For members of the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN), 2016 ended with rejuvenated energies and tense excitement. 2016 was an election year for PUAN and from November to December candidates fiercely campaigned with their political slogans, manifestos, and mandates, while voters deliberated with perspicacity. The fervor in the General Election this year ...
by Maria Qureshi, IVLP alumna. “I was not disabled in America” It was an honor for me to be part of the International Visitors Leadership program on Disability Leadership in the United States as it empowered and encouraged me. It is worth mentioning here that during the said visit my ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah With her signature polka dots and quirky wit, Gogi, known to everyone as an emblem of the modern, educated, and deeply sensitized Pakistani Muslim woman, has been on a mission to raise awareness and propel change since the 1970’s. We sat down to talk to the creator ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Draped in a black shawl, Raj Bibi with her twelve-year-old daughter hurries across the hustling marketplace towards the community center. As she walks through the narrow streets of Lyari, she sees many of her neighbors – mothers and daughters – walking together in the same direction. ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Holding the lead pencil in her hand, Sadia wondered, what could she possibly draw when all she could see was darkness? Up until the age of 12, Sadia had no problem in seeing the things around her. An unfortunate illness, however, left her visually impaired. Sensing ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Shuffling through her notes and adding short pointers hurriedly before her turn to plead the case, Hareem was back where she embraced her interest in mooting. It was the same courtroom with the same competitive energy Hareem knew too well from last year when she participated ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah As a student of veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore, Samiya Farooq held a strong belief in overhauling agricultural that were more suited to preserving the climate and the habitat. Fast forward four years and now she is the first ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Traveling with their family for a picnic to a nearby picnic spot, young Aliya and Ali were horror-struck to see the once lush green forest torn down with machines and engulfed with clouds of dust. They learn all the trees had been chopped off to pave ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Tanzeela Bashir, an alumna of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program, vividly recalls the poor condition of sanitation and hygiene in the school where she studied till Class 9th. “The restrooms were always in a dismal condition, the water filtration plant hardly worked, and there was no ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. Fulbright alumnus Qobiljon Shokirov, along with his counterparts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China, was studying trends and drivers of change of rangeland ecosystems as part of an international research on “Rangeland Resources and Uses in the Hindu-Kush Karakoram-Pamir Landscape”. When he found out about a climate ...
