By Suraya Mehrzad This is how I see Afghanistan’s future from the perspective of peace, education and women rights. At first, I accept that Afghanistan is not in a good situation right now with respect to security and economic development, but I am optimistic that Afghanistan would be one of the Read more…
By Eisha Sarkar Shortly after I started interacting with my student Muhammad Qasem Jami last October, I was flooded by friend requests from Herat on Facebook. As precaution, I would verify the connections the person had with Jami before accepting him/her as friend. That’s how I met Asef Majidi, who Read more…
By Muhammad Qasem Jami In April 2016, the US Mission in Pakistan and the Pakistan-US Alumni Network (PUAN) organized an Youth Activism Conference which brought together about 200 professionals and youth from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Afghanistan. The aim was to provide a platform to this group Read more…
By Eisha Sarkar This April, I had the privilege to meet Tinku Gupta, my fellow-Pax Populi tutor at her home in Kolkata, India. While videoconferencing is great, meeting people in person allows you to discover so much more about the person and even yourself. Sitting at the dining table of Read more…
By Maryam Waheed In 2002,  some families  migrated from Pakistan to Afghanistan. At that time, the President of Afghanistan was Hamid Karzai. Everyone was happy, thinking that the new president would welcome them all back into their homeland, Afghanistan. Among these migrant families, one was Salma’s.  Salma was  twenty-two  at Read more…