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Filmmakers Tackle Top Issues Facing Baluchistan
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants learn framing and angle techniques from alumnus Dawood Tareen Film is one of the most powerful mediums to raise awareness of social issues and change mindsets. Across...
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First Person: Kumail the Community Leader
By Kumail, English Access Program Alumnus from Karachi Today I am going to let you know why I am known as a social worker in my locality. In fact, most people from outside my area are surprised to hear...
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Workshop Introduces New English Teaching Strategies to Balochi Teachers
By Hira Nafees Shah Alumnus Nazeer Ahmed oversees a brainstorming session during E-Teacher Professional Development Workshop for female teachers from May 5th to 10th, 2014. Prominent educator Nazeer...
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First Person: English Language Study Transformed Me
Haris By Haris, English Access Program Alumnus from Karachi This is Haris, an English Access Karachi Alumnus of the 2010-2012 program. I live in an area of Karachi where there is a lot of waste of...
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PUAN Islamabad session Highlights need for Nuanced Discussion about Partition
By Hira Nafees Shah Panelists and participants of the Voices from Partition discussion The Islamabad chapter of the Pakistan-U.S Alumni Network arranged an international online discussion session...
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Fulbright Alumna Empowers Needy Women in Ghazi
By Hira Nafees Shah Fulbright Alumna Aisha Azhar (center) with the coordinators and participants of her project Shakeela Begum’s daughter had not even been born when her husband left the world. What...
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Boy Scout Camp Instills Spirit of Community Service in Students of Lakki Marwat
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants were all smiles during Asif Salam’s Boy Scouts Camp When Asif Salam went on his Global UGrad exchange experience, he encountered a novel idea for the first time...
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First Person: Learning, Fun and Exposure SUSI 2014
By Maham Zahid, Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) Alumna Maham Zahid, SUSI Alumna 2014 receiving certificate on completion of exchange program from Macon E. Barrow, Academic Exchange...
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Islamabad Chapter Reunion Hails Distinguished Alumni
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants of PUAN Islamabad Chapter Reunion carrying Pakistani and American Flags For the fourth year running, the annual Islamabad-Rawalpindi Reunion was a marquee event for the...
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CCIP Alumnus Empowers Women of Sukkur
By Hira Nafees Shah Project Advisers and Participants of Emerge Pakistan 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...
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CCIP Alumnus Takes Journalism to New Heights in Gilgit Baltistan
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants of the Youth Eye-Citizen Journalist Project with CCIP Alumnus Amin Muhammad College student Mohammad Kashif woke up at seven o’clock each morning during his summer...
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KP/FATA Chapter Reunion Pays Homage to Community Service Work Of Alumni
By Hira Nafees Shah Group Photograph at PUAN KP/FATA Third Annual Reunion Keeping its fine tradition alive, the KP/FATA chapter of the Pakistan-U.S Alumni Network held its third annual reunion in...
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Lahore Reunion celebrates Alumni Engagement in Punjab
Participants of PUAN Lahore Alumni Reunion More than one hundred and fifty Lahori alumni gathered for the annual reunion of their chapter to celebrate the success of the alumni-led programs in the past...
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Fulbright Alums Take the Lead on Social Enterprise
By Hira Nafees Shah Students enjoying Rabtt Summer Camp 2014 18-year-old Abdullah Nasir stood in front of the teacher with bated breath. Although he had memorized his speech, words failed him when he...
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Entrepreneurship Conference Provides Breeding Ground for New Ideas
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants of Pakistan-U.S Alumni Network’s Entrepreneurship Conference with U.S Ambassador Richard Olson International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumna Mehreen Rashid was...
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Lahore Alumni Hold Vigil in Solidarity with Peshawar
Alumni are joining others across Pakistan and around the world mourn the terrible loss of life in Peshawar. Yesterday between 40 and 50 alumni participated in a nighttime vigil. After the initial...
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Interfaith Alumni Group Remembers Victims in Peshawar
Alumni in Sargodha organized a peaceful protest to condemn the deadly terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar. Led by the Tang Wasib Organization, more than 150 Muslim and Christian students, under...
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Alumni Remember Peshawar Victims: PUAN Islamabad and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa/FATA...
Twenty alumni of IVLP, SUSI, Global U- Grad, Benjamin Franklin, Legislative Fellow, Youth Exchange Study from the Pakistan U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN) Islamabad Chapter traveled 150 km to Peshawar to...
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UGrad Alumnus Leads March towards a More Peaceful Pakistan
By Hira Nafees Shah Participants of the Peace-building and Conflict Resolution Workshop Hunzla Saqib, a B.S Education student, hails from Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. To complete her studies, she moved...
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Wonders Among Us TED Talks Pay Homage to Resilient Pakistanis
By Hira Nafees Shah Speakers with the TEDX Islamabad’s organizing team led by IVLP Alumnus Ahsan Mukhtar With so many stories in the news focused on the challenges facing Pakistan, news celebrating...
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