012. The organisation says it won a Best Orphan Support Project award for 2022, handed over by Arif Alvi at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce.

Officials who have visited the Islamabad campus include the Saudi ambassador Nawaf bin Saeed Al-Maliki in 2020, the Ethiopian ambassador Jemal Beker Abdula, who brought gifts at Eid in 2024, the UAE ambassador Hamad Obaid Ibrahim Salem Al Zaabi, whose embassy gave 500 blankets and 300 jackets during its winter donation drive in January 2023, and the chairman of the Capital Development Authority in 2025. A World Bank leadership delegation has also toured the campus. The organisation publishes endorsements from foreign ambassadors and from military officers and delegates visiting Pakistan from countries including Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan and Zimbabwe, as well as from Pakistani sportspeople. At the fundraising dinner in February 2026 the Governor of Punjab, Sardar Saleem Haider Khan, praised how well the children were doing at school. The organisation publicises visits by figures from politics, sport, entertainment and religion, and by representatives of international bodies, and uses them in its fundraising, alongside accounts of school results, Ramadan meals and a campaign with the ride-hailing firm inDrive that put children's artwork on cars.

See also

• List of non-governmental organizations in Pakistan
• Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal
• Edhi Foundation
• Saylani Welfare Trust
• Zamarud Khan

External links

• PakistanSweetHome.org.pk