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IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum Annual Report 2011-12
1. IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
MISSION STATEMENT
The IEEE Pakistan Women In Engineering Forum aims to integrate the Women In Engineering
Affinity Groups of Pakistan and provide them a platform where they could get recognized for their
contributions to IEEE and WIE. We intend to play our role in reducing the gap between the
industry and students through innovative programs and projects and strengthen the female
engineers of Pakistan socially, ethically and technically.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2011
Mehvish Zahoor - Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
I had always dreamed of providing female engineers a platform where
they could show their talents &get acknowledged for their potentials &
working skills. Pakistan Women In Engineering Forum turned out to be
the perfect platform for me to implement my ideas and getting
connected with the women in engineering members across Pakistan.
Maryam Saeed -Secretary IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum –
Islamabad Section
I joined IEEE to connect with the smart brains around the world. It’s
surprising to meet new people every day and learn about the vast fields
that they have worked in. IEEE is the window to the world of science,
technology and innovation. My journey with the Pakistan WIE Forum
has indeed been a great learning experience for me.
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Anum Javed - Treasurer IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
Pakistan WIE Forum provided me a chance to implement my plans regarding
the Pakistan Mission to Progress Project. I expect the IEEE membership
growth to accelerate world wide as IEEE continues to develop new products
and services and as members continue to spread the word to their
professional colleagues.
Rabia Khalid - Newsletter Editor Pakistan WIE Forum
IEEE is one of the best things that has happened to me so far. As a part of this
organization, I feel like being connected to the entire world & now WIE
provided me the platform to reach out to the entire country. It’s like an arena
where you can reach out to everything of your own interest.
Sana Syed- Web Administrator Pakistan WIE Forum
When I became a part of this global network, IEEE, I found valuable
opportunities to see my career in the right direction& a great experience to
manage &organize information &events at professional levels.
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PROJECTS by Pakistan WIE Forum
Since its inception, back in 2010, IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum has been struggling hard to achieve
the mission with which it was created. It has been playing its role very effectively for the
promotion of Women In Engineering Affinity Groups of Pakistan in Region 10. In a very short
period Pakistan WIE Forum has been working on various projects aiming membership growth,
surveys regarding females in the science and technology sectors, promotion and
acknowledgement of volunteering activities in Pakistan and membership retention programs.
Some major projects initiated by the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum in the span of two years are:
Pakistan Mission to Progress Project
Discover WIE – Membership Drive
Biannual Newsletter
She In Technology
STAR Program
PAKISTAN MISSION TO
PROGRESS PROJECT
Great difference lies in the rates of enrollment of boys, as compared to girls in academic
institutes of Pakistan. According to UNESCO statistics, primary school enrollment for girls
stands at 60 percent as compared to 84 percent for boys. The secondary school enrolment rate
stands at a lower rate of 32 per cent for females and 46 per cent males. This wind of gender
disparity also exists in engineering institutes of Pakistan but currently no statistics are available
in this regard yet. IEEE PAKISTAN WOMEN IN ENGINEERING FORUM initiated the project
named as “IEEE PAKISTAN MISSION TO PROGRESS” to provide gender equal opportunities
in science & society, to provide awareness about science, engineering & technology ,to
provide networking opportunities by connecting all Pakistan WIE affinity groups empowering
the hidden talent.
PAKISTAN MISSION TO PROGRESS Project was launched on May 19, 2011 at University of
Engineering & Technology Lahore, under the leadership of Anum Javed ,Treasurer IEEE
Pakistan WIE Forum.
Since its initiation, a number of socio-technical events have been conducted with mind blowing
success circumscribing PMP’s main agenda. The team of PMP is growing day by day covering
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all areas of Pakistan.
The exclusive features of this project were designed as:
Survey of the current Gender-equality status through questionnaire.
Gender-Equality promotion in co-operation with rural areas.
Conduct Seminars in three different IEEE sections of Pakistan for change of mind set.
Pakistan Mission to Progress Team structure follows as:
Project Head:
Anum Javed [Treasurer IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum, Lahore]
Section Coordinators:
Ayesha Ansari [Chair IEEE WIE UIT,Karachi]
Javeria Habib [Secretary IEEE WIE UET,Lahore]
Rumsha Younus [Chair IEEE WIE BU,Islamabad]
Nafeesa Mazhar [Vice-Chair IEEE WIE GCUF,Faisalabad]
Project Facilitator:
Bilal M Zaki [IEEE PNEC Karachi Section]
Volunteers:
Islamabad Section
Hammad Shafqat [Chairman MAJU Student Branch, Islamabad]
Anum Riaz [NUST SEECS, Islamabad]
Sarwish [NUST SEECS, Islamabad]
Hijab Malik [CASE, Islamabad]
Karachi Section
Sara Rehman Memon [Dept of Electrical Engineering,MUET, Jamshoro]
Wahaba Hussain [Chair IEEE-WIE NED UET, Karachi]
Maria Rana [Department of Electrical Engineering, UIT Karachi]
Syeda Sundus Haider [ MAJU, Karachi]
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Iqra Sajid [Vice-Chair WIE PNEC, Karachi]
Faria Ashfaq [SZABIST, Karachi]
Lahore Section
Aqdus Sadiq [Department of Electrical Engineering,NFC-IEFR,Faisalabad]
Ahmed Ali [Department of Electrical Engineering,COMSATS ,Lahore]
Faizan Quresh [Chair IEEE LUMS,Lahore]
Bilal Sheikh [Chair IEEE UMT,Lahore]
Fareeha Zafar [BNU,Lahore]
Azka Naseem [BNU,Lahore]
Dania Faraz [BNU,Lahore]
Fatima Yasmee [BNU,Lahore]
Other Volunteers
Sidra Bint-e-Saleem [Chair WIE IEEE NWFP-UET, Peshawar]
Sadaf Riaz [BUITEMS, Baluchistan]
The Pakistan Mission to Progress Project has been divided into two major phases. In phase one,
we visited different schools and colleges with the aim to create awareness among the young
females regarding the field of engineering. Through these efforts of the Pakistan Mission to
Progress Project team, we envision a brighter and better tomorrow where the young female
students are well aware of their role in their field of engineering and how they can bring about a
change in the world being an engineer.
