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Khalid Mahmood joins PAKPAC
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Pakistani American wins Pulitzer Prize
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 "True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of Justice."
- Martin Luther King
 

CONGRESSIONAL PAKISTAN CAUCUS BRIEFING

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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 information
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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
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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. READ MORE

  

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.  

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