As the Director General of the Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), Dr Shahid Soroya leads and manages the national education and research policy and programs for the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. He is passionate about enhancing the quality, equity, and relevance of education in Pakistan, leveraging his expertise in education and research to develop and implement innovative,
Muhammad Rashid Saleem is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Vice Principal at one of the public colleges in Islamabad. With 28 years of experience, he has been involved in teacher training at both national and international levels and has represented his country in China and the US in the education sector. He has been a core member of
Iqbal Hussain Afkaar, hailing from the Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is a Prominent Pushto writer, poet, rapporteur, graphic sketch writer and above all a humanist. With a prolific career, he has published ten books, including two poetry collections, two books, one biography, and five reportages. Afkaar is the founding secretary of the Pashto Literary Society Islamabad, a position he
Zain Ul Abidin Khan Alizai is a twenty-three year-old poet from Wah. His poems have been featured in Savant-Garde, The Aleph Review, Counterclock Magazine, Bauda-e-Sabaa, and at the Delhi Poetry Festival, among others. His poems have also been a part of two Indian anthologies, ‘Fledglings’ and ‘Bhor’. He was also the runners-up at the inaugural Pakistan Youth National Poet Laureate
Walid Iqbal served as a member of the Pakistan Senate from 2018 to 2024. He is one of Pakistan’s leading corporate lawyers and has more than two decades of teaching experience in Law and Economics at Harvard, LUMS, Government College University, and Punjab Group of Colleges. He was educated at Aitchison College Lahore, the Wharton School of Business, University of
Syeda Shahida Shah Kakakhel, a master in Human Development Studies and an M.Phil. research scholar in Central Asian, Chinese, Russian, and Afghan studies, is a prominent Pashtun feminist and activist in KP/FATA. She advocates for women’s rights, minority rights, and peace. From September 2012 to January 2017, she led ‘Takrah Qabailee Khwenday’ (Brave Tribal Sisters), a forum for tribal women
Sophia Bano is a poet from Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a B.A. in English and works as an editor.
Dr Shoaiba Mansoor is the Deputy Education Advisor at the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training and Deputy Secretary for International Coordination. With 16 years of experience, she oversees academic programs in Islamabad’s public schools and collaborates with key development partners. Holding a PhD in Education, she focuses on curriculum development and 21st-century skills. Dr. Mansoor advances Sustainable Development
Sara Ali completed her PhD in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her poetry has been published in New Zealand’s literary journals ‘Mayhem and Landfall. Her research has been published in reputed journals such as the ‘Journal of Postcolonial Writing’ and the ‘South Asian Review’. She teaches courses on philosophy, revolutionary poetry, and women’s writing at Quaid-i-Azam
Dr Rizwan Akhtar completed his PhD in postcolonial literature at the University of Essex, UK, in 2013. His main area of research is South Asian literature in English, with a sharper focus on Indian and Pakistani writers. He is equally interested in gender studies, feminism, and modernism. He has published research papers in areas as diverse as memory studies, memoir