Ms. Anum Javed, Pakistan Mission to Progress Project lead, has been carrying out this project
very smoothly. In doing so, she has been contacting all the student branches of Pakistan,
gathering their members’ data and encouraging volunteers to work for this cause. It was the
efforts of the Pakistan Mission to Progress team that a social network platform could be
established for all the IEEE Student Branches of Pakistan.
To carry out the targeted goals, the Pakistan Mission to Progress Project team visited different
schools and colleges and aspired the next generation of women in engineering.
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IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum Trip to Government
Kindergarten School (GKS) Faisalabad
WIE members of Pakistan WIE Forum, and IEEE GCUF Student Branch visited Government
Kindergarten School (GKS) Faisalabad, with the aim to motivate sense of responsibility, to
enhance self-reliability and to increase the technical awareness among the young unacquainted
female students. This event was supervised by Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan
WIE Forum & Consultant IEEE WIE GCUF. With the support and permission of the respected
principal of Government Kindergarten School, Madam Sumera Mehtab, a complete layout of all
discrete activities to be conducted, was prepared by using Gtalk plugin. This event was
coordinated by Madam Sobia, a staff member of GKS. More than sixty Computer Science,
Mathematics & Biology female students of 9th
& 10th
standards were sitting in the class having
seats arranged in elevated steps.
After the team introduction and greetings, Ms Saliha Kiran, Chairperson IEEE WIE GCUF,
started the session’s first activity named as “Ice breaking activity”. The purpose of this activity
was to make all the students
familiar with one another.
She asked two questions
from each student i.e. their
names & adjective from last
alphabet of their names. It
proved an interesting
activity spanning thirty to
thirty five minutes for all of
them. This targeted not only
to get familiar with the students but it was to give a keen and soft impression of us to them so
that they could find us easy to talk to and be more interactive and responding towards us.
After this, Ms Nafeesa Mazhar, Vice-Chair IEEE WIE GCUF conducted the career counseling
session for those young emblems of the future. The major highlights of Ms Nafeesa’s session
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were the necessary factors that are to be considered in field selection, confidence building & self-
reliability. She started off by asking a few questions relating to the previous icebreaking session
just to testify students’ attention. And then she continued with the most basic question of our
survey, “What you want become in your future?” Students enthusiastically replied to our
questions and the statistics were recorded as a result of the analysis. It became obvious that a
major percentage of the students, i.e. 34% as we recorded, literally did not have the idea of what
will they become on their future. Nafeesa interacted in a very ardent manner with those students
who had said that they do not know what to do in future. They have set no vision of their
academic era. She quoted journey of Albert Einstein’s & Isaac Newton’s failures in their student
lives to their unforgettable achievements in Physics. Moreover, to emphasize the importance of
teacher, she told them about Sir Winston’s Churchill story and his consistency mode of self-
belief. She ended with Gazi Muhammad Abdullah example, a 15 years old child from Karachi
city of Pakistan who has launched a project to eradicate pornography from Pakistan.
Miss Mehvish Zahoor conducted a special training session. Mehvish herself is an alumnus of the
Government Kindergarten School, studied there nine years ago. Mehvish initiated by telling her
story from her childhood to the reasons behind her today’s numerous international achievements.
She told them how she introduced the Women In Engineering Affinity Group in her university
and how she pain staked to achieve the “Best global WIE Affinity Group” award. Then, she took
another big initiative for
Pakistan’s female engineers by
initiating “IEEE Pakistan
Women in Engineering Forum”
in 2010 with the aim to
integrate all WIE affinity
groups of Pakistan in one unit.
Not only this, she was also
selected as Pakistan delegate to
go for IEEE R10
Student/GOLD/WIE Congress
Auckland 2011. And then she said them today I’m standing in front of you as a trainer in the
same classroom where I studied once and used to be an ordinary student like anyone else. She
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continued with some very important social and ethical issues like cleanliness, correct usage of
electrical gadgets and technological awareness.
A “DREAM BALLOONS Activity” was conducted in which balloons of different colors were
given in each row and then girls were asked to write down their dreams one by one followed by
passing to next student within limited time. In parallel to the Dream Balloon activity, six to eight
volunteers were called on for a sketching competition. They were provided with all the stationary
stuff and they world told the sketching theme which was “Pakistan-a peaceful country”. A
maximum of ten minutes were given for sketching out the best idea for how can Pakistan be
represented as a peaceful country.
After this a sketching competition was terminated and
evaluation was made by Pakistan WIE Forum representatives
and the staff members. Then, we announced the results and
Ms. Mehvish Zahoor distributed gifts to the winner, first and
second runner ups.
Event is concluded by the recitation of the beloved National
Anthem of Pakistan by all the students and a group photo. The
young witty minds were filled in with a lot of knowledge and
motivational thoughts. We received an amazing feedback
which clearly reflected that the students loved this experience
and insisted to come again to ignite their talent engine.
Maximizing the message: Inspire the next
generation of engineers!
- Trip to PN Model School, Karachi
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum, realizing the importance of creating awareness regarding the field of
engineering among the younger generations, along with the very active Women In Engineering
members of IEEE PNEC, arranged a trip to PN Model School Karachi, aiming to hold an
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interactive session with the students of matriculation and above and brief them about the vast
field of
engineering,
various
engineering
universities of
Karachi and of
course, about
Women In
Engineering.
