Our
community has produced some of the finest professionals from medical
doctors to engineers, scientists, scholars, businessmen, and university
professors. As a matter of fact one Pakistani youth served as the speech
writer for our former President, William J. Clinton. The speech
consisted of Indus civilization, which Mr. Clinton gave in Pakistan.
Our aspiring future goals and strategy for PAC are as follows:
Our
aspiring future goals and strategy for PAC are abundant. The sky being
the limit.
There
is never enough work that we can do for our community. Conversely, there
are some short-term goals that we wish to accomplish with active help
from the community and leaders and the newly elected team.
One of the immediate tasks ahead of us is to activate our youngsters
with whom our hopes and our future lies. They must be encouraged and
groomed to participate in the mainstream political arena. We have to
launch these leaders to the US congress and the US senate. Our younger
generation having been born and raised in this digital age carry a
different outlook. Our youngsters know how to work as a team and the
ability to forge alliances with like-minded groups. It is important to
give them guidance and some platform to identify themselves with. It
is unfortunate that due to lack of proper counseling, most of our youth
opt for professionals like medicine and engineering only.
We need people in every field and every walk of life in this country.
It is extremely important that we encourage our children to study
political science, law, journalism, media, communication, and economics.
We must prepare a new team of young people who can safeguard our civil
liberties to ensure prosperity for all of us in the United States of
America.
Another completely untapped resource of our community which PAC would
like to promote is Pakistani-American women. The recent appointment of
Mrs. Fauzia Kasuri as the chairperson of PAC women wing in the newly
elected executive board is good news for all of us especially for our
women folks in the US and Pakistan. It is said that train a man and you
will train an individual; train a women and you will mobilize the whole
family community and the entire nation and so on. We need to reach out
to both working and non-working Pakistani American women. House-makers
can be great asset for the community by activity participating in the
socio-political events. They can lead nationwide letter writing
campaigns to media and congressional leaders to get the voice and
concerns of the community to be heard loud and clear.
We need to improve our image in the US by selective charitable
projects. Also quilt of life needs to be improved in Pakistan in both
charity and business projects. We must teach our youth by example to
volunteer services for charitable, religious, and socio-cultural
entities. That can be a senior citizen house, fire dept, hospital,
school, library, boy/girl scout, neighborhood watch, day care etc.
In addition to the basic house cleaning of the congress, and to create
its budget for its day to day operation with a road map for a two year
term, it is essential to get it registered as a non-profit entity
benefit from its tax exempt status and help generate desired funds for
its smooth functioning. To encourage new members and increase its
membership organizations from 44 to 101 , by end of December of 2003.
The adaptation to organize a regional seminar quarterly in different
states is well in progress.
These are some of the short term goals that we are actively working on.
However, these goals can not be accomplished without active
participation of the community at the grass roots. If you have any new
ideas for improving the clout and the image of the Pakistani-American
community in the United States, please feel free to contact us. Our
doors are always open for novel ideas and suggestions, and for the
people who can help transform dreams to reality. We also welcome any
kind of criticism, that will enable us to evaluate our performance and
strive improvement.
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