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In Conversation with Veengas
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...
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DIYA Project Builds Bridges of Peace through Composite Heritage
By Rimsha Ali Shah The audience at Foundation for Arts, Culture, and Education (FACE) was deeply engulfed in the intricate synthesis of instrumentation and captivating vocals of Shahram Azhar...
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Crazy Youth Champions: Alumnus Spearheads Leadership Camp for Youth in Karachi
By Rimsha Ali Shah. With a pen and paper in her hand, Maheen curiously looked around at the 24 unfamiliar faces seated at the School of Leadership with her. Their trainer had asked them to break the...
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Media Safety Training Sensitizes Journalists in Sindh on Safety Precautions
By Rimsha Ali Shah Being a reporter in Pakistan, the fourth deadliest country for journalists according to a report by International Federation of Journalists, Safdar Sahito understood that while...
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First Person: Chitrali Topi in D.C
Saryal Saeed is a Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program (KL-YES) alumnus from Peshawar. While he was in the U.S., he had the most interesting coincidence an exchange student from Pakistan...
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Alumni Corner: Murree – Art Station
This project was made possible with the help of an alumni small grant from the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN). All alumni of various U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs in Pakistan are...
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In Conversation with Ayaz Mirani
By Rimsha Ali Shah Under the searing heat, a young boy sat before a counter laced with fresh fish that lay on a bed of ice. He called out to the pedestrians to come purchase the fish he was selling....
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Grant Opportunity
U.S. Agency for International Development has announced a $19 million grant opportunity called Let Girls Learn/ Pakistan. This new Let Girls Learn/Pakistan project will address key barriers that...
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Eid-ul-Fitr to Raksha Bandhan: Harmony Club Strengthens Religious Co-existence
By Rimsha Ali Shah Ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity is amongst the most treasured riches of Pakistan, a relationship that has sadly been marked with pessimism lately. This narrative, however,...
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YES Alumnus Promotes Better Understanding for a Better World
By Rimsha Ali Shah “Airports offer an almost mystical space for retrospection. In the eerie stillness of air travel, confined to my seat, was when I started realizing one of the better weeks of my life...
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From Pakistan to Nepal: PUAN Delegation Bags Seven Awards at EIMUN 2016
By Rimsha Ali Shah The delegation at the transit While in transit at the Hamad International Airport, Qatar, Abdul Moeed Asad, Ayesha Amin, Sara Hassan, Umer Hussain, and Wahid Khan posed for a...
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First Person: Organizing BUBW – Pakistan to Promote Interfaith Harmony
By Priya Parkash, YES 2014-2015, Pakistan, hosted by AFS in Camarillo, CA A few months ago, two religious commemorations — the Hindu celebration of Holi and the Christian Easter holiday — were declared...
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First Person: Beyond Exchanges
By Eisha, Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program It is a well-known fact among the exchange community that exchanges transform lives. After all, exchange is a year of growth, adventure, and...
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In Conversation with Neelum Khan Toru
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...
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6th Anniversary of PUAN ISB/RWP Chapter Celebrates Achievements of Alumni
By Rimsha Ali Shah Aleenah Masud stood at the back of the hall with a bird’s eye view of the event before her. She could see the hall filling up, with a lot of new faces, and a lot of old ones. Since...
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200 Alumni from GB Reconnect at FongKhar, The Palace on the Rocks
By Rimsha Ali Shah Arfa Mohib, Naureen Akhter, and Rubina Bano stood admiring the 300-year-old fort perched on a gigantic old rock. A few steps ahead, a group of alumni was appreciating the old-age...
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Climate Counts: Exchange Alumni Collaborate for Climate Action
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...
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Ek Qadam: One Step Towards Change
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....
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Sabz Khawab: Alumna Produces Pakistan’s Greenest Radio Show
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...
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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...
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