Our WIE
Volunteers,
along with other
girls of PNEC,
went to the school on 25 November 2011. We were accorded a very warm welcome by the
administration and faculty. MS Zenab Ali, the IEEE PNEC WIE Chairperson began the
proceedings with a presentation about the IEEE Women in Engineering, how women are making
a difference in Pakistan, and in the world alongside men in the field of engineering and most
importantly why is it essential for bright women to choose engineering and how those present at
the session are living proof that women in engineering is not a myth originated during the ancient
times.
This was followed by a
brief intro of the life of
female students at PNEC,
NUST by Ms Kinza
Shafique who told the
attendees about the life of
young women engineering
students at PNEC, how
their needs are catered to
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and how they excel in both studies and extra-curricular activities at a prestigious college like
ours. We discussed the basic mindset of the girls in high-schools and that how they perceive the
idea of getting a job and what they expect from the professional world. We tried our best to
provide a fresh set of thoughts and give a new dimension to the ideas of the young women and
eliminate the stereotypes regarding females in engineering amongst the future generation of
professionals.
AWARENESS SESSION AT KHATOON-E-
PAKISTAN SCHOOL
IEEE-WIE-UIT conducted 1-Day awareness session of "WIE Pakistan mission to progress"
project of IEEE Pakistan
Women in Engineering
Forum [IEEE-PWF] at
KHATOON-E-PAKISTAN
GOVERNMENT GIRLS
SCHOOL KARACHI. The
theme of this session was:
"Rights of the Child and
Right to Education." The
session was conducted by
AISHA AMBREEN ANSARI (CHAIR WIE UIT) , HAFSA ASIF (V.CHAIR WIE UIT) and
MARIA RANA (GENERAL SECRETARY WIE UIT). Session started with an introduction
about IEEE, IEEE-WIE, and PAKISTAN WIE FORUM given by Aisha Ambreen Ansari with a
mission to increase awareness regarding the field of engineering among the younger generations.
We had interactive session with the students of matriculation and above and brief them about the
vast field of engineering. Importance of female engineers in the future was also a topic of long
debate.
As our main agenda was rights of the child and right to education we chooses khatoon-e-Pakistan
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Gov. Girls school as the students of the school
were not well aware of the fields of engineering.
They also had an old mindset regarding females in
the Field of engineering. Hafsa Asif told them
about courses of engineering offered in Pakistan.
The students showed great interest in the field of
solar energy. Maria Rana told them about the live
projects going on in Pakistan regarding solar
energy. The three speakers told the young students
about their ongoing final year projects.
PHASE TWO OF PAKISTAN MISSION TO PROGRESS
PROJECT
Next, in phase two, for the purpose of survey of the current Gender-equality status, an online
questionnaire form is being filled through these steps:
1. Each co-coordinator will forward the link of form to her respective section
universities volunteers and ask them to fill it from the students of university (at least 6 forms
from each disciples of engineering).
2. Ask volunteer to collect the no of total students enrolled in their university in 2011 in each
department. (They can take this info from the admission cell of their university)
3. Then we will compile this list in the format which we have already built in excel.
4. Survey form data will be automatically filled in Google docs
5. If 6 form from each department is not already being filled then we will ask volunteer of
respective university to get hard copy of form and get it filled and send us the scanned copy then
we will manually fill the form results on Google doc excel sheet.
6. At the end of all data collection we will represent the results in the form of Charts and graphs
and draw some conclusion.
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DISCOVER WIE
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Membership Drive with the title of Discover WIE, was initiated under the leadership of Maryam
Saeed (IEEE Islamabad Section) in May, 2011 with the aim to increase IEEE WIE memberships
in Pakistan.
This project was started off with the following agenda points:
Aim existing IEEE student branches and promote WIE memberships through these
Discover WIE membership drive sessions.
Promotion through presentation and videos about IEEE and WIE by a Pakistan WIE
Forum representative.
Pakistan WIE Forum representatives and other IEEE members talk to the audience
about their experiences in IEEE.
Promotion also includes an activity session to help engage students and help create an
idea of the IEEE environment.
On the spot, feedback forms will be filled for improvement in the Membership Drive
initiative.
DISCOVER WIE Episode 1
WIE IEEE NFC-IEFR Lahore Section, organized the membership drive Discover WIE on May
6th 2011 with the theme to create awareness among female students about the WIE network and
to increase the WIE population in the NFC
Student Branch.
The event was entitled as Techno-War day,
loaded with various technical events and
challenging activities for the attendees of
the event. Students from all over Lahore
Section participated in this auspicious
event including GCU Lhr , GCU Fsd, UET
Lhr, UET Fsd, UMT Lhr, USA Lhr & Dr.
A. Q Khan University. Mrs. Asma Adeel, Branch Counselor IEEE NFC-IEFR and Lahore
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Section Coordinator Pakistan WIE Forum, opened the event with her welcome address. Mehvish
Zahoor, Chairperson Pakistan WIE Forum proceeded the ceremony by introducing WIE
&explaining its networking & membership benefits.
This was followed by an activity ‘Express Your Idea.’ 4 teams were given 25 minutes to plan
activities within a specific budget. The team with the most innovative ideas and planning was
declared the winner. This session was successful in helping female engineers interact and
discover the opportunities that come along an IEEE Membership.
DISCOVER WIE Episode 2
The second Episode of DISCOVER WIE –Membership Drive was conducted at the University
of Engineering and Technology Lahore on May 19, 2011, a one hour session conducted by
representatives of the Pakistan WIE Forum. The main purpose of the event was to create a better
understanding among the female students of UET of the benefits of IEEE and WIE membership.
