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Alumni Corner: Waseem Qureshi Writes About his Exchange Experience
Waseem Qureshi, alumnus of the Legislative Fellowship Program (LFP), writes about his exchange experience in the U.S, detailing the legislative exposure and cultural exchange. This article was...
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Training to Lead: Alumna Empowers Girls through Leadership Building Exercises
By Rimsha Ali Shah Buzzing with a mix of enthusiasm and uncertainty, twenty girls stood in a circle at the Attock City School playground. As they looked around trying to figure out the meaning behind...
View ArticleFirst Person: Hundred and Twenty Days in the United States
By Huma Irfan. 6:55am, August 10, 2015. A slight “thud” woke me from my long slumber. I had landed in the country that would be my home for the next four months. I was about to start my 2015Global...
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Armed with the Law: Alumnus Small Grant Project Empowers Women of Umerkot
By Rimsha Ali Shah Travelling back by bus from the Soomro Taluka Hospital, Hanifa Chauhan thought about the telefilm she watched the night before. It was about a woman from a modest background like...
View ArticleAlumni Corner: My First Days….My First Impression
By Mohsin Shah. Only dreamers can feel the joy when their dreams come true. When our plane touched the Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C. after a tiresome twenty hours flight, only I knew...
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Cyclone: Channeling Disruptive Energies in to Leadership Skills
By Rimsha Ali Shah Four groups of girls sat huddled together in the classroom of K.M.A Girls School, Karachi discussing the storyline they would present to the class. The topic was “imagination” and...
View ArticleSpotlight Alumna: Sundas Matloob and Her Artistic Journey
By Rimsha Ali Shah This month in our spotlight profile, we take you through the journey of Sundas Matloob, a NESA alumna, who discovered the artist and curator within her through her interaction with...
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TEDxIslamabad: Celebrating Adventures of Breaking Barriers
By Rimsha Ali Shah “Inspiration and interaction are related terms because when you interact with new people, they inspire your soul. This is the power I felt at TEDxIslamabad!” Nosheen Akhtar attended...
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Round-up: 30 Under 30 Women Achievers
This March, Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network celebrated the wonderful women achievers around us! Each day for the past 30 days we have highlighted one woman achiever from within the alumni network. Our...
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Taking the GRE Smartly
By Amna Sabahat. “Don’t give up unless you have put all your efforts in it!” Well, the fact that you opened this post about GRE ensures that there is a will at least! And all you have to do is find a...
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PUAN International Youth Activism Conference: Empowering South Asian Youth...
By Rimsha Ali Shah. As her plane landed at Islamabad airport, Karuna could hardly contain her excitement to be back in Pakistan. Karuna, along with three other Nepalese participants, was excited to...
View ArticleAlumni Discuss PUAN Success Stories in Round Table Discussion
“Joining Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN) is a lifetime package,” Maryum Qasim, an alumna of the Kennedy Lugar – Youth Exchange and Study program explained to Dr.Katherine Brown, Executive Director...
View ArticleIndo-Pak: Enemies at Home, Friends Abroad
In the year 2011, Pakistan had lost semi final match of the Cricket World Cup to India. Generally, we support only two teams: Pakistan, and the one playing against India. For the final match, I was...
View ArticleAlumni Corner: Youth Activism and Rickshaw Wala
By Mohsin Shah. As soon as I got off the coach, a rickshaw wala showed up and offered his services. We agreed on 120 rupees fare to my destination. On our way, the Rickshaw wala asked me if I returned...
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In Conversation with Kamran Javed
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...
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21st Century Learning: Empowering Educators through Innovations in Learning
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...
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Sinder Alumni Reunion: Exchange Alumni from Sindh and Gwadar Convene
By Rimsha Ali Shah Decorated with smiles, chatter, and giggles, the Pakistan-American Cultural Center was alive and full of pleasant nostalgia on the evening of April 16, 2016. Despite the humidity...
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In Conversation with Afzal Khan
By Rimsha Ali Shah. “Even as a student of business administration, I was aware of what I wanted to do in life: change lives – and not in the cliché term, but with actionable change through policy and...
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Bold and Brave: Workshop Unlocks Key Survival Tips for Women with Disabilities
By Rimsha Ali Shah “For the first five years after my accident, I was bedridden and oblivious; there was no guidance available for a person like me with such a severe disability because of my spinal...
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Alumni Corner: District Convention
By Mashal Akram. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. When I came to the United States as a participant of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES), I learned first-hand...
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