By: Ella Bjurman On Monday, July 24 2017 my fellow interns Dustin Ruhe, Simone Williams, and I attended, “Media Diplomacy: Challenging the Indo-Pak Narrative,” hosted by the Atlantic Council. The talk centered around a moderated discussion between Mushahid Hussain, a prominent member of the Pakistani Senate as well as the former Minister of […]
Read moreThird Annual Sindhi American Youth Advocacy and Leadership Program
Introduction: From July 11th to July 14th SAPAC hosted its Third Annual Sindhi American Youth Advocacy and Leadership Program. The program’s seven participants attended 77 meetings between July 12th and July 13th. In these meetings we discussed with the offices of Senators and Representatives about the most pressing issues occurring in Sindh, Pakistan. The goal of these meetings […]
Meeting with SAPAC President
On Saturday, July 8th President of SAPAC, Dr. Maqbool Halepota, met with the SAPAC team in Washington D.C. The meeting mainly focused on the upcoming Sindhi American Youth Advocacy and Leadership Program where the SAPAC team along with Sindhi youth will be meeting with over 70 Senators/Representatives and their staff. President Halepota assisted us in […]
Read moreNew Issue of Sindh Guardian! Volume 5 Issue 1
Please check out the new issue of Sindh Guardian, featuring intern articles and Sindhi artists!
Read moreSherman Questions Secretary of State Tillerson During Foreign Affairs Budget Hearing
Below is a clip with Congressman Sherman’s comments on Sindh at the Foreign Affairs Budget Hearing held on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. At minute 2:46, Congressman Brad Sherman asks the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to allot funding to print and provide textbooks for schools in Sindh, as well as to expand U.S. broadcasting in the […]
Read moreSAPAC President Addresses Progress of Congressional Sindh Caucus
SAPAC President Addresses Progress of Congressional Sindh Caucus And New Members of Congressional Sindh Caucus are Welcomed Washington, D.C. – June 1, 2017 – Last week, President of SAPAC, Maqbool Halepota, welcomed the formation of the Sindh Caucus in the 115 Congress. President Halepota hopes that the Sindh Caucus will be able to address the […]
Read moreNew Issue of Sindh Guardian!
Please check out the new issue of Sindh Guardian, featuring intern articles and Sindhi artists!
Read moreWho Should the Sindhis side with: the MQM or Pakistani Rangers?
The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) The MQM started as a student group called the All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organization, founded on June 11, 1978 by Altaf Hussain at Karachi University. At first, the MQM only represented the Muhajir, Muslims who migrated from India, but, in order to gain more followers, it started welcoming […]
Read moreProtecting Girls: Global Efforts to End Child Marriage
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, 09/14/16 Child marriage, despite being a widespread and global crisis with a multitude of implications for quality of life, is an often overlooked issue. Today, there are approximately 250 million women who were married before the age of fifteen, with approximately 15 million girls being married annually. Child marriage influences […]
Read morePeace through Entrepreneurship at the Brooking’s Institute
Steven Koltai’s moving presentation on Peace through Entrepreneurship at the Brookings Institution raised several compelling points on how the U.S. can utilize investment in entrepreneurship as an avenue toward stability. He proposed a shift, a reorientation of U.S. foreign policy and funding from unregulated aid to developing countries, to entrepreneurship as a tool of empowerment […]
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