The speaker for the event was Ms. Rabia Khalid,
Chairperson IEEE PNEC Student Branch and Executive
Member of the Pakistan WIE Forum. She started off her
presentation with the introduction to IEEE and
enlightened the attendees for how IEEE can be of use for
them at undergraduate level. She highlighted the
differences between Google an IEEE and explained them
how IEEE holds an upper hand over Google citing
60,000 patents where as Google having no consistent
standards of technical excellence displays random info to its users. She also explained the
networking of IEEE and how it can prove to you as a platform to realize your dreams and run
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towards your goals. She emphasized
that we should focus on reasons why
females in the field of engineering
de-crease on every step. They lack
mentorship, job op-opportunities,
career guidance, contacts and
relations and an easy approach to all
of them is the network of WIE. WIE
offers you online resources for
women in computing, scholarships,
internships, projects grants,
informative publications and much more. She concluded the session by highlighting some
examples and facts that showed how the net-work of WIE helps you add stars to your career and
personality.
DISCOVER WIE Episode 3
The Third Episode of DISCOVER WIE –Membership Drive was conducted at the UIT. It was a
two hour session conducted by representatives of the Pakistan WIE Forum. The speakers for the
event were Ms. Rabia Khalid, Chairperson IEEE PNEC Student Branch and Executive Member
of the Pakistan
WIE Forum
and Ms. Sana
Syed, Website
Development
Officer,
Pakistan WIE
Forum. They
started off the
session by
sharing their
experiences
and giving
reasons to why
we become
IEEE member,
what
advantages
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have they been availing from their memberships. Then they moved on to the discussion of how
IEEE can serve as the missing piece of puzzle that you need to complete in order to get to your
goals. They talked about various IEEE platforms that can help us improve our networking,
personal and social skills. The session was concluded by an activity in which each student was
asked to write down their fears and failures on a piece of paper, then a paper plane was made out
if it and it was thrown away with as much force as possible. This was to make them realize that
throwing away your fears is really doable and makes you feel better. Chairman Karachi Section,
Engr. Parkash Lohana presided the session and awarded certificates to the speakers and
organizers of the event.
DISCOVER WIE Episode 4
IEEE WIE Bahria University Islamabad
conducted “Discover WIE” session on Friday,
16th
March 2012 of their recently established
WIE affinity group. BUI is the first university
from Islamabad section to have conducted this
session becoming the first one with an active
WIE branch. The introductory WIE session
was followed by a CV writing workshop for
better interest of students.
The Chief Guest of the event was HOD EE
department Mr. Jehanzeb Ahmed. We were honored by the presence of the General Secretary of
PWF; Maryam Saeed , MS in Finance from university of Auckland; Mr. Ameer Hassan as guest
speaker for CV writing workshop , Ishba Shehzad from FAST and Miss. Sumbal from NUST.
The event started with WIE
introductory session. Students were
informed about the benefits of IEEE
WIE. All the necessary and possible
questions were tackled effectively in the
presentation by WIE Chairperson
Rumshaa Yunus. The main agenda of
the session also declared as WIE BUI’s
aim was that “Progress is proportional
to contribution and contribution is
incomplete without women’s share in
it.” After the presentation Miss.
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Maryam was invited to share her experience with the students and to enlighten them about the
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum. Maryam explained the students about the functioning of the Pakistan
WIE Forum and how this forum has effectively been playing its role in integrating the WIE
Affinity Groups of Pakistan. She highlighted various projects that are being carried out by the
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum including Pakistan Mission to Progress and the Biannual Newsletter
and also talked about various volunteering opportunities offered by the Pakistan WIE Forum.
BIANNUAL NEWSLETTER
Project Head:
Rabia Khalid
Chairperson IEEE PNEC
Newsletter Editor IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
Project Coordinators:
Hudaisa Afzal
IEEE Member, Pakistan Navy Engineering College – Karachi Coordinator
Fatma Faruq
IEEE Member, E & ME College – Islamabad Coordinator
Pakistan WIE Newsletter – Volume I
The Biannual Newsletter Project was initiated on the 9th March 2011 and the first Volume of the
Pakistan WIE Newsletter was released on 9th July 2011. With its release, a wide distribution of
the Pakistan WIE Newsletter took place in the Region 10 Students’ Congress 2011, Auckland, by
Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum. A softcopy of the Pakistan WIE
Newsletter was distributed to IEEE/WIE members across Pakistan and in Region10 via email.
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The newsletter reflected the hard work and dedication of the various WIE Affinity Groups of all
the IEEE Sections of Pakistan in organizing various technical and non-technical events. The first
edition of the Pakistan WIE Newsletter included reports from:
WIE AG NEDUET – Karachi Section
WIE AG PNEC – Karachi Section
WIE AG UET – Lahore Section
WIE AG GCUL – Lahore Section
WIE AG NFC IEFR – Karachi Section
It also included a brief introduction of the Executive Committee Pakistan WIE Forum. One most
eminent feature of this Newsletter Volume was an exclusive interview with Ms. Takako
Hashimoto, Region 10 Women In Engineering Coordinator.
The Newsletter also contained Remarks from honorable IEEE personals, Mr. Parkash Lohana
Chairman IEEE Karachi Section, Mr. Shafay Shumail Chairman IEEE Lahore Section along
with a note Ms. Durdana Habib, IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum Mentor and Chairperson WIE
Affinity Group Islamabad Section.
