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Alumnus Hones Skills of the Next Generation of Pakistani Filmmakers

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Alumnus Hones Skills of the Next Generation of Pakistani Filmmakers
By Hira Nafees Shah Nestled in comfortable chairs at the auditorium with bags of popcorn and sodas in their hands, school- children giggled as a cute girl in a cartoon film took a fish out of its bowl and placed it on the bed beside her. The kids remained glued ...
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Alumnus’ Seed Project Takes Pakistan’s Agriculture to the Next Level

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Alumnus’ Seed Project Takes Pakistan’s Agriculture to the Next Level
By Hira Nafees Shah   Agriculture is at the heart of Pakistan’s economy, employing about half of the labor force and  making up 24 percent of the nation’s GDP. Development in agriculture is therefore vitally important to the development of Pakistan as a whole. One Fulbright alumnus, Irfan Afzal, took ...
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Wonders Among Us TED Talks Pay Homage to Resilient Pakistanis

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Wonders Among Us TED Talks Pay Homage to Resilient Pakistanis
By Hira Nafees Shah With so many stories in the news focused on the challenges facing Pakistan, news celebrating Pakistani success stories can be hard to find.  One recent alumni event in Islamabad did just that – highlighting the resilience of the Pakistani people through the stories of several outstanding ...
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UGrad Alumnus Leads March towards a More Peaceful Pakistan

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UGrad Alumnus Leads March towards a More Peaceful Pakistan
By Hira Nafees Shah Hunzla Saqib, a B.S Education student, hails from Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. To complete her studies, she moved to Peshawar, where she immediately noticed conflicts between the different ethnic groups residing in her hostel based on linguistic differences. Troubled by the inability of her neighbors to ...
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KP/FATA Chapter Reunion Pays Homage to Community Service Work Of Alumni

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KP/FATA Chapter Reunion Pays Homage to Community Service Work Of Alumni
By Hira Nafees Shah Keeping its fine tradition alive, the KP/FATA chapter of the Pakistan-U.S Alumni Network held its third annual reunion in Peshawar on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014. More than one hundred and fifty alumni enthusiastically took part in the polished event and paid homage to the resilient spirit of ...
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CCIP Alumnus Takes Journalism to New Heights in Gilgit Baltistan

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CCIP Alumnus Takes Journalism to New Heights in Gilgit Baltistan
By Hira Nafees Shah College student Mohammad Kashif woke up at seven o’clock each morning during his summer vacation. Being from the Hyderabad area of Hunza, he spent over one-and-a-half hours traveling to Karimabad each day. Kashif embraced the long ride and gladly gave up extra sleep to pursue his ...
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CCIP Alumnus Empowers Women of Sukkur

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CCIP Alumnus Empowers Women of Sukkur
By Hira Nafees Shah On a hot and humid afternoon in July, about 30 female activists  set up a medical camp with a volunteer doctor in a local high school.  The women went door-to-door encouraging others to visit the camp, which was free of cost. Though medical camps like this ...
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Boy Scout Camp Instills Spirit of Community Service in Students of Lakki Marwat

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Boy Scout Camp Instills Spirit of Community Service in Students of Lakki Marwat
By Hira Nafees Shah When Asif Salam went on his Global UGrad exchange experience, he encountered a novel idea for the first time —community service. Organized volunteer opportunities in Salam’s home district of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunhkwa, were too far and few between to enable him to truly make ...
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Fulbright Alumna Empowers Needy Women in Ghazi

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Fulbright Alumna Empowers Needy Women in Ghazi
By Hira Nafees Shah Shakeela Begum’s daughter had not even been born when her husband left the world.  What followed were 10 years of incredible hardship, as she was forced to work as a maid in people’s homes to provide for herself and her young children. Help finally arrived for ...
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Workshop Introduces New English Teaching Strategies to Balochi Teachers

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Workshop Introduces New English Teaching Strategies to Balochi Teachers
By Hira Nafees Shah Prominent educator Nazeer Ahmed had noticed a trend during his years of teaching in his home district Pishin, Balochistan. Students would complete matriculation from schools but would drop out during their college years. When he inquired, Ahmed found out that the coursework upto to the level ...
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