Dr Ruth Pfao Gets Tribute on Google
Rashid Hussain Google is paying tribute to renowned German doctor Dr Ruth Pfau on her 90th birthday, who dedicated her life to eradicate leprosy from Pakistan. Google honours prominent personalities and occasions with special logos that it calls 'doodles'. In the past, the giant search engine paid tribute to Pakistan’s prominent personalities, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Noor Jahan (Malika e Taranum), Mirza Ghalib, Mehdi Hassan, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali khan and other renowned personalities. Google has also been showing Pakistan's Independence Day and other events of national importance on Doodle. A symbol of selflessness Dr.Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau called as Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’. She first came to Pakistan at the age of 29 in 1960, there she witnessed leprosy for the first time and returned to set up clinics across the country. It was her dream to make Pakistan free from this menace, she wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible; so to achieve this l...