Video from Convention
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 8, 2007
During the convention you will be able to see live video below.
[Official videography at Convention 2007 by WBT-TV.com.]
این ای ڈی کنوینشن ۲۰۰۷، سان ہوزے، کیلی فورنیا
Posted by Cemendtaur on September 7, 2007
میری مادر علمی جامعہ این ای ڈی نے اپنے بچے پوری دنیا میں پھیلا دیے ہیں۔ ہم اس ماں کے چاہنے والے بہت سے بیٹے اور بیٹیاں یہاں شمالی امریکہ میں بھی موجود ہیں۔ دو برس پہلے یہ سلسلہ شروع ہوا ہے کہ جامعہ این ای ڈی سے تعلیم حاصل کرنے والے لوگ سال میں ایک دفعہ شمالی امریکہ میں کسی ایک جگہ جمع ہوتے ہیں۔ این ای ڈی کنوینشن ۲۰۰۵ اور ۲۰۰۶ کامیابی سے منعقد کیے چکے ہیں اور اب تیسرے کنوینشن کی تیاریاں زوروں پہ ہیں۔ اس سال کا این ای ڈی کنوینشن سان ہوزے، کیلی فورنیا میں ستمبر ۸ بروز ہفتہ منعقد کیا جائے گا۔ اس کنوینشن میں شمالی امریکہ میں بسنے والے این ای ڈی کے طلبہ تو شریک ہوں گے ہی، کچھ لوگ پاکستان سےخصوصی طور پہ اس پروگرام کے لیے یہاں آرہے ہیں۔۔ WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
NED Alumni Giving
Posted by riaz_haq on
NED University & Alumni Giving
By Riaz Haq
Sept 2, 2007
Summary:
Alumni of US schools play a significant role in the lives of their alma maters. There are well-established traditions and mechanisms in place for alumni giving their time, money, and various resources to enhance the academic life and extra-curricular activities of almost all schools in the US. Even public universities such as University of California system boast of their alumni support as a source of funding and a way to attract the best faculty, significant research grants from industry and government, and higher rankings by various ranking bodies including US News & World Report. As a rule, the older campuses of UC system are ranked higher than the newer ones based mostly on the size of the alumni and their track record. In recent years, the IIT system, established in the 1950s in our neighboring India, has taken a leaf from this US tradition and resulted in a dramatic boost in their international reputation and brand recognition through the work of their alumni in the US and elsewhere. NEDUET is a 76 year old institution of higher learning in Karachi, Pakistan with a sizable and highly accomplished alumni population in Pakistan, US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Yet, NEDUET has not derived the benefits from their vast and wealthy alumni body that are quite common and expected in the US universities as well as IITs in India. This article is written to propose how this situation can be rectified. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Father of Pakistani Blogosphere
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 4, 2007
In the very first post on this blog, when I was providing an introduction to prominent NEDians in the blogsosphere, I introduced “Tee Emm” (Tariq Mustafa, Batch ‘90-91) as “probably one of the first people to write a blog out of Pakistan”. But it appears that my cautious characterization was unnecessary.
The Karachi Metroblog team (Metroblogging ®, for the uninitiated, is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web–from San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what’s going on in the city) recently held a seminar at “The Second Floor” (a coffeehouse, featuring a bookshop and a space for creative expression and intelligent discourse in Karachi) titled “Blogging 101″. You can read their own report here, but what caught my eye was the following slide:
Which means that I stand corrected. It is good to see general recognition for the work of an NEDian who’s been hacking away in the netroots for a long, long time. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
NED: A Political and Social History. Part I (1980)
Posted by safwan_shah on August 30, 2007
When I joined NED, we were in the 2nd or 3rd year of Zia’s Pakistan. It was a strange era as we hadn’t yet realized how rapidly the country was changing. The refugees from Afghanistan had not yet impacted the entire country; there was a lot of moral preaching and some moral policing but nothing that was remarkable. In retrospect that was a strange era – we were actually in limbo and didn’t know it is probably the best way to put it. Cultural norms were starting to change as more and more people took sides on religious issues.
In a surreal sort of a way, Pakistan was becoming rigid in its innermost ideology but we had no way of knowing that. There was just no way anyone could predict where we were headed. You would very occasionally see someone who carried an unkempt beard … there would be about 10 to 15 students in the on-campus mosque – at most. Everyone was very nice and cordial. No one would be judged on their looks, likes and interests. Calling a progressive a “dhahria” (atheist) was perhaps the worst one would hear; and calling Jamatis “agents of the US” the other opposite. There was still a Friendship House (the Soviet empire hadn’t yet folded) and we would get the occasional CIA or KGB recruitment on campus … WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