First edition of the biannual Pakistan WIE Newsletter can be viewed at:
http://sites.ieee.org/pakistan-wie-forum/pakistan-wie-forum-1st-newsletter/
Pakistan WIE Newsletter –Volume II
The second edition of the Pakistan WIE Newsletter had rather more of a formal theme. Released
as the spring volume, it contained the front news of the Pakistan Women In Engineering
representation at the R10 Students Congress where Ms Mehvish Zahoor represented WIE
Pakistan. It also included highlights of:
Pakistan WIE Forum Session at NEDUET Student Branch Karachi Section
Inaugural Ceremony – WIE UIT Affinity Group Karachi Section
Pakistan WIE Forum visit to Kindergarten School with WIE GCUF Lahore Section
Membership Drive; Discover WIE Episode III – WIE UIT Affinity Group Karachi
Section
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Trip to PN Model School - WIE PNEC Affinity Group Karachi Section
Meeting of R10 Congress Pakistan Delegates with student members of IEEE Karachi
Section
IEEE Day Celebrations at IEEE WIE GCUF Lahore Section
This newsletter was a dedication to the young hero of Pakistan, Ms Arfa Karim (late). It included
an article about the life of Arfa Karim and how she has been a great value to Pakistan. Ms.
Mehvish Zahoor also added to the newsletter and welcomed Ms. Ammara Ghani, Peshawar Sub-
section representative to the Pakistan WIE Forum. She also talked about the project SiT (She in
Technology) proposed by Ms. Ammara Ghani and the idea behind this project.
One of the most prominent features of the spring volume was an exclusive interview with Ma’am
Ramaltha Marimuthu, Chairperson IEEE Women In Engineering. Ms, Hudaisa Afzal being the
interviewee, balanced the interview perfectly by asking Ramaltha questions about her personal,
volunteer and professional life, and what are her aims and vision for IEEE Women In
Engineering.
Takako Hashimoto also contributed to the newsletter and thanked Ms. Mehvish Zahoor for
representing the Women In Engineering of Pakistan and being a supportive delegate at the R10
Students Congress.
Towards the end, the newsletter contained a technology insight section where it contained
articles about techniques for 3D reconstruction, resource allocator and schedule management
system and analysis of gp41 antigenic epitopes of HIV etc.
This Newsletter volume also contained Remarks from honorable IEEE personals, Mr. Om
Parkash, R10 Student Representative (2011), who has always been a motivation for the Women
In Engineering Affinity Groups in Pakistan and for the Pakistan WIE Forum and Mr. Amir
Zahoor, Chairman IEEE GOLD Sweden Affinity Group, also one of the founders of the Pakistan
WIE Forum, who has been a great source of inspiration for the Pakistan WIE Forum. This
newsletter volume can be read and downloaded from: http://sites.ieee.org/pakistan-wie-
forum/pakistan-wie-forum-1st-newsletter/
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SiT - She in Technology
By Ammara Ghani
“During my span of unemployment that i spent at home, I felt that there should be a platform or
an opportunity for females where they can polish there technical and communication skills and
they are able to do something while being at home”
SIT basically stands for She In Technology which aims to provide a platform connecting
professionals and students in the field of engineering and technology for a strong coordination
and bonding amongst females and to provide as much ease for the female students as possible so
that they can get internships and jobs easily.
SiT is aimed to be taken up with the collaboration of IOPWE. The IOPWE offers scholarships
for your educational degree with the conditions that the student signs a bond with IOPWE that
states that whenever possible in life, the student shall provide volunteering services for IOPWE.
Ammara Ghani, being a volunteer of IOPWE and the SiT Lead, is availing this opportunity to
take this project along with IOPWE and Pakistan WIE Forum.
SIT is in its early stages of team building and documentation. The SiT hierarchy will be as
follows:
Board Members
SiT Lead
o Internships Head
o Job Section Head
o Workshops Head
Three coordinators from all three IEEE Sections of Pakistan shall be working under the
committee heads as Section Coordinators.
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WIE Ex-com Training Sessions
Members of the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum are playing their role in training the WIE members of
various Affinity Groups of Pakistan. They, in their capacity, are doing their best in reaching out to
the Women In Engineering Affinity Groups of Student Branches of their respective IEEE
Sections, talk out to them, address their problems and suggest them with appropriate solutions.
Pakistan WIE Forum members are voluntarily carrying out this task and till now have covered a
number of Affinity Groups of Pakistan and trained many WIE members to become a competent,
leading and visionary female volunteer.
Some of the WIE Affinity Groups executive committee members that are trained and motivated
by the Pakistan WIE Forum members are:
University of Engineering & Technology Lahore
Usman Institute of Technology Karachi
Government College University Faisalabad
Bahria University Islamabad
Pakistan Navy Engineering College Karachi
NFC – IEFR, Faisalabad
NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi
UMT, Lahore
Ex-Com training session at University of
Engineering & Technology Lahore
Mehvish Zahoor and Rabia Khalid conducted a very interactive and friendly training
session with the executive committee members of the IEEE WIE University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore Section. Starting off with the basics of event reporting and team
building, Mehvish Zahoor talked about running a student branch effectively with
generating activities that would benefit the members and also attract new members while
Rabia Khalid encouraged them towards bringing professionalism to their working and
maintaining a proficient approach for all the happenings of the branch.
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Ex-Com training session at Government College
University Faisalabad
Miss Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan Women In Engineering Forum was invited
for an executive committee training session of WIE GCUF members, on December 22, 2012,
after Feedback session of their "IEEE Day With GCUF". The basic idea behind this training
session was to enhance their managerial skills. It was key points to improve after the event
execution. Mehvish Zahoor presented the members different situations and asked them to tackle
according to their styles. She provided the necessary guidance to the branch members for their
future execution of events. The training session was ended with honorary lunch with IEEE
GCUF Team.
Ex-Com training session at Usman Institute of
Technology Karachi
Rabia Khalid and Sana Syed conducted an Executive Committee Training Session for WIE
Affinity Group Usman Institute of Technology Karachi. The reason behind this session was to
help the newly formed committee of UIT and to provide them the possible guidance for their
upcoming events. Rabia and Sana discussed with them some important issues related to
management of events & tactics for handling the timings for any activity/session and also
explained them how to divide up into teams and carry out the marketing of any activity in
different phases. The meeting was fruitful and the results of it were seen a few weeks later when
UIT WIE members organized a mega event for their inaugural session.
