Alumni Organize Activity for Promotion of Sports Skills among Persons with Disabilities This activity was organized by exchange alumni Sahib Khan Bhand and Abid Lashari in Nawabshah in February 2016 with the sole purpose of creating awareness among people to highlight the need for sports opportunities for persons with disabilities. We are ...
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 ...
Neelum Khan Toru with Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Evan Ryan. By Rimsha Ali Shah In October 2016, Neelum Khan Toru’s term as the Chairperson of the Provincial Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), was concluding. During her two years at the PCSW, ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah While in transit at the Hamad International Airport, Qatar, Abdul Moeed Asad, Ayesha Amin, Sara Hassan, Umer Hussain, and Wahid Khan posed for a photograph hoisting the Pakistani flag. It was August 14, 2016, Pakistan’s 70th Independence day, and this delegation, later joined by Aruba Khalid, ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. Sitting in the Daily Ibrat office, a Sindhi newspaper in Karachi, Veengas typed away the ending sentences to a story she had been working on. She had been at this very office since 2008 when she decided to delve into the world of journalism and started ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. Who would have thought that a last minute application submitted in a frenzy would make it through to the pool of finalists for the Study of the U.S. Institute for Student Leaders (SUSI) 2011 and land Ahmad Ullah Qazi from Peshawar, then 21 and unexposed to ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah Moiz was in the midst of a hectic study regime for his matriculation exams when a call he had been anticipating finally came through. He had made it to the interview stage for the Kennedy Lugar – Youth Exchange and Study Program (KL – YES). Despite ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. “As an educator from Pakistan’s higher education sector, this symposium has helped me learn the cutting-edge technologies and pedagogies that are out there,” said Tanzeel, an attendee of the first ever international conference for educators in Pakistan. Addressing these key developments in an age of education ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. Standing in the center of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) ground for the third installment of Music Mela, Kamran Javed was feeling the mid-day April heat but his focus did not falter. Having previously served as the logistics lead for the first two Music Melas, ...
By Rimsha Ali Shah “Why theater?” is a question many people addressed to Naeema Butt, a mass communications major, former football player of the Pakistan National Women’s Football team, a social activist, President of World Merit, a global platform for talented and collaborative youth, and the current General Secretary of ...
