EducationUSA Events & Outreach

Students, Counselors Benefit from Multi-Faceted EducationUSA Programming

This quarter was a productive one for EducationUSA Pakistan advisers as they orchestrated multiple in-person, hybrid, and virtual events and campaigns that garnered significant traction. Here are some of the highlights: Networking High Teas for Counselors For the first time in three years, the Islamabad and Lahore offices resumed the ...
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Story Submissions Highlight Immense Creative Talent of Pakistan’s Youth

EducationUSA Pakistan held its seventh annual Creative Writing Contest for students aged 16 to 19 this summer. Over 240 high schoolers from across the country participated by submitting original works of fiction on one of the following prompts: Write a story about a never-seen-before magical object that turns up along ...
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Checkmate by Emaan Aqil Abbasi

It was a day that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. A fresh current of wind toyed with the tresses escaping my braid, lifting them up and making them whip my face like a possessed entity. It was particularly picturesque, with wisps of clouds extrapolating the overall ...
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Dreams of Stardust by Meeral Umar

Yalina was fading into the murky gloom of shifting dreams when she heard her grandsons shout with childish delight. In a state of ebbing pain, she did not particularly cherish the idea of leaving the comfort of her battered charpai, but she had little or no choice. Groaning as she ...
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First Place Entry by Zainab Khan

I was fifteen. A child at heart, but mature in body, as I’d been told by the swarms of village women who stopped by our home all too often, to offer condolences for the passing of my mother. They always arrived armed with grand garlands of roses, large, earthenware pots ...
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