Show: Pakistani Profiles

Host: Ayesha Tajwar

Guest: Danish Qasim

Description: The youth in Pakistan is ambitious and energetic. Danish Qasim, a student from Iqra University, is a film director who along with his colleagues produced a short-film that has won the Audience Award for the best movie in the National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2012. The Other Side is a reality based short-film that tells the story of a boy who becomes a prey of terrorists in Pakistan.

What encouraged Danish and his friends to create this film? How did they afford to make it? What hurdles did he face? Danish tells about his adventure and experience in this episode of Pakistani Profiles.

Language: Urdu

Show: Pakistani Profiles

Guest: Umme Kulsoom

Description: Pakistani girls have immense amount of potential and talent that is yet to be explored. One of our young achievers is RJ and blogger Umme Kulsoom.  She is and has been involved with many organizations such as, Re-Evolve Pakistan, UN Academic ASPIRE, iEARN Pakistan and YES Alumni Pakistan, Karachi Tips, UNICEF and Rahnuma-FPAP.

Being an RJ, Kulsoom believes that radio has been quite a powerful medium before a lot of private channels appeared on television. The girl writes poetry, loves to dance and shop as well.

Langauge: English

Show: Pakistani Profiles

Host: Ayesha Tajwat

Guest: Syed Ovais Naqvi

Description: Syed Ovais Naqvi is a doctor by profession. He is the first Pakistani who took part in the formula racing career. He was born in Pakistan and then shifted to Oman in the Middle East to experience new cultures. “You get a better perspective of the world, experiencing different types of cultures,” says Ovais.

Ovais was into sports since his childhood. He liked playing baseball, squash and cricket. He was also fond of racing and thought to achieve something in it. He became his own trainer, by watching races on television and practicing on the roads.

That wasn’t all he had to do. He had to let go of medicine and pursue racing as a career. He travelled to Spain for further training and he completed the Formula BMW beginner racing course. For the advanced racing course he went to Bahrain.

Show: Pakistani Profiles

Host: Ayesha Tajwar

Guest: Rumaisa Monahi

Description: Granddaughter of famous Indian writer and poet, Hasrat Mohani, Rumaisa carries on her grandfather’s tradition of social activism through the new medium of blogging. She believes in being optimistic and is keen to share whatever knowledge she has.

Language: Urdu

Show: Pakistani Profiles

Host: Ayesha Tajwar

Guest: Umema Adil

Description: A Pakistani teenager who is the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in ASP.net. Umema has achieved superbly at a very young age. She is often seen hosting television programs. She does voice overs for television commercials as well. She loves to paint and sketch and has an athlete’s spirit in her as well.

Watch Umema Adil tell you about herself in this episode of Pakistani Profiles.

Language: English

Show: Pakistani Profiles

Host: Ayesha Tajwar

Guest: Umema Adil

Description:  A genius girl from Pakistan who is the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified professional. She has also been a host on television and has done many voice overs for TV commercials. She loves to paint, draw and actively participates in sports.

Watch this episode to find out more about Umema, her life and future plans.

Language: Urdu

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Name: Maleeha Mimi Bangash

Occupation: Career Woman

Websites: None

Detailed Profile: None

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Ms. Maleeha Mimi Bangash, has a vast experience in Investment and Finance. She holds an MBA degree from LUMS and Executive MBA degree from University of Chicago. In her career to date she demonstrated a results oriented approach by exploring and developing new ideas and concepts.

Maleeha has assumed leadership roles and has been instrumental in the success of key projects.

In Singapore, as Vice President Business Development of an international investment bank she devised the bank’s positioning strategy and assisted in the establishment of its Singapore office. Upon her return form Singapore she was instrumental in the highly successful launch of a leading local asset management firm and has headed its Marketing, Retail & Institutional Sales activities. Here she envisioned and setup the key functions of retail network, institutional sales and the entire marketing compaign.

Name: Cyma Ashraf

Occupation: Trainer/ Psychologist

Born On: July 15

Websites: None

Detailed Profile: Cyma Ashraf

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Cyma has almost seven years extensive experience in planning, managing and facilitating different projects and initiatives with development sector. Designed and conducted more than 100 trainings (maximum of ten days)with various groups which include Project Managers, Community workers, Project Field Workers, Parents, Teachers, Police Officials, Government Officials, on different issues which include, Self -awareness, Behavior Change and Communication (BCC), Life trauma and psychosocial rehabilitation, Physical Abuse and Positive Disciplining, Gender, Violence against Women(VAW), Child Protection specifically Child Sexual Abuse and commercial sexual exploitation( CSA/CSEC) and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights issues(SRHR), HIV/AIDS, facilitation skills, counseling skills and stress management.

She is currently working as Programme Manager SRHR education with WPF Pakistan aiming to improve the quality of life of people working in Pakistan by promoting their sexual and reproductive health, creating awareness of the importance of SRHR and sustainable development through capacity building initiatives, awareness raising activities and advocacy.

Name: Maheen Zakaria

Occupation: Student

Born On: 5- July

Websites: None

Detailed Profile: None

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Maaheen is an all-rounder and likes doing everything. Recently with the help of  two other team members,she won the ‘Best Chemistry Team Project’ at the National Science Olympiad (NSO) organized by Intel for the project ‘Photoelectrochemical behaviour of chlorophyll in a photovoltaic cell’ and will be representing Pakistan Internationally in Turkey, North Korea and Azerbaijan. She is always eager to bring about changes she wants to set an example for everyone and wants her  country to be the most successful nation in the whole world. She is proud of who she is. She wants people to see her country with respect. 

She has been quite successful in gaining the support of patriotic students and is looking forward to setting up a society in her school for the youth because after all they are the future of this country. She wants to be a successful cardiologist in future. Apart from that she wants to be a true Pakistani and make her country the best nation in the world.