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PAKISTAN WIE FORUM
REPRESENTATIVES - SPEAKERS
AT VARIOUS EVENTS
IEEE Membership Promotional
Seminar - by IEEE NFC Student
Branch Faisalabad
IEEE NFC-IEFR student branch organized a promotional seminar for the new incoming
batch of students to have a brief introduction about IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum. The
main objective was to bring new and more students to this field for exquisite results.
A function was organized including few fun activities and the presentations from
guests. Different presenters were invited for the presentations and to provide students
different information about IEEE WIE Forum.
IEEE membership
promotional seminar, as
the name shows refers
to promotional or
guideline something for
a fresh start. Every year
IEEE and WIE NFC-
IE&FR arrange
membership
promotional seminar for
the fresh students who
have just joined the
university and are new
to the setup of the
society. This year the
event was a bit different
and turned out to be a huge success. This is, Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE
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Pakistan WIE Forum was invited to speak over the occasion and enlighten the students
with the benefits of joining IEEE and WIE. She also highlighted the networking and
operational structure of the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum and explained the students about
its various projects being implemented across Pakistan.
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“Bringing Engineering to Life”
NEDUET Student Branch
A membership drive held by the IEEE and IEEE-WIE NED
University of Engineering and Technology (NEDUET) Student
Branch entitled “Bringing Engineering to Life” was held in
Karachi, Pakistan. The aim of the event was to inspire and
encourage, especially, female students, to be a part of the IEEE-
WIE community for empowerment of their engineering potential
over the globe.
Rabia Khalid was invited as the speaker for the event where she
spoke about the benefits of IEEE and IEEE-WIE membership,
being a female IEEE member and encouraged the female students
to join IEEE-WIE. She also explained why is it important to
volunteer and to maintain balance between your grades and co-
curricular activities. She also told the students about various
volunteering opportunities in Global Integrated Network of IEEE, Pakistan Women In Engineering
Forum and Graduates Of Last Decade Affinity Group.
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UIT WIE Inaugural Session
The launching ceremony of IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity Group was a magnanimous
event. Many guest speakers were invited to motivate,
encourage and guide the newly launched affinity group.
The first speaker to address the audience was Dr. Manzoor
Ahmed who is the Chairman Usman Institute of Technology.
He welcomed the guests for coming to attend the session.
The next speaker was Mr. Wasim Akhtar, Director UIT. He
encouraged the women of the institute to take part in co-
curricular activities. Mr. Sibt-e-Ahmed Jafri, Vice President
IEEEP South Region discussed the importance of women in
imparting education, their professional ethics, research and
improvement in curricular and co-curricular activities. Engr.
Tahir Saleem, Chairman IEEEP Karachi Section shared the
history of IEEEP and talked about career guidance and counseling for female engineers.
The next speaker was Senator Rukhsana Zuberi who is the Chairperson Women in Energy
Pakistan. She pointed out the challenges faced by women in social networking, social interaction
and sharing of knowledge among societies and communities. She delivered the message of
encouragement to the female
engineers and told them to
be visible, be visionary and
be bold to face challenges.
Miss Rabia Khalid shared
her journey in WIE as
newsletter editor. She also
appreciated the efforts of
UIT in the launching
ceremony. She also gave
ideas through which we can improve the percentage of female engineers working in the field.
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Membership Drive – WIE IEEE
PNEC Student Branch
IEEE PNEC Student Branch held its Membership Drive on 20th April 2012. IEEE PNEC has
always made an effort to blend in fun and technology well. This drive was conducted to let the
students know of the manifested benefit of joining IEEE and to encourage them to be a part of
this society. The one and a half hour session consisted of interactive sessions from Hassaan
Idrees – the GINI Representative of Region 10, Ms. Rabia Khalid –Pakistan WIE Forum
Chairperson and Student Representative for South Asia Gold Committee, IEEE PNEC and Mr.
Onib Nasir –Chairperson, IEEE PNEC.
Along with the presentations of Hassaan
Idrees, regarding the benefit of joining
IEEE, Mr.Onib Nasir, about the working of
IEEE PNEC, Rabia Khalid, who has served
as the Vice Chair WIE PNEC for the year
2010-2011, Chairperson IEEE for year
2011-2012, and is now the current
Chairperson of Pakistan WIE Forum, gave
a comprehensive review of Women In
Engineering. Being the WIE PNEC Vice Chair herself for the year 2010, she had ample
opportunities to portray her skills through this forum. WIE PNEC follows the universal motto of
encouraging women towards science and technology. Students, especially girls were encouraged
to be a part of this extensive network.
Rabia further elaborated the various other opportunities available to the girls by becoming a part
of WIE and how to promote women in engineering in this male dominated society. Having been
a part of WIE for the previous 3 years, she shared her success story and recounted her
experiences and the benefits that WIE has provided to her. The session ended with an interactive
game for the audience – the Pictionary. The audience was divided into two teams. One member
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from each team was given a word which he had to explain by a drawing. The session was fun
and enjoyable. This drive was indeed an effort to create a better and clear vision of IEEE among
the students and to encourage them to be a part of this global organization.
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WIE Women Entrepreneurship Conference`12
The first ever WIE Women Entrepreneurship Conference’12 in Pakistan was held on Saturday,
May 26, 2012, at UIT, Karachi, by the outgoing final year students of the Usman Institute of
technology in collaboration with Engineering & Industrial
Review (EIR), a large number of participants attended the
event which showed it to be one of the most successful event
held during recent days, especially to its relevancy.
The conference began with the recitation of Holy Quran.
Speakers at the sessions were Rohana Iqbal, Sadia Naz,
Sumrah Ahmed, Dr. Rubina Ghani, Rubina Iqbal, Lubna
Namazi, Kashif Qureshi, Fahim Ahmed, Dr. Salima Ahmed,
Rabia Khalid and Dr. Shireen Khanzada. After the welcome
address, IEEE Karachi Section Vice Chair, Engr. Parkash
Lohana addressed the audience.
Along with the other speakers, Ms. Rabia Khalid,
Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum spoke about
“Women’s ways of leadership.” By giving the examples of Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandler,
Oprah Winfrey, she explained the audience about how females are different from their male
coworkers as a team member and as a leader. She highlighted the different qualities of the
females which make them effective and successful leaders.
At the end shield was
presented to the
speakers and certificates
were also given out to
the WIE organizing
team.
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Sessions & Events Conducted by
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS
GCUF Lahore Section
“Just Believe in Your Dreams” was con-ducted on 6th October’11 during the
celebrations of “IEEE Day with GCUF” with
collaboration of IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum.
More than 75 people participated in this
event from four different universities of
Faisalabad. The event started off with the
name of Allah and after that, an introduction
to the Pakistan WIE Forum by Ms Mehvish
Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE PWF. She
proceeded with the video conferencing
session with Muhammad Saad on the topic of
“Making dreams come true”. Muhammad
Saad is pursuing Masters in Communications
Engineering and research at University of
Massachusetts Amherst USA and has
completed his under-grad in
telecommunications from FAST NUCES
Karachi, associated with IEEE since 2007
and has served as SAC Chair IEEE Karachi
section for 2010-2011, having the honor of being the youngest SAC in IEEE
ever. He started with the concepts of dreams and asked everyone to write
their dreams on paper and visualize your dreams. He explained this in steps
like love what you do (step 1), keep the fire burning (step 2), Trust in
ALLAH (step 3) and most importantly Say good bye to your negativity.
Muhammad Saad also inspired the attendees by sharing his life experience of
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how he joined IEEE and how his dream to study at USA turned to reality. A
session was also conducted by Ms. Mehwish Khan on the topic of “Women
Inspiration & Empowerment.”
Mehwish Khan is currently pursuing her BTech degree in Electronics &
Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia Uni -versity, India. She is WIE
Delhi Section-Member, Executive Committee and PR and Communicati ons
Team, GINI Provisional Working Committee. She also represented the
Engineering for Change at the Region 10 Student Congress in Auckland, New
Zealand, 2011. She explained about the mission and vi sion of WIE. Her
presentation included some important stats about WIE membership growth
which helped the attendees to understand the ratio of membership of WIE on
yearly basis with
R10 having highest
number of female
members. She
further continued
by explaining the
word “Inspiration”
and mentioned that
WIE has been her
inspiration. She
also mentioned
some role models
of her life in life
including Helen Keller (the angel of the Blind), Marie Curie (renowned
scientist), Indira Gandhi (ex - PM, INDIA), Prof. Mini S. Thomas( Branch
Counselor IEEE JMI and Vice Chair, MGA), Prof. Ramalatha Marimuthu
(IEEE WIE Chair) and Pakistan WIE Forum! She concluded the session by
presenting a brief introduction about IEEE Humanitarian technology, some
successful stories of it, its most important SIGHT and how it involves and
engages students. She ended with a note “Think Globally, Act Locally”.
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Pakistan WIE Forum Session at
NEDUET—Karachi Section
On June 27 2011, Pakistan WIE Forum held a session at NEDUET with the WIE
members of NED, Pakistan Navy Engineering College and Usman Institute of
Technology. Mehvish
Zahoor, Chairperson
Pakistan WIE Forum,
spoke about the
structure of the Pakistan
WIE Forum and the
vision with which it
was initiated. She
explained the WIE
members of the Kara-
chi Section how can
they be a part of the
Pakistan WIE Forum
and the nationwide
opportunities this forum
offers for the female
engineers of Pakistan.
She also discussed the various projects initiated by the Pakistan WIE Forum and their
progress. The event was concluded with small prizes given out to the winners of the
activities conducted during the session.
International Women’s Day
Celebrations
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum celebrated the international Women's Day on March 8 th
2012. The idea behind this interviewing session was to conduct interview sessions
at different locations of Pakistan, from females belonging to different fields and
professions. The interviews can be read and downloaded from
http://sites.ieee.org/pakistan-wie-forum/womens-day-special/
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Meetings Attended by the Members of
Pakistan WIE Forum
PAKISTAN WIE REPRESENTATION AT
R10 STUDENT/GOLD/WIE CONGRESS
Eight delegates from Pakistan at-tended the IEEE Region 10 Student/GOLD/WIE Congress that
was held from 7-10 July 2011 at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Pakistani
delegates proved to be among the most active participants of the congress, standing out with
nearly every delegate delivering presentations at this prestigious event. IEEE geographic and
GOLD/WIE Forums were held on the 2nd day i.e., Friday July 8th, 2011. The delegates were
divided into groups to hold discussions specific to their geographic areas. These discussions were
con-ducted by Takako Hashimoto, Professor Susmita Sur-Kolay, Dr.Rachana Garg, and Zuhaina.
There Ms Mehvish
Zahoor shared the
success story of
Pakistan WIE
Forum and
explained the
structure of this
forum to the WIE
members of R10.
Some projects
which are related to
WIE Activities in
Pakistan were also
shared. Employers
(and other parties)
presented stalls in
the atrium. R10
WIE had also
arranged a stall in
which Pakistan WIE Forum contributed through posters, videos displayed on the stall and Ms
Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum presented WIE benefits to visitors as
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well as distributed “Pakistan WIE Newsletter.” The Pakistan WIE Newsletter was printed out
with the support of Om Parkash Batra and Madam Takako and was distributed among all
congress delegates.
On 3rd Day 9th July 2011 Ms Mehvish Zahoor presented on the topic “Female Empowerment in
our Culture.” She explained that Pakistan WIE Forum, with its expanded network all over the
country, envisions conducting surveys in Pakistan, and working on the appropriate solutions to
those problems. She also said that we envisage changing the rigidity of our culture and
converting our country into a progressive nation. This can be replicated in many Asian countries
like India, Bangladesh etc. She explained the attendees that we've planned to establish three
operational networks on pre-university, university and professional level. Through the platform
of IEEE, Paki-stan WIE Forum will create links between students and the in-dustry. These
groups will provide guidance at that specific level and also educate the community about
opportunities and challenges will young female face. Not only this, these net-works will include
new potential and use them to work for the best solutions of the problems.
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Annual General Meeting – Lahore Section
Mehvish zahoor attended the Annual General Meeting held at GC University on December 20,
2011 and presented an opportunity for interaction and exchange of information with fellow
members. The IEEE Lahore Section annual report was presented by the ChairmanDr Shafay
Shamail. Mehvish, Chair IEEE PWF, presented annual report 2010-11 to IEEE Lahore Section.
shee presented a summary of the events, activities, projects and achievements of PWF over the
past year. He also highlighted some activities planned for the future such as PMP and SIT.
IEEE GOLD CONGRESS 2011
This Congress was meant for the recent graduates and graduating persons to interact with
industry leaders and entrepreneurs. It included sessions on several themes such as innovation,
entrepreneurship, resume and career building. It featured talks and panel discussions by eminent
industry leaders as well as several team building, expertise sharing activities. All of the sessions
were very interactive and different strategies had been fruitfully implemented to maintain the
interest of the audience.
The University of Faisalabad in collaboration with IEEE GOLD Lahore section arranged this
congress for graduates in Faisalabad. The Congress was attended by many esteemed figures from
all over Pakistan:
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HONOURS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
IEEE R10 Women in Engineering (WIE) is an international professional organization
dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists The IEEE R10 WIE
Student/GOLD Volunteer Group 2012 was formed and Ms. Mehvish Zahoor,
Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum (2011) was appointed as a part of the group
along with other fellows from Region 10. The team comprises of:
Representative: Mehvish Zahoor
Webmaster: Swetha Sampath Bobba
Information Manager: Dr. Maheshi Dissanayake
Member: M Idham Habib
Volunteer: Ainun J
Member: Hassaan Idrees
Member: Ms. Alka Isac
The Region 10 South Asia GOLD Committee was formed in January 2012. Ms. Rabia
Khalid, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum (2012) was selected as the Student
Representative for the South Asia GOLD Committee.
The Region 10 South Asia GOLD Committee was formed in January 2012 and Ms.
Mehvish Zahoor was appointed as the WIE Coordinator South Asia GOLD Committee
Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, on the basis of her outstanding achievements and dedication, was
also appointed as the Chairperson WIE Affinity Group Lahore Section.
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The Handing-over
The IEEE Pakistan Women In Engineering Forum is continually striving to provide the WIE Affinity Groups
of Pakistan a platform that recognizes their contributions to IEEE and Women In Engineering. The
achievements of the Pakistan WIE Forum and struggle of the team prove that an energetic and strong
team can really make a difference and initiate a wave of change within the country. This does not end
here. We still have a long way to go. With the completion of the tenure of First Executive Committee,
the offices were handed over to the second executive committee on April 13, 2012. The second
executive committee of the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum is already geared up and ready to take its position
and get working.
The Second Executive Committee is:
Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum - Rabia Khalid, Karachi
Vice Chair – Aiman Rasheed, Peshawar
Secretary – Rumshaa Yunus, Islamabad
Treasurer – Mehak Akhlaq, Islamabad
Pakistan Mission to Progress Lead – Anum Javed, Lahore
She in Technology Project Lead – Ammara Ghani, Peshawar
Newsletter Editor – Farah Saleem, Karachi
Marketing and Communications Head – Javeria Habib, Lahore
Website Administrator – Sidra Farooq, Peshawar
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END NOTE
The team of IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum is extremely thankful to Madam Ramalatha Marimuthu,
without whom the establishment of this forum wouldn’t have been possible. I thank Takako
Hashimoto, for always supporting us and encouraging us to step ahead and expand our network.
I would specially like to thank Mr. Shafay Shumail, Chairman Lahore Section (2010-11) for
playing a vital role in the recognition of this Forum and Mr. Parkash Lohana for always
supporting us with our activities.
Also I would like to thanks Mr. Om Parkash Batra, Mr. Ravendar Laal and Muhammad Saad for
motivating us to promote this network and helping us throughout. Thanks to Mr. Amir Zahoor,
SSR Lahore Section (2009-10) and Mr. Saad Zafar of IEEE GCUF Student Branch, who laid the
foundation of this project and provided us a platform where we can implement our ideas and
strive for them.
I thank Madam Durdana Habib for being our mentor and guiding us all the way through. Very
special thanks to Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, for taking up this project from the very scratch and
leading it to great heights. She has been a great leader and a teacher. Thanks to the Pakistan WIE
Forum Ad-hoc committee and the First Executive Committee, for their valuable contributions to
the Forum without which we would not have been able to carry on all the planned projects. I
would also thank Mr. Bilal Zaki, Mr. Onib Nasir and Mr. Hassaan Idrees of IEEE PNEC Student
Branch for always guiding me and helping me with the decisions of Pakistan WIE Forum and
encouraging me to bring innovations and put in my best.
Rabia Khalid
Chairperson
Pakistan WIE Forum (2012)