History
Rotary appeared in the area, now District 3270 (Pakistan and Afghanistan) in the year 1927 when Rotary Club of Lahore was chartered on 7th Dec 1927. The second club was chartered in Karachi on 11th May 1933. The third was Hyderabad which received its charter on 17th Nov 1938.
In 1942-43 these clubs belonged to the then District 88. It comprised of areas from Bombay to Delhi. The first District Governor elected from this district was Rev. R. C. Bartels of RC Hyderabad. In 1945-46, Hiralal Srichand Bharvani also from RC Hyderabad was elected governor. Dr. Dev Raj Narang of Rotary Club of Lahore was the first District Governor of what is now Pakistan. He was the DG in 1947-48.
Later, the southern area of Pakistan was districted to number 51 and Rotarian Yussuff Nurmahomed Chinoy remained the Governor in 1954-55. Re-districting of the area later resulted into two districts namely 310 comprising of areas from Kabul to Delhi and 305 from Karachi to Bombay. In the year 1961-62 Syed Jameel H. Rizvi (later Justice) of RC Lahore and Hakim Muhammad Ahson of RC Karachi were the Governors simultaneously. In the late 60s, the then Pakistan (including East Pakistan) was formed into one district 307. However, after separation of Bangladesh the present entity of West Pakistan was given the District 327 which was then assigned 3270 in 1995.
Since its inception in 1927, Rotary has done many service projects including helping the earth quake victims of Quetta in 1935 and helping the famine victims.
On 6 March 1936, Quaid-e-Azam, then Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressed the Rotary club of Lahore when the Sikh movement was in its offing. He said, “Our object should be peace within and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial and friendly relations with our immediate neighbors and the world at large. We have no aggressive designs against any one.“
