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"True
peace is not merely the
absence of tension, it is
the presence of Justice."
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CONGRESSIONAL PAKISTAN
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Restoring Judicial
Independence in Pakistan:
Purpose, Progress and
Continuing Obstacles
10:00-11:30
AM
Tuesday,
April
15, 2008
2237
Rayburn
Building
Washington
DC
The
distinguished
panel
consists
of:
Ali
Ahsan,
Attorney
and son
of
Pakistani
lawyers’
movement
leader
Aitzaz
Ahsan;
Nadeem
Azam,
Pakistani
lawyer
and
Professor
of Law
and
Director
of the
Human
Rights
Studies
Center
at the
University of Peshawar;
Justice
Richard
J.
Goldstone,
Former
justice
of the
Constitutional
Court of
South
Africa,
former
chief
prosecutor
of the
United
Nations
International
Criminal
Tribunals
for the
former
Yugoslavia
and
Rwanda,
and
visiting
professor
at
Georgetown
University
Law
Center;
and
Maureen
Byrnes,
Executive
Director
of Human
Rights
First
(Moderator).
Please
contact
Samia
Elshafie
(Samia.Elshafie@mail.house.gov)
at 202
225-3816
with any
questions
or for
additional
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SAVE THE
DATE
June 28th
Noon time
Noon Time
Luncheon
Washington
DC
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Congressman Chris murphy
 
PAKPAC
joins
our friends
to
cordially
invite you
to a
reception
in honor of
Congressman Chris Murphy
Representative of 5th Congressional District of Connecticut
Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Member Financial Services Committee
Home of Drs. Angabeen and Mustapha
Saturday,
May 10th,
2008
4:30 p.m.
to 7:00
p.m.
72 Pinnacle
Road
Farmington,
CT. 06032
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Dr.
Khalid Mahmood Joins PAKPAC
 Dr.
Khalid Mahmood graduated
from King Edward Medical
College, Lahore in 1981 and
moved to the United States
in 1985. He
completed Internal Medicine
residency at
Brooklyn-Caledonian Hospital
in Brooklyn, New York. In
1993 he completed Fellowship
in Nephrology at Kaiser
Permanente Hospital in Los
Angles. Within two years he
began private practice in
Pine
Bluff, Arkansas.
His skills and expertise and
administrative acumen helped
him become the
Medical Director for 3
dialysis facilities.
In addition to his clinical
practice he opened multiple
dialysis facilities and
physical therapy clinics of
his own in multiple
different areas. After 10
years in
Arkansas,
I relocated his practice to
Dallas,
Texas
where he has continued his
entrepreneurial skills have
helped him to successfully
venture into multiple
non-medical businesses as
well.
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Pulitzer Prize goes to a
Pakistani American Photo
Journalist
Adrees Latif, a Pakistani American working for Reuters received this year’s most prestigious award for journalism, The Pulitzer Prize. This prize was awarded to Adrees for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
Adrees was born in Lahore, Pakistan and then resided in Saudi Arabia before immigrating with his family to Texas in 1980. Adrees has worked as a staff photographer for The Houston Post from 1993 to 1996 before joining Reuters. He graduated from the University of Houston in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He has worked for Reuters in Houston, Los Angeles before moving to Bangkok in 2003 where he covers news across Asia.
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LONG
TERM
STRATEGY
FOR
PAKISTAN
US
RELATIONS
It is now widely understood
in most
of the
legislative
circles
that
there
needs to
be a
well
thought
out,
long
term
plan for
a
Pakistan
US
relationship
policy.
The
future
policy
would
require
investment
in the
people
of
Pakistan,
with
focus on
helping
build
the
human
development
in the
region.
There is
a need
for
investment
in the
education
system,
health
care
system
and need
for
 the
development
of
infrastructure,
including
financial
infrastructure
in
Pakistan
is
critical.
Improving
the US
perception
in
Pakistan
is
needed.
Historical
evidence
clearly
shows us
that
whenever
US
investment
in
people
of
Pakistan
has been
there
the
perception
of US
improves
significantly
in the
region.
The Oct
2005
earthquake
and US
support
is an
excellent
recent
example.
Amongst
the
legislators
Senator
Biden,
Senator
Kerry
and
Senator
Hagel
have
taken on
the
leadership
role in
investing
time and
understanding
the need
for a
long
term
strategy.
TO
LEARN
MORE
ABOUT
THE
BIDEN
PLAN
PLEASE
CLICK ON
LINK.
PAKPAC
has
endorsed
and
supports
this
plan. In
these
efforts
the
President
if
PAKPAC,
Saud
Anwar
met with
Senator
Kerry
with
many
other
active
Pakistani
Americans
and all
other
Americans
in
community
dinner
co-sponsored
by
PAKPAC
at
Shahid
and
Iffat
Khan's
residence
in
Framingham
MA. Dr.
Anwar
thanked
Senator
Kerry
for his
role in
sending
the
message
to the
administrators
in
Pakistan
on
behalf
of the
Pakistani
American
community,
and all
Americans
for free
and fair
elections
in
Pakistan.
Dr.
Anwar
also
thanked
Senator
Kerry
for his
joining
in and
endorsing
the
Biden
plan.
Dr. Saud
Anwar is
scheduled
to have
a
meeting
with
Senator
Biden as
well for
a
discussion
on the
Biden
plan for
Pakistan
and the
role of
PAKPAC
and the
Pakistani
American
community
on
reaching
out to
the
larger
community
and all
other
senators
and
legislators
to
further
increase
the
broad
based
support
for
this.
PAKPAC asks all the
community
members
to join
PAKPAC
in
asking
their
respective
legislators
to
follow
the
Biden
plan for
the long
term
investment
in the
region.
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YOU NEED TO BE HEARD
The Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee would like to reach out to the community to share their
experiences and challenges. While we are able to reach out to our legislators, representatives in the administration,
be in touch with many of the agencies including the DHS, FBI, TSA etc. we need to hear from our community. If there
are issues that of concern to you with respect to the laws, regulations, behaviors whether individual or an
organizations we urge you to do the following: 
A) Note down ALL the specifics of the incidents. Date, time, place, names, badges numbers of employee numbers etc.
need to be kept.
B) Share the issue and specifics with us with information to be able to contact you back. Please make sure that you
let us know if your information can be shared with
1: Respective agencies,
2: Media to highlight the challenge including your availability to be interviewed by media.
Please note if you are not willing to share your story and challenge you are harming others who will have the same
challenges. We need your stories to share with policy makers and help identify ways of changing perceptions,
regulations and laws. .....Email to us at MyRights@pakpac.net
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