Condolence Messages on the passing away of Dr. Vito Salierno, President Iqbal Foundation Europe

(2013-02-24)

Condolence Message from the President of Pakistan
on the passing away of Professor Vito Salierno, President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe

It is with profound sadness that I have learnt of the passing away of Professor. Vito Salierno, the President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe.

On behalf of the people of Pakistan, I would like to express the deepest condolences to his family and friends. We share their loss.

In Professor Salierno’s untimely passing away, we have lost a great scholar and one of the leading authorities on Dr. Muhammad Allama Iqbal, Pakistan’s national poet. It was in recognition of his remarkable services for promoting the understanding of Allama Iqbal’s message, that Sitara e Quid e Azam, was conferred upon Professor Vito Salierno.

Professor Salierno will always be dearly remembered in Pakistan. May he rest in eternal peace.

Our thoughts and prayers are for his family and friends.

(Asif Ali Zardari)
President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Condolence Message from the Prime Minister of Pakistan on the passing away of
Professor Vito Salierno, President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe

I would like to express deepest condolences on the passing away of Professor Vito Salierno, the President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe. He was a great scholar of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, eastern literature and a great humanist in his own right.

Professor Salierno’s translations of Allama Iqbal’s works into Italian helped introduce the thoughts of one of the greatest Muslim philosopher poets of 20th century to a wider audience.

The people of Pakistan will always be grateful to Professor Salierno for his outstanding services in this regard.

Professor Salierno also had a deep love for Pakistan, a country that he knew well. In his passing away, the people of Pakistan have lost a great friend.

We pray for his soul to rest in eternal peace and for his family and friends to bear their loss with strength and courage. We share in their loss and grief.

(Raja Pervaiz Ashraf)
Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Condolence Message from the Foreign Minister of Pakistan
on the passing away of Professor Vito Salierno, President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe

It was with great sadness and a sense of loss that I learnt the news of Professor Vito Salierno’s passing away. I would like to express my profoundest condolences to his family, friends and to all those who had the opportunity to be close to him and benefit from his vast learning.

Professor Salierno was the President of Iqbal Foundation, Europe, and a leading scholar of Allama Iqbal and other Pakistani writers. I had the privilege to meet him in person when, on behalf of the Government of Pakistan, I presented to him one of Pakistan’s most prestigious civil awards, Sitara e Quid e Azam. I was deeply impressed by his personality and learning.

We pray for his soul to rest in eternal peace. The people of Pakistan share the bereavement felt by his family and friends in this sad moment.

(Hina Rabbani Khar)
Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan