Byram D. Avari

Byram D. Avari
Byram D. Avari
Born	1942; Gosphi Avari
Children	2 sons, 1 daughter
Awards	Pride of Performance Award for Sports (Sailing) in 1982

Byram Dinshawji Avari (

Urdu: بیرام ڈی آواری; 1942 – 22 January 2023) was a Pakistani businessman and twice Asian Games gold medalist.^[1] He was based in Karachi, Sindh and owner of Avari Hotels

.

Business concerns

Together with his sons, he owned and operated the Avari Group of companies, of which he was the chairman.[1]^[2]

Hotel management is the Avari Group's core business. In Pakistan, the group owns and operates Avari Hotels which include 5-star deluxe hotels in Karachi Lahore,Sargodha,Gujranwala,Faisalabad and Now Avari Gilgat the 5-star Avari Towers and the seafront Beach Luxury Hotel in Karachi. The group is also actively pursuing opportunities for owning and/or managing 3 and 4-star properties elsewhere in Pakistan.^{[citation needed}

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The Avari Group is the first Pakistani company to have obtained international hotel management contracts:

Ramada Inn in Toronto at Pearson Airport in Canada.^{[citation needed}

]

Honorary Consul

Avari was the Honorary Consul, or a diplomatic representative, for Canada.^[1]

Sailing

Avari was the Commodore of Karachi Yacht Club in 1976 and again in 1980. He was a gold medallist in 'enterprise class' yachting at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok with Munir Sadiq^[3] and again at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi with his wife, Goshpi.^[3] He also won a silver medal at the Enterprise World Championship held in Canada in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Parsi Community

Avari was Chairman of the Karachi Parsi Anjuman.^[4]^[5]

Personal life and death

Avari was married to

Goshpi and had two sons and a daughter.^[5]

Avari died on 22 January 2023, at the age of 81.[6]

Awards and recognition

Pride of Performance Award for Sports (Sailing) in 1982 by the President of Pakistan^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Aamir Khan and Urooj Jawed (14 August 2015). "Raising the white flag: A tribute to our heroes - The Express Tribune (newspaper)". Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ Byram Avari dispels notion of Chinese economic domination The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 11 October 2017, Retrieved 28 April 2019
^ ^a ^b Pakistan has impressive record in sailing: Asian Games in perspective Dawn (newspaper), Published 22 November 2006, Retrieved 28 April 2019
^ No vultures since 1956 Retrieved 28 April 2019
^ ^a ^b Saima S. Hussain (28 August 2016). "Cheese tasting with the Avaris". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "Prominent Businessman Byram Avari Passes Away In Karachi". Ary News. 22 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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[Tribune-1] Aamir Khan and Urooj Jawed (14 August 2015). "Raising the white flag: A tribute to our heroes - The Express Tribune (newspaper)". Retrieved 28 April 2019.

[2] Byram Avari dispels notion of Chinese economic domination The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 11 October 2017, Retrieved 28 April 2019

[dawn-3] Pakistan has impressive record in sailing: Asian Games in perspective Dawn (newspaper), Published 22 November 2006, Retrieved 28 April 2019

[4] No vultures since 1956 Retrieved 28 April 2019

[Dawn-5] Saima S. Hussain (28 August 2016). "Cheese tasting with the Avaris". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

[6] "Prominent Businessman Byram Avari Passes Away In Karachi". Ary News. 22 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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v t e Pride of Performance for Sports
1950s	(1958) (1958) (1958) (1958) Subedar Muhammad Iqbal (1959) (1959)
1960s	(1960) (1960) (1960) (1960) Khawaja Iftikhar Ahmed (1960) (1960) Captain Raja Javed Akhtar Khan (1961) (1961) (1962) (1962) Hafiz Rashid (1962) (1962) Brigadier M.A. Baig (1962) Abbas Mirza (1963) (1963) (1963) Dafadar Mubarak Shah (1963) Khundker Nasim Ahmed (1964) Jamadar Ghulam Raziq (1964) Subedar Muhammad Nawaz (1966) (1966) (1966) (1967) (1968) (1968) Khalid Mahmood Hussain (1968) (1968) (1969) (1969) Mohammad Akhtar (1969)
1970s	(1970) Ahmed Riazuddin (1970) Jehangir Ahmed Butt (1970) (1970) (1970) Major Mohammad Aslam Khan (1970) Fazal Rehman (1971) (1971) Riaz Ahmed (1971) Nabi Ahmed Kalat (1971) (1971)
1980s	(1982) (1982) Byram D. Avari (1982) (1982) (1982) (1983) (1983) (1983) (1984) (1984) (1984) (1984) (1984) Major Mohammad Sher Khan (1985) (1986) (1986) Captain Abdul Jabbar Bhatti (1986) Mohammad Ali (1986) Abdul Majeed Maruwala (1987) Shah Jehan (1988) (1988) (1988) (1988) (1988) (1989)
1990s	Honorary Lieutenant Mohammad Younis (1990) Arif Khan (1990) (1990) Nazo Anwar Miandad (1990) (1990) (1992) (1992) Ghulam Abbas (1992) Taimur Hasan (1992) (1992) Qazi Muhibur Rehman (1993) Rajab Shah (1993) (1994) (1994) Khwaja Mohammad Junaid (1994) (1994) Muhammad Saeed Khan (1994) (1994) Ahmed Alam (1994) (1994) (1994) Muhammad Shafqat (1994) Irfan Mehmood (1994) Naveed Alam (1994) (1994) Muhammad Danish Kaleem (1994) Muhammad Usman (1994) (1994) Rahim Khan (1994) Rana Mujahid Ali (1994) Waseem Feroze (1994) Aliya Rasheed (1995) Fareed Sehrai (1995) (1995) Ali Nawaz Baloch (1995) Mohammad Sarwar (1995) (1996) Sardar Azmarai Javaid Hissam el-Effendi (1996) (1997)
2000s	(2000) (2003) Rozi Ali (2003) Mohammad Irfan Islam (2003) Grand Master Muhammad Ashraf Tai (2004) Zakir Hussain Syed (2004) (2004) (2005) (2008) Zubair Ahmed Hundal (2008) Shahid Rehman (2008) Umer Khan Achakzai (2009)
2010s	Atta Muhammad Kakar (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2011) (2011) (2011) Shahid Pervaiz Butt (2011) (2011) (2012) (2013) (2014) (2014) (2014) (2015) (2015) (2015) (2017) Alamgir Anwar Shaikh